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How I thought about my ability to return to Jeopardy for the Invitational Tournament

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www.j-ometry.com is updated with the 2025 Jeopardy Invitational Tournament lineup (including... me)

Still some odds and ends to enhance the particular flavor of the game, but popculture.j-ometry.com is now on par with the mainline site. #jeopardy #popculturejeopardy

Still expanding it, but popculture.j-ometry.com is now live with data from the first three games of Pop Culture Jeopardy #jeopardy #popculturejeopardy

Some minor changes in labeling on j-ometry.com are live, primarily to avoid Primetime Celebrity Jeopardy being labeled as "PCJ" when Pop Culture Jeopardy now also exists. Pop culture coverage is in development. #jeopardy

The j-ometry homepage now includes the lists of announced champions returning for the 2025 Champions Wildcard and the 2025 Tournament of Champions.

The j-ometry homepage now includes links to a summary of and the individual pages for the just-announced 2024-25 Second Chance Competition.

Updates for this week will all occur this weekend.

Analyst, Measure Thyself Using Jeopardy at-home scoring as a yardstick on my mental and physical health during chemotherapy treatment

While I’ve been on chemo, I’ve also been scoring myself on America’s favorite trivia game show and finding patterns and comparisons. Now that the season is done (and my chemo is nine hours from done), here’s the result.

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Statistics for Jeopardy! on April 11, 2024: j-ometry.com/game.html?ga...

Regular play returns to Jeopardy! with the April 10, 2024, episode. Stats are at j-ometry.com/game.html?ga...

The graph is as described in the post itself, illustrating the points discussed.

Estimated attempt value and conversion value percent for Jeopardy! Invitational semifinalists, through semifinal 1. Something to watch: semifinals 1 and 2 group players in similar regions of the space. In semifinal 1, the players moved in the region but none broke particularly better or worse.

Scatterplot of estimated attempt value and actual buzz score for today's Jeopardy! quarterfinal. Hannah and David are in nearly exactly the same spot.

The core stats for today's Jeopardy! game put Hannah and David in pretty much a dead heat statistically in the buzzing game. j-ometry.com/game.html?ga...

In case you've wondered why site updates are sometimes randomly delayed by days.

All recent Jeopardy! games up to today's are loaded into j-ometry.com for your perusal. I didn't have a great way to fit the play-in games on Tune-in into sequence but I didn't want to leave them out, so they are slightly farther down and labeled as Season 40A.

Buzz score trendlines for December 29, 2023's game, showing different periods of strength for all three contestants

New feature: Game Progress on game pages includes trend lines for statistics, allowing for a different feel of the game's flow.

Statistics for Jeopardy! ep 40-73, Dec 20, 2023:

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Statistics for Jeopardy! ep 40-72, Dec 19, 2023 (yesterday):

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Regular play statistics for the Jeopardy! Season 39 Second Chance Competition contestants at:

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Statistics for Jeopardy! ep 40-71, Dec 18, 2023:

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Statistics for Jeopardy! ep 40-70, Dec 15, 2023:

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Statistics for Jeopardy! ep 40-69, Dec 14, 2023:

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Statistics for Jeopardy! ep 40-68, Dec 13, 2023:

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Statistics for Jeopardy! ep 40-67, Dec 12, 2023:

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Statistics for Jeopardy! ep 40-66, Dec 11, 2023:

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Statistics for the remainder of this week's Jeopardy! wildcard games, eps 40-63 to 40-65, are now available:

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Stats for Jeopardy! ep 40-62, Dec 5, 2023:

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Keys: Buz$ for this game had Andrew leading only $11800-$9800-$6400, so the DJ DD swing (-$2600 for Matt and +$5000 for Andrew) made a huge difference. Andrew led attempts, Matt timing, and Laura accuracy.

Statistics for Jeopardy! ep 40-61, Dec 4, 2023:

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Keys: This one worked out pretty evenly in the buzzing game, with Julia emphasizing attempts, Finn accuracy, and Kristen timing. Flipping Kristen's DD misses would likely have flipped the game, too.

Statistics for Jeopardy! ep 40-60, Dec 1, 2023:

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Keys: Garrett led the buzzing game through better timing than Brianne and better accuracy than Bryce, but the game could have swung another direction if it weren't for his +1.9 DD+C giving him all the DDs and $9000.

Statistics for Jeopardy! ep 40-59, Nov 30, 2023:

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Keys: Tyler's higher accuracy (100%, aided on the correction) and taking all the DD opportunities took the edge over the buzzer timing Ciara demonstrated her first time on.