
Ken Jennings on the future of Jeopardy!
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The Importance of Daily Doubles in the Moneyball Era
I think a lot of it is what you say that people now if you're in the moneyball era where the old techniques have been shown to be superstitious suboptimal. People know there's a smarter way to wager and yet people go on the show for a lark and just bet wrong because they haven't really studied the odds. There are things you could do daily double placement is not random humans look at the board and decide which clues and categories have the best daily double vibe. Contestants can generate heat maps of where daily doubles are like you would for a pitcher or a or a batter.
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