Welcome to the final day of Season 37. It’s the final day of Joe Buck’s guest hosting stint. $129,400 has been donated thus far to Kidsmart. Here’s today’s Final Jeopardy (in the category 19th Century American Women) for Friday, August 13, 2021 (Season 37, Game 230):
2 of the 3 women depicted on the first statue of real women in Central Park, unveiled in August 2020
(correct response beneath the contestants)
Today’s contestants:
Rowan Ward, a chart caller and freelance writer from Chicago, Illinois
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Eric Shi, a project manager originally from Houston, Texas
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Matt Amodio, a Ph.D student from New Haven, Connecticut (17-day total: $547,600)
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Andy’s Pregame Thoughts: On this final day of Season 37, whoever wins will return on September 13 to defend their title. One thing to keep an eye out for today: if the winning total is $52,974 or higher, the show will have donated $3 million to charity over the course of the entire guest host stint.
Rowan’s listed their occupation as a chart caller; I think that of all of the guest hosts, Joe Buck is most likely to know what a chart caller is. (A chart caller basically works at a racetrack and watches horse races in detail in order to create the box score, or chart, for each race.)
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Correct response: Who are (2 of) Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
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The statue features three famous American suffragettes, Truth, Anthony, and Stanton, in a statue unveiled August 26, 2020. As an article in Smithsonian Magazine mentioned, though, the statue itself was controversial. The original statue was only originally going to honor Anthony and Stanton, both of whom came under criticism for their failure to support the 15th Amendment, which gave Black men the right to vote. Sojourner Truth was added to the monument in recognition of her work in advancing the cause of Black women in America.
Photographs of the monument, which have Truth, Anthony, and Stanton from left to right, can also be found at the above-linked Smithsonian Magazine article.
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Looking to find out who won Jeopardy! today? Tonight’s results are below!
Scores going into Final:
Matt $27,200
Rowan $13,600
Eric $2,400
Tonight’s results:
Eric $2,400 – $0 = $2,400 (Who are :)?)
Rowan $13,600 – $13,600 = $0 (Who are Tubman + Truth?)
Matt $27,200 + $1 = $27,201 (Who is Anthony & Stanton?) (18-day total: $574,801)
Scores after the Jeopardy! Round:
Rowan $7,000
Matt $6,600
Eric $4,000
Opening break taken after: 15 clues
Daily Double locations:
1) IDIOMS $800 (clue #8)
Rowan 2000 +2000 (Matt 3000 Eric 800)
2) NOVEL VOCABULARY $1200 (clue #5)
Matt 7800 +7800 (Eric 4000 Rowan 7800)
3) LOST $2000 (clue #15, $12400 left on board)
Rowan 15800 -5000 (Matt 20400 Eric 2000)
Overall Daily Double Efficiency for this game: 168
Unplayed clues:
J! Round: None!
DJ! Round: None!
Total Left On Board: $0
Number of clues left unrevealed this season: 211 (0.92 per episode average), 2 Daily Doubles
Game Stats:
Matt $20,600 Coryat, 24 correct, 2 incorrect, 42.11% in first on buzzer (24/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Eric $2,400 Coryat, 9 correct, 2 incorrect, 17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57), 1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
Rowan $17,400 Coryat, 22 correct, 2 incorrect, 35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57), 2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
Combined Coryat Score: $40,400
Lach Trash: $4,800 (on 4 Triple Stumpers)
Coryat lost to incorrect responses (less double-correct responses): $8,800
Matt Amodio, career statistics:
576 correct, 64 incorrect
27/31 on rebound attempts (on 66 rebound opportunities)
54.35% in first on buzzer (550/1012)
35/40 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $122,000)
12/18 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $26,222
Eric Shi, career statistics:
9 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 3 rebound opportunities)
17.54% in first on buzzer (10/57)
0/0 on Daily Doubles
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $2,400
Rowan Ward, career statistics:
22 correct, 3 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
35.09% in first on buzzer (20/57)
1/2 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$3,000)
0/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,400
Matt Amodio, to win:
19 games: 90.912%
20: 82.650%
21: 75.139%
22: 68.310%
23: 62.102%
Avg. streak: 28.004 games.
Andy’s Thoughts:
- $159,601 will be donated to Kidsmart; $2,974,227 is the final season total for all charities.
