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And even that ... uh ...
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Hiro has that distinctive presentation, so that I can read it and still hear him at the same time.
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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.
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Match 1: Tobizaru Match 2: Abi Match 3: Shodai Match 4: Mitakeumi
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Not confident in my prediction prowess here, but if it happens, I'll give it a go.
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I’m in.
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https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/2489/ You can listen to it or read it. Eight minutes.
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That's what I meant with "gut instinct", which screams "12" in that case. Small player base defies statistical methods.
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Of course.
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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
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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.
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I'll let our Richijo answer to that.
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What do we have to do? Hopefully, not watch actual games? That would be cruel and unusual.
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I think the main problem might be getting enough refiojis. Ideally, we would want eight of them.... Who would be up for that?
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Canadians are not bad either, would you be interested guys? @Itachi @Oshirokita @Bunbukuchagama
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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?
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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....
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I mean upper quartile median.
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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.
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I think upper quartile is closer to Ozumo?
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If you can make it happen, I'm in!
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New 'Kiribayama' for Guess Kisenosato's Aite game
Oshirokita replied to Jejima's topic in Sumo Games
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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 !
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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.
