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James Holzhauer's total domination of 'Jeopardy!' in 3 charts
I didn't even bother to watch it last night. He's playing by the rules, but it's no fun anymore.
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James Holzhauer’s total domination of ‘Jeopardy!’ in 3 charts
By Christopher Ingraham
May 1 at 6:00 AM
James Holzhauer, a professional gambler from Las Vegas, has been making headlines for his utter domination of “Jeopardy!” in recent weeks. He’s won 19 games in a row so far, tying him for the third-longest win streak in the show’s history.
But it’s not just the number of victories that’s drawn attention and criticism, it’s the sheer scale of them. Of the 10 largest single-game winnings, nine now belong to him. He blasted past the $1 million mark in total winnings in just 14 days — twice as fast as legendary player Ken Jennings.
But nothing quite underscores Holzhauer’s domination like a chart or two. Here, for instance, is a plot of the cumulative earnings of every other player who’s won 10 or more games in a row — there are just seven of them.
These numbers come from j-archive.com, a fan-run website that maintains meticulous records of every “Jeopardy!” game going back to the 1980s. Jennings, of course, stands head and shoulders above everyone else — note that this chart is truncated at 20 games, since he’s the only player to make it beyond that point. But let’s see what the chart looks like when we add Holzhauer.
No other player is even close; 19 games into his streak, not one of them is even in the same quadrant of the chart. Holzhauer’s averaging more than $75,000 per episode, a figure that’s nearly as high as the previous one-day record of $77,000, set in 2010. Holzhauer, in other words, is turning in something like a record performance every single night.
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Christopher Ingraham writes about all things data. He previously worked at the Brookings Institution and the Pew Research Center. Follow https://twitter.com/_cingraham
James Holzhauer’s total domination of ‘Jeopardy!’ in 3 charts
By Christopher Ingraham
May 1 at 6:00 AM
James Holzhauer, a professional gambler from Las Vegas, has been making headlines for his utter domination of “Jeopardy!” in recent weeks. He’s won 19 games in a row so far, tying him for the third-longest win streak in the show’s history.
But it’s not just the number of victories that’s drawn attention and criticism, it’s the sheer scale of them. Of the 10 largest single-game winnings, nine now belong to him. He blasted past the $1 million mark in total winnings in just 14 days — twice as fast as legendary player Ken Jennings.
But nothing quite underscores Holzhauer’s domination like a chart or two. Here, for instance, is a plot of the cumulative earnings of every other player who’s won 10 or more games in a row — there are just seven of them.
These numbers come from j-archive.com, a fan-run website that maintains meticulous records of every “Jeopardy!” game going back to the 1980s. Jennings, of course, stands head and shoulders above everyone else — note that this chart is truncated at 20 games, since he’s the only player to make it beyond that point. But let’s see what the chart looks like when we add Holzhauer.
No other player is even close; 19 games into his streak, not one of them is even in the same quadrant of the chart. Holzhauer’s averaging more than $75,000 per episode, a figure that’s nearly as high as the previous one-day record of $77,000, set in 2010. Holzhauer, in other words, is turning in something like a record performance every single night.
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Christopher Ingraham writes about all things data. He previously worked at the Brookings Institution and the Pew Research Center. Follow https://twitter.com/_cingraham
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