Pick The Yusho Winners Hatsu 2018!

[Itachi 343]

This is the thread for the Pick The Yusho Winners (PTYW) game for Hatsu 2018.

Until further notice, the game will run just as it has the last several times. I will compile the results and post them as best as I can on this thread.

This is a pre-basho game where each player selects a rikishi from each of 8 sections of the banzuke. The player earns points for each win, each kachikoshi, and each yusho earned by their team of 8 rikishi. The sections of the banzuke are these:

Sanyaku (Y through K)

Maegashira

Juryo

Upper Makushita (Ms1-15 ) (not including any tsukedashi of any rank)

Lower Makushita (Ms16-60 plus tsukedashi if any - including Ms 10 or 15)

Sandanme (plus tsukedashi if any)

Jonidan

Jonokuchi


That's it! Simple to understand, difficult to master. The hallmarks of any engaging game.

Please send your 8 selections to me before the beginning of action on Shonichi.

Itachi: nmatsuo@shaw.ca or by pm here at the forum

As a reminder, I am only a temporary caretaker of this game until Oshirokita can address the reconstruction of his system. All banzuke, website, and records updates will be on hold until then but the game itself and results postings will continue here on this thread.

Good luck with your picks.

[chishafuwaku 450]

Hakuho

Hokutofuji

Mitoryu

Enho

Tomokaze

Shoji

Hayashi

Kototebakari

[Itachi 343]

Bumping the topic for attention!

There is still time to enter until the first tachiai!

 

[Achiyama 1,104]

I sent my squad via PM.

[Profomisakari 646]

Squad goes  since 3 hours

Look at the bugs thread

[Itachi 343]

[Itachi 343]

Above, I have posted the standings at the mid-point (after Nakabi, Day 8).

Thanks for your entries everyone!

I expect low scores this basho. Hakuho and Terunofuji were the most popular choices for the top division spots.

Hakuho was a unanimous choice. Only 5 of us (plus the drone Genzai who takes the most popular) got stuck with the former Ozeki, Terunofuji.

The other most popular choices were:

Juryo - Aoiyama (half the players excluding Genzai)

Makushita - top 15 ranks - Enho (7 players + Genzai)

Makushita - bottom 45 ranks - Tomokaze (8 players + Genzai)

Sandanme - Shoji (all but 2 players)

Jonidan - Kotoseigo (7 players + Genzai)

Jonokuchi - Yoshoyama (8 players + Genzai)

Good luck on Day 9!

[Itachi 343]

[Itachi 343]

Here are the standings after 9 days.

Flohru leads in both games!

 

[Itachi 343]

Here are the standings after 11 days. Flohru enjoys a 2 point lead over the founder.

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Edited January 26, 2018 by Itachi
uploaded 2nd copy of table by mistake

[Itachi 343]

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[Itachi 343]

There were big gaps between 1st and 2nd best and 1st and 2nd worst scores!

I wonder if 32 points is the worst ever result? Maybe 49 points could be the lowest ever winning score?

 

Thanks to everyone for playing!

[Flohru 171]

I assume you are right - a basho for the record books. Unfortunately I don't keep track of all the results, but since 2004 I had 7 yusho and 7 jun-yusho in this game and none came with less than 64 points...

[Itachi 343]

For Aki 2017, the lowest scores were 49 points!

For Nagoya 2017, the lowest score was 58 points!

Not only is 49 the lowest winning score, but it is lower than the lowest score in many of the past tournaments!

I started keeping records since Hatsu 2013 and there has been no score lower than 39 during that time so we have the 7 lowest scores all happening this basho!

 

 

[Oshirokita 160]

32 is the lowest score ever so far as I can find. Previous lowest was 35 in Nagoya 2008.

49 is by far the lowest winning score, and is in fact usually the lowest score (many basho have had 49 as the worst result).

 

I had to search each basho file separately, but think I found most if not all results from Nagoya 2004 - 2012.