THE BOOK--Playing The Percentages In Baseball

When I was a kid, they had a car on the show—I think it was a Chevy Vega—that was always $2810.  Then it changed to $2806 for a little while.  I don’t know where the $4 price reduction came from.  Maybe they took off a piece of rubber trim or something.

I think—I’m going from the memory of a 9-year-old here—I think I saw an episode once where the contestant knew it was $2810 and won it right away.

You don’t have to be Rain Man, you just have to have a database.

The internet is awesome.  Actually, the people who summarize every episode of The Price is Right?  Those people are awesome.  With a database like at the site below, how can you NOT get a showcase price perfect?

And here’s a $2810 Vega.  Couldn’t find the $2806 version.

http://www.qwizx.com/tpirepguide/?p=2114

A contestant on a game show years ago memorized the patterns of the game:

See #1

http://loogaroo.startlogic.com/gameshow/moments/moments5.shtml

i think it may have actually come up on this blog before but the jeopardy archive is pretty dope.

http://www.j-archive.com/

I saw one episode of Doogie Howser, MD in my life.  He goes on a quiz show over multiple weeks; he studies the past shows and determines in advance that the final category will be 15th-century french mathematicians.  For some reason, he feels sorry for the other contestant and throws the final question (which was of course 15th-century french mathematicians.)

Neil Patrick Harris is da man, one of the very few child actors who is far better and more tolerable as an adult than as a kid.

NPH was pretty excellent in Harold and Kumar.

15th C Fr Mathematicians would stump me.  17th C maybe.

You know what would be awful? If the guy ended up being $1 over on the Showcase Showdown

And yes, NPH is pretty great

The latest podcast (#412) of “This American Life” on NPR talks about Michael Larson (from “Press Your Luck").