Welcome back to Andy’s Weekly Thoughts. Here’s a shorter editorial this week:
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Why I Said What I Did On Thursday
I received some negative feedback from many regarding my comments after Jeopardy! Masters and whether I thought there were any players who could truly challenge Victoria, Yogesh or James. A number of you pointed out that Troy Meyer was potentially part of that echelon—and I want to make it clear that I definitely thought about Troy when I made the statement that I did. However, I also think that Troy does have the opportunity to take his game to Victoria’s level—I truly believe that if Troy got to Victoria’s level on the signaling device, he would absolutely be on the level of Victoria, James, and Yogesh. Until that point, though, I’m not so sure.
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Yes, There’s More I Could Talk About This Week
…but I’d rather wait a week before I publish it. I hope everyone doesn’t mind the shorter editorial.
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My dude, Troy’s buzzer win rate in the TOC was 45% and Yogesh’s was 48%. Are you arguing that is the difference between a top-level player and second tier?
With all due respect: in the final, Yogesh out-buzzed Troy 45.9% to 39.7%, and Yogesh was the best buzzer in 4 of the 6 games (with 1 apiece to Troy and Ben).
So, yes, I do think that Troy needs to win 4-5 more buzzer races a game in order to truly be a top-tier player.
If you’re just focused on the finals: Troy’s Coryat average was $18,200 for the six games versus $17,867 for Yogesh. Troy found 11 DDs in those games (and converted 10) versus 3 for Yogesh. Both players were 3/6 on FJs.
Yogesh won more games than Troy due to volatility, not because he’s a better player.
Yogesh also went all-in on every single Daily Double he found and was the only player to be 100% on Daily Doubles. His average wager throughout them was $12,200.
Two of those vaulted him to either commanding leads or runaway leads by the end of Double,and the only one that did not was due to Troy having converted a $21,800 TDD about 10 clues later.
Yogesh and Troy are both EXTREMELY GOOD, which can be seen by the fact that all six games combined for all of fifteen Triple Stumpers. Any game between Yogesh, Troy, and any third player – whether that be Ben Chan or someone else – will come down to whoever the buzzer/board suits that game and whoever is better able to take advantage of the opportunities presented. While Yogesh may have gotten some good luck in the finals, he also has the player skill required to turn that luck into success. Chalking Yogesh’s win in the ToC down entirely to volatility is neither accurate nor fair to him.
Victoria certainly brushed up on her Jeopardy! knowledge since her one day win many years ago. Perhaps one day we will see Cris Panullo in these games.
I definitely would love to see more Cris again. I think he’s a much better player than the result was in the ToC.
Agree 100%.