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  2. Yamanashi

    Bench Women's World Cup 2023 - any interest?

    And even that ... uh ...
  3. Yamanashi

    Hiro Morita Podcast Wrap-Up of May Basho

    Hiro has that distinctive presentation, so that I can read it and still hear him at the same time.
  4. Sumo Spiffy

    Guess Kiribayama's Aite - May 2023 edition

    And yet, if I was going on gut instinct, I would probably say 10, because ozeki quality should involve being able to mostly keep up with whoever wins a given basho, but clearly only one person really grokked it because everyone else finished so far behind. So my gut instinct doesn't match yours, and it also doesn't match the median or the average. Like I said, I think being OK with an adjustment to whatever a formula says when that's considered correct is fine, but establishing that baseline and then deciding if it needs to be different is simply easier on the person who has to make the decision. For the same reason, I think that if we leave it up to an expert's call, that expert should be probably three people discussing it and coming to a conclusion, but if there aren't three people who want to do all that, even an imperfect mathematical basis is generally fine and less stressful than one person just picking.
  5. Match 1: Tobizaru Match 2: Abi Match 3: Shodai Match 4: Mitakeumi
  6. Finngall

    Bench Women's World Cup 2023 - any interest?

    Not confident in my prediction prowess here, but if it happens, I'll give it a go.
  7. Gaijingai

    Sekitori Sweepstake - July 2023

    I’m in.
  8. https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/2489/ You can listen to it or read it. Eight minutes.
  9. Jakusotsu

    Guess Kiribayama's Aite - May 2023 edition

    That's what I meant with "gut instinct", which screams "12" in that case. Small player base defies statistical methods.
  10. Jejima

    Bench Women's World Cup 2023 - any interest?

    My family watched a lot of last year's Women's Euros on TV - and even went to watch one of the games live in Sheffield. We really enjoyed them. But no, you don't actually have to watch to play - but my family will be
  11. Athenayama

    Bench Women's World Cup 2023 - any interest?

    I can't believe it. I just convinced Kimyama to play! So we're 2 on my end. I can't do better but that's still something.
  12. Athenayama

    Bench Women's World Cup 2023 - any interest?

    I'll let our Richijo answer to that.
  13. Bunbukuchagama

    Bench Women's World Cup 2023 - any interest?

    What do we have to do? Hopefully, not watch actual games? That would be cruel and unusual.
  14. Jejima

    Bench Women's World Cup 2023 - any interest?

    I think the main problem might be getting enough refiojis. Ideally, we would want eight of them.... Who would be up for that?
  15. Athenayama

    Bench Women's World Cup 2023 - any interest?

    Canadians are not bad either, would you be interested guys? @Itachi @Oshirokita @Bunbukuchagama
  16. Sumo Spiffy

    Guess Kiribayama's Aite - May 2023 edition

    Medians get weird when you're dealing with a small data set. I mean, averages can too, but I guess it depends on how you like your skewed numbers. Say, here's an example: Say the top four (we'll assume that's the size of the top quartile) finish 12-8-8-8. Should OQ be nine wins or eight wins?
  17. Jejima

    Bench Women's World Cup 2023 - any interest?

    Well, I have a family of four, and I am sure that I can convince jomojo and son (and maybe daughter?) to play, so that is six (or seven?) out of the 32 already taken care of....
  18. Jejima

    Guess Kiribayama's Aite - May 2023 edition

    I mean upper quartile median.
  19. Sumo Spiffy

    Guess Kiribayama's Aite - May 2023 edition

    I think a formula that creates a baseline makes sense, even if we allow for whatever logical adjustment there might be due to the smaller number of players (e.g. OQ can't exceed the best score of the basho). As for upper quartile, if you mean averaging those, I think that makes sense. However, I think it would also make sense not to round off the number to the nearest whole. For example, in Natsu, the top four had 10, 9, 8, and 8 wins. That would make OQ 8.75. It may just be semantics, but I think there's a somewhat meaningful difference if someone has nine wins when OQ is also nine wins, or 8.75, or 8.5, or even (especially) 9.25. Rounded off, though, all of those outcomes would be considered nine wins. With regards to the game as a whole: I'm generally inclined towards average after removing all kyujo results. So, for this past one, there were 15 players (including Hosho), totalling 106 wins with 21 kyujo days. If we count all the wins and exclude the kyujos, the win average is 7.79 (basically 7.8). Looking over the results, with the sub-seven results greater than the above-eight results, 7.8 seems pretty accurate. Edit: Even if it takes some getting used to, for a small game, I think listing OQ (and maybe KK) as just the win average, allowing for decimals, makes sense, since it doesn't take much to swing the numbers in a way that causes rounding to skew things even further.
  20. Jejima

    Guess Kiribayama's Aite - May 2023 edition

    I think upper quartile is closer to Ozumo?
  21. Jakusotsu

    Bench Women's World Cup 2023 - any interest?

    If you can make it happen, I'm in!
  22. Oshirokita

    New 'Kiribayama' for Guess Kisenosato's Aite game

    1. Ura2. Abi3. Shodai4. Kotonowaka
  23. Athenayama

    Bench Women's World Cup 2023 - any interest?

    There's a whole bunch of Americans here but they don't seem to be interested in Football (soccer). Come on, make me wrong guys and ladies !
  24. Jakusotsu

    Guess Kiribayama's Aite - May 2023 edition

    I would simply go by gut instinct, whatever feels right. As long as we don't have 30+ regular players, any strict formula will be lacking. But you might want to try the "Thirdian", i.e. the dividing line of the top third of all players.
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