Re: banzuke questions

["Wojciech Lorens" <wjlorens@poczta.onet.pl>]

About Ozekis situation - I don`t know any causes of "Tochiazuma case"
(may be sbd knows?); I think your presumptions are correct - Asashoryu
as Ozeki West behind Chiyotaikai, order of remaining Ozekis is rather
obvious.
Maegashiras - in my opinion it will be : Shimotori M1E, Tochinonada M1W,
Miyabiyama M2E, Toki M2W.
I`m rather sure that Hayateumi will be demoted to Juryo, and I expect
following
ranks: Gojoro about M10, Kasuganishiki - M12, Ushiomaru M11, Asanowaka M12,
Tochinohana M15 (East or West - its beyond my capabilities :) ).
And I`m interested in how high will be jump of Tamanoshima and Buyuzan?
I suppose about Maegashira 5, and rather Tamanoshima will be above.

Best regards

Wojciecyh Lorens


----- Original Message -----
From: "Lukas Grossmann" <lukas.grossmann.1@student.unibe.ch>
To: <sumo@statgen.ncsu.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2002 12:36 PM
Subject: banzuke questions


> Hello banzuke-interested,
>
> having made my entry for Moti's GTB I'm of course still
> far from certain about lots of the decisions I made and
> wondering about your opinions to the following questions:
>
> - What will be the order of Ozeki, concrete: where will Asashoryu
> be ranked? In earlier cases freshly promoted Ozeki were
> usually ranked before those Ozeki who had just scored mk or been
> kyujo. But there's one major exception: Tochiazuma after
> his promotion was ranked behind Chiyotaikai, who had been
> kyujo in the basho before. Now what for Asashoryu? Number 2
> among the Ozeki (before Tochiazuma, Kaio and Musoyama) or
> number 5 (behind all them)?
> My option is to put Asashoryu on number 2, i.e. Ozeki West.
> But I don't have any reasonable explanation for the case
> of Tochiazuma...
>
> - Maegashira 1E - 2W looks very interesting: The candidates
> must be Miyabiyama (KE 6-9), Tochinonada (M1E 7-8), Toki (M7E 8-7)
> and Shimotori (M8W 9-6) I suppose. But in which order?
> My guess is 1E Shimotori, 1W Miyabiyama, 2E Tochinonada, 2W Toki,
> being anything but certain about every single of the four spots...
>
> - Makuuchi/Juryo promotions and demotions: How many of them,
> 4 or 5 (i.e. Hayateumi going down or not)? And who is coming
> up, and in which order? Gojoro (J1W 10-5) first and Kasuganishiki
> (J4E 11-4) second seems clear, but what about Tochinohana (J1E 8-7),
> Asanowaka (J2W 9-6) and Ushiomaru (J8W 13-2)?
> I opted for 5 changes and the order Ushiomaru, Asanowaka, Tochinohana
> among the promotions.
>
>
> Let's hear what everyone else thinks about these (and other) banzuke
> problems! Seems to me we haven't had such an interesting task for
> GTB for quite a while!
>
> Thanks for your time!
>
> Lukas (aka Ookihito)
>
>
>
>
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