Idiotic Jeopardy wagers (no spoilers before 6 EST)
If anyone else watched Jeopardy tonight then maybe they feel my pain on this one. The worst part is that if either of the 2 trailing players had bet the "right" amount they would have won, including the guy who went into Final Jeopardy with only about 1/3 as many chips as the other players.
Dollar amounts of players from right to left entering Final Jeopardy from left to right (I don't remember their names):
P1: $4800 P2: $13,800 P3: $12,000
Category/question is irrelevant but for the curious it was "Acting Families" and they were looking for the last name of a father and son who played 2 different real US Presidents, one on film and one on TV.
Spoiler
Brolin
Now obviously neither P1 nor P3 can possibly win if P2 gets the answer right. He is forced to bet at least $10,201 to give him a total of $24,001 which is $1 more than double 2nd places $12K total.
With that in mind, the only way either of the other 2 have any shot whatsoever is if P2 gets it wrong, and since he has to bet at least $10,201 then he will have, at most, $3599 when that happens.
This means that P1 actually has a chance here provided P3 is stupid enough to be an amount that allows him to win. He's totally in it, he should bet $0 and his answer is irrelevant. Basically if P3 is not smart enough to make his victory impossible then she's probably dumb enough to make a huge bet and he'll win if they both miss it (which actually happens quite a lot in Final Jeopardy).
P3 however shouldn't bet any more than $2399 since that would allow P1 to pass her if he bet it all and got it right, which she can't allow to happen if she's thinking about it at all. So she can bet whatever she want's between $0-$2399 and if the leader (P2) misses the question she is GUARANTEED to win as he MUST bet $10,201 minimum.
Well, here's how it actually went down:
They all got it WRONG. Here is what they bet and what they wound up.
P1: $4,799 >>> $1
P2: $13,000 >>> $800
P3: $11,900 >>> $100
They totally handed it to P2 by making horrible wagers. Had either of them made rational bets they would have won easily. Notice how P3 sort of understands that leaving herself with something if she gets it wrong is good but ultimately decides on $100 for some reason that I'm sure made sense to her at the time. I expect this kind of **** on The Price is Right, but Jeopardy contestants should really know better.
is jeopardy live and back to regular programming these days?
Was up late (for me) last night and caught a bit of Colbert. One of his headlines was that Bialik was fired (maybe a rerun?).
Anyway, he said the sad thing was she found out by this clue:
"The person who is not going to be hosting Jeopardy! any longer."
They are still on the all tournament format, bringing back players from former seasons in order to fill a TOC prior to the 100% new season begins. My understanding is 100% new and original clues and contestants will begin in April.
They’re finally airing the Celebrity Jeopardy semifinals after a long hiatus
Apparently there's a Jeopardy! UK version on US TV now.
These 2nd chance tournaments haven't been bad. In the past 2 weeks we've seen 2 players who, in consecutive games, had a chance to beat 18 game winner Chris Panullo.
1. Xanni Brown - holds the all-time record for high 2nd place score going into FJ in a runaway game (19,400). She just punched her ticket to the reimagined TOC this spring.
2. Matt Harvey - looked like he had Panullo on the ropes the very next game until the champ shoved and took the lead on a late DD find. Monday is the second game of his 2 game 2nd chance final.
Of the two above, Brown >> Harvey
Katie Nolan upsets Steven Weber to make the Celebrity Jeopardy finals
Rachel Dratch starts the semi-finals by running the first two categories.
I love how outwardly disgusted players are when there’s a sports category.
I’m catching up and this woman just like literally put her buzzer down and like crossed her arms in protest.
I’d love someone to do that for like Shakespeare or Musicals, and then buzz in with absurd answers like they do on “This New York baseball team, and no we’re not yanking your chain…” Who are the, the New York helicopters?
What’s oh I don’t know… I don’t read stuff like Shakespeare it’s beneath me… uh the man in Vienna??
In case anyone is still following with all the random tournaments: Today was the first episode of the 31st Tournament of Champions. 27 players this time around.
It's been a slog to get through all the second chance stuff. Then Ken fires it up on Friday saying it's the biggest ToC ever. Like, yeah, duh. Weirdly I've been craving just regular matches.
No idea what kind of ratings they got for those tournaments. But overall feedback on the internet has been bad and it looks like interaction is down, too.
I think people already grew tired of the increased amount of daytime tournaments over the last couple of years.
Why in the world start a tournament on Friday
It used to be shockingly easy to find full episodes on YouTube.
Anyone have a link to Friday’s and/or Monday’s?
Shame that Chris got beat. Felt like he wasn't as sharp, and also got crushed on the buzzer. And of course the 3-0-0 swing in Daily Doubles doesn't help.
In the next stunner, Celebrity Jeopardy winner Ike Barinholtz advanced over 13 game winner Ray Lalonde.
Would be extremely cool if he went on to win the thing.
Is he still playing for charity or for himself this time?
Barinholtz would have made the final but bet wrong in Final Jeopardy. He had something like 10,800 to Ben Chan’s 15,200 (numbers likely not exactly correct, but close enough). Both answered incorrectly, and Ben properly bet to cover a Barinholtz double up, leaving him with <$10K. Barinholtz did bet for a full double and went home. I would have thought he’d have been smart enough to know proper strategy there, but no.
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The mean guy from Suicide Squad doesn’t know optimal Final Jeopardy wagering strategy?
