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Hell yeah out of fantasy kadoban status. Thanks Kenning!
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https://twitter.com/SumoFollower/status/1707177705974710340 So instead of letting young talent with amasumo national tournament wins start mid-way up makushita, they're back to fighting at the absolute bottom tier. Which I believe means not even a 7-0 will be enough to promote up. More chances to pick up career-ending injuries before having a career, I guess?
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Sep 28, 2023 08:15
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My predicted plumit from the sanyaku ranks was so pathetic shodai would tell me to sort myself out. Thanks kenning!
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Sep 28, 2023 09:52
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Thanks Kenning! The idea of having a Juryo pick for tie-break purposes seems like a good one.
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Sep 28, 2023 10:10
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Thanks Kenning for running the fantasy! That was a very mid result for me. I'm glad I stuck with Hokuseiho. If I'm remembering my team correctly, everyone in my team got KKs but, apart from Hokuseio, they were all 9-6 and 8-7.
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Sep 28, 2023 10:21
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Thanks for running it! I did pretty okay for blindly picking my first time.
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Sep 28, 2023 12:59
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Bentai posted:So instead of letting young talent with amasumo national tournament wins start mid-way up makushita, they're back to fighting at the absolute bottom tier. Which I believe means not even a 7-0 will be enough to promote up. I think the Sumo Association is trying to entice promising wrestlers to enroll straight out of high school. They've been having trouble getting new recruits for a while now. I don't think it would work since starting from the absolute bottom is still a two year journey to Juryo. Might as well go to college then.
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Sep 28, 2023 13:57
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Thanks Kenning! I guess the wave of me being near the top was due to crash spectacularly eventually. I refuse to trade for other than injury.
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Sep 28, 2023 14:14
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thanks again for running fantasy sumo lol started saying taco queso to myself and giggling
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Sep 28, 2023 14:54
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Thanks Kenning! My own stable had a second week renaissance and pulled themselves out of the gloom, really has me committed to that No Trade life after many bashos spent wheeling and dealing in pursuit of the Yusho. +1 to the Juryo idea, I don't watch every bout but try to catch the odd recap, my reasons for remembering dudes in that division aren't very fantasy friendly though - e.g. Shimazuumi (looks like an angry baby), Shiden (my pants) or Chiyomaru (very round).
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Sep 28, 2023 16:37
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Bentai posted:So instead of letting young talent with amasumo national tournament wins start mid-way up makushita, they're back to fighting at the absolute bottom tier. Which I believe means not even a 7-0 will be enough to promote up. Eh, maybe, but also I could see a benefit to letting them get used to professional sumo training and tournaments before dumping them to consecutive 15 day battles too soon. There's maybe a middleground to be had, introduce Ms30TD or something, I dunno.
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Sep 28, 2023 17:00
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MyChemicalImbalance posted:+1 to the Juryo idea, I don't watch every bout but try to catch the odd recap, my reasons for remembering dudes in that division aren't very fantasy friendly though - e.g. Shimazuumi (looks like an angry baby), Shiden (my pants) or Chiyomaru (very round). personally i dont like the juryo idea, because its a lot more work to see the juryo bouts vs catching the top division highlights on NHK. i'm not trying to lurk discords for links to private videos and twitch streams that get taken down anyway, but respect to those who do
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Sep 28, 2023 17:32
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  Hakuoho's hair at full power.  Its power cannot be contained!
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Sep 28, 2023 17:42
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Helianthus Annuus posted:personally i dont like the juryo idea, because its a lot more work to see the juryo bouts vs catching the top division highlights on NHK. i'm not trying to lurk discords for links to private videos and twitch streams that get taken down anyway, but respect to those who do I think the idea is to pick a juryo contender and if there's a tie, the wrestler with the best record at the end of the tournament breaks the tie. No need to keep track and watch their matches.
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Sep 28, 2023 18:12
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Bentai posted:
drat that rules
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Sep 28, 2023 18:31
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Hahaha, after (someone correct me if I'm wrong) 8 years of the Kimura Shonosuke gyoji name being vacant, Shikimori Inosuke is being promoted to Kimura Shonosuke, a position he will be able to hold for less than a year since his 64th birthday was last week. Anyway: Beeswax posted:drat that rules 
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Sep 28, 2023 18:38
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He'll still be Shikimori Nutfumbler to me. 
