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2017 Tournament of Champions – Finals Predictions

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Matthew Riggle, career statistics:
47 correct, 6 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
41.23% in first on buzzer (47/114)
3/3 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $7,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $21,300

To win:
3 games: 68.027%
4: 46.277%
5: 31.481%
6: 21.415%
7: 14.568%
Avg. streak: 4.128 games.
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All Time Winnings

All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:

1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200

All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):

1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,098,403
7. Mattea Roach $897,983
8. Jamie Ding $885,605
9. David Madden $785,733
10. Victoria Groce $773,801
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Larissa Kelly $671,930
14. Matt Jackson $623,612
15. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
16. Andrew He $534,365
17. Scott Riccardi $533,000
18. Jerome Vered $499,102
19. Julia Collins $495,767
20. Austin Rogers $493,000
21. Ben Ingram $449,201
22. Paolo Pasco $448,717
23. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
24. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
25. Juveria Zaheer $441,000

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Since the 2015 Tournament of Champions, about 850 Tournament of Champions-eligible players have competed on Jeopardy! (thanks to Matt Carberry for that statistic.)

We are now down to 3: Buzzy Cohen, Alan Lin, and Austin Rogers. Here are their stats and my predictions for the Final.

Thursday, November 16, 2017 & Friday, November 17, 2017:

Buzzy Cohen on the 2017 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

Buzzy Cohen
Los Angeles, California
251 correct, 43 incorrect
36.88% in first on buzzer (246/667)
14/20 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $23,600)
8/12 in Final Jeopardy!
Average Coryat: $14,400
QF performance: 21 correct, 3 incorrect, $16,400 Coryat (net +5 low-level clues, net +13 high-level clues)
SF performance: 22 correct, 4 incorrect, $15,400 Coryat (net +8 low-level clues, net +10 high-level clues)

Alan Lin on the 2017 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

Alan Lin
Riverside, California
196 correct, 18 incorrect
36.44% in first on buzzer (184/505)
10/14 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $19,205)
7/9 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $16,800
QF performance: 27 correct, 3 incorrect, $20,800 Coryat (net +10 low-level clues, net +14 high-level clues)
SF performance: 19 correct, 1 incorrect, $19,000 Coryat (net +6 low-level clues, net +12 high-level clues)

For Desktop in-article:

Austin Rogers on the 2017 Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions

Austin Rogers
New York, New York
368 correct, 47 incorrect
40.86% in first on buzzer (344/842)
22/28 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $106,100)
14/15 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,133
QF performance: 14 correct, 3 incorrect, $11,400 Coryat (net +8 low-level clues, net +3 high-level clues)
SF performance: 18 correct, 1 incorrect, $9,200 Coryat (net +10 low-level clues, net +7 high-level clues)

Austin Rogers
New York, New York
368 correct, 47 incorrect
40.86% in first on buzzer (344/842)
22/28 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $106,100)
14/15 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,133
QF performance: 14 correct, 3 incorrect, $11,400 Coryat (net +8 low-level clues, net +3 high-level clues)
SF performance: 18 correct, 1 incorrect, $9,200 Coryat (net +10 low-level clues, net +7 high-level clues)


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Prediction: The odds of Buzzy vs. Austin in the final wouldn’t have been very long, but the fact that the analytics favors neither contestant is, frankly, shocking. Alan Lin has certainly been the player of the tournament so far. He has certainly come to play. But the interesting thing to me is that each player may very well carry an advantage in a different facet of the game, which makes this is very evenly-matched final. Alan has been a beast on the buzzer, Austin always seems to come up huge in Final Jeopardy, and Buzzy just seems to be able to come through in the clutch, no matter who he’s playing against. I would literally say that if you ran this final an infinite number of times, it would converge to each player winning one-third of the time, it is that close. In this specific case? My analytics are cheering for Alan, my heart is cheering for Buzzy, but I just can’t shake the feeling that Austin will somehow manage to pull a rabbit out of a hat and close out the tournament.

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