Anybody else want James to take the high dollar crown but want Ken Jennings to hold onto longest winning streak?
Local coverage today was pre-empted by weather news, a tornado warning. Did James win today?
Yes. This is the first episode of his I watched. He ended up with 80-something K in the end. Not a particularly hard board today. (I don’t think there was a single wrong answer by any of the contestants.) He hit both DDs in double jeopardy (not sure about first round), and went into Final Jeopardy with a very comfortable lead (I think his closest opponent was around a quarter of James’ pot.)
I heard a radio commercial today for the show, touting the presence of James.
It would be interesting to know if there are regular radio ads for the show–I don’t normally have on anything but public radio, but for various reasons I was flipping around, and heard the ad.
Can we think of any single stat of his that’s more impressive than this? Even if he gets the money record and the longest streak, this average (if it continues) is kind of harder to believe than any of the rest of it.
How about if a team loses the toss their defense goes out and does its job? How many iterations are going to be allowed under ‘fairness’? Playoff games *must
*produce a winner. Beyond the field goal on first possession, leave it alone.
I heard a news-reader refer to him as Jeopardy James last night. The man is definitely a phenomenon.
I’m sure it’s already been mentioned, but his average is greater than Ken Jennings highest single win.
Jennings highest daily total was $75k. The record was $77k by Roger Craig. Jeopardy James now has an average of $77,798.
The guy is phenomenal.
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His average is higher than anyone’s highest single win. It being higher than Jennings’ is a logical consequence of that.
The only scenario I see for anyone to beat him is if he finds a Daily Double fairly late in the game, bets a lot of money, and gets it wrong. This would put a competitor within striking distance going into Final Jeopardy. Then James would have to miss the Final Jeopardy question as well.
He is like the Don Bradman of Jeopardy!
Yeah, much like Ken Jennings, I think the only person than can beat James is James himself.
He’s smart enough to know how much he can safely bet at any time. He will go all in on a DD in the first round because he knows that he can quickly retake the lead even if he has to start over. In the second round he is more conservative and his bets are generally in the $9,812 to $12,000 range. He’s often up over $20,000 by that point. He’s not going to blow a locked game on a dumb bet.
His average Coryat score, which ignores the effect of the Daily Doubles, is about $30,000. He would beat most players easily even without finding any DDs, and has done so at least once.
I think he’ll lose when he comes up against players who realize that the only way to have a chance is to play the way he plays. I don’t think there are many who have the stomach for it. Risking “losing” $10,000 or more on a bet is a big deal to most and they won’t be able to do it even if it’s the only way they could win. We’ve seen it many times already. There’s no point in betting to preserve your stack when you have $5,000 and James has $20,000. Bet it all and hope to find another DD so you can bet it all again. Otherwise just stop playing because you won’t win.
Kinda reminds me of Wilt Chamberlain. His scoring 100 points in a single game is an impressive stat, but the fact that he averaged over 50 points a game over an entire season is mind blowing.
There was one day when someone came close, and the second-place finisher had something like $54,000.
Yep, the second-place guy, whose name was Adam Levin, actually had the lead after he answered the final question correctly, with $53,999. Then James also answered correctly and finished with $54,017.
Levin’s total of $53,999 is the highest 2nd place total in Jeopardy history for regular play.
I know this is totally shallow–especially in a thread about a contest of knowledge–but today’s contestant Mary Peace is smokin’ hot.
Was she the one who got eliminated before FJ?
It really is. But even there: it’s not like 50 points was better than the best single game total any player ever had (at least I don’t think so).
ETA: How many total Jeopardy games have been played, anyhow? 50,000, something like that?
Well, 52 weeks * 5 = 260 weekdays in a year, so 2600 per decade? Under 10,000 I would guess.