Reonito

I know we have a consecutive Makuuchi bout tracker, but do we have a consecutive basho tracker? Takayasu is at 82 and counting (83 once the Natsu banzuke comes out), since Nagoya 2011. The entire streak is since his debut; he's never dropped to Juryo.

A lot of this game is the struggle to separate what I would do from what I think they will do.

I don't know about a bunch, but after Daieisho's yusho, no one had him at K2w. We usually have an inkling when the sanyaku count is in doubt, even if we don't get it right.

That one is interesting. The scatter is huge, and a bunch of people had him both higher and lower, but only one at the exact spot.

This might be the one I was thinking of: Aki 2020, right after Terunofuji's comeback yusho in July, when he went from M17 to M1e, and only 3 players had that right, with the average guess off by a rank and a half.

I can't remember the details, but there was a banzuke for which the GTB selection stats showed only a couple of players had someone ranked where the banzuke committee put them...

I definitely need a tutorial on linking/embedding correctly on the forum!

This is the 4th time we've had a 7-man sanyaku since 1960 (but also since 2020!). Haru 2020, caused by Goeido's intai, resolved by Asanoyama's Ozeki promotion. Kyushu 2021, caused by Hakuho's intai (41-man Makuuchi banzuke due to timing), not resolved (they could have promoted M1w Wakatakakage, 8-7, to K2 if they really wanted to resolve it, but they only promoted M1e Daieisho, 8-7, and slid WTK to M1e). Hatsu 2022, resolved by Mitakeumi's Ozeki promotion. Haru 2025, caused by Terunofuji's intai, ???

Maybe videos reviewing close decisions and monoii, and using these to explain the nuances of the rules?

It's in the banzuke science channel...

Yeah it literally showed up for me in your quote post above...

Sorry, which image? Not the one quoted above?

Actually I think this automates it to a decent extent.

Care to share the query? I don't think I figured out how to do it without looking through a bunch of hits manually...

Yeah I agree; they've been pretty inconsistent about whether they give any joi-adjacent preference to 5w, so we'll see what happens. Had he been 6w, I'm pretty sure I would have swapped him with Meisei in my guess.