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Sep 28, 2023 19:35
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Kenning posted:In any case, congratulations to Banana Canada and Tiny Bug Child for jointly hoisting the cup. Obviously both teams contained the wunderkind Atamifuji, and both were fully undefeated, although they didn't have all that many wrestlers in common, only sharing Wakamotoharu in addition to Atamifuji. Clearing goonzeki kadoban in style! Thanks Kenning for another fantasy basho and congratulations to Banana Canada on our co-yusho. Fun basho, even if Atamifuji didn't get the win I was hoping for. I was pretty grumpy with the Takakeisho win as it happened, both because of the henka and also Takakeisho winning a 2-man playoff was the most boring possible outcome of a senshuraku that could have gone a lot of different ways. No doubt it was the most likely outcome, though. Atamifuji doesn't seem quite ready to compete with the sanyaku yet, I can't imagine Hokuseiho getting it, and Takayasu has obviously been cursed by the gods to always be a contender but never a champion. But I'll be rooting for the hamster to at least get a decent jun-yusho in November. I think he's got a shot, especially if Teru's still out. He's put in enough work to deserve the rope but mainly I just really want to see what a Takakeisho yokozuna dohyo-iri looks like.
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Sep 28, 2023 20:25
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Thanks as always for running these, Kenning! Not absolute bottom but gee whillickers what a bad tournament for me 
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Sep 28, 2023 22:39
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Hi sumo thread, someone who won one of the prizes in the haiku contest never used their gift certificate to big sumo fan. If it's someone still here, you can confirm that you were one of the winners who didn't directly tell me you used yours, and you still intend to use it, I can give you the updated code they sent me. If I don't hear back by the end of tomorrow I'm taking it for myself but I wanted to make sure there was a heads up in case someone was waiting to use it for the perfect tegata or something.
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Shiroc posted:Hi sumo thread, someone who won one of the prizes in the haiku contest never used their gift certificate to big sumo fan. If it's someone still here, you can confirm that you were one of the winners who didn't directly tell me you used yours, and you still intend to use it, I can give you the updated code they sent me. If I don't hear back in the by the end of tomorrow I'm taking it for myself but I wanted to make sure there was a heads up in case someone was waiting to use it for the perfect tegata or something. i declined mine because the shipping costs was in like the hundreds of dollars to my country so if that's what you're half remembering please use it yourself for something rad!
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Sep 29, 2023 00:40
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You had politely declined before I bought one for you so it would have been from one of two other people. The original way they sent the code didn’t actually give a code, instead using a link, which is why I can’t directly confirm whose it was supposed to be.
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Sep 29, 2023 00:45
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I'm pretty sure I used mine! I've got a nice little collection of rikishi fridge magnets 
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Sep 29, 2023 00:47
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I want to get a kimarite teacup to go with a dohyo teacup I bought at an import store here, so I’m sure everyone can understand my interest in closing on the fate of this code.
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Sep 29, 2023 00:54
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Yeah I used mine up, thank you! I bought some cute fridge magnets, a keychain, a tegata and a tiny purple pillow to throw. 
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Thank you Kenning for putting in the effort once again into running this, it is something that a great many of us look forward to and enjoy and we appreciate it! I am broadly pleased with how well my team did, though Kotoeko had a rough basho and the team as a whole had a very rocky first week. A much greater degree of consistency in the second week really helped the team recover. This was a very interesting basho to watch and it is interesting that Takakeisho was able to pull of his yusho with such a low overall score. I think it speaks to a relative degree of skill parity in Makuuchi right now that the result is what it is. I do want to see Takakeisho eventually get his rope but I doubt he will be dominant in the same way that some of the most recent yokozunas have been and I am unsure of how long his career at the highest level would be... but then Kisenosato and Kakuryu also had short terms at the top due to injuries getting the better of them so it's not unprecedented.
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Sep 29, 2023 04:09
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The mystery big sumo fan code has been reunited with its intended recipient. Thanks for the help.
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Sep 29, 2023 07:24
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From low Juryo to high Juryo, my team has done well! Thanks for organising this, Kenning!
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Bentai posted:So instead of letting young talent with amasumo national tournament wins start mid-way up makushita, they're back to fighting at the absolute bottom tier. Which I believe means not even a 7-0 will be enough to promote up. I'm skeptical of Chris Sumo's takes on a lot of things, but his take on this was that this came down because all the recent prodigies have gone to the stables like Miyagino(Kiho and Hakuoho) and Nishonoseki(Onosato), and that the grumpy old men of sumo made this change so that younger and more modern oyakata like Hakuho and Kisenosato aren't as able to recruit a promising candidate and have them immediately body their way into juryo within a year. This one actually feels reasonably likely to me, honestly.
