Current Champion
Jennifer Leavey, career statistics:
31 correct, 6 incorrect
4/4 on rebound attempts (on 10 rebound opportunities)
26.32% in first on buzzer (30/114)
1/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $2,000)
2/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $13,100
To win:
3 games: 52.862%
4: 27.944%
5: 14.772%
6: 7.809%
7: 4.128%
Avg. streak: 3.121 games.
(Click Here for Methodology)
Upcoming Encore Presentations
September 26-27: S42 E174 (May 7, 2026)
October 3-4: S42 E175 (May 8, 2026)
October 10-11: S42 E176 (May 11, 2026)
(Source: Bell Fibe TV program guide)
All Time Winnings
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:
1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):
1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
Back in December 2015, Keith Williams on the Final Wager spoke of predicting Jeopardy! wild cards using combinatorics.
To make my predictions going forward here on The Jeopardy! Fan, my prediction model will use combinatorics in the same way. The one change that I have made to my model is its input percentages.
For my prediction model, I have taken every College Tournament since the doubling of dollar values (2002 and later), and calculated both the median score ($10,200) and the standard deviation ($6,226). I have thus assumed that non-winning scores are normally distributed based on that, and will use the Z-score of each non-winning total to determine the percentage chance that any one future score will be lower than the player’s current score.
From there, given the score, current wild card place, and number of non-winning scores to come, it is possible to calculate the % chance a player has of advancing.
As an example, take a $13,000 score of a second-placed player on Monday’s quarterfinal. My model gives that score a 67.4% chance of beating a random future score. Holding down the 1 seed with 8 non-winning scores to come, that score’s chances of advancing are:
As the 1 seed: 0.674^8 x 0.326^0 x 1 = 4.237%
As the 2 seed: 0.674^7 x 0.326^1 x 8 = 16.427%
As the 3 seed: 0.674^6 x 0.326^2 x 28 = 27.864%
As the 4 seed: 0.674^5 x 0.326^3 x 56 = 27.007%
Total: 75.534%
If that same $13,000 score finished 3rd, however, its chances of advancing would only be the sum of the first three rows above: 48.528%.
This same model can also be used to predict what score has a better than 50% chance of qualifying for the semifinals.
As it stands going into the 2017 College Championship, per this model:
A second-place score of $11,137 has a 50% chance of qualifying.
A third-place score of $13,103 has a 50% chance of qualifying.
Throughout this tournament, I will use this model each day to predict each wild card’s chances of advancing.
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