Film Theory: How Jeopardy CHEATED Its Best Player! (Jeopardy is Rigged Part 2)
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Last episode we explored the strategy of Jeopardy Champion James Holzhauer and how even host Alex Trebek couldn't believe his winning streak. Today, we are going to dive into WHY this record setting player finally lost. I have a theory that it might not be as simple as James having a bad day. I'm not saying the powers that be behind Jeopardy did ANYTHING wrong, but you never know what really happens behind the curtain - or in this case, the blue screen.
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Us: So... was it rigged?
Matpat: Yes, but actually yes.
But James still could’ve won if he was better at betting right?
@Tucsoncoyote 2019 A baby with an IQ of 220 would be of the most intelligent people ever. Einstein had a measly 160 IQ in comparison :P
Right Right Right.
Right?
It was rigged because the show deviated from favoring the more knowledgeable player. That is the default of the show as that’s kind of the whole point. Even increasing the difficulty to absurd levels still keeps to that premise.
But easier questions means it’s all down to who can click first. The game now favors high reflexes and his advantage is more or less nullified which improves the likelihood they end up in that critical end game situation.
At that point, once they reveal the obviously biased final jeopardy, both understand what their best strategies are. Hers is to bet high which she is almost guaranteed to get correct while his only option is to bet low and hope she makes a mistake.
Depending on how sinister the show was, I wonder if they had different categories/questions for final jeopardy depending on what their relative score was? That way they can arrange what each of the player’s best strategies would be and always go with an option where he has the highest chance to lose. Or do they just always go for the biased category every time to ensure at the very least she has very good odds of answering correctly?
@@SilverionX If I am not wrong, an IQ is calculated by comparing your intelligence with the other of your age, genders, geographic,etc... Therefore, a 220 IQ baby would be more intelligent than other babies, but maybe not than an adult, particularly this adult who was pretty intelligent
Mat: I can't say it's rigged for legal reasons
Title: *No it's rigged. It's definitely rigged.*
@@Random-yg1fi R/Wooosh
@@benwith_jam-in5264
r/iam14andthisiswoosh
also r/ihavereddit
@@MaksKCS Using r/ihavereddit makes you belong in r/ihavereddit
Yeah, if they wanted to sue MatPat, they probably could. They probably won't, due to lawyers being expensive and MatPat not being rich enough, but...
Guys guys we all know that R / G is the best subreddit
The fact they gave her a Shakespeare question is suspect enough on its own
i know right? that's super SUS
I agree, it would feel like you are just stabbing in the dark but when the final jeopardy perfectly aligns with the competitor you really gotta look at that
Victor Charles a.k.a. VicGChad07 It’s entirely possible that there’s a heck of a lot that is being hidden from us. They may tell us they’re given no info on contestants, but do you really know that for sure?
I was on Jeopardy in 2012. I won my first episode because Final Jeopardy was about an opera I learned about 2 days earlier reading a magazine on the flight to LA. I don’t find it hard to believe someone who studied Shakespeare would luck out with a Shakespeare Final J.
@@oldDNU in the exact same episode they were clearly trying to make him lose? Come on now
I'm a grandma, and nobody dragged me here to watch this. Enjoyed the videos.
So a grandma plays elder scrolls not buying it stop lying
@@frostburn7767 look at her about page asshole
Gen x gamer
@@frostburn7767 check out Shirley Curry... -_-
Morticia is a nice name. I like it.
Syndrome be like: If everyone wins Jeopardy, then no one wins Jeopardy
Underrated
Facts and logic
big brain moment
"If everyone's a champion...*low laugh* no one will be."
@Lucas Moreira ok then?
James was a battle hardened warrior ready to slay a dragon, but instead he just found a frog.
skynightprincess148 that’s a good anology
It turns out that the big hulking sword of titan slaying was just as good at killing frogs as the rusty dagger I found in someone's garden.
Or was it the rabbit of caerbannog?
Wait
It's like he was defeated by a slime.
It is too bad we'll never really know what went on behind the scenes. The fact that he lost the game that would have beat Ken Jenning's record also seemed weird. But giving the girl a Shakespeare question is very suspicious.
C'mon. It's pretty obvious.
@@atlas_19 what ever could you mean? The evidence isn't exactly concrete... These are heavily implied assumptions... We will never know for sure... Maybe it was just bad luck for him... Maybe it was good luck for her... The true answer will forever remain a mystery I suppose...........
@@thanos1335 Technically thats the case. But this is like Dream's speedrun. Yeah, the number's aren't as astronomical as his case but it doesn't have to be.
@@atlas_19 Nice comparison, a lot of people in the comments are saying statistics are not sufficient, but this Dream's case is a perfect example of the contrary. I do think they played with the questions' difficulty, but the Shakespeare thing though I'm not sure, how would they know who was gonna finish first?
If you don’t think it’s rigged you’re not very perceptive. Do you really think Jeopardy would let a professional sports gambler overtake their golden boy Ken Jennings. Come on man! He lost on the exact game he was about to overtake him. You think that was just a coincidence? Give me a break .
