Nikkan popularity poll

[Kintamayama 45,530]

The yearly poll. 38,912 votes in all.

10th- Shoudai 1462 votes

9th- Tobizaru 1539

8th- Akiseyama  1621

7th - Takanoshou  1887

6th - Daieishou  1906

5th - Wakatakakage 1923

4th - Endou 2221

3rd - Asanoyama - 2233

2nd- Terunofuji -2329

1st- Takakeishou  3320

Takakeishou wins by a huge margin.

Edited June 19, 2021 by Kintamayama

[Katooshu 3,334]

Mitakeumi after seeing the results

[Kujo 123]

Ooo tough crowd tonight 

[Kintamayama 45,530]

  On 19/06/2021 at 07:04, Katooshu said:

Mitakeumi after seeing the results

 

Didn't notice that. So Akiseyama is more popular than Mitakeumi? Daieishou too? Takanoshou? Wow. איך נפלו גיבורים

Edited June 19, 2021 by Kintamayama

[Kujo 123]

  On 19/06/2021 at 09:38, Kintamayama said:

Didn't notice that. So Akiseyama is more popular than Mitakeumi? Daieishou too? Takanosohu? Wow. איך נפלו גיבורים

Sorry my bad, I voted early and often.

[RabidJohn 1,855]

Mitakeumi's omission is understandable considering that most of them are either climbers or recent yusho winners, but if that's the trend why is Endo still so unnaccountably popular?

[Seiyashi 4,108]

I wonder how the poll was conducted. Online, telephone, or what? That affects the profile of the respondents and hence the results. Knowing that a lot of old timers support Mitakeumi, I'm pretty surprised too. 

[ryafuji 815]

  On 19/06/2021 at 11:26, RabidJohn said:

Mitakeumi's omission is understandable considering that most of them are either climbers or recent yusho winners, but if that's the trend why is Endo still so unnaccountably popular?

A huge amount of media hype and a pretty face go a long way. 

[dada78641 884]

I wonder when people voted on this? Since Asanoyama's scandal was pretty recent, maybe some of his votes are from before then?

[RabidJohn 1,855]

  On 19/06/2021 at 12:13, ryafuji said:

A huge amount of media hype and a pretty face go a long way. 

That makes him sound like the Kim Kardashian of ozumo - and he appears in public barely dressed!

[Seiyashi 4,108]

  On 19/06/2021 at 11:26, RabidJohn said:

Mitakeumi's omission is understandable considering that most of them are either climbers or recent yusho winners, but if that's the trend why is Endo still so unnaccountably popular?

It might have to do with their performance relative to their own history, considering how the poll seems to emphasise recent storylines. Endo has been performing generally consistently at his underwhelming level and still being popular, but 2020 was Mitakeumi's first year without a yusho, back to back MK putting him in the maegashira ranks for the first time in four years, and only one sansho, after 2 years of a yusho and multiple sansho. In contrast, last year was a really good year for Endo, with 3 kinboshi and a sansho; much better than the combined 24 months of 2018 and 2019 which saw only 1 sansho despite starting 2018 at komusubi.

Edited June 19, 2021 by Seiyashi

[Gurowake 4,107]

Yeah, there was another poll a while back Akinomaki cited in which people picked their favorite rikishi of all time, and Endo was the #1 that was active.  There was just an absolute media blitz of attention on him.  He was the first Ms10TD.  He got through Juryo in 1 basho.  He had a pretty face, pleasant demeanor, and was very technique-focused as opposed to raw strength or size-focused.  He was a very good young rikishi for the media to get behind and promote.  It's unfortunate that it didn't go as well as anticipated, but that's what you get for trying to promote someone out of college; the best in college are certainly going to become sekitori, but it's hard to know where they're going to go from there because there just isn't the same level of rikishi available and the number of matches isn't that large.  Turbold was way hyped and hasn't even made Makuuchi in 4 years!

Also, no Takayasu.  Surprised it wasn't mentioned yet.  (I didn't see him mentioned yet at least.)

