These are Ken Jennings’ final statistics from his original 75-game run:
Games Played: 75
Total Winnings: $2,522,700
Career Batting Average: 0.597
Triple Stumpers Average: 5.45 (per game)
Unrevealed Clues Average: 0.48 (per game)
High Game: $75,000 (July 23rd)
Low Game: $8,799 (November 30th)
Average Game: $33,727
Correct Responses: 2,694 (including Final Jeopardy)
Incorrect Responses: 264 (including Final Jeopardy)
Unforced Errors: 213 (incorrect answer after a buzz-in)
Most Number of Correct Answers, One Game: 45 (July 20th and 23rd)
Fewest Number of Correct Answers: One Game: 26 (June 7th, June 28th, October 26th)
Times First In: (Not Including DDs): 2607
Times First In %age: 61.50% (of all clues read)
Rebounds: 94
Rebound %age: 41.05% (Times rebounded out of all rebound opportunities)
Category Stats:
Categories Run: 94
Categories with 4 Correct Responses: 229
Categories with 3 Correct Responses: 253
Categories with at least 3 Correct Responses: 576
Categories Seen: 900
%age of Categories with at least 3 Correct Responses: 64.00%
Categories with 0 Correct Responses: 31
Daily Doubles:
Daily Doubles Hit: 160
Daily Doubles Correct: 133
Daily Double %age: 83.13%
Average Daily Double Wager: $3,810
Total Net Gain on Daily Doubles: $421,199
Average Net Gain on Daily Doubles: $2,632 (per Daily Double)
Average Scores:
Average Score at End of First Round: $9,936
Average Lead at End of First Round: $6,649
Average Score at End of 2nd Round: $31,136
Average Lead at End of 2nd Round: $22,977
% of Games Locked: 86.7% (65 of 75)
Final Jeopardy:
Opportunites to Safely Bet to surpass $52,000: 29 (lead of greater than $26,000 after Double Jeopardy!)
Number of Times Ken would have surpassed $52,000 with a large enough wager: 17
Number of Times Surpassed $52,000: 2
Final Jeopardy %age: 68.0%
Average Final Jeopardy Wager: $7,698
Difference Between Ken’s and Martian Wagering: -$119,978 (positive favours Ken, negative favours Martians)
Ken’s Total Had He Wagered Full Martian: $2,642,678
Coryat Scores:
(See http://www.pisspoor.com/jep.html for description of a Coryat Score)
Average Coryat: $27,861
Average Opposition Player Coryat: $5,683
Average Combined Coryat: $39,299
High Coryat: $39,200 (June 10th)
Low Coryat: $17,400 (October 26th)
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