Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category Oscar-Nominated Families) for Friday, May 31, 2019 (Season 35, Episode 190):
It’s the last name of Alfred, Lionel, David, Emil, Thomas & Randy, who with 90 nominations, are the most Oscar-nominated family
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Wyatt Feeler, an attorney from College Park, Maryland
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William Tran, an attorney from Monterey Park, California
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James Holzhauer, a professional sports gambler from Las Vegas, Nevada (31-day total: $2,382,583)
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If you’re curious to see how James’ stats so far shape up to those of Ken Jennings, you can find them at A James Holzhauer vs. Ken Jennings Statistical Comparison.
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Correct response: What is Newman?
More information about Final Jeopardy:
The Newman family has been scoring films in Hollywood since the 1930s. Alfred, Emil, and Lionel were brothers; Randy is the son of their brother Michael, and Thomas and David are Alfred’s sons. Alfred had 43 Oscar nominations, Randy 20, Thomas 14, Lionel 11, and Emil and David 1 apiece. (Emil’s was for his musical direction on Sun Valley Serenade.)
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
James $52,633
Wyatt $12,600
William $800
Tonight’s results:
William $800 + $700 = $1,500
Wyatt $12,600 – $5,000 = $7,600 (Who is Hitchcock?)
James $52,633 + $27,000 = $79,633 (32-day total: $2,462,216)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
James $14,400
Wyatt $5,000
William -$1,200
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) AFRICAN-AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY $600 (8th pick)
James 3800 +3800 (Wyatt 1000 William -2000)
2) RELIGION FOUNDERS $2000 (8th pick)
James 18800 +10021 (Wyatt 6200 William -1200)
3) EPISTOLARY NOVELS $2000 (13th pick)
James 32821 +9812 (Wyatt 7800 William -1200)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 183
Unplayed clues:
J! round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: $0
Game Stats:
James $33,600 Coryat, 37 correct, 3 incorrect, 61.40% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts
Wyatt $12,600 Coryat, 16 correct, 0 incorrect, 24.56% in first on buzzer, 2/2 on rebound attempts
William $800 Coryat, 6 correct, 2 incorrect, 14.04% in first on buzzer
Combined Coryat Score: $47,000
Lach Trash: $1,600 (on 1 Triple Stumper)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $5,400
James Holzhauer, stats to date:
1,160 correct, 36 incorrect
33/36 on rebound attempts (on 67 rebound opportunities)
58.31% in first on buzzer (1053/1806)
71/75 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $653,416)
31/32 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $30,800
James Holzhauer, to win:
33 games: 96.832%
34: 96.586%
35: 94.521%
36: 92.523%
37: 89.865%
75: 40.201%
Avg. streak: 78.855 games.
(This is using the updated model and now takes into account performance on specific days of the week).
Tournament of Champions projections:
With a projected 70 regular-play games to go prior to the Tournament of Champions cutoff, after 500,000 simulations, our model shows:
James Holzhauer qualified 100.000% of the time.
Eric R. Backes qualified 93.886% of the time.
Anneke Garcia qualified 78.764% of the time.
Lindsey Shultz qualified 52.498% of the time.
Dave Leffler qualified 30.103% of the time.
Jonathan Dinerstein qualified 22.400% of the time.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- One of the more interesting subplots from today’s game was “will William get out of the red” after giving $1,000 incorrect responses on the first two clues. He did, on the antepenultimate clue of Double Jeopardy.
- That’s another interesting advantage for a player like James to go across the $1,000 row to start; your opponents, who are still probably very nervous, are liable to dig a very big hole if they’re wrong on one of those opening clues.
- James is $58,484 from Ken Jennings’ all-time regular-season total of $2,520,700.
- $79,633 is the 16th-highest regular play total of all time. James currently holds 23 of the top 27 single-game regular-play totals of all time.
- James’ Coryat score of $33,600 is tied for the 23rd-highest regular play Coryat score of all time.
- James has been correct on his last 26 Final Jeopardy! clues.
- The prediction model now gives James a 97.127% chance to win on Fridays, up from 96.826%.
- The prediction model currently gives James a 96.764% chance of surpassing Ken Jennings’ total of $2,520,700, and a 54.224% chance of surpassing Brad Rutter’s all-time winnings total of $4,688,436. (At his current average win total, James would pass Ken on June 3 and Brad on July 26.)
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So if James last game day taped was 4/6/19. Which is funny as his first televised game was shown on 4/4/19.
So with the 10 week break you mentioned, when the new season starts, they will be pretty much caught up to the present. Before they start banking shows again, by doing 10 shows a week, but only show 5.
I haven’t seen anyone talk about the schedule for next season yet, but normally they don’t tape 10 shows every week. Normally they tape for 2 days then take 12 days off before doing 2 days again, and keep 4-8 weeks ahead of air dates. That was adjusted for portions of this season due to the All-Star tournament set and the threatened writers’ strike in April. They may still decide to tighten the taping schedule in July to work with Alex’s medical treatment schedule.
I was thinking Coppola. I was thinking wrong.
Thank goodness he’s not.
What was Ken’s lowest score?
Not sure but I known I figured out once that Ken Jennings daily average was just under $35,000 in 74 games
Compared to James $77,000 in 32 games
All games of champs who won at least 10 in a row are on this site. Ken’s lowest was $10,001 in game 39. In final game 74 his score was higher than that but because he was second won only $2,000.
