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Some great matches for the final day! Shame about no playoffs but congrats to Teru for a solid yusho. My whole final team went KK, congrats to all of them as well! Kuros fucked around with this message at 16:13 on May 22, 2022 |
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May 22, 2022 16:38
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May 22, 2022 17:39
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The problem with following Japanese sumo Twitter for pictures is that you wake up to a lot of pictures of a guy holding a trophy and find out how the day went early.
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May 22, 2022 21:23
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Shiroc posted:The problem with following Japanese sumo Twitter for pictures is that you wake up to a lot of pictures of a guy holding a trophy and find out how the day went early. i made sure to mute "terunofuji", "takanosho", "yusho", "sumo" and "emperor's cup" (first three in japanse as well) for 24 hours to avoid this and removed them once i saw kinta's digest
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Wakatakakage good Terunofuji really good
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May 22, 2022 23:38
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Disastrous final few days for team FBG
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May 23, 2022 00:08
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Last day is always so bittersweet. A lot of fun was had, but then the realization that no sumo for two months. At least we have the Sumo Mainichi banzuke podcast episode to look forward to, halfway in.
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May 23, 2022 00:11
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Shiroc posted:The problem with following Japanese sumo Twitter for pictures is that you wake up to a lot of pictures of a guy holding a trophy and find out how the day went early.
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May 23, 2022 03:14
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Satisfying end to the basho - Abi vs Wakatakakage was definitely my stand out of the final day though I was very pleased to see Tobizaru secure another win even though it came too late. Glad that my team - for the most part - pulled themselves together. There was definitely a period just after the halfway point where I was frowning with an increasingly furrowed brow as I looked back and forth between my picks and the daily highlights. At the end of the day if my hasty maths is right I'm fairly sure I've performed better than my previous fantasy sumo effort, so I'm happy with that! I will continue to train hard and develop my brand of fantasy sumo. Thanks as always to Kenning for running it, it really does make watching matches even more enjoyable when you're personally invested in your stable.
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May 23, 2022 05:30
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nth-ing how good Abi vs Wakatakakage was. Really happy with the final result even if it wasn't he most exciting thing we could've gotten.
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May 23, 2022 05:44
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May 23, 2022 06:01
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The move Endo pulled today was pretty cool.
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May 23, 2022 06:31
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Also lol Shodai showing his greatest spirit in forever in trying his best to chaos agent having all 3 ozeki be kadoban.
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Shiroc posted:Also lol Shodai showing his greatest spirit in forever in trying his best to chaos agent having all 3 ozeki be kadoban. I appreciated this, good basho.
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May 23, 2022 08:09
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Shiroc posted:Also lol Shodai showing his greatest spirit in forever in trying his best to chaos agent having all 3 ozeki be kadoban. what people don't understand is that "Shodai gonna Shodai" isn't an insult, it's a threat.
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May 23, 2022 15:06
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I was disappointed we didn’t get the playoff chaos that was possible but my dude Teru snagging another yusho is still good. I’m glad he didn’t pull out after a shaky start because he really looked like a yokozuna by the end. Even without being 100% he still just found ways to win and made it clear why he got the rope.
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May 23, 2022 16:16
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Here's Chiyotaiyo ranked at Jd44 doing a celebratory kip up for which he was immediately scolded for. On that alone, I'll cheer for him if he ever makes it up into the bigs.
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With Terunofuji's 7th yusho, he's now officially in the top half of the yokozuna rankings, with 43 out of the 73 recognized yokozuna having 6 yushos or less. Couple of notable things from that list:
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May 23, 2022 16:55
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Always good to get that perspective for those of us who started watching in the Hakuho era (which I assume is almost everyone). "Less than 10 yusho? Weak as hell, bad promotion"
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anakha posted:With Terunofuji's 7th yusho, he's now officially in the top half of the yokozuna rankings, with 43 out of the 73 recognized yokozuna having 6 yushos or less. He's already passed Kakuryu. As for Akebono we've discussed his number of bashos is less than it should've been became Takanohana, Wakanohana, and some other Ozeki were all in the same heya. They never had to wrestle each other but Akebono had to wrestle all of them.
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Log082 posted:what people don't understand is that "Shodai gonna Shodai" isn't an insult, it's a threat. I wonder if Hakuho was right on NHK and something is hurt because the last couple days were the first in a long time that “Fighting Shodai” showed up, but still lost. That said, with the power of Kyujo I could see Teru getting 4 more yusho before all is said and done. It’ll still be a while before the youngsters like Hoshoryu, WTK, Kotonowaka, and the like are ready to settle in on Ozeki base camp to make a run for the rope.
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May 23, 2022 17:28
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I'm going to put on my sumo elder frown and say that Terunofuji should be having 13+ wins with the weak ozeki rank and no other yokozuna.
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Kenning, I was curious about the template you use in Excel to run the results, would you mind sharing an example of it? I work on Excel files at work often and would like to see how you set it up.