I've never watched Jeopardy, but Matpat managed to turn me into a James fan
The same happened to me but he also made me hate that librarian a bit
@@pranshuagrawal1687 In fairness, it's probably not her fault. I doubt that the producers had a meeting with her and concocted this plan to oust James, I think it's more likely that they just did their research and saw their opportunity to put her in the show and use her to beat James.
I could be wrong, of course, but if anyone's to be hated, it's the people who actually get to make decisions about the game, not the people who play that game.
@@WoWhistorian yeahh ik that's why I said what I said, it not her fault but this story still made me hate her a bit
You should have seen Ken Jennings beat him at the Tournament of Champions.
@@Gravestalksmovies Ken had to adapt to betting way more on Daily Doubles and Final Jeopardy than he was comfortable with, if he stuck to his original strategy he would’ve been toast
James could climb the cliff face, so they added an elevator for everyone else
Oh wow, that got a lot of likes
Technically they also added an elevator for him too.
@@pencils7351 you deserve it! Accept it! With feelings!
@@unnamedtheanonymous763 No no. He was pulled down from the cliff and forced him onto the elevator ride.
Guys the only statistic saying that this game was the easiest was how well the players preformed. Therefore, this statistic doesn’t take individual skill into account. As we know James was one of if not the most accurate players ever, so the games he would appear in would on average have a higher score.(provided that they did not tamper with the questions in any way) Now compound that with the fact that whoever could beat James would have to also be adept at answering questions and it makes sense that the contestants would do well that game. What I’m saying is A high coryat score doesn’t necessarily mean that the questions were easier as it can be affected by the skill of the contestants.
“For legal reasons that’s a joke.”
-Pewdiepie
“For legal reasons that’s a theory.”
-MatPat
Y'know, I thought the same thing
A man of culture I see.
"For legal reasons this is not legal advice."
-LegalEagle
I mean isn't matpat just theorists PewDiePie?
"For legal reasons Macaulay Culkin comes to our show by his own will" -Mike Stoklasa
Matpat clearly never watched that classic episode of Polly pocket friends finish first were Cassandra taught us “If there’s one thing an audience loves more then a star winning, it’s a star crashing and burning ahahaha”
I Don’t Remember Polly Pocket Being That Dark Jfc 😳
I didn't enjoy watching him lose though. I was watching Jeopardy every day when James was on. Since he lost I don't think I've watched it once.
I haven't thought of Polly pocket in over decade
"instead of trying to make a winner a loser, let's make losers winners so that the winner loses"
My brain...
"if everyone had a bar of gold it would lose it's value"
" When everyone is super, no one will be " - Syndrome
Thanks for explaining the other half-brain comments.
communism
OJ: “I didn’t do it, but if I did...”
Mat Pat: “I didn’t say it, but if I did...”
AJ Barrett OJ Simpson didn’t even right that book. The author offered to pay OJ if he allowed him to write him in as the author, and OJ simply accepted.
Cody Plant dude...
Shut up
Everyone's thoughts on the second: "...Matpat would be correct in saying so."
Moral of the Story: When everyone is special, no one is.
*Incredibles intensifies*
@@spencerthestupidsamurai7326 *syndrome heavy breathing*
you sly dog! you You got me monologuing
Syndrome is that you
Nooooone*
When you don’t understand jeopardy yet find this very entertaining:
I ended up here sewrching for the rules of the game, I still don't quite jnderstand it.
It's not even confusing, contestant presses button, chooses a category and amount of cash on the board, and whoever presses their button first answers. the person with the most money at the end wins. Daily doubles are just double or nothing questions
@@SkisnwOnTop yeah it’s like super intuitively easy
making a game easy for an expert is actually such a good strategy. no matter how skilled you are at games, you cant gain a significant advantage in tic tac toe or shoots and ladders. if there is no decision making or the decisions are easy enough for most people to be able to play perfectly, you will have fair and close games by necessity.
Agreed. Very good 👍
You can’t lose in tic tak toe if you get the first move, only win or tie so not the best analogy. It’s more like racing to see who can get their pawn up the board first(like a side by side race, you would both only be able to move one spot at a time)
I'd say making it easier might actually throw an expert off so I agree!😊
Pretty interesting how James and Ken both lost right around the $2.5 million mark.
It is more interesting that if James had won that game, he would have surpassed Ken's winnings.
Jeopardy would like to know your location
sus
Jeopardy: hello can you send your location... we just want you one the show... hehehe
@@donaldbagwell7202 yeah... Sureeee ya do.
he can’t say yes because of legal actions so let’s help mat and say “yes it was definitely rigged”
Edit: y’all these replies are hilarious past me got some of you guys heated
It applies to you too and your comment.
@@Rokayi I doubt Jeopardy would bother suing a bunch of randos on the internet.
I'm too lazy to do this but I wanted to create a Jeopardy account and have it reply to you "Our lawyers will be contacting you."
@@bartoszsyrocki8660 You're definitely right and I don't think a random comment could harm them enough for them to be able to win, given the video above it would have done it already. And I think that also they would have to prove the statement to be false. (To not have been rigged)
yes it was definitely rigged
If you think about, James is not the antagonist, he played Jeopardy by the rules.
Why would anyone think he was? LOL
Bro he's the protagonist
@@DennisEldrup ok so you definitely haven’t seen robin falco’s interview
Me: reads the description
Also me: So you’re saying no one else was in the room where it happens?
