Jennings is probably aware that no matter how good he is on the knowledge component, he’s going to lose to the younger man on the motor-reaction-time front.
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Teachers Tournament will air the next two weeks.
I know this is filmed a few weeks before airing.
I wonder if the layoff in competing will help or hurt Holzhauer? Sometimes it’s hard to get back the momentum after a layoff.
‘Jeopardy!’ whiz James Holzhauer wins 22nd straight game
I’m actually wondering, at this point, how far along in his journey Alex Trebek is in finding out about his stage four cancer. He looks pretty tired in the last couple of episodes, but that just could be my imagination given that if my understanding of episode timing is correct, he’s a month or two from revealing it publicly.
I believe they were still taping this season’s final shows when he made his announcement, so it probably isn’t your imagination.
Here’s Trebek’s latest statement about his health, as of two days ago.
I’m not an everyday viewer, but frankly, I’m getting bored with Holzhauer. It’s not like I’m rooting for him to lose or anything, but it’s turning into something like a very good high school basketball team playing Golden State. For 22 straight days.
Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. It’s no different than including/excluding any other group - teachers, past champions (who have all lost) , students, etc. Jeopardy picks match ups based on what they think people want to see and ratings. It’s TV entertainment after all, not a Nobel Prize competition.
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James’ overall correct to incorrect ratio of nearly 30:1 absolutely trounces the average of around 6:1. Speed is obviously a big factor but his knowledge is absolutely is in a class above any other contestant
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Anyone know what that ratio is for Ken Jennings or Brad Rutter?
Sure, have a theme week and resume normal games the following week. Don’t they already do this with celebrity and student Jeopardy games?
Jennings has about 10:1, (2693:263) Rutter looks like he averaged 23.6 right 2.2 wrong, around 11:1
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I’m pretty sure they do.
While I haven’t watched game shows in a long time…my last was either Million Dollar Money Drop or It’s Worth What, unless you count Mental Samurai (and I gave that up after two episodes)…I find this story riveting. I’ve always fascinated by the story of the nigh-invincible juggernaut; not so much him as how the world reacts. Doesn’t matter what game it is: Tiger Woods, Lance Armstrong, Ronnie O’Sullivan, Steffi Graf, Lebron James, Hakuho, Sinjin Smith and Randy Stoklos. Always the center of attention, never boring, the fallout could be felt for generations.
The thing I find the most remarkable is that he’s not only winning, he’s winning big, and he’s doing it every time. In every game show I remember that had a risk element, gambling = doom. It was that simple. Greed was THE absolute ironclad super king kahuna sin of game shows, and the most successful champions were the ones who knew how to rein it in. Even Ken Jennings himself only pulled in 30-40K most days. Even if Holzhauer is fantastically knowledgeable, you think that at some point the pendulum would swing the other way, one of his big moves would jump up and bite him, and someone would capitalize. The stars have to align at some point, right? And they haven’t.
Humble question. Does anyone know why whoever’s in charge of this show changed the rules to allow indefinite champions? I can understand the desire to build a megastar, but shouldn’t there be some hard limit? 50 would be reasonable.
The limit used to be five games and you were done. That was totally arbitrary, of course. Jeopardy saw that there were a lot of players who were strong enough that they could probably win a lot more than five games if they had a chance, so why not let them try? A few made it to eight or ten or more games…until Ken came along and did 74.
Even then, it’s been extraordinarily rare for people to make it beyond ten games or so. Ken’s streak was way back in 2004. Holzhauer now has the second-longest streak at just 22 episodes. That shows just how much the both of them are outliers.
He didn’t even need the DD’s on Friday to win big. The first DD showed up on his very first pick when he had no winnings and was only able to bet the house limit of $1000. (He did get the question right and immediately was up $2000.) The second DD was chosen by another contestant. He did use the third one to his advantage, but this means he really only took advantage of one and still won overwhelmingly.
I’m not sure I see what difference it makes. Every game two people lose anyway. The question is why should normal players be limited to a certain number of games, so this discounts James.
The average player wins with about $20,000. A dominate player like Ken Jennings averaged about $33,000. Of course those are averages. Many one time winners make much more (averaging out those $1000 winners).
So why would it matter to the show to pay out $20,000 to 5 different players a week, or to one player $100,000. Especially when you factor in long term players bring in more viewers which translate into more advertising revenue and potentially a more recurring fan base. Those things tend to even out money paid to strong, long term streaks.
Game shows operate in their own best self-interest and not some form of altruistic game play.
Yabbut a big part of the appeal of watching Jeopardy! is the satisfaction of answering questions correctly before the players do (in the comfort of your own surroundings, to be sure), and fantasizing “I could win at this game.” Establishing an unbeatable opponent who will ALWAYS be there kinda takes the fantasy away, leaving nothing but the spectacle of the one guy who effectively has a license to print money.
Holzhauer’s staying power might outlast the appeal of that spectacle.
Eh, they said the same thing about Ken but ratings just kept going up the longer he was on. Maybe if someone goes longer than 80 or 90 or 100 games, people will get tired of them. But I doubt it. People like to see winners.
And everyone knows that he’ll lose eventually, and they don’t know when it’ll be, but they want to be watching when it happens.
Are you sure?
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