Mintofuji

Hakuho sets new records for most career basho with at least 10 wins (58, previous record was Taiho with 57) and most career basho with at least 11 wins (56, previous record was Taiho with 55).

Hakuho overtakes Wakanosato for 6th place in career wins (905, Wakanosato has 904 wins).

Hakuho now has the longest streak of consecutive basho with at least 9 wins (49 basho). Previous best was Kitanoumi (48).

Random statistic: with his day 2 win Hakuho has the record for most wins ranked Sekiwake or above (731, previous best was Kitanoumi with 730). This is the first rank at which Hakuho has such a record.

While the guy who posted the video does make his own comments, when he's not speaking you can hear the English commentary from the channel. The commentary I was referring to was definitely the English commentary.

In the English commentary on , the commentators mention that video replay was introduced due to Futabayama's streak of 69 wins being broken due to an incorrect decision by the gyoji. I was under the impression that it was Taiho's streak of 45 wins that ended by a gyoji error, not Futabayama (Wikipedia, for example, gives this reference). Did the commentators get it wrong?

I couldn't get to these numbers... what are your data? I'm using the SumoDB and wikipedia And thanks for the info I used SumoDB, for example here. However I used the numbers for wins and losses, so it includes fusen losses. If you don't include them, Taiho is ahead (83.44% vs 82.82%)

With his win against Kotoshogiku, Hakuho's career win percentage (82.74%) exceeds Taiho (82.73%) for the first time in his career.

Would they have been scheduled to meet for Day 14 regardless of their Day 13 results? I thought the scheduling was done before the previous day's bouts.

Chiyoo has his 13th straight yorikiri bout, a win against Yakanoyama.

Chiyoo just had his 12th yorikiri on the basho, a win this time. The only other occurrence of 12 yorikiri to start a basho that I can find in the database is Masutsuyoshi in May 2009 who was also 3-9, before finishing with 3 non-yorikiri. http://sumodb.sumogames.de/Rikishi_basho.aspx?r=56&b=199905

Heh. Actually I doubt that's the reason - until now they always got it right. In fact, it was because of press reports a few years ago (almost certainly using official NSK numbers) that we first figured out that "appearances" aren't simply counted as W+L. And that's when Doitsuyama added the appearances counter to the rikishi profiles.It seems more like somebody can't read the available data correctly. I think it's likely a press error. I've seen this issue in other sports where the definition of "appearance" varies, among the public at least. When Ryan Giggs reached 1000 professional football appearances, they included his 4 matches for Great Britain at the Olympics (where the eligibility criteria is slightly different). Yet when they showed the appearance counts of other players with over 1000 games, they didn't include Olympic appearances.

3.8 = pi * (1 + 1/10)² Approximately.

Hakuho's win against Takakaze moves him past Mitoizumi into outright 11th for most career wins, with 808. Dejima and Miyabiyama never won a yusho while Ozeki (Miyabiyama never even won a yusho in Makuuchi).

Dewanishiki's birthdate is listed as July 15, 1925, so wouldn't he have been 39 years 4 months?

That was a different venue. They made them double sized, so pairs of seats shared one, and they were heavier and less aerodynamic. Don't remember where, though. That's Kyushu. You can tell because no cushions were flying when Kisenosato ended Hakuho's big streak.

That was Hanakaze's 500th career win. He is the first rikishi to win 500 bouts below the Makushita division.

With that win, Hakuho's makuuchi win percentage is above Taiho's for the first time since his first makuuchi basho (Natsu 2004). Hakuho: 555 wins, 107 losses, 83.84% wins Taiho: 746 wins, 144 losses, 83.82% wins Still hasn't won that one.. yet.. It's rather the quote which is misleading. Hakuho's makuuchi record indeed is 555-107-21 right now. Yeah my bad. I meant with his Day 8 win. I copied the wrong line (Showing respect...)

With that win, Hakuho's makuuchi win percentage is above Taiho's for the first time since his first makuuchi basho (Natsu 2004). Hakuho: 555 wins, 107 losses, 83.84% wins Taiho: 746 wins, 144 losses, 83.82% wins

Chiyonoyama won the first 3 bouts in his second basho, so would that be considered a "start" of 13 wins?

On the other hand, there are situations like that even among the opponents Wakanoho has named: 2-0 for him against Kaiho and Toyozakura, each in back-to-back tournaments (2007.07/09 for Toyo, 2007.11/2008.01 for Kaiho), 2-0 against Kyokunankai and 0-2 against Tamarikido (each pair of bouts in 2007.01 and 2007.05), and three consecutive wins for Wakanoho against Shunketsu (2007.05-09). Of course, we've learnt that debts need not always be paid back against the exact same rikishi... Good point. So my observation of Wakanoho's record against Tochiozan doesn't really indicate anything. I would be interested to know more details of the arrangements that Wakanoho had with these rikishi in particular.

While not having as bad a record against Kaio as Tochiozan, Kisenosato has also had troubles against Kaio, even when genki. He has lost his last 4 bouts against Kaio, including 2 days after stopping Hakuho's long streak, as well as day 14 of last year's Aki basho (which allowed Kaio to escape kadoban). But I think Kisenosato has always been considered to be gachinko, right? It may be wishful thinking, but I'd like to think that Tochiozan just hasn't figured out what to do against Kaio, and has a psychological problem against him. Another thing I noticed is that Wakanoho faced Tochiozan twice as a sekitori. They were consecutive tournaments, and Wakanoho won both times, which seems a little unusual if they had an agreement between them.

And the winner of the bidding war was Shukan Gendai! Wakanoho named 21 rikishi against whom he had a mutual arrangement in place before wrestling them. The article is said to be published in today's rag. I haven't seen the magazine yet, but another source claims that one of the names to be mentioned is Kotooshu. Wasn't Kotooshu mentioned in Wakanoho's initial claims (with the same magazine I think) back in 2008?

Are you mixing up his arm and his leg? (I am not worthy...) Kotooshu's left arm is behind Yoshikaze's head. Indeed I am! In fact I didn't even realise that was his leg until I read your post!!! (Shaking head...) Silly me. Thanks for the correction.

Here it looks like Kotooshu may have touched the ground with his hand first, or am I mistaken? It is hard to tell because of the rope.