GTB invite- Haru 2022- RESULTS!! - 164 entries (26 newbies)

[Itachiyama 119]

51 ... quite satisfied!

[Kaito 311]

65. Looking at it now, I feel pretty dumb getting Hokutofuji/Kotonowaka backwards. I'm already aware of two other 65s and I lose the tiebreaker, so no hope of winning.

[Reonito 1,519]

60 here I think; my predictions were on target except for the complete cluster&*^% from M7w to M12e, where the banzuke committe has apparently decided to completely decouple the number of losses from the size of a demotion for those with a make-koshi.

[Kintamayama 45,519]

Results-third yusho for Sakura! Congratulations!! 164 players, a record of course. 26 new players, the best getting a 10-5 record (Inazuma).

Milestones:

Seki Haruaki- 90th basho

Okisuruga- 60th basho

And that's it.. Thank you for playing and I hope you had fun.. special thanks to Andoreasu and Doitsuyama -  without them all this was impossible.

See you all next time, and now-on with the Ba-show!!

To see how you did- go to here

 

 

Edited February 28, 2022 by Kintamayama

[Hoshotakamoto 259]

74 points for Sakura, holy moly. Looks like I got my entry counted after all

[Kintamayama 45,519]

1 minute ago, Hoshotakamoto said:

74 points for Sakura, holy moly. Looks like I got my entry counted after all

As long as the mail arrived before the deadline there is never a problem. 

[Gurowake 4,100]

Once again I go from first in the rankings to out of the top 10.  Hilarious.

Netsuzakura who was top 10 after 5 basho and doesn't disappoint to grab 1st place after their 6th.  They are dropping a 7-8 too.

Edited February 28, 2022 by Gurowake

[Kaito 311]

74 is pretty nuts. Grats Sakura!

[Reonito 1,519]

8 minutes ago, Gurowake said:

Once again I go from first in the rankings to out of the top 10.  Hilarious.

Also, there once again is someone (Musashibono) with only 5 basho in the top 10.  Netsuzakura does hold up their promise from being top 10 in 5 last basho with a 1st place ranking in 6 basho, and is dropping a 7-8 for next basho, so is set to go even higher.

This was surprisingly high-scoring, even aside from the outlier that is Sakura.

[Hoshotakamoto 259]

Does anyone know the algorithm for computing "points" in the all-time rankings? I gather that it is based on the last 6 with the option of sitting one out. Still not exactly sure of the formula.

 

EDIT: my initial guess is that a number is set for a tournament, then your points are (6 tournaments ago) * 0.5 + (5 tournaments ago) * 0.6 + (4 tournaments ago) * 0.7 + (3 tournaments ago) * 0.8 + (2 tournaments ago) * 0.9 + (last tournament) * 1.0 but this is wild extrapolation from reviewing the scores of "CheeseBeaver"

2nd EDIT: and this is almost entirely confirmed by reviewing "Hokutoyama". still not sure how to determine the monthly calculations that feed into this

3rd EDIT: from reviewing first-timer scores it's clear that points scored in 11/2021 was "points divided by 49.6" and in 1/2022 it was "points divided by 39.2" and I haven't yet arrived at the formula for computing the denominator

FINAL EDIT: Ok, so it's just the average of ALL entries. So in theory if a bunch of people entered and scored 0 one month your guesses would be disproportionately valuable for the next 6 tournaments. In summary:
monthly score = your score / average of everybody's score
ranking is based off of your monthly score + 90% of last monthly + 80% of previous monthly + 70% of six months ago + 60% of 8 months ago + 50% of 10 months ago

Edited February 28, 2022 by Hoshotakamoto

[Reonito 1,519]

Nice reverse engineering!

[Hoshotakamoto 259]

Just realized I lost 3-4 points by assuming for 15 days (and a month of rest) that Chiyomaru entered as M13 west and Yutakayama entered as M13 east. Note to self: DON'T DO THAT.

[Fujisan 533]

Congratulations Sakura

Another below par performance for me  but next time is the one that counts for me,my 6th basho in a row and I will find my true ranking.(now 95)

Edited February 28, 2022 by Fujisan

[Sakura 1,495]

On 27/02/2022 at 18:31, Kintamayama said:

Results-third yusho for Sakura! Congratulations!! 164 players, a record of course. 26 new players, the best getting a 10-5 record (Inazuma).

Milestones:

Seki Haruaki- 90th basho

Okisuruga- 60th basho

And that's it.. Thank you for playing and I hope you had fun.. special thanks to Andoreasu and Doitsuyama -  without them all this was impossible.

See you all next time, and now-on with the Ba-show!!

To see how you did- go to here

 

 

Wow. Only checking the results now. Not what I was expecting. I didn't have a good feeling about it.

EDIT: I was only unsure about Hoshoryu as a Komusubi. Thinking about it, I was pretty confident about it. Not usually the case. I worked down to Takayasu and then up from the bottom.

Edited March 1, 2022 by Sakura

[robnplunder 976]

10-5 on 53 points, my best ever finish after the last one which I finished close to the last.  I feel like I am going back and forth between juryo and lower Makuuchi ranks. 

[Gurowake 4,100]

On 01/03/2022 at 08:51, Sakura said:

I didn't have a good feeling about it.

I generally do best when I have a bad feeling about it.  At least, whenever I feel very confident, I'm usually way off, and I'm right enough of the time that I must do well when I'm not feeling too confident.

[Yubinhaad 11,761]

Had to put the stats on the back burner for a bit but I've finally gotten around to catching up, so here's a three-basho update.

AFTER 2021 KYUSHU:

There were two changes to the top ten ranks after this edition, with Flohru and Kotononami dropping out after two and one-basho visits. They are replaced by two returnees, Okisuruga after a one-basho gap, and Sukubidubidu for the first time in just under four years.

Nantonoyama's second yusho was won with a score of 76 points, matching the highest scores in GTB history. Equally notable is the 37 Bullseye scores, which also ties the record set by Itachiyama in 2012 Natsu

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AFTER 2022 HATSU:

Half of the top ten changed after this difficult guess, the five departures being Okisuruga, Oskanohana, Sukubidubidu, Asterix (after two straight kyujo) and Kitakachiyama. They were replaced by a yusho-winning returnee and, remarkably, FOUR newcomers.

Gurowake's long-expected hatsu-yusho not only sees him return to the green ranks but also reclaims the #1 rank as well.

The quartet of newcomers are Yoshio, Netsuzakura, Tochiyesshin and Goshobiyama - it's only the second time that four players have made their top ten debut in the same basho, the first occasion was back in 2003 Kyushu.

Ullishimaru is now GTB's all-time leading points scorer, having surpassed the late Feginowaka's record of 6,102 in this edition.

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AFTER 2022 HARU:

Three changes to the top ten ranks after the current edition. Dropping out are Gurowake, Nantonoyama and Tochiyesshin - as Gurowake himself mentioned, he does so from the #1 rank for the second time in his career which I don't think has happened before.

Replacing them is a veteran returnee and two more newcomers. Susanoo had chalked up 50 basho in green in his career, but the last of them came just over four years ago - he returns now after a 25-basho gap. The debutants this time are DolorousClem and Kyoju.

Netsuzakura is the 25th player to claim the #1 rank.

Gooner is the 18th player to accumulate 5,000 points, doing so in 96 basho which is equal 3rd-fastest to that milestone.