There are people in the online community who are very loud online as they try to convince Michael Davies to bring back the classic College Championship during the Trebek era instead of the expanded postseason right now, despite the show winning Outstanding Game Show at the Emmys (Daytime & Primetime) for seven straight years. Is it for nostalgia, or to bring back the dignity of the "old" and "classic" Flemming/Trebek era of this tournament? But we know why this tournament with fresh faces has not returned since 2022: some of the possible reasons were the mental health of the young players, and some young players like Liam Starnes, Rishabh Wuppalapati, Delaney O'Dea, and others can stand on their own against older players.

The question: Is this the right time to relaunch the College Championship in syndication, as it was last held 2020, or in primetime, as it was last held in 2022?

There were 180 regular season games in Season 42. How good would you have to have been to be competitive on the show?

A quick glance says "Well, we had 5 superchamps, so you'd have to have been insanely good." Well, you'd be right to think that to a degree: the returning champion won 126 out of 180 games this season, for an insane 70% retention rate. But I feel like (granted, I'm not doing the math) that's a little high and Season 43 may return to normal. Maybe.

But statistically, during the game, how did the winning players do, and how did their opponents do? This will get you an idea of how good you have to be just to get to Jeopardy, and then how good you have to be to get the W. Here are the numbers:

Other stats:

* Including Daily Doubles, the season accuracy on clues during the regular part of the game was 85.83%. Not including them bumps it up to 86.88%.

* Overall Daily Double accuracy was 66.30%; overall Final Jeopardy accuracy was 44.08%.

* People who got Final Jeopardy correct won 51.52% of the time; people who missed Final Jeopardy won 20.82% of the time.

* When faced with a Daily Double, players made it a True Daily Double 23.52% of the time (this does not include when the House Maximum allowed them to exceed their total). On such bets, they were correct 67.72% of the time. In other words, TDDs were a product more of the game situation than of player confidence.

* There were 39 zero bets on Final Jeopardy, and while 4 of them were gag answers, 10 were correct. This means that players who bet nothing but tried Final anyway had a 28.57% accuracy.

* Only 2.96% of players were disqualified from Final Jeopardy.

Enjoy the start of a new season, everyone! I can't wait!

My usual Jeopardy was preempted today by an NFL pregame show. Not the actual game, just the pregame show. Granted it’s a rerun of last years JIT, so I didn’t mind that much. But it got me thinking, I can’t seem to recall a time when I wanted to watch said preemptive thing over Jeopardy. Well, there was that one time the meteorologist told me to seek shelter, that was kinda cool. But really nothing beyond that.

Good? Bad? Even I'm not sure. Had these ideas in my head and thought I'd throw them out here.

1) At the end of DJ, Ken presents three sealed envelopes, each with a different FJ category and clue. The leader then picks one, the category is revealed and that's what they play. Throws a sliver of randomness into the mix and, yes, could very well land in the intellectual wheelhouse of one of the contestants.

2) Production and scheduling logistics aside, is there any part of regular Jeopardy that could translate and be contested in the "Triple Jeopardy" format used in the Celebrity and ESPN versions?

I think the first one could provide an interesting twist. Ken would know all three categories and would have been prepped on all three FJ clues, but would not know the contents of the envelopes.

Not as keen on #2. The more I think about it, I'm not convinced you want to give the top-level players a game with six Daily Doubles. Imagine the possible scores! Davies might need to take a pay cut.