With Amy Schneider surpassing James Holzhauer’s 32 wins and setting off in pursuit of Matt Amodio’s 38 wins and Ken Jennings’ 74 wins, I have decided to add Amy Schneider to the statistical comparisons. As in the past, links are also provided to help define any statistics that may not be readily familiar or intuitive to the casual viewer.
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Last Updated: January 26, 2022 (through 41 games)
| Amy Schneider | Ken Jennings | Matt Amodio | James Holzhauer | |
| Games Played | 41 | 41 | 39 | 33 |
| Total Winnings | $1,382,800 | $1,380,661 | $1,518,601 | $2,462,216 |
| Correct Responses | 1337 | 1471 | 1305 | 1186 |
| Incorrect Responses | 77 | 136 | 122 | 36 |
| Unforced Errors (buzz in w/ incorrect response) | 54 | 109 | 102 | 31 |
| Correct Response % When Buzzing In | 95.84% | 92.64% | 92.17% | 97.21% |
| Times First In | 1230 | 1416 | 1237 | 1077 |
| First In %age | 52.77% | 60.93% | 56.00% | 57.81% |
| Rebounds | 60 | 52 | 55 | 33 |
| Rebound %age (of all rebound opportunities) | 39.47% | 40.31% | 44.00% | 48.53% |
| Categories With 5 Correct | 28 | 47 | 26 | 36 |
| Categories With 4 Correct | 94 | 133 | 106 | 95 |
| Categories With 3 Correct | 152 | 140 | 142 | 122 |
| % Of Categories With At Least 3 Correct | 55.69% | 65.04% | 58.55% | 63.89% |
| Categories With 0 Correct | 17 | 19 | 14 | 11 |
| % of Bottom-Row Clues Responded To Correctly | 51.83% | 52.65% | 59.10% | 58.59% |
| Daily Doubles Played | 76 | 86 | 86 | 76 |
| Daily Doubles Correct | 66 | 74 | 76 | 72 |
| Daily Double %age | 86.84% | 86.05% | 88.37% | 94.74% |
| Average Daily Double Wager | $3,603 | $3,634 | $4,774 | $8,984 |
| Total Net Gain On Daily Doubles | $210,200 | $227,299 | $304,200 | $654,416 |
| Average Net Gain On Daily Doubles | $2,766 | $2,643 | $3,537 | $8,611 |
| Average Score At End Of First Round | $10,020 | $9,937 | $10,969 | $12,564 |
| Average Lead At End Of First Round | $6,190 | $6,290 | $7,382 | $8,273 |
| Average Score At End Of Second Round | $30,112 | $31,041 | $33,308 | $47,655 |
| Average Lead At End Of Second Round | $21,883 | $22,246 | $23,521 | $36,750 |
| % Of Runaway Games | 85.37% | 87.80% | 82.05% | 87.88% |
| Final Jeopardy Clues Correct | 28 | 26 | 29 | 32 |
| Final Jeopardy %age | 68.29% | 63.41% | 74.36% | 96.97% |
| Average Final Jeopardy Wager | $12,678 | $8,065 | $12,492 | $27,891 |
| Average Final Score | $34,205 | $33,675 | $39,082 | $75,364 |
| Average Margin of Victory | $25,753 | $25,597 | $29,542 | $62,269 |
| Average Coryat Score | $26,946 | $27,859 | $27,913 | $30,576 |
| Average Opposition Player Coryat | $6,307 | $5,888 | $6,436 | $7,415 |
| Average Combined Coryat | $39,561 | $39,634 | $40,785 | $45,400 |
| Triple Stumpers Average | 6.20 | 5.24 | 5.10 | 3.39 |
| Unrevealed Clues Average | 0.15 | 0.32 | 0.33 | 0.55 |
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Quite a data compilation you have put together Andy. Thanks. My local market shows Jeopardy replays on weekends and Matt Amodio was a contestant. Rewatching him dominate reminded me just how good he was. Eventually we’ll be seeing Amy, Matt, and James face off.
thats incredible
It shows how important data is. I have been noticing that Amy seems to dominate the buzzer but Matt, who seemed slow to me, had a higher percentage of buzzes. It is interesting to see how Amy is more like James in that she has very few wrong answers. All four are amazing. That two showed up in the same year is crazy.
Some people have compared Ken’s 74 games to Joe DiMaggio hitting in 56 straight games, but I honestly long thought that Cy Young’s 511 wins was a more apt comparison in that I thought nobody would ever even come close to approaching it again.
The last few months have forced me to rethink my choice of analogy.
I think your analogy still holds, in the fact that the best modern Jeopardy! players are only nearing 50% of Ken’s record, and modern MLB pitchers are only getting to 50% of Cy Young’s record.
Later competitors have a couple of disadvantages compared to Ken Jennings. It is now easier to try out for Jeopardy creating a large pool of candidates and players now get to practice buzzing in before they play on Jeopardy.
That’s a valid point, but it should be noted that Ken’s 74 game streak includes two seasons; 38 games from before the morning rehearsal was instituted, and a 36 game streak the next season after it was instituted. Although all of this in 2004 was before the advent of the online test in 2006. You can only play under the rules at the time though!
I was going to mention the 36 games but you beat me to it.
Does anyone track “money lost” on Final Jeopardy? Amy has had a few $20K misses recently.
Thx,
Jay!
Great data as always, Andy. Only thing I can say for sure after viewing all of this is that these are definitely the four best players of all time, along with Brad.
I think I would have Matt ranked ahead of Amy for now, but if she wins the 2022 ToC, I think she’ll have the edge. Her winning the ToC is the only way she can surpass Matt in overall cash winnings ($1,632,800 to $1,618,601 being the highest total for Matt).