- Matt absolutely made the correct bet in Final Jeopardy – he is more likely to get Final Jeopardy! correct than he is to win a tiebreaker against Rowan—who ran him about as close on the signalling device as anyone has his entire run. Matt’s advantage was only 24-20. And, yes, $1 is the correct bet. While Rowan very likely wouldn’t have, enough challengers historically have failed to make the proper bet from second place to make it very worthwhile to only bet $1.
- This was the first game where Matt did not lead after the Jeopardy! round.
- Counting tournament play, Matt at $574,801 moves to #7 in all-time winnings. Matt Jackson sits #6 at $611.612.
- I like how Joe Buck signed off the way his father Jack Buck used to, “Thanks for your time this time. ‘Til next time, so long”.
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No one has commented on this, so I will. Rowan was basically playing Matt neck and neck- very impressive. This was a very dangerous game, and the daily doubles were the difference.
Trying again. What is Coryat?
A player’s score if all wagering is disregarded. In the Coryat score, there is no penalty for forced incorrect responses on Daily Doubles, but correct responses on Daily Doubles earn only the natural values of the clues, and any gain or loss from the Final Jeopardy! Round is ignored.
https://www.j-archive.com/help.php#coryatscore
Can’t wait to see Matt in a TOC, whenever that happens. He will certainly be the prohibitive favorite. As amazing as he has been, and will presumably continue to be, winning against TOC competition really takes it to another level.
Glad Matt won much deserved. However not too pleased with choice of hosts. Most too loud, too much talking heads
Levar Burton would ha e been great. But if you are the boss you vote yourself in above anyone else!!
To me, tonight’s show displays one of my peeves about the show. Rowan is the best Matt has faced and in fact they could potentially be better that him. Jeopardy should have a mechanism where common sense is used and these incredibly strong second place finishers get a chance to go on the show again. If they had been in Matt’s shoes instead of him in his very first game, it could be them that folks are talking about on the golf courses and at the water fountain. 🙂
That’s an interesting idea. Perhaps Jeopardy can have a future spin-off for Bialik to host along the lines of “Tournament of Losers” I can think of well over 15 players over the past few years who might qualify including Matt’s first victim and his last. Plus the winner, in lieu of a huge paycheck, could qualify for a do-over in a future regular match.
I was thinking along the lines of a “Redemption Tournament” of sorts where Jeopardy invites back the 15 people with the lowest scores after Double Jeopardy (example: Patrick Pearce with -7,400) and the winner gets a chance to play again along with a big payday. (Plus, the name sounds much nicer than “Tournament of Losers”.)
I disagree with Matt’s final bet. Since Rowan had to double their score ($13,600 x 2 = $27,200) to tie Matt, so their bet was correct. But Matt should have bet zero (to tie Rowan) or $22,399, just enough to out distant the third place contestant if he bet $2400 ($2400 x 2 = $4800) and correctly answered. By Matt betting $1 if he’s incorrect he loses to Rowan, if Rowan answers correctly, but would have come in second
Bruce:
You’re making the assumption that second place will bet everything, and that is a very dangerous assumption to make in this situation.
Matt is in a position where the future expected value of every win is about $338,000. Thus, he’s essentially risking a potential future $338,000 in order to win an extra $22,400.
In fact, enough second-placed players have failed to bet everything in this situation—including one earlier this season, even—that this bet becomes too risky to be worthwhile.
I agree with Bruce above. If Matt would have bet zero he would have guaranteed that he returns as champ or co-champ even if it means that he has to face Rowan again.His $1 bet gains him virtually no money but risks everything (meaning the ability to return and keep playing) if Rowan is correct with an all-in bet and Matt is incorrect. Remember Ken Jennings with FedEx and H&R Block. Why not take the sure thing? Am I missing something?
You are missing something huge. The rule changed in 2014. Ties no longer result in co-champions and are resolved by a tiebreaker clue.
Folks, the $1 bet is the correct bet! Stop trying to manufacture reasons or apply old rules to assert it is incorrect! Sheesh.
Oops. Now I see what I was missing: That they no longer allow co-champions but instead use a tie breaker (which pretty much is just a test of your signalling ability). Never mind.
A number of you have failed to demonstrate that you have read the Andy’s Thoughts section above, specifically the point where I outline exactly why betting exactly $1 is the best idea.
Do note that I have compiled nearly 4,000 episodes’ worth of empirical wagering data that I refer to when making my analyses.
Why is Jeopardy rerun on tonight? (August 16, 2021)
Friday was the season finale. Season 38 begins September 13.
Wow, almost $3,000,000 donated for good causes this season. That’s very impressive.