Final J!

[alfonzos]

My roommate was wondering what the odds are of the winner of the game was the leader going into Final J! Has anyone done the math?

[TLEberle]

You can't really compute odds for something like that, but you see how many times it has happened over a sample size. For the first twenty games of the current season, the leader at the end of Final Jeopardy won the day twelve times, lost seven and was co-champion once.

[jage]

I'm not usually one to correct things, but that typo amuses me. The leader at the "end of Final Jeopardy" would win 100% of the time. 12 out of 20 surprises me a bit. Perhaps a better stat would be to figure out how often the leader wins in a non lock-out situation.

[TLEberle]

D'oh! At the end of Double Jeopardy, not Final. Got a little herp in my derp there, and yes, there were a handful of cases where the game was a lockout at that point.