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If he had trained at both heya, he would have a better explanation that would presumably be closer to the truth regarding the coaching style of the shisho. I think the bigger question would be why would it even be between those two and ignoring those heya run by rikishi he would have actually watched as a kid, if that was going to be his explanation?

Musoyama retired in 2004. If this kid is coming out of high school, he wasn't born yet then. I guess he just saw old clips?

Not that it matter, but Onosho is on the banzuke at Ms3e.

It's also quite a different error than we had been dealing with previously, suggesting that something new is going wrong. I don't know enough about HTML error codes to know exactly what it means that the service is unavailable, but the fact it's not 404 and still have the gunbai icon on the page suggests that it still exists in some form but the server that is supposed to serve the web page is not working.

62, with the differences between me and Asashosakari going: Correct with Takerufuji <> Nishikigi offsetting wrong with Gonoyama <> Tobizaru -4 for wrong on Chiyoshoma <> Hiradoumi and Daieisho <> Wakamotoharu

People generally are putting Takayasu and Ichiyamamoto at M6. If they are in your section as you show it, who's at M6? Churanoumi and Oshoma I guess?

That it seems like most people have done basically the same thing in the problem areas heavily suggests that there really isn't any other conceivable thing they'd do. That doesn't help much though because they regularly do things inconceivable prior to it actually happening.

Terunofuji(0-0 Ye) Y Kotozakura(14-1 Oe) O Hoshoryu(13-2 Ow) O Onosato(9-6 Ow) Daieisho(8-7 Sw) S Wakamotoharu(10-5 Ke) Abi(11-4 M3e) K Wakatakakage(10-5 M2e) Takanosho(11-4 M6e) M1 Kirishima(6-9 Se) Gonoyama(11-4 M8w) M2 Atamifuji(8-7 M3w) Tobizaru(9-6 M5e) M3 Oho(6-9 M1e) Shodai(4-11 Kw) M4 Ura(5-10 M2w) Chiyoshoma(11-4 M14e) M5 Hiradoumi(4-11 M1w) Takayasu(8-7 M9w) M6 Ichiyamamoto(8-7 M10e) Endo(7-8 M7e) M7 Mitakeumi(7-8 M7w) Roga(7-8 M8e) M8 Takarafuji(8-7 M10w) Tamawashi(8-7 M11e) M9 Midorifuji(7-8 M9e) Meisei(8-7 M11w) M10 Churanoumi(4-11 M4e) Oshoma(4-11 M4w) M11 Takerufuji(10-5 M16w) Nishikigi(5-10 M6w) M12 Onokatsu(9-6 M15e) Shonannoumi(8-7 M13w) M13 Hokutofuji(7-8 M12e) Kinbozan(12-3 J1w) M14 Kotoshoho(3-11 M5w) Hakuoho(10-5 J2w) M15 Kitanowaka(9-6 J1e) Tamashoho(10-5 J4e) M16 Kagayaki(9-6 J2e) Nishikifuji(6-9 M14w) M17 Tokihayate(6-9 M15w) I think there's 4 swaps from Asashosakari's - the two that he said Spiffy had, plus Gonoyama <> Tobizaru and Chiyoshoma <> Hiradoumi

On that image with Terunofuji on it, the writing on the top left I was very confused about, as it makes no sense when read left to right, then top to bottom. I eventually realized that's because it's written top to bottom, then right to left, as is traditional in Japanese, despite all the other writing on the image going with the other pattern. I think it was the placement of the full stop that made me realize I needed to reorient my reading of it.

Hakuyozan J11w

I know this would be harder to compile, but it might be slightly more meaningful to exclude people who haven't completed 2 tournaments on the banzuke, to not have heya with more recent recruits (who need generally 2 tournaments to get out of this range) show up with more rikishi here than they would long-term. The Hatsu-dohyo column from the database would likely be helpful in determining this. It would make it slightly more interesting, but probably not enough for me to be interested in doing myself. (I would be interested in the average percentile banzuke rank for each heya though, so maybe I could figure out how to do that easily.)

It's not very common for all top 4 Juryo rikishi to be promoted to Makuuchi, as is likely to happen on the next banzuke. There's 18 total in the database, and 11 of those are in the 6-basho era. However, it last happened after Kyushu last year, and when I saw the results of the query I failed to recognize that at first, thinking that a recent Kyushu basho was going to be the most recent because of last basho, when it really isn't because the next banzuke isn't out yet. http://sumodb.sumogames.de/Query.aspx?show_form=0&amp;group_by=basho&amp;having=4&amp;form1_rank=J1-J2&amp;form2_rank=m

I meant that they don't just first create an ordered list and then divide it up into divisions, which is what they apparently do when the divisions change size.

Given that we know that's not how they do banzuke normally, it's odd that they would do this when they're renumbering ranks, especially since they normally have set promotions from each division to the next. I do grant that the one think that's consistent about their approaches in unusual situations is that it's inconsistent.

I'd like to point out that at least part of this came to pass - Kotozakura was in a match on the last day where the winner would take the yusho. Too bad more of the prediction didn't hold once that was confirmed.