When you're so op that the only way to lose was to have the game difficulty lowered so much that anyone would know the answers.
What is the name of Noah from Noah’s ark? Is one of the questions
TeamUSASportsFan it’s a joke r/whoosh
And I’m a Muslim
@TeamUSASportsFan Well, obviously he couldn't since even you know about it, and it isn't just in the Bible. It's also in the Quran.
but if those answers were easy wouldn't our ol buddy James win that since they are so dang easy?...
Person 1: "Getting James out of the game won't be easy"
Person 2: "No ... it will be easy"
I don’t get it
@@tuhlunksss they made the game easy to get him out of the game
Actually itll be super easy, barely an inconvenience.
@@richardsanchez9190 You sir, is exactly why I clicked on the "show replies" button.
@@BobTheArchmage I'm glad someone was able to enjoy that.
There is one other way that they could "cheat" and that is stacking the categories so that another contestants expertise would show up in the category boxes.... if I remember correctly, that also happened in the game James lost. It's been a while and I may be wrong but I seem to remember that the winner of that game had expertise in SEVERAL categories throughout the game.....
the challengers are selected randomly AFTER the clues have been determined. The main theory of this video is plausible, however.
@zooms7889 you dont know what goes on behind closed doors though...
Using the old "the house always wins" logic, it is Jeopardy's duty to use whatever "rig" that they can come up with to stop the big winners. I think your analysis is absolutely correct.They had me thinking I was as smart as him for a second until I realized that those were much easier questions that game. Bring the less skilled up to his level by lowering the skill needed. Clever Jeopardy, very clever.
Box scores are now introduced since Michael Davies took over the show. Does it mean that Matt Amodio, Amy Schneider and Mattea Roach's game too?
Matpat: “I can’t say it’s rigged for legal reasons”
Title: *JEOPARDY IS RIGGED!*
*sips drink* he dident say it
When spoken it's slander
When typed it's libel
For legal reasons, that's a joke
@@pyrojack8230
Not necessarily true
When said in a permanent form such as a video, speech still constitutes libel.
Copied sis
Jeopardy: and when everyone’s super, no one will be!
That's just incredible
In guess Jeopardy is suffering from a SYNDROME!!!
@@TheoCynical You sir get a 👏
420th like. Just wanted to point it out.
Cassandra Brooks thanks! This comment really exploded, most likes I’ve ever gotten!🥳
I wonder if James has watched this. It's heart-wrenching, really.
He still earned over 2 million... I don't feel bad for him. I could live out the rest of my natural life on 2 million if I didn't change my pattern of spending.
@@ajmwolf He did not earn over $2 million. Jeopardy was filmed in California, which meant that he had to pay over $1.1 million in taxes.
@@jacobschiller4486 State & City taxes would apply to where the winner lives not the State/City he won it in...
@@rebelyell1580 That is not true, unfortunately.
@@jacobschiller4486 If it's the same as gambling it is - I moved to Nevada just because of that fact. I'm a professional poker player - I never pay taxes for CA, NY, MA etc where I win just federal.
I am going to try to get Matpqt's attention one more time for this topic. In the championship match, where they brought back Kenn and James and Brad, the final jeopardy was a Shakespeare question. Get him to see this. We need part three!!
They didn’t set him up to lose, they set everyone to win
But shouldn't he still have one?
@@levipeterken4020 no because it took his edge and it was just a matter of time before someone beat him to the buzzer enough times.
@@levipeterken4020 It's hard to disrupt people by changing categories if the subjects are just normal common knowledge. They basically rendered his strategies useless by allegedly dumbing down the game.
"And when everyone's a winner, then no will be"
@@levipeterken4020 As MatPat said the game was so easy that the only difference between players was the time it took to buzz in as they already knew the answer.
Mat: "I can't say it's rigged."
Jeopardy: "The game was rigged from the start."
Evil Jeopardy Laugh
@@stormsensei4984 😁😁😁
It was riggatoni from the start
I never pasta way
They really *jeopardized* the players
13:28 that face was legitimately unsettling
Great analysis, I fully agree, thanks. Even from a broader perspective, so many things are manipulated, especially when money is at stake, so it would be hard to imagine if Jeopardy! was 100% clean with contestants, who were literally draining money from them.
James: Almost bankrupting Jeopardy by being too smart.
Jeopardy: "I'm about to do what is known as a pro gamer move."
Imagine thinking trivia knowledge was intelligence
@@OhNoTheFace He didn't say intelligence; he said smartness.
@@firestick7569 Same thing, just oddly said less intelligently
Big Brain Energy
That really is a pro gamer move, when some cant beat a boss on very hard, they move it to very easy
Matpat: "jeopardy is rigged."
Also matpat: "for legal reasons that's a joke."
Lmao
Matpat: "For serious, mainstream media, please don't sue me, thats a joke."
Is that a bench lasagna reference
@@memecrafttime3598 congratulations
@@memecrafttime3598 it's a "congratulations" reference
it’s like a high schooler playing basketball against 5th graders and they made him lose by making the hoops 3 feet tall, so even when the high schooler made it the 5th graders were also more likely too
Lol the sixth graders at my school beat the high school team with a standard height basketball hoop. Needless to say the middle school kids are considered cooler than high school kids.
