Final Jeopardy! wagering analysis:
Thursday, April 7, 2016
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It’s Thursday – will our champ succumb to the traditional Sony Commissary food coma?
Jeff played well, particularly in Double Jeopardy! (as seems to be his M.O.). Ken was really strong tonight, however.
|
Jeff Crosby (2x) |
Ken Sansone |
Courtney Corcoran |
| 14,600 | 22,900 | 4,000 |
Personally, I would have gone for everything on that WORDS IN U.S. CAPITALS Daily Double, but it’s easy to do that when you’re on the couch.
Calculations
| Jeff |
Ken |
Courtney | |||
| 14,600 | 22,900 | 4,000 | |||
| FIRST-ORDER | SECOND-ORDER | COVER ZERO | |||
| min | max | min | max | min | max |
| 14,600 | 6,300 | 8,300 | |||
| 8,300 | 10,300 | ||||
| 2,000 | |||||
Straightforward here. The possible $10,299 wager out of Ken is slightly risky but Jeff has shown himself to have a good wagering mind.
What actually happened
| Jeff | Ken | Courtney | |||
| 14,600 | 22,900 | 4,000 | |||
| 6,000 | 7,000 | 3,900 | |||
| 8,600 | 15,900 | 100 | |||
| min | max | ||||
| 14,600 | 6,301 | 8,299 | |||
| 8,301 | 10,299 | ||||
| 2,001 | |||||
Not so great here tonight for Jeff – he preserved the $2,000 second-place prize at the potential cost of a bigger payday. A better wager in my view would have been 10,600, forcing Courtney to get it right and wager something.
I’ll be interested to see if Ken gets stronger tomorrow with a game under his belt. We’ll see!
The Final Jeopardy! clue
| BRITISH HISTORY |
| ON JANUARY 1, 1801 GEORGE III RELINQUISHED THIS ROYAL TITLE CLAIMED BY ENGLISH MONARCHS SINCE THE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR |
[spoiler]What is “King of France”?[/spoiler]
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If Jeff would’ve gotten that last clue, he’d have two-thirds of Ken’s total ($22,500 against $15,000). Oh well, another case of what could’ve been.
George III certainly could not be King of the Seine.