Warning: There may be spoilers in the post below at any point after 8:00 PM Eastern.
Tonight’s the night for Match #2 of the Jeopardy! Greatest of All Time! Here’s tonight’s game recap (for Wednesday, January 8, 2020):
Today’s contestants:
Brad Rutter, currently on 0 wins
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Ken Jennings, currently on 1 win
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James Holzhauer, currently on 0 wins
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This is currently a placeholder post which will be updated with Final Jeopardy! information and a game recap once it is known.
Preview: Coming into a crucial Match 2, Ken will have a large amount of confidence after his Match 1 victory. Brad will need to bounce back after his struggle on Daily Doubles in Match 1, whereas James needs to start finding Daily Doubles after being shut out thus far in the event. If Ken wins again, this may very well be a short series. James may need to help himself by getting in first on the buzzer more; Ken won that battle 50-38 over James in Match 1.
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Part 1, Final Jeopardy! category: INFLUENTIAL WRITING
Part 1, Final Jeopardy! clue: Its second line is “All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: pope & czar, Metternich & Guizot”
Part 1, Final Jeopardy! correct response: What is “The Communist Manifesto”?
Part 2, Final Jeopardy! category: 19th CENTURY LEADERS
Part 2, Final Jeopardy! clue: Tall, lanky Joel Barlow was an ambassador carrying messages between these 2 world leaders, both mocked for being short
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Part 2, Final Jeopardy! correct response: Who are Napoleon and James Madison?
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Game 1 results:
Brad 7,200 + 7,200 = 14,400
Ken 22,000 + 18,000 = 40,000
James 32,400 + 11,914 = 44,314
Game 2 results:
Brad -3,600 (by rule, did not participate in Final Jeopardy) = 14,400
Ken 21,200 – 3,800 = 17,400 + 40,000 = 57,400 (Who are Napoleon and Monroe?)
James 22,800 + 15,300 = 38,100 + 44,314 = 82,414 (Match #2 winner)
Daily Double locations:
1) SHORT STORY SYLLABUS 600 (4th pick)
James 800 +1000 (Brad 1800 Ken 0)
2) AROUND THE WORLD 2000 (11th pick)
James 13600 +13600 (Ken 7600 Brad 4400)
3) THE GREATEST OF ALL MINDS 2000 (13th pick)
Ken 8400 +8400 (James 27200 Brad 4400)
4) NAME THE DECADE 1000 (4th pick)
Brad 800 +1000 (James 1600 Ken 0)
5) I JUST TOOK A DNA TEST 1600 (1st pick)
Brad 3800 -3800 (James 8400 Ken 6800)
6) “G”EOGRAPHY 1600 (3rd pick)
James 8400 +8400 (Ken 6800 Brad 0)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this match: 400
Unplayed clues:
Game 1, J! round: None!
Game 1, DJ! round: None!
Game 2, J! round: None!
Game 2, DJ! round: None!
Total $ Left On Board: 0
Game Stats:
James 36,400 Coryat, 50 correct, 4 incorrect, 44.74% in first on buzzer, 0/0 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
Ken 36,800 Coryat, 44 correct, 2 incorrect, 33.33% in first on buzzer, 5/7 on rebound attempts (on 9 rebound opportunities)
Brad 7,400 Coryat, 18 correct, 6 incorrect, 18.42% in first on buzzer, 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: 80,600
Lach Trash: 11,400(on 7 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): 16,000
Cumulative Tournament Stats:
James 68,000 Coryat, 89 correct, 6 incorrect, 39.04% in first on buzzer, 3/3 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
Ken 73,000 Coryat, 92 correct, 7 incorrect, 38.60% in first on buzzer, 6/8 on rebound attempts (on 12 rebound opportunities)
Brad 32,400 Coryat, 46 correct, 10 incorrect, 20.18% in first on buzzer, 4/4 on rebound attempts (on 11 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: 173,400
Lach Trash: 13,800(on 9 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): 28,800
James Holzhauer, stats to date:
1,400 correct, 51 incorrect
41/44 on rebound attempts (on 87 rebound opportunities)
55.15% in first on buzzer (1279/2319)
81/87 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $699,988)
39/41 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $28,731
James Holzhauer, to win (per the prediction model):
Wins in 3: 0.000% of the time.
Wins in 4: 27.545% of the time.
Wins in 5: 26.212% of the time.
Wins in 6: 11.572% of the time.
Wins in 7: 3.241% of the time.
Overall: 68.570% of the time.
Ken Jennings, stats to date:
3,028 correct, 302 incorrect
113/141 on rebound attempts
58.11% in first on buzzer (2926/5037)
146/176 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $473,799)
57/87 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,206
Ken Jennings, to win (per the prediction model):
Wins in 3: 0.000% of the time.
Wins in 4: 8.535% of the time.
Wins in 5: 12.050% of the time.
Wins in 6: 5.826% of the time.
Wins in 7: 1.764% of the time.
Overall: 28.176% of the time.
Brad Rutter, stats to date:
741 correct, 87 incorrect
42/45 on rebound attempts
39.80% in first on buzzer (702/1764)
44/54 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $59,500)
17/28 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $18,129
Brad Rutter, to win (per the prediction model):
Wins in 3: 0.000% of the time.
Wins in 4: 0.000% of the time.
Wins in 5: 0.618% of the time.
Wins in 6: 1.506% of the time.
Wins in 7: 1.130% of the time.
