I know this is late, but I wanted to post my official guess for the record before the banzuke is released tomorrow. Please see this post for some of the reasoning.
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Better just b4 the actual one comes out than late.
I over-promoted the 10-5’s and 9-6’s more than you did, under-demoted the 6-9’s and 5-10’s less than you did, with the exception of the very top and bottom of the Maegashira ranks. The 7-8’s got a half rank drop, except Fujiryoga. Shodai got less from me than you gave him.
I ended up matching 18 spots and swapping 7 (Kirishima, Takayasu, WTK, Hiradoumi, Daieisho, Roga and Ryuden) with your list.
The middle ranks are a real mess to figure out based on honest placements by their records.
It’ll be interesting to see how we did.
Takayasu vs Wakatakakage is intriguing. I see no reason why the sekiwake should stay in front of the maegashira, but it turns out exactly that happened when this situation arose the last time. The other three times (if I counted correctly) in this century turned out the other way round though…