Another day, another
updated betting odds list for American Idol contestants! With Shannon Magrane being eliminated last night we are now down to the Top 10 who will go on tour, a nice even 5 gals and 5 girls. But one thing I noticed about the 3 contestants who are no longer with us from the Top 13 ... they were the 3 tallest people! Jermaine Jones, Jeremy Rosado and Shannon were
the three I decided were the Top 3 in height back at the beginning of March and now they are all gone. Is there some American Idol height discrimination happening here? The three short ladies have never been in the bottom 3 in votes, and the 2 other taller ladies, Erika Van Pelt and Elise Testone have both been in the Bottom 3 twice. This is definitely the year of the "short girl".
Now I have posted my latest bar graph of the changing trend in betting odds of the Top 10, and we can see that Joshua has now moved to be the 3rd top favorite behind Jessica Sanchez and Phillip Phillips. Colton Dixon and Skylar Laine have seen their odds stay pretty stable, but Heejun Han's continue to get worse. Now that he is for sure going on the tour I wonder if people will still keep voting for him since he really is not that great of a singer. The other interesting fact to note is that DeAndre Brackensick, Elise Testone and Erika Van Pelt are all almost died for long shot status with odds of about 41:1. One of the three of them is bound to be leaving next week since Heejun seems to have a lot more fan support than any of those three (Heejun has still never been in the Bottom 3.) It will be interesting to see if Heejun can outlast all three of them. Among the favorites, it will be interesting to see if Joshua Ledet and Hollie Cavanagh can continue to improve their odds against Phillip and Jessica who seem to be a lock as #1 and #2 as of right now. Of course, at
this point last season it seemed like Pia Toscano was a lock to be in the Top 3, so do not get complacent if you are a Jessica or Phillip fan!