Fun Fact: At 0:57, his score of 110914 (11/09/14) is the birthday of his daughter. November 9th, 2014.
Matpat talking about a old game that kids aren’t attracted to so he wont get sniped by the FTC and Coppa
@@hopemarink3704 It's Grammar Bots, not grammar bots. (If only to try and bait in a real grammar bot)
@@firekram AHHHHHHHHH I MUST DELETE MY COMMENT TO PREVENT THIS!!
@Death Berry of course the FTC has already specified that COPPA doesn't apply to something that a kid might watch, only things specifically targeted at kids
I was an odd kid, my favorite channel up until I hit round about highschool was the gameshow network. Then in highschool my love of animated shows picked up and the rest is history.
Hope Marink
Oof
Imagine beating an undefeated player, and then finding out it's because they made it so easy that his skill didn't matter.
Yikes...
Collin Kappa I think she knew as soon as she saw the final jeopardy question. She didn’t seem very ecstatic or happy to have won. It looked like she was rather sad, actually.
watch austin rodgers video on it. it was random. it would have been illegal to rig it for her
@@gazebo9730 She may have been in shock! Most players have a poker face for Final Jeopardy.
I believe that was intentionally done so he wouldn't take the big one cause James made his strategy so aparrent that they began to catch on and change it to throw him off
I’m pretty sure you’d feel very... not skilled.
Imagine how bad must the others players feel being called as "only won because it was too easy"
Well, it's true! Most recently, Boettcher (beating Holzhauer) only won 3 games and $98,002. Across Jeopardy's history, the people who defeat mega-champions actually lose a game in the next one or two (approx.) episodes.
@@jacobschiller4486 Yup
Another take on the coryat score: The coryat score is based on how well the contestants play, not how tough the questions are (athough easy questions make it more likely the contestants will perform well, of course.) Since James answers most questions, James' play is the origin of the majority of the coryat score... but his play is VERY consistent. That means the variation in the coryat score is chiefly from his competitors. If one of the other competitors is also very good, the coryat score rises very easily. So you totally expect a very high coryat score when James is challenged well. The best player can be ousted only by another VERY good player... which would necessarily result in a very high coryat score.
But is it hard to believe the coincidence that the game that would oust him would feature a final jeopardy question that was in his opponent's wheelhouse? No. A player on a winning streak doesn't usually lose to a superior player, otherwise every winner would have to be the best that ever played. They lose to someone who gets lucky. Being a tough competitor merely means slightly less luck is needed. But whoever beats an all-time great is going to have to have uncanny luck. Like catching him on a bad day when easy questions leave him vulnerable, but the final jeopardy is a tough one you happen to know.
"When everyone's super, no one will be"
That’s exactly what I was thinking of when I thought of this video
Anime freak Deep dude. DEEP
This reference is perfect 👌🏼
legit my fav quote from that disgusting company huhu
Chills
the librarian, proud of herself for beating james:
matpat: it was the easiest game of jeopardy in history-
He did say the moment before that, that she could play the game on a level comparable to James
Lol
freakymoejoe2 she could strategize like him, but likely not as intellectual. Although you don’t win Jeopardy for being the smartest person it was practically catered to her.
@@HiCaballo I mean she was ahead when the final Shakespear question came up. Being a research librarian probably means she's immersed in a lot of random trivia.
@@freakymoejoe2 I don't want to be the guy that says with conviction that women are not smart. women are very smart and I appreciate this and acknowledge this fact. however when you have contestants that yield the highest earnings in the game's history and they are dudes, then you have a game with statistics that prove it was the easiest game in history, and that winner is a women...it doesn't look good. I mean this lady studied the game for a grade that would make a career for herself, why was she clearly copying James' strategy? maybe she could have played the game as comparable to James, but she didn't. I think that was the most damnable thing out of this tale. a woman makes history by beating a man who made history in a gameshow and it was a lie.
Imagine making your undergraduate thesis about jeopardy and then finally getting into jeopardy and having the game staged in your favor
Ikr? When there are so much coincidence, it's not a coincidence.
NO. IF JEOPARDY! WAS RIGGED, EVERYONE INVOLVED ON THE SHOW WOULD BE IN TROUBLE WITH THE LAW. IT'S A FEDERAL CRIME.
"wow how did james do so good"
other contestants: what is Dankey Kang?
Jeopardy: Makes game easier.
James: Years of academy training WASTED!
Nice.
He lives the rest of his days as Mrs. Nesbit
Lol
YOUR EDIT RUINS EVERYTHING
@@briceboyee8536 how?
How to end Ken’s whole career:
“Make it hard.”
How to end James’ whole career:
“Make it easy.”
How to make ramen taste good
"Make it fancy!"
Sounds like my teachers kahoot
okay I've never really wound up following any Jeopardy drama in real time, but I'm guessing when this broke a (what I can only assume exists) meme of Darth Vader cooing "all too easy..." got dropped on Twitter a fair amount.
Next great contestant: make it average
@@2ndpartycrasher954 true
0:41
My high school plays the song after the bell, before the morning announcements.
They would play it on the outside speakers as well.