Overall: 3.254% of the time.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- This is what happens when James picks up some Daily Doubles. Also, that was a crucial get on the final Final Jeopardy! to seal the victory.
- Kudos to Ken for being able to keep the game close, though. Missing that Final Jeopardy! thankfully had no effect on the outcome for him.
- At this point, I’d be very surprised if Brad were to win a game. Ken and James are completely outplaying him at this point.
- The prediction model is bullish on James because James is playing better than the model thought that he would. James is going to need to keep finding some Daily Doubles; Ken ran things very close despite only playing 1 to James’ 3.
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I had forgotten how much weight Brad has lost in the last 20 years, until I saw tonight’s historical highlight reel. He looks great!
Impressed with Ken’s 2nd FJ wager. He couldn’t win going all-in, but realizing James would bet to cover, would have won had James not gotten Madison & Napoleon.
Ken’s bested James in Coryat both yesterday and today (though barely). The difference yesterday was Ken getting more DDs than anyone (James none); today it was James getting more DDs (3) than Ken(1). All their DDs have been all-in! Both playing on a very high level worthy of GOATs. Hoping Brad turns it around to make it at least competitive.
Clarification: Ken didn’t get more DDs than Brad yesterday, but he did answer more DDs right.
I was talking about this tournament format with my brother and we thought it would be amusing if instead of two games back to back, they just extended one game with Triple Jeopardy, then Quadruple Jeopardy, then 1 final Jeopardy. I wonder how that would play out — imagine James making a $100000 daily double bet.
I noticed they specifically refer to their score in points. Maybe I just never noticed this before but it seems like they’re being very specific to not refer to dollars. I was wondering if they did this in any other format because no matter what their score is they’re getting capped at $1,000,000. If they had a quadruple Jeopardy! James would probably rack up over a 2m in 3 games. I gotta do the math on that but he’d have 4 DDs and a FJ to make bets on with like 50k to start. If he ever hit it right he could double, double, double, double then double. Thats 800k plus any other clues.
yeah, it’s in points. They do that in the tournaments too but interchange it with dollars just because that’s what people are used to even though no one is winning that amount.
The Ken Vs James battle has been great think the model is a bit too generous to James ken has been matching James very well it’s about those daily doubles at this point. Also still tell brad will probably win a game don’t know why just do. Still fell good about Ken in 6 daily doubles will fall his way and he’ll cash in on it he’s proven he can play James game with him.
Seriously – you really think the model is too generous to James? If so, the clues are certainly more generous to Ken who is a wordsmith and strong in the humanities like literature and religion. (How about the FJ John 1 v 1 clue for a Mormon??!) Let’s bring it on with some advanced mathematics clues. GO JAMES!
68% chance to win is far too generous Ken has been right there with him I give James right now a 50% chance ken 45% brad 5%
it is fun to watch such brilliant minds –
In FJ of part 1, Ken drew a hammer and sickle next to his response. It sounded like Brad graciously commented, “How do you do that!” James then drily added, “Pointing the wrong way.” Not sure why James felt the need to critique Ken’s drawing. I was impressed Ken could come up with an apt drawing and the response in the mere 30 seconds
The “critique” sounds like trash talk, Jeopardy! style, IMO. Usually reserved for sports.
Yeah, they’re having fun with each other. They seem to genuinely all like each other and the chemistry is great. The competition is definitely intense, so seeing that they’re comfortable enough with each other to tease a bit is great.
I think I would rather have seen this tournament set up as 2 individual games per day and a first to 5 wins format. The 2-game match featuring a non-final Final Jeopardy is used in only about 1% of matches and the strategy is hard to follow for viewers. I originally feared that each episode would be a 30-minute game stretched out to an hour with featurettes. I’m thrilled that is not the case, but 2 matches a day would have felt more like real Jeopardy!
In case anyone is curious, if this was the case, James would be up 3-1-0, but 1 of the matches would have been quite close.
Hard to say that though, as wagering strategy through both second games would have been different throughout.
Another new record for James—his 82,414 the highest score in a 2-game tournament format, beating his 79,000 in his TOC final last year.
And a huge milestones for Ken—while there’s the elite 300 club for correct answers, he joined the 3,000 club tonight and Is now at an astounding 3,028, with James less than half at 1400.
The other less prestigious 300 club he joined that’s even more exclusive, is that of incorrect answers, now at 302. Brad’s a distant second at 87.
Correction: James’s previous record TOC score was 76.923
What I have noticed is that the clues being given are designed to keep the players from knowing when the clue will end which really tests buzzer skills. Some of the clues are going several screens and many are video clues with different readers and different rates of delivery. This one was the perfect example as it seemed like it could be answered at the end of each of the three screens!
Andy, James must have seen your comments yesterday. He reversed the first-in-on-the-buzzer stats!
Oops! I forgot that the taping was on 12-10-19. What I should have said was that James likely realized that he needed to address this stat, after Day 1.
*** i never watched Brad before, but I heard Ken say previously that Brad has an advantage based on his super fast buzzer skills. ANYWAY, Brad isn’t showing that speed and James clearly outclasses both Ken and Brad in buzzer speed.
*** Also I have been very impressed with Ken overall knowledge….would love to see a Ken vs Brad, 1 on 1 showdown….Maybe jeopardy could do that for Part 2 of the GOAT
But Ken has played Brad before and never won. Why do it again?
I find that the material for this tournament is much more difficult. I’m amazed that they get most clues right.
It ain’t called “The Greatest of All Time” tournament for nuthin’! These guys truly are the best of the best. 🙂