Correction: in game 75 when Ken lost to Julie Zerg he had $14,400 going to FJ, while she had 10,000. She wagered $4,401 and answered correctly to finish at $14,401 while he wagered $5,601 to finish at $8,799.
Poor William only got 2 incorrect answers today, which happened on his first 2 questions.
Wondering if his strategy was that he wanted to just ring in quickly, just before James, which he did, but then he didn’t know the answers.
James streak is amazing. I know the Shows are taped ahead of time. How have they been able to keep everything a secret . There appears to be a decent size studio audience . Human nature being what it is I am surprised there hasn’t been a leak . Must see tv every night great for Jeopardy ratings.
My theory is the internet is so awash in people fake leaking, any real leak would be washed out or dismissed. I assume they are pretty vigilant about people not filming or photographing in any way. Without that, your leak won’t get far.
What is Ken Jennings’s most conservative FJs correct in a row?
It seems like in every round like at maybe between questions 20 and 30 that James does not even try to answer but gives himself a rest. Is there any quantifiable way to show that?
I feel the same too like he doesn’t bother with some questions that seem like he definitely should know. 🤔🤔 It’s like I get mad at him for not responding 😄😄😄
I doubt that he is “giving himself a rest.” I don’t think this is a consistent pattern.
I do think he gives himself a mental rest at least once in every game. It’s when the DD are gone and there are mostly lower-valued clues left. He seems to “check out” for a few minutes to avoid mental fatigue taping five shows in one day. He doesn’t ring in on easy clues he must know. Then he always goes for the last clue in each round. I’m not sure why. There is no advantage to answering the last clue.
It is really interesting to see Ken Jennings scored $50000 six times and $52000 several times. Besides that, he had his one $75000 outlier game –which was immediately followed up with his low game of $10001.
Meanwhile, we are bummed to see “only” $50k from James, but he has also popped for more than the previous record-high of $77k in SIXTEEN of his 32 shows.
While James 3 incorrect responses Friday was among his most misses, even in his two 4 incorrect response games he topped the previous record of $77k with $80,006 and $80,615!
Ken many times missed 4 or more in almost half his 74 game streak, 36 altogether:
4 misses – 16 times
5 misses – 10 times
6 misses – 6 times
7 misses – 3 times
…and an uncharacteristic 9 misses once!
This doesn’t diminish Ken’s greatness, but it does highlight James’s incredible accuracy and consistency to date!
2 cogent difference between Ken & James: 1st is James’ obvious cognizance of wagering strategy, willingness to seek wagering opportunities and ability to correctly calculate odds. Ken acknowledged the chance element of the game, often betting on hunch or instinct. 2nd is James’ discipline in refraining from buzzing on clues of which he’s unsure. Ken was actually more eager to answer than James, buzzing 1st and answering correctly more times/game, but the salient statistic, aside from Ken’s anemic wagering, is that he also answered incorrectly more often. Guessing probably benefited him, overall, but he overlooked something significant: if he was unsure, probably so were the others; their incorrect guesses would have worried them > his incorrect guesses worried him, affecting their play > his. His guessing at clues deprived his opponents of the opportunity to fail and encouraged them to compete. James, by allowing others to guess at obscure clues, probably derives at least as much material benefit as he would by guessing himself, plus a huge psychological advantage in dampening their enthusiasm for reflexive buzzing. He seeks amassing relatively large stakes. The difference between his bankroll and his competitors’ is what allows large bets on 3rd DDs and FJ!, so even minor early deductions and consequent self-doubt on their part are worth at least as much to him as his own success and confidence.
I found out that Jeopardy! had a McDonald’s clue and had “Mickey D’s” in it. Is that the slang term for McDonalds, and when did it first pop up?
Also, I heard that Alex is recovering from his cancer. Is this true?
Mickey D’s is indeed a slang term for McDonald’s. I don’t know when it first came up, but it’s been around for at least 15 years.
Alex said in an interview a few days ago that he is responding well to chemotherapy, that he is nearly in remission, and that some of his tumors have shrunk by 50%. Let’s hope he continues with this progress.
“Micky D’s” was common to the point of ubiquity when I was a kid in the 60s in DC. I can’t say about earlier than that or elsewhere, but both seem highly likely.
One thing I really like about Jeopardy! are the so-called “J-Effects”. I even watch the videos of all six All-Star captains on YouTube.
Colby: “During my contestant interview, they said, “What would you do if you won $100,000? I was like, “All right, I’ll get my mom a house.” My mother sacrificed for years, for decades, to put me in a position where I could be successful in life.”
Buzzy: “Jeopardy! was a really big boost in terms of helping my self-esteem and really showing me what I was capable of.”
Julia: “Having this financial freedom to explore has been really incredible and wholly unexpected.”
Ken: “Having some childhood dream like “maybe I could be on Jeopardy! someday” and then actually getting to do that – that really changes who you are.”
Austin: “The biggest thing that’s changed for me as a result of being on Jeopardy! is obviously all of these spectacular opportunities.”
Brad: “The biggest thing I’ve learned over the whole Jeopardy! experience is just thinking positively can really help.”
I wonder what is going to be in James’s “J-Effect” video, should they choose to do one on him.