It’s actually an incredibly detailed view into game theory as a whole. Obviously they couldn’t appear to make him lose on purpose, but they had a serious problem on their hands. I think bringing in the “big gun” and dropping the difficulty level is a little cheap while being Lowkey kind of genius.
Not only that, but making the Final Jeopardy question about something she did a thesis on, like c'mon.
Oh please she wasn't "as big of a gun" as James was. If anything He was a Nuke and she was an RPG. It was the method they implemented that made her close to dangerous. Everyone knows that if they kept the game the same, it would've been a stomp. And the whole question being exactly what her Thesis was about.... Really?
Matpat: I can’t say jeopardy is rigged, but the title can
MrAshton so can the facts
So retarded that he can be sued for that. The show is so clearly rigged. All these shows operate with known outcomes, and the producers have the right to change them. This is just them covering their tracks instead of them saying "he he won way too much money so we are gonna flip flop the game" which i could totally respect them for doing that. But typical show business deception is the route they chose
Fun fact: The game James lost was so easy that only one question was answered wrong, and it was in the Double Jeopardy round.
Or *OR* maybe the game he lost had two really smart people in it that know a lot of answers
It's almost like smart people are really good at answering questions correctly or something
But I'm sure it was just Jeopardy cheating
@@brandonn6099 that's the whole point. It could be rigged, it could be not. There are points in favour of rigging that could be written off as smart people. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter as making the game easier than normal is within their right to do and it's not like they screwed James out of his money, he still made 2 million after all. It's a bunch of circumstantial evidence. Btw I do wanna say that 'smart' doesn't mean knowledgable in trivia.
@@brandonn6099 The second guy was no where near the two.
R.I.P
Alex Trebek
He will be missed
"Jeopardy sabotaged reactor"
Jeopardy was the Imposter
Mattpat: "For legal reasons, we can't actually say it was rigged"
Title of the video: *How Jeopardy CHEATED Its Best Player!"*
Also the title of the video: *"Jeopardy is Rigged Part 2"*
The Facts: Ok so basically here is how they did it
Don't forget the prelude to that title you quoted: "Film Theory:"
for legal reasons that is clickbait
No, but yes, but yes
Well he didn’t say it, he typed it
The guy at CBS that thought of that idea most definitely just got a promotion
I think Jeopardy is a syndicated show produced by Sony Picture Television.
@@GeorgiaOverdrive you are both right lol. It is produced by Sony and distributed by CBS Television.
@@robertwilkinsonii Either way, the dude got a nice bonus.
Assuming they weren't already broke, lol.
@@xyex true! And now he can use his name for many books and such like Ken Jennings did
Wow. After Emma dethroned James as Jeopardy champion, her streak ended after only two or three games which I thought might support this theory. Then again, she absolutely demolished everyone in the champions tournement except for James in the final round. She's a really good player in her own right. I really think it took a combination of all of these factors to knock James off as champion. Although, having two of the smartest players in the game's history would certainly raise the Coryat score of that match. It's hard to say if this was intentional, but James alone raised the average Coryat score just be getting so many questions right.
"What'd you do to get this man out of our show"
Jeopardy: "We'll make it super easy barely an inconvenience"
Matpat: *avoiding saying that they definitely rigged the game*
Also matpat: so this is how they rigged the game .. possibly ..
Let keep it at that we only need to know the truth ourselves and legal issues are scary so yeah...
Syndrome would be proud.
Plot Twist: His brain was a paid actor
savo in the comments who’s brain?
🙌
LMAOOOO
@Juan Cortez Muro no
@Juan Cortez Muro Dude, are you paid for this or just mentally insane?
One massive issue with this theory: the coryat score is based on how many questions are answered correctly which means, having a very strong player in the game who answers most questions correctly makes the coryat score higher and the game seem easier. Indeed, this video mentions every game James plays has a high coryat score average of ~ 45k which could simply be a reflection of James’ excellence!
Now, take James and add another very strong player to the mix and you might just get a score of 53k.
Absolutely true if it wasn't the absolute highest scoring game in history. James was an anomaly and putting a specifically easier set of questions would remove his advantages he would normally have. Yes both players were incredibly strong but when only 1 question is missed when there is more than just the 2 that answered. Well thats when it comes to be suspicious. The score is fairly meaningless by itself but when you stack on that he was winning so much money, he was about to beat the old earnings record, a player was brought in that literally studied jeopardy, a final question almost tailored to her AND the score. Well i dont blame people for thinking it was rigged.
That 53k required all 3 to be on fire, which is just even more improbability.
The coryat score could also be argued to be accurate since all three players were good. This game was relatively easy for all three of them making this data still valid. This game may not have been easy if a different lineup happened, but since each person has different knowledge stored in their brain, the coryat score is best representation for the difficulty relative to that set of people. Difficulty with trivia is relative, it's not linear unlike the knowledge of a chess AI on computing the best decision each time. Difficulty on a trivia and knowledge based game without answers being given like who wants to be a millionaire is 100% relative, so the coryat score for that set of contestants being the easiest in history means that for that set of three with those questions, this set was relatively very easy. The only probability involved was did the person who clicked the button first know the answer, and for all but 1 incorrect answer, they did.
