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alfonzos

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Final J!
« on: February 08, 2015, 05:28:54 PM »
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?
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TLEberle

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Re: Final J!
« Reply #1 on: February 08, 2015, 06:47:10 PM »
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.
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jage

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Re: Final J!
« Reply #2 on: February 08, 2015, 07:26:30 PM »
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

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Re: Final J!
« Reply #3 on: February 08, 2015, 07:38:35 PM »
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.
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