Masters Breakdown #6 — Good-Bye To Two…

Current Champion

Justin Robbins, career statistics:
28 correct, 3 incorrect
1/1 on rebound attempts (on 4 rebound opportunities)
49.12% in first on buzzer (28/57)
0/1 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: -$1,000)
1/1 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $20,600

To win:
2 games: 64.278%
3: 41.317%
4: 26.557%
5: 17.071%
6: 10.973%
Avg. streak: 2.799 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 $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603

The quarterfinals are now done; here is Masters Breakdown #6! Here are some thoughts going into the semifinals:

1) Victoria

Victoria has dominated the run of play in all of her games in the first two rounds, picking up 54% of her buzzer attempts and average 25 correct per game. While she’s only 2-for-6 in Final, she still won 5 of her 6 games. While she was #1 in the quarters, the points reset to 0 in the semis; she might need to improve her record in Final Jeopardy in order to make sure she advances to the finals.

2) Yogesh

Yogesh finished the quarterfinals in the #2 position, picking up 10 points. Of the four semifinalists, he’s only 3-for-4 on Daily doubles, but he had the second-best overall Coryat of 94,200. Finding more Daily Doubles will absolutely help his chances of making it to May 22.

3) James

James finishing third in the quarterfinals is absolutely a surprise to a great number of fans at this point; that said, he was consistently outplayed by both Victoria and Yogesh. If things break the wrong way at the wrong time for James, he could be the player relegated after Monday.

4) Amy

Amy and Victoria were the only two players not to miss a Daily Double in the opening games. While her buzzer timing left something to be desired—she finished the opening games at just 39%—it certainly means there’s room for improvement. I’d like to see her make the final.

5) Mattea

Unfortunately, Mattea’s Masters journey has ended; they were in last place in both buzzer timing, Daily Double %age, and Final Jeopardy %age, but they did get one victory in this competition to keep them out of sixth. With the quality of play waiting in the next Jeopardy! Invitational Tournament, I fear that this might be the last we see of Mattea on the Jeopardy Masters stage.

6) Matt

While Matt had a moral victory in the respect that he was the only player to go 6-for-6 in Final, he gave 16 incorrect responses in the tournament and was unable to win any games. I don’t want my next statement to be seen as a criticism—because there’s somewhere around a million and a half reasons why it’s not—but I get the sense that Matt reached his peak in regular play and hasn’t quite been able to replicate that in later tournaments. (Though, again, to be fair, Matt took better advantage of that peak better than anyone else in the history of the show.)

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Semifinals, Game #1 Preview:

Game 1:

I’m not going to give predictions for Game 2, as the prediction model would like to have the game data for Game 1. That said, as has been the case for most of the event, it slightly favors James—but the variance at this level basically means that anyone can win any time out; this one will come down to the vagaries of the Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy.

What do you think will happen in the second round?

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