The issue with this theory is evident on paper though.
Corvat scores are by nature subjective, as contestants will *never* have the same exact knowledge base with which to answer questions.
Knowing this, and looking at the corvat scores of James' episodes versus the average, we see a skewing towards a higher value. This is explained by the fact that he literally took a year to study topics that would come up in trivia.
Now, analyzing the corvat score of the final game and taking into account the fact that 66% of the contestants in that game were people who both 1) had some of the most extensive knowledge bases of any contestants ever to grace the show and 2) both people of obvious higher intelligence as evidenced by the information we know about their daily lives, it's almost unfair to say that that specific episode was the easiest in history because of the corvat score.
It's like saying the test was easy because the average percentage was higher due to the fact that only the smart kids were there that day.
ngl that was big brain
pog
yeah you're right.
I think they did pick the right contestant though to try and kick him off.
And then they can probably keep playing regularly as her knowledge is going to be back to average intelligence.
Both James and Ken were just big brain people who absolutely CRUSHED people.... but remember they crushed a bunch of really smart and knowledgeable people.
Her beating him was probably more due to her being clever, but chances are she's not going to go on for another record breaking run since the game is fairly balanced.
Looks like Jeopardy’s career is in jeopardy.
Jasier A. LOL
punny
CEASE
LMAO
LMFAOOO
nobody:
matpat: *for legal reasons that’s a joke*
for serious jeopardy pls don't sue me that's just a joke
yaboii_jxrry it seems you have failed this month my friend
@@victortran2962 Oh hey, that's a Bo Burnham reference, right?
Just Monika no it's a pewdiepie reference
MatPat: the law requires me to say no
Not a theory, definitely a fact lol. I think its so funny imagining the jeopardy executives get increasingly vexed at james' play
You can't say that. You don't have proof and its just defamation at that point. You can think it and believe it, but you cant say it and tell others that unless you like risking fines
@@Zeitgeist2000 nbs bootlicker much?
@@Zeitgeist2000 in defamation it’s on the person sueing to prove it’s false so at this point it isnt
@@josay3394 You mean NBC? because they don't own Jeopardy lol
@@Zeitgeist2000 waaaahh
The Coryat score argument is irrelevant since it's influenced by how good the players in that game is. The score measures the combined skill of the players in the game just as much as it measures difficulty of the questions. The Coryat score was higher in James' games simply because of his ability to almost never give a wrong answer regardless of difficulty.
It's relevant when you compare games in which he plays, he removes part of that dependancy. The thing is the guy never misses so he does kinda erase his influence because of that. But even then, 32 games is a big enough sample that the other 2 participants should be statistically similar enough to draw conclusions. Not to mention that in trivia participant's skill and game difficulty are the same thing. If you ask me trivia about X topic I might find it easy and you hard, but then Y topic comes up and I'm totally stumped and you get it right every time. So the concept of skill and difficulty are not really distinct it's more a single idea closer to "participant fit" and the Coryat score measures that. And we can say that the last game had the best fit with contestants ever. Even if it's not proof, you can admit it's suspicious.
James's smile looks like he's cussing someone out under his breath while trying to smile. Lol
@ sleuth 2077. yeah there's definitely something going on behind that smile of his 😁😁😁
Yeah, some people just don't have good smiles. It's not really something they can help, but it's also not really anything important either, so...
But yeah, he just does not have a good smile...
sleuth 2077 i one time overheard some people talking about james and they called him “shark teeth” since he looks like a shark when he smiles lol
Isn't that what smiling is ?
LMAO! Why is this so accurate? 😂
I never eagerly anticipated anything more than this sequel
What about the Disney death counts video?????
Jack Smith facts almost forgot
Jack Smith but this one was still really good
@@khalidedris9442 Ikr I don't have cable but I was staying a my grandparents house when James was on the show, so I got too watch it
Khalid Edris how about his new Minecraft series of theories?
The amount of work that went into this analysis made for a very compelling case.
This brought back alot of nostalgia for me, James' losing episode was the first Jeopardy episode I ever watched.
Really I would prefer it if they were honest and were like “Hey James. We need you to take a hiatus because you’re winning too much and we need to recoup our losses.”
You mean create a new rule that caps the number of games a single player can participate in?
Unprofessional Professor something like that
@@fencserx9423 seems pretty obvious that they could do that instead.
@@UnprofessionalProfessor Funny enough, in the first few seasons, they did have a cap. Ironically, when they dropped the cap, it was on the first day of Ken Jennings streak.
@@pseudobean3827 That's irony, kids!
James had the high ground, but he lost cuz everyone else also had the high ground
Photon the Fatpurp how does this not have more likes
It’s over Anakin
Photon the Fatpurp because everyone else was given a stepping stool
He lost coz they raised everyone up to his level of knowing all the answers.
It's a shame I missed this, these two videos were some of the best videos I've seen on yt
Can you do more game show theories??? I love theis sm
Making it harder for James by making it easier for everyone and using other people's reaction time against him is so counterintuitively genius. I am amazed
It was so smart to the point where it could be considered stupid
You can consider they ran out of ideas and ended up had to try this one.
