xxaaaxx wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:36 pm
Another run of the mill $80k payday. This is normal, yet not normal. J! isn't this easy. Have I been watching a different game show all these years!? J! isn't this easy! I missed nearly all of KJ's run due to RL. Is this what it was like to watch?
Instaget FJ. This feels like it should've been a triple get. *shrug*
I feel bad for whoever draws James in the TOC quarterfinals. Not only will they lose badly, there might not be enough money left on the board to even try for a wild card.
Chris Miller doubled up 2000 and Russ Schumacher did 6400+6000 to make wildcards against Tom Baker and his 20,000 + 100
Kara Spak did 6000+12 to make wildcard against the 39800-19200 by Roger Craig
Michael Falk and Bob Mesko both made wildcard against David Madden.
If James gets 40 clues that still leaves 20 for his competitors. A hit on the FJ! clue and it's reasonable for opponents to make a WC.
xxaaaxx wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 7:36 pm
Another run of the mill $80k payday. This is normal, yet not normal. J! isn't this easy. Have I been watching a different game show all these years!? J! isn't this easy! I missed nearly all of KJ's run due to RL. Is this what it was like to watch?
Instaget FJ. This feels like it should've been a triple get. *shrug*
I feel bad for whoever draws James in the TOC quarterfinals. Not only will they lose badly, there might not be enough money left on the board to even try for a wild card.
It's been 15 years, but from what I remember Ken had almost all of his games locked up entering FJ. It's something close to 90%, and I think the major difference between the two is the way James bets. It's hard to compare but I think Ken's knowledge and buzzer skill are better.
Also, I only remember one contestant actually challenging Ken. I believe his name was Michael, and he played as well as he could given Ken's skill and aggressively bet to even have a chance. He ended with something like $44,000, but they both got FJ and obviously Ken won.
Aside from the dollar amounts, yes, Ken made it look just as easy.
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CasketRomance wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 10:52 pm
knew the cobra was named for shelby, but couldn't have told you dude's first name...btw...it is carroll...not harold
oops. fixed it. "carroll shelby" only has 7 hits in the Archive
Flipping through sports talk stations, I ran into the same live-stream narration and this time noted the channel. The hosts on Mad Dog Radio were calling the game like a live stream and pre-called the bet amount to break the old 77K record if "he gets this final jeopardy about British Monarchs right". And he pre-called that the dude in the middle would bet zero because he was scared. I clicked away to avoid being spoiled - I'm just sharing this to indicate that James' run is crossing a lot of demographics now.
I was able to conjure up 3 royal names that seemed to at least go up to 6. Henry of course was at least 8, and I was pretty sure there were a few more Georges after we booted George III. I used to smoke King Edward cigars (6 cents apiece), and that seems like the one who quit to marry a commoner.
James' sports gambling must be pretty focused on the action, not the legends and lore. The France family has done a good job preventing the public from knowing NASCAR is a phony "Association" and is actually privately held. Disclaimer- these may be alternative facts but there is some foundation to them.
There's been several mentions in game threads about how unfair the clicking advantage is for the champ. I think Louis or Kevin could have upset James, but 12 games in, how do you win the buzzer? I'd like to see the playing field leveled by adding a delay time to the champ's buzzer, maybe just 0.01 second per game won, maybe maximizing at 0.1 seconds or so. It's just weird to have a knowledge and recall game decided by gaming a joystick so to speak.
Disclaimer - repeated exposure to author's musings may cause befuddlement.
If I recall the game correctly, today we saw James go "classical" DD hunting in the Madden/Craig/Jacob style, rather than sweeping the bottom row first. Since he had not been as dominant on the buzzer in SJ as usual, it makes me wonder if he was following his Plan B.
As I said the other day, the "Holzhauer horizontal" is clearly optimal only for a player with outstanding control of the board. I also said you couldn't know if you'd be such a player until you started playing. Today's game may be a hint that James has considered that and prepared two different strategies of moving around the board, to be deployed contingent on his buzzer effectiveness. One game is weak evidence, but if that turned out to be true, I'd be in awe of the thoroughness of his preparation.
For FJ Henry was a gimme with the famous Henry VIII, and then Edward and George were from the 20th century - one needed to start with the most recent kings after getting the gimme.
mdude04 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2019 12:59 pm
So according to the Internet, Alex Trebek earns around $42,500 per episode of Jeopardy. ($10 million per year. 235 episodes per year).
James is averaging more than $70,000 per episode.
I'll bet it burns him that he has to ask Alex to read each clue.