American Game Show History Continues on Jeopardy! this season...

Amy Schneider has done it.

She has become the first out transgender millionaire in American game show history.

Tonight, in her 28th win on Jeopardy!, Schneider became only the fourth person in the history of the show to win $1,000,000 in regular-season play.

In the 28th win, Schneider has gotten to $1,019,600 -- an average win of $36,414.

She is now the sixth-highest winning woman in American game show history, and one more win will all but assuredly place her fourth, only behind Ashlee Register and a million-dollar winner from prime-time The Price is Right episodes as a civilian and Celebrity Wheel of Fortune millionaire Melissa Joan Hart, on that list.

1. Ashlee Register (Grand Champion of the first season of Duel) -- 7th place overall with $1,795,000
2. Cynthia Azevedo (The Price is Right Million Dollar Spectacular) -- 16th place overall with $1,089,017
3. Melissa Joan Hart (celebrity versions of Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, Family Feud, and Nick Arcade) -- 17th overall with $1,076,100
4. Autumn Earhard (The Price is Right Million Dollar Spectacular) -- 19th place overall with $1,030,340.
5. Michelle Lowenstein (Wheel of Fortune) -- 20th place overall with $1,026,080
6. Amy Schneider (Jeopardy!) -- $1,019,600

If Schneider wins Monday, she will essentially crack Wikipedia's Top 20 all-time all-show winners.  (The list has been recently updated to 20, after Matt Amodio's reign of terror, and Hart is included, even though a celebrity player.)

Statistics are courtesy of The Jeopardy Fan website and it's curator, Andy Saunders.

• One thing host Ken Jennings has noted is how good Schneider is at Final Jeopardy.  She's 23-5.  Only a couple of other contestants, and not even Ken, can boast that kind of a record as an ultrachamp.
• James Holzhauer is one.  27-1.  (He finished 32-1, including his last 27 regular-season scores.)  Matt Amodio was 21-7 in his first 28.  Ken Jennings was only 18-10!  (He was 16-6 in his next 22, and 16-9 in his final 25 of his regular run.)
• Her 895 correct answers over her reign are only surpassed by the other three Jeopardy! millionaires.
• This means she's answering an average of 31 correct answers during the main game in the match.
• She's found 49 Daily Doubles -- about 1 3/4 of the 3 a match.  (Jennings got 160 in his 75-game run, Amodio 86 in his 39 games, Holzhauer 76 in his 33 games.)
• Her average Coryat Score (basically take the clues in the main game at face value -- do not account for DD wagers.  This is used by the Jeopardy! fan and contestant communities as a true measure of the skill of a contestant during the match.) is $25,871.

Here is a list of all of the ultrachamps -- the 12 players who have won 10 or more matches -- ranked by average Coryat:

1. James Holzhauer $30,576
2. Ken Jennings $27,928
3. Matt Amodio $27,913
4. Amy Schneider $25,871
5. Matt Jackson $24,514
6. Jason Zuffranieri $24,410
7. Arthur Chu $21,117
8. Jonathan Fisher $20,167
9. Julia Collins $19,400
10. David Madden $19,300
11. Austin Rogers $18,185
12. Seth Wilson $19,077

• There has been some controversy on Jennings' demeanor during last night's match -- one of the most competitive in show history!  The three players combined for over $50,000 of the possible $54,000 Coryat score -- a feat only accomplished about 1 1/2 times a year since 2004.  The problem:  Jennings not only made note of the fact that Schneider had not locked out the match by getting double +$1 of the second-placed contestant going into Final Jeopardy, he even did the math -- BEFORE they went to break!  That's ALMOST actionable, Ken!!  That's something you should know from your experience to be very careful of -- because that's treading on the line of hoping Schneider makes a real run at your 74-win mark, of which she's only a little past the third pole on.  
• Saunders points out that the newsworthy robbery of Schneider over New Year's would not affect this gameplay -- these matches were taped about eight weeks ago.

So, as I like to do, the road ahead, and this assumes she would not only keep winning, but hold her current average of $36,414 -- though that number has come down a bit this week or so.  It was about at $40,000 a week or so ago:

• A win Monday would vault her into 19th overall on the all-time list, and pass two of the five women in front of her.
• Wins Monday and Tuesday would pass three more on the list (#16 overall), including two more women (making Schneider #2 on the women's list) and Bernie Cullen.  It would also make Schneider only the fourth person in show history to win 30 matches.
• Wins through Wednesday (#31) would pass two more on the list (#14 overall).
• Wins through Thursday (#32) would tie Schneider with James Holzhauer for the third-longest streak in show history.  She would also pass two more names on the all-time all-show list (#12 overall).
• She runs next week (#33), and she passes Holzhauer for the streak place.  She would crack $1,200,000 with that win.
• Wins through a week from Tuesday (#35) would pass John Carpenter's $1,250,000 for #11.
• The current predictive algorithm Andy Saunders uses to project a player's streak stands at just about 36 and winnings of just past $1,300,000.
• She is two weeks away from Matt Amodio's streak total, and 11 more wins to pass it (38).  She is about $5,000 or so short on average to Amodio's average during his run at the end of last season and the beginning of this one.
• $1,500,000:  Win #41 (January 26th)
• Passing Amodio on the list into the Top Ten:  Win #42 (January 27th)
• #9:  Win #43 (January 28th)
• All-time all-shows women's record (Register):  Win #49 or Win #50.  Waffling on an estimate on this, due to February sweeps.
• On her average, it would take 65 shows to pass Holzhauer's regular-season total, and two more to pass Jennings'. No date estimate on those, since that would fly through February, and who knows what sweeps stuff the show has planned.  Think mid-March, if she's still champion by then.