Re: Hoshitori: New Banzuke Proposal

[Skagway Rich <rlwebb@puc.edu>]

>Just a follow-up to my previous comments.
....
>I would venture to say that the majority of your current
>entrants include the following rikishi in one order or another:
>TAKANOHANA
>AKEBONO
>WAKANOHANA
>TAKANONAMI
>MUSASHIMARU
>MUSOYAMA
>KAIO
>Accordingly, real thought process is only required for your last
>three choices and, most likely, they arbitrarily come out of the
>Komosubi and top five Maegashira names.  Not much imagination, ne?
>
>To go even further in LIMITING the choices of entrants, you might
>use the following formula:
>MAXIMUM of 3 Sanyaku rikishi
>MAXIMUM of 4 rikishi in the top half of Maegashira
>MINIMUM of 4 rikishi in the bottom half of Maegashira
>Note:  I know that adds up to 11, but that simply means that an
>entrant has to cut down one of his MAXIMUM choices by one.
>
I'm usually not all that flexible on something I really like, but after
reading the section above, I do believe you are correct.  The fact is, the