[Fukuyamada 42]

If there were 38,912 votes in total then we're missing out on much of the picture by reading only the top 10 results.

[rhyen 1,846]

https://www.nikkansports.com/m/battle/sumo/election/

[Kintamayama 45,530]

Looking at this, I think either it's rigged, or some guys have large families. 

 

11th- Meisei 1435

12th Takayasu 1051

13th Myougiryuu 941

14th Hakuhou 932

15th Midorifuji 853

16th Shimanoumi 781

17th Takarafuji 778

18th Tsurugishou 761

19th Mitakeumi  729

20th Tamawashi 713

21st Houshouryuu 705

21st Ryuuden 705

23rd Ounoshou 670

24th Tochinoshin 633

25th Ichinojou 627

26th Kiribayama 563

27th  Terutsuyoshi 551

28th Kagayaki 550

 

[Kintamayama 45,530]

The voting was held based on the May banzuke between June 6th-16th on the Nikkan site. You were allowed to vote once a day and for no more than three of your favorites at a time.

Relative to the last poll:

8th - Akiseyama  -  not ranked in the last poll

7th - Takanoshou,  up from 10th

6th - Daieishou,  up from 11th

5th - Wakatakakage - not ranked in the last poll

4th - Endou, up from 6th

3rd - Asanoyama, down from 2nd

2nd - Terunofuji,  up from 9th

1st - Takakeishou, 1st last time as well.

 

Edited June 20, 2021 by Kintamayama

[RabidJohn 1,855]

So it was all post-scandal and 5 days of voting took place after he'd been suspended for a year, but Asanoyama only dropped 1 place from last year... 

My gast is well and truly flabbered, as Frankie Howerd used to say.

[ryafuji 815]

  On 20/06/2021 at 10:43, RabidJohn said:

So it was all post-scandal and 5 days of voting took place after he'd been suspended for a year, but Asanoyama only dropped 1 place from last year... 

My gast is well and truly flabbered, as Frankie Howerd used to say.

Maybe the public thinks going out to a bar when everyone outside sumo is allowed to isn't that much of a scandal. 

[Atenzan 1,084]

  On 20/06/2021 at 08:11, Kintamayama said:

14th Hakuhou 932

Wow...

[Kintamayama 45,530]

  On 20/06/2021 at 12:18, ryafuji said:

Maybe the public thinks going out to a bar when everyone outside sumo is allowed to isn't that much of a scandal. 

Or maybe Asanoyama has an extra-motivated fan club.

[Athenayama 1,080]

  On 20/06/2021 at 16:04, Kintamayama said:

Or maybe Asanoyama has an extra-motivated fan club.

 

  On 20/06/2021 at 08:31, Kintamayama said:

The voting was held based on the May banzuke between June 6th-16th on the Nikkan site. You were allowed to vote once a day and for no more than three of your favorites at a time.

  On 20/06/2021 at 08:11, Kintamayama said:

Looking at this, I think either it's rigged, or some guys have large families. 

 

 

 

 

In other words, this means that this kind of polls don't mean that much.... 

 

[Gurowake 4,107]

I guess I didn't really comprehend just how few votes were received by the top of the pack, though it's reasonable when you consider that people could vote for 3 different ones.  Doing that is necessarily going to spread things out quite a lot (if people use their extra votes; the votes not being a multiple of three means they weren't required to).  So in some sense to get the percentage of votes for each rikishi you almost need to multiple by 3, but even then Takakeisho only got around 25% of the vote, so the votes are spread pretty evenly.

 

[rhyen 1,846]

Compared to previous year of Kisenosato’s 6k votes?

[Tigerboy1966 1,474]

  On 20/06/2021 at 08:11, Kintamayama said:

15th Midorifuji 853

That's quite a result considering he was M15w and sat out the whole of the basho. It looks as though relatively fresh faces were favoured, so we have Tobizaru and WTK polling ahead of established stars like Shodai and Takayasu.

[Kaminariyuki 500]

I think there may have been a hair pull here. I call a gumbai-sashichigai.