What does that have to do with matpat
You left out one obvious Factor the game could employ to slow James down: the Buzzer. It would be very easy to just make his buzzer react a half-second later than usual. A bit of digital lag-time is easily created, & there would be almost no way to prove it.
FACTS
True, except that's technically unfair and leaves them potentially liable. Manipulating the game however is completely their right
Sounds potentially like grounds for lawsuit, and at least a handful of people would need to be involved in this (likely the higher ups and a maintenance worker), so this would be extremely risky as there's a decent chance someone would leak. More importantly it would absolutely RUIN Jeopardy's reputation and turn off a majority of their fanbase. When you consider that, it goes from risky to downright insane and foolish.
@@borderlandsgamer9001 That's exactly why NDA's are made. Same reason none of Donald's outtakes from The Apprentice have ever surfaced. Game shows/reality shows make their own internal guidelines & the general public is never informed. That's showbiz. They have NO legal obligation to be completely forthcoming.
There is ALMOST no way to prove it. All it would take is for one camera to show him press the button the fraction of a second quicker than the opponents and for a viewer to see this and time it. At that point, you can't say it was video lag or delay, especially if it's never happened before. Look at the lengths Mat Pat went to just to show these videos. Someone out there would notice a delay in the buzzer, and they would call out Jeopardy on it. Plus, with game shows, they have to log maintenance and testing on everything. I work for a car company that runs vehicles on a dyno and before every shift, we have to run Quality Control tests. These show how far off the dyno is for the tests so that they can include a margin of error. I find it hard to believe that someone hasn't complained in the past about the buzzers having a delay and Jeopardy not being able to prove that the buzzers were calibrated correctly before each show.
Durng his run James did an interview with ESPN talking about his weakness in geography. His last game has a geography category right?
You make amazing videos. Keep it up bro. Just subbed
MatPat: you can’t just say jeopardy is rigged
Title: Jeopardy is rigged
Exactly. He said that you can't "say" that it's rigged.
But he _didn't_ say that you couldn't _write_ that... 😉
Random Irish Person: _"Ah ha! Big Braaaain!"_
Ain't saying it if he's spelling it
Spelling or writing it is just as bad. Now they have evidence that he's slandering the name of the show.
Ah, but that there's the magic of _Clickbait Titles_ !
The only way said lawyers could prove a case is to have watched the videos in full, to make sure MatPat did indeed try to slander the show's name - of which he _speculated_ but didn't outright call them cheaters...
And if MatPat did get those lawyers to watch his videos for nothing, that'd be a Win for him!
he didn’t say I couldn’t sing
“So we cant technically say jepoardy was manipulating the game...for legal reasons”
W e u n d e r s t a n d
“The first question isn’t did they or didn’t they” The question on the screen:Did they have a motive
This is my favorite episode of your show
James: *wins*
Jeopardy:
_"Wait, that's illegal."_
True
not true, james played the game fair and square to the rules and the contract that all contestants have to sing in order to be elgable to play the game and every game show has standers and practices on set to make sure these rules are followed.
you can't rig game shows any more as that is a feudal crime, just watch the movie quiz show on this.
@@frankenfurtee2424 /whooooosh
sorry when it comes to game shows, i take them very seriously
This is getting likes by the second so I thought I was 500 but was actully 510.
Imagine being the other guy in James' final game if you knew that the player to your left had the game swayed in her favor to throw off the player to your left, and you just got caught in the crossfire.
That guy needs to sue Jeopardy. It is pretty clear they more or less cheated but you'd have to have a really good lawyer to prove it.
@@spooks9204 i think they were talking about the middle person
@@bitsy__ even then, you can’t sue a game show for making changes to their own game. Much less making the game easier.
That guy must’ve been in a pretty weird situation, he was basically rigged to lose from the start and probably knew it too.
@@milkshakedraws6944 F in the chat
Actually, although the game itself was mostly very easy, one of the daily doubles was extremely difficult, possibly meant to trip up James. Even though he didn't find it, Emma managed to guess correctly anyway (what is the deep state) on an answer i've never heard of, which ended up being the difference between her leading into final and her trailing.
Also, I'm glad you did the tiny bit of studying of wagering to debunk the theory that James lost on purpose, and that ad revenue is determined months in advance.
It's cool to see film theory doing a part 2 of it
James Holzhauer: I don't know a lot about Jeff.
Alex: Here are the category's, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, Jeff and Jeff.
Player to the left: Obsessed with Jeff
Other player: "manamijef"
Iiiiiiit's Jeffpardy
Alex i will take Jeff for Jeff
@@magicalsleeper Player on the end: Actually Jeff
Mat: For legal reasons, I can’t say it’s rigged
*holds up sign that says “it is” while nodding*
I'm surprised there's not a repeated Morse Code message that runs repeatedly over the bottom of the video that they never even acknowledge during the narration for extra added measure lol
For legal reasons that's a joke
Coryat scores do not actually show if it was easier or harder. It just shows if it was easier or harder for that specific group of players. In this specific case, 2 of the players could be considered experts ,which makes it more likely for them to have a lower coryat score.
If you are going to present individual data point relative to a mean then its pretty useful to also show the spread (either on a graph or with the standard deviation) so we can quickly see whether the differences really are as big claimed or fall within the normal range.