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Yeah, wouldn't surprise me if the Grumpy Sumo Elders were worried about Miyagino and Nishonoseki getting a stranglehold on the sport. Ms30 would be nicer than freaking Ms60 though. In other news, Kimura Tamajiro has retired: https://twitter.com/SumoFollower/status/1707880988980703636
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Lol if you told me I'd be within 5 points of the winner at the halfway point I would've sworn you were crazy or there was a mass kyujo event. Thank you very much for running another excellent fantasy basho, Kenning! And congrats to Banana Canada and Tiny Bug Child!
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Bentai posted:Yeah, wouldn't surprise me if the Grumpy Sumo Elders were worried about Miyagino and Nishonoseki getting a stranglehold on the sport. Ms30 would be nicer than freaking Ms60 though. In other news, Kimura Tamajiro has retired: What is going on with the gyoji 
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Sep 30, 2023 07:41
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Kenning posted:What is going on with the gyoji Could be since the announcement of Shikimori Inosuke being promoted to Kimura Shonosuke didn't come with Tamajiro (who is next in line) being promoted to Shikimori Inosuke, he said gently caress ya'll I quit (but you know, in polite resignation letter form), I'm not sure what the timeline on this was internally though.
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From gobbling Chiyotairyu's meat to winning the basho, it's been a blessed sumo month for me! Congratulations Tiny Bug Child! Happy to share this yusho with you! Kenning, great job again running fantasy sumo. But I think you might want to double-check a few things. I've been keeping my own tracker and it seems everyone that had Atamifuji in their stable have an extra 3 points. I am fairly certain it is because the 3 points for Sansho for Atamifuji got added in twice? This doesn't change makuuchi much (you and Communist Thoughts should move up a few spots in the overall standings) but it does impact the final standings in Juryo. I also think ullerrm, The Postman and Boogalo should have their scores adjusted upwards a bit? Aside from that, everything on your final results matches mine. code:
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that looks cool -- i for one would appreciate a viewable spreadsheet for fantasy sumo. Kuros posted:I think the idea is to pick a juryo contender and if there's a tie, the wrestler with the best record at the end of the tournament breaks the tie. No need to keep track and watch their matches. i suppose that can work, but without having followed their matches, i imagine a lot of fantasizers would just draft: juryo east #1 juryo west #1 juryo east #2 perhaps it would be more effective as a tie break if each fantasizer were randomly assigned a wrestler from juryo?
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Here's another dumb idea for a tie break: in addition to picking wrestlers, each fantasizer picks a gyoji from the top division. Then, whenever there's a judge's conference, if the gyoji's decision is overturned, that's -0.25 points, but if a decision is upheld, that's +0.25 points. No points for rematches or decisions without a judge's conference. EDIT: wait does anyone keep stats on judges conferences? if not, this is too impractical to do. Also, i guess there aren't enough gyojis for everyone to pick someone different. Helianthus Annuus fucked around with this message at 16:09 on Sep 30, 2023 |
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Here's yet another dumb idea for a tie break: sumo keeps a record of the winning technique for each match. At the end of the tournament, if there's a tie, the fantasizer whose wrestlers demonstrate the greatest variety of winning techniques is the winner.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:perhaps it would be more effective as a tie break if each fantasizer were randomly assigned a wrestler from juryo? I don't like this, might as well just roll a dice if there's a tie. Helianthus Annuus posted:Here's yet another dumb idea for a tie break: sumo keeps a record of the winning technique for each match. At the end of the tournament, if there's a tie, the fantasizer whose wrestlers demonstrate the greatest variety of winning techniques is the winner.
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Helianthus Annuus posted:Here's yet another dumb idea for a tie break: sumo keeps a record of the winning technique for each match. At the end of the tournament, if there's a tie, the fantasizer whose wrestlers demonstrate the greatest variety of winning techniques is the winner. If this becomes the rule, the pick rate of the tsuppari guys is gonna plummet lol
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https://x.com/SumoFollower/status/1708080185516359762 https://x.com/SumoFollower/status/1708080188393738404 Terunofuji has a bone fragment "somewhere" in his back. Really hope Teru puts off coming back till January. https://twitter.com/SumoFollower/status/1708066348868288572 Okinoumi had his retirement ceremony yesterday evening. Kaisei should be having his later today. Bentai fucked around with this message at 18:52 on Sep 30, 2023 |
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