It’s day 6, which means that 3 rounds of bouts have been completed, and the single-elimination nature of the third-division yusho race has left us with 15 undefeated contenders. These will be matched up in rank order on days 7 and 8 to determine the quarterfinalists, with odd man out Aratakayama once again facing a Sandanme opponent. The yusho bracket includes former maegashira Kitanowaka, Shimazuumi, and Bushozan, as well as top prospects Goshima and Ikarigata. The latter stayed in the race by eliminating fan favorite Enho. Kitanowaka spent about three years in the sekitori ranks, with a few top-division appearances, before his January injury, and looks to be fit again, so he has to be one of the favorites. His day 7 bout with Goshima could be pivotal—the Fujishima beya man has been a beast since his Ms60TD debut in March, posting a 19-5 career record to date. Ikarigata is 23-8 after starting in January as a Sandanme tsukedashi, and Shimazuumi and Bushozan are also on their way back from injuries and cannot be counted out. Come back on day 8 to see who makes the quarterfinals and how the Juryo promotion picture in shaping up.
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What would happen if Goshima, Noda and Bushozan all were among the last four standing?
Do U know whether there ever have been three (or four) semifinalists from the same heya?
I don’t know, and it would be a tricky search to do, but there have definitely been instances where both finalists are, so you could look through those manually one round back. In your scenario, I think Bushozan would fight the usual opponent from his half of the bracket, while the other two would get the best possible 4-1 opponents they haven’t fought yet.
Your guess is as good as mine, but FWIW I would probably expect a 4-1 guy against Goshima, Noda against the third-quarter leader and Bushozan facing the next 5-0 from high sandanme.
The creative solution would be to put Goshima into juryo that round (with him as Ms5w it’s not hard to justify), which could work with both your alternative and mine.
I’m able to turn up a single case of a triple 5-0 lead since 1989, but they were the second/third/fourth quarter leaders, so not quite comparable, and with a more obviously favoured solution (2nd against the different-heya 1st, higher-ranked 4-1’s for 3rd and 4th).
https://sumodb.sumogames.de/Query_bout.aspx?show_form=0&group_expand=on&group_by=basho&having=3&year=1989-now&day=8-10&rank1=Ms&wins1=5&losses1=0&heya1=31
Makes sense; I considered the juryo option but hadn’t seen them do that recently, not that there many opportunities…
Do I get that right? U had to repeat your query for each heya?
Then I admire not only your query know how but also your diligence!
I edit the heya ID parameter in the URL by hand for each stable, much quicker than repeatedly using the dropdowns in the actual query setup. Probably took five minutes tops, it’s just a very boring five minutes.
I thought so when I saw the 31 in your URL. And at least U were rewarded by that hit.
May I ask U something else?
I‘d like to have a ranking by wins in Makuuchi in 2025. That‘s easy one would think. But there’s a certain Aonishiki who causes problems because he was a rookie only in March, but who with 38 wins by now has overtaken many of the rikishi who have fought in every basho of the year.
I can either put on the makuuchi parameter for all the tournaments and then Aonishiki is missing or I can put it off, then Aonishiki is there, but his juryo wins from January are added.
Do U know of a way to „mix“ those two possibilities and have all the makuuchi wins counted but only those?
Bout query is the way to go here I think. Unsurprisingly, Onosato leads with 54. https://sumodb.sumogames.de/Query_bout.aspx?show_form=0&group_by=rikishi1&year=2025&rank1=y,o,s,k,m&onlyw1=on
Wow, that’s great. Thanks. It seems that I concentrated on the banzuke queries too much and I will change that now.
But surprisingly, in reality Onosato leads with 53 wins not 54.
Your query counts the playoff wins, too.
I tried to correct that by limiting the days from 1 to 15, but then the sumoDB went down again!
(Still I‘m quite optimistic because in the expanded view the playoff wins are listed with a 16.)
SumoDB is up again and indeed the results are perfect now!
(I also prefer to see the losses, too. A record of 54-0 looked a bit strange to me.)
https://sumodb.sumogames.de/Query_bout.aspx?show_form=0&group_by=rikishi1&year=2025&day=1-15&rank1=y,o,s,k,m&onlyw1=on&onlyl1=on&gsort_by=record
Thanks again for opening my eyes to the bout query.