I feel like Emma realized it was rigged in her favor as soon as they revealed the Final Jeopardy category. Like she didn't seem exactly proud of her win.
as bad as Monopoly for girls.
You both deserves a medal for those comments.
Broke: James just got unlucky, because that’s what happens in gambling
Woke: he threw the game because he didn’t like it
Bespoke: a woman only did good because the game was rigged in her favor
Austin Rodgers has released a video dispelling all the things that this video gets wrong, which is a lot. This is poorly, poorly researched and completely wrong.
All of the questions for the week are pulled at random for the game and then the contestants are chosen randomly too. She got lucky. Sorry to say it but Matpat is full of it.
Imagine being the person who got the lowest score during the easiest round of Jeopardy ever...
Well, when you go into the game against the most recent king of Jeopardy and a player who spent years in school studying Jeopardy questions for her thesis (and turned out to be the favorite to win), it doesn’t matter how easy the questions are in general; if you haven’t prepared the game theory side like they did, you’re toast. It’s still humiliating to be sure, but like, you go into it and can immediately just tell you’ll be taking the big L.
Well, would be absolutly embarrassing if you had the fastest reflexes but get everything wrong. But then it would not be rated as easiest game because you were a goddamn idiot and that score system doesn't ackknowledg that factor
Are u?
@AmazingSpiderCraft ?
@AmazingSpiderCraft explain!!!
Me, waiting over twenty minutes and finally getting the "MAKE THE GAME EASIER" option.
.....It was so relieving.
One of the craziest things about James’s accuracy metrics is that it doesn’t account for the times where he would write things like “hi mom” or other jokes in final jeopardy. Granted, I haven’t rewatched those episodes to know how many times he did it but the fact is that he was technically even more than 97% correct when you look at the questions he actually attempted to answer.
Did they rig the game?
MatPat: Yesn’t
This is what I shall now use to confuse my friends.
would be the opposite I don't know how you would write it but he is implying that they did and yesn't means no and he can't say "yes they did" so he would say "no did not not to it" yeah I am making a big thing over this for no reason you just making a joke...
Germain Lamour non‘t 🤔
The German language has a word for this: Jein. Yes-no.
A das ist ja nochmal was anderes 🤔
There will be a huge virus next year
Edit: hold up
That was so cheesey I had to dislike it and let you know.
@@Joseph-zm6sy It was funny to me so i had to like it and let you know.
@@ryanclemons1 It would've surprised me if you didn't like it.
That was so average that I had to ignore it and let you know
This post mad eme cumb
I rewatched these so many times
I’m new to the channel and of course I subscribed!! You are hilarious and this is really interesting!!
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The one thing better than seeing a hero fall is to see the hero rise up again.
The other thing I've noticed is that the contestant that James lost who actually played the game just like he does. She was very quick to the buzzer and always picked the more valuable questions.
I felt like if James were to lose to somebody it would be somebody who plays just like him the contestant who beat him most certainly did but you'd expect her to start dominating like crazy as well considering she was actually capable of beating him. The fact she didn't dominate after that does seem suspicious.
But so happened to answer over 97%? Very very unlikely. Like winning the lottery 3 times unlikely
Yea u are right. James said in an interview while he was still going that the only chance for somebody to beat him was if they played the same way.
It's not at all suspicious. It's exactly what I'd expect to happen. Either he loses a bunch due to a couple of bad daily doubles, or he loses to some bad luck and another person playing like him. Luck is still a factor in this game.
@@brandonn6099 You clearly didn't read that correctly.
James' losing under those circumstances wasn't what Sly88Frye called suspicious. It was the fact that the one who beat him, a similarly capable player, didn't go on a notable winning streak afterwards.
@@Zuldaar And that's what's not at all suspicious. She's not even close to being a better player than him. He'd beat her 9/10 times. But his playstyle was high-risk high-reward. As was hers. Playing like this, the better player will occasionally lose. The only the best will ever lose is with some bad luck and someone else having good luck. If only the best player ever won, you'd see year-long streaks, getting longer with each passing decade as better players finally come along. Ken would still be playing today...
I do have a slight problem with the measurement scale of difficultly. Was that episode easy or was score high because it had two players that studied trivia excessively? It doesn't take into account the contestants abilities.
I'm pretty sure that when it says easiest, it means it was the easiest for the group playing. The score is defined by how much correct answers there were and since almost all of the answers they gave were correct, the game was easier for them (as opposed to a game where they gave more incorrect answers, meaning the game was harder for them).
It was easy because they studied excessively. I don't think it was meant to account for their abilities, but rather the result of their abilities.
@@bluecrood2720 that's literally my point. It doesn't measure the difficultly level it only measures the contestants ability.
@@painandsorrowcards But that doesnt adress the ken jeggings low score. Either the questions were much harder on average harder or a group of contestants containing both him and the person that beat him produced a score that is noticeably lower than usual for no apparent reason. And if they did mess with the difficulty then the arguments about lowering it now become more convincing.
@@proghostbusters1627 it means that those 3 individuals had a weakness for those particular questions/categories. Not necessarily that the questions were a higher difficulty. A sample size of 3 people is not enough to determine how difficult it is.
@@painandsorrowcards wasnt it a really peculiar statistical outlier though?
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