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Hey everybody! Sorry for the delay in getting the last few days' results, a friend of mine is getting married soon and I'm helping with various wedding things so my weekends have been pretty booked up. As a note, because there were 3 rikishi with a jun-yusho score, no jun-yusho were awarded in fantasy. Final Results Makuuchi code:code:On to special prizes! A refresher, these are the special prizes: Gino-sho/Technique: No make-koshi on your team. Kanto-sho/Fighting Spirit: Exceptional performance from a low rank, or other acknowledgement of great performance. Shukun-sho/Outstanding Performance: Getting the highest number of accolades (i.e. kinboshi, yusho/jun-yusho, and sansho) in the field. So, who are the awardees? Gino-sho: Banana Canada, Jobbo_Fett, MyChemicalImbalance, Skjorte, Saturnine Aberrance Kanto-sho: Jobbo_Fett, Saturnine Aberrance, Shukun-sho: Banana Canada, ullerrm Great to play fantasy again, it's awesome to have goddamn 65 people playing Fantasy Sumo. Look out for a goonzuke post sometime before the next banzuke (so help me god). Kuros posted:Kenning, I was curious about the template you use in Excel to run the results, would you mind sharing an example of it? I work on Excel files at work often and would like to see how you set it up. I'm gonna be honest: I'm a little self-conscious about my spreadsheets. When I started out with fantasy I was mainly just using Excel as a place to take notes on a grid, and everything was manual and very visual in nature. This was fine enough when 8 people were playing. In the 5 years since I've learned a lot more about proper Excel design and taught myself some functions that make it possible to even run, but I've been meaning to rebuild my sheets from the ground up for a year or so since it's all just iterations on the initial sheet. I also do some hideous things with pivot tables in order to finish the drafting process. In fact, kyujo goon Beeswax hit me up about seeing my process at the end of the last basho and I very rudely never even responded to their PM (I was out of town preparing for a party at my mom's house and lost track of it, I beg apology). I'd like to make it at least conceivable for fantasy to continue if I were to get hit by a bus, so I'll sit down and try to make up a clean template to share sometime in the next month or so, as well as preparing a sort of legend explaining what is happening in each relevant section so it might be easier to deconstruct and rebuild clean. Kenning fucked around with this message at 09:16 on May 26, 2022 |
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absolutely staggering that i posted a score above 50 when the first five-ish days were so abysmal.
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Please forgive my behaviour which is unbecoming the dignity of a yokogoona but...
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May 25, 2022 10:00
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My brand of sumo got me middle of the pack after both leading and then being bottom in different weeks. Truly a legacy.
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Really solid down the standings the last few days there. Oof
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I hope to carve out a solid spot for myself in sekiwake a la Mitakeumi and this basho was a good start.
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Congrats Banana Canada! I can at least be happy the Yokogoona has stayed(?)/returned(?) to Canada.
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Thanks again for all of your hard work Kenning! I'm not sure if I 'pick' the guys who win the yusho/special prizes or luck into them but it makes such a huge difference in those final few days.
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I've registered another middling performance hurt by a very weak tachiai and a Takakeisho-like lack of stamina. Going to have to redouble my training efforts for next basho. Beyond thrilled that Tochinoshin got another KK though  Thank you very much for running fantasy sumo, Kenning! It was a blast as always! And big congrats to the winners!
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Kenning posted:I'm gonna be honest: I'm a little self-conscious about my spreadsheets. When I started out with fantasy I was mainly just using Excel as a place to take notes on a grid, and everything was manual and very visual in nature. This was fine enough when 8 people were playing. In the 5 years since I've learned a lot more about proper Excel design and taught myself some functions that make it possible to even run, but I've been meaning to rebuild my sheets from the ground up for a year or so since it's all just iterations on the initial sheet. I also do some hideous things with pivot tables in order to finish the drafting process. In fact, kyujo goon Beeswax hit me up about seeing my process at the end of the last basho and I very rudely never even responded to their PM (I was out of town preparing for a party at my mom's house and lost track of it, I beg apology). No prob Kenning, I've been in the same boat, looking at old spreadsheets that I'm still working off of and thinking that they need a good refresh. I was thinking about the process as I built myself a quick Google Sheet to track W/L and to easily keep track of my own points and then extended that thinking to how I would track a basho.
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I'm proud to uphold the tradition of crashing and burning on my first trip to the upper ranks.
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Gonna work out an Enho niche of being beloved for a mid juryo rikishi with spirit
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Continuing my place as Gnarkarafuji—never wowing, never failing (most recent basho excluded), just existing in the middle until the end of time. Very relieved to be there after a rough first half.
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Marching Powder posted:absolutely staggering that i posted a score above 50 when the first five-ish days were so abysmal. I was right there with you. Really thought I was going to be in Juryo by the fall if I didn't pull out something in the last 3rd.
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My team had a strong start and a thoroughly mediocre middle third. Thankfully Sadanoumi lifted the rest of the team onto his shoulders and carried us all to a reasonably solid final score. Thanks as always for running the basho, Kenning. I look forward to your spreadsheets being neater, tidier, and making less horrific abuse of pivot tables (which I do on my day-to-day way too often) for the good of your own sanity.
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Big thanks to Kenning for putting on the Fantasy Basho, as an extremely lazy person you always amaze me that you can do all you do. After a bad start glad my group managed a mid table finish.
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