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Of course it's subjective. It seems a K1e can go 6-9 and hang on in (not super extreme) circumstances, but I think a 5-10 or less would be goners no matter what. I don't think the rest of the results could work out in such a way that the best candidate would be worse than that.

I put Hakuoho at K1w. My line of thinking, if a Komusubi goes 7-8 they should drop to M1, unless there is no suitable replacement. The 6-9 K1e>K1w debacle was because an M9 was just not considered a real person as far as sanyaku promotions goes. It was just too offensive. An 8-7 M2 is a perfectly palatable replacement.

It seems like a banzuke where there are a lot of reasonable and/or precedented options, who will get the most coin flips correct? I feel decent about my choices too, but then again perhaps I've flipped the coin and it fell down a storm drain.

Wow this strikes me as a very tight distribution of total dohyo times for each rikishi. Only real outlier was Mitakeumi who gets longest time by 59.6s. Onosato unsurprisingly gets shortest time, again unsurprisingly over Abi by 10.1s

Is BBC iPlayer free? Also I checked the Pluto TV route again (since it's built into my TV)... Fubo TV will be airing it, but since there's no recording, and since I work those hours, I'm screwed on that front.

Go figure, Pluto's search function is broken right now and BBC iPlayer doesn't have anything sumo in the scheduele (if I'm using it correctly?)

This is sumo: Leg gets gangrene > amputated > 3 weeks rest > back to shiko

Part of that might be to due with smudging issues writing left to right as a left hander, the hand goes immediately over the letters just written. On that issue I'm sensing multiple potential layers of irony involving Arabic.

Ahoy, Kale of GTB here.

Salary Cap and UDH don't seem to be online yet? I've registered for the other pre-bashos. Thanks as always for the posting this.

I can do this because ive already lost my mind lol. Anyways i believe it was gurowake a while.back that compiled a table of lower division movements, and thankfully those match close enough to a linear regression to just use that as a formula to mass compute everyone's ranks.

Wow, I mean he needed to lose weight and all, and looked great at first, but I think he's lost too much too quickly, and that can't be healthy.

GTB meta-banzuke, let me know if there are any obvious mistakes. I usually make at least 7, the question is do I find them all? One oddity that may stand out is that the JK yusho winner went straight to Sandanme... there are so many spots vacated at the bottom of the banzuke by kyujo - somebody has to fill them.

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I can tell that none of the shikona changes were in the sekitori ranks, so I can at least get a view of that. Makuuchi was highly competitive this time around, needed 63 points to get a KK.The yusho was a 3-way playoff at 69 points (Cheesofuji, Asashosakari, Reonito), which turned out to figure as an 11-4 record. Not enough to make Ozeki yet, but definitely well into a run, and depending on how the Ozeki situation shapes out next basho (Kaito didn't clear kadoban, and Goshobiyama is now kadoban), a generous promotion may be in the cards. Cheesofuji is the leading candidate at the moment for that though. Given the much greater random factor involved in GTB, for Yokozuna promotion I've relaxed the criteria: back-to-back JY. That being said, Asashosakari is now on a rope-run. Reonito - 202505: M1e 9-6, 202507: K2w 10-5, 202509: S1w 11-4 D Cheesofuji - 202505: S1e 9-6, 202507: S1w 10-5, 202509: S1e 11-4 Y