VirtualSumo

New rikishi are recruited after honbasho when the stable rankings are calculated. This happens every month. If you have specified your selection(s) using the relevant form, these will be allocated if available. If they have been taken, or if you have not specified a preference then a random rikishi will be allocated to your stable.

Well, that's our aim and we hope that with the help and involvement of members of SumoForum.net we can make this a reality. https://virtualsumo4.wixsite.com/game The game is totally free. The idea is that as a stable master you build your own stable of virtual rikishi, direct their training, manage their weight and determine their ring tactics. There is honbasho every month, with a bout a day, so plenty of time to select your tactics once you have sussed your opponent. Plus there and lots to do inbetween including deciding on draft picks. You start off with someone among the Maegashira ranks - or if you are quick, you do. They are going fast! The top two divisions are based on real rikishi, so if you have a favourite please sign up quick and snap him up before someone else does. The feedback we have had has been brilliant but a couple have people have said they found it alot to read. Don't worry, you dont have to read everything at once, teh important thing is to register and make your initial selection. Playing will become clear and easy once you've done this! Feel free to message me if you have any questions. Thanks for your interest: https://virtualsumo4.wixsite.com/game

Thank you Asa.

I'm a new member; very happy to have found this site at a time Ive fallen back in love with sumo. Some years ago I had an idea for a "vitual sumo" game which got lost somewhere along life's road. However I've been working on it for a few months now with the intention of launching it before this month's honbasho. It totally free and I'm hoping that some members from this site will give it a try. Perhaps someone reading this can point me in the right direction for a question I have? I'd like to post some links from my game site to this one so that anyone playing the game can make use of the excellent resources and knowledge here - but feel like I should get permission first. Is there someone I should be asking? Many thanks!

Great info and pics. Many thanks.

Any guesses as to why July is so much more popular as a birth month than September? Just chance or something to do with the Japanese calander? In the UK for example the fact that the academic year runs from September means kids born in the autumn grow up being the "big kids" while August babies are more likely to be picked on. I once saw some stats saying more top division footballers were born in Sep and Oct but don't know if thats still true.

This is brilliant - thank you so much! I'm in the final stages of revising a on line virutal sumo game and wanted to do more research about ages and career progression and this tool is wonderful. In terms of other feedback I agree with the gist of some other comments that a magnification of progress in the top ranks would be helpful. Another thing I'd find very interesting but that would require alot of research I fear, would be a graph of a rikishi's weight corresponding to their ranking. Brilliant work!