Doitsuyama

I will announce the updates on the Sumo Reference site on this forum - I feel that's better than somewhere hidden on the site. Firstly I could correct a few errors found by Asashosakari and Randomitsuki. Next I want to thank Gans-san for sharing a lot of material which will be worked into the database, but it's so much it will last some months. Gochisozan also is providing me with a lot of missing lower division results in the Heisei era from his Sumo magazine archive. Of course Nishinoshima also is active and I received a fat letter with lots of material from him. It's so much, I actually could need help in entering all that new data. So, if there is another person or two insane dedicated enough to enter data into Excel sheets, I happily can throw loads of work at them. Ability to read kanji or at least hiragana is widening the range of possible tasks, but there actually also are enough tasks where only kanji for "east" and "west" must be distinguished or even less than this. Actually I can understand if no one wants to do that time-consuming job, but I'm accepting volunteers - just send a PM or email. Now what's new in the database since last week? I have added the missing juryo kimarite from 1974 to 1988 with some rare kimarite (like ipponzeoi, sabaori, gasshohineri etc) among them. There still are a lot more available from Haru 1956 to 1973 waiting to be entered. Then I was able to get the correct W-L records for Aki 1988 and Kyushu 1988. Until now these two full banzuke were entered from the banzuke itself (it was nice training to read the jonidan and jonokuchi shikona on the real banzuke), with the wins implicitly deduced from banzuke movement - naturally no distinction was possible between losses and absences, and final scores from intai rikishi were guessed with 0-0-7. Now everything is correct here. Some minor errors between Hatsu 1989 and Aki 1989 also were corrected and hoshitori added. And lastly I completed the records of Kitamayama's favorite oldest rikishi in Ozumo, Ichinoya.

Hmm, I wonder if this is a correction from the start or a change at some time...

That's in place for a fairly long time by now..

Maybe only 32 rikishi are needed? That would be enough for a KO tournament for example.

Something like this?

Age and losses options are now added to the bout query.

The new visual layout stays and I adjusted the tab order now. I want to add an age option for both rikishi in the bout query, so I guess I can change the layout here a bit as well and add a losses option for both rikishi.

I added the option to show and sort by age in the basho query. You can also filter by certain ages in the basho constraints.

Due to popular request I added the career highest rank as an option.

Now possible to see with a query

This is the first time ever that four maegashira lead the yusho race after day 13 with 10 or more wins. The closest contender was ... Hatsu 2025 when only Ozeki Hoshoryu crashed the party with 10 wins (and actually won the 12-3 yusho and yokozuna promotion). Oh, and it's tied for the now 8-way lead with most maegashira at 10 or more wins after day 13.

Thank you, I added them to the DB

It was perfect for me, thanks a lot. I added these heights and weights to the database. If you happen to have data like this for Natsu in the years 2014 to 2024 (except 2021) feel free to post it here as well.

This is fixed now, the mistake was calculating highest division and highest ranknumber separately like earlier noted. Regarding your second example I'd like to point out that Sd15 for the fourth Daio is correct since the higher rank of Ms56 was with a different shikona.

Not intentional at all, just an oversight. I changed them to Koji now.

This heya branchout is still missing from the kabu database

I looked at all these cases and could clear up most of them, for rikishi who reached makuuchi the japanese wikipedia has a heya history, but sometimes with unclear time of the change - here the kabu history in sumo reference often was very helpful, leaving only a few debatable cases where I assumed the time of the heya change. Some lower division cases I could solve because they were obviously part of a bigger heya move and it's clear from the shikona convention which of the two involved rikishi moved. There still are some cases left where I have no clue, four with a single bout (Isegahama, Kitanoumi, Kokonoe and Kumegawa), the remaining case in Dewanoumi with two bouts and the Isenoumi case with one common rikishi in 3 bouts.

I fixed a few bugs, so it should happen less often now that the website is down.

The banzuke itself is not that great to read indeed. I guess I could add the missing banzuke down to M4, just need a good bit of time to write all this down.

The navigation arrow is missing when the banzuke is not known for the basho in question. In your screenshot for example there should be a banzuke for 1761 Haru but I don't have it (and maybe noone has it anymore), so there is a broken link by design. You still can navigate with the drop down selection.

That's a known issue and a database limitation. I have only markers for rank debuts, not division debuts, and the "Makuuchi debut" feature actually uses the maegashira rank debut which is in general ok since not many makuuchi debuts are higher than maegashira...

No, shikona kanji changes are only shown on the japanese page. The english page only shows changes in readings.

Interesting idea, but the current way still must be supported in terms of database and reporting, so it doesn't sound like it is making my life all that much easier.

Well, the code for these fill-ins already is pretty complicated, so it is limited to two fill-ins per basho. Maybe it would be better to officially state this in the rules to reflect the scoring, but this is way it works, sorry.

But of course I can fix your 2-11 record. I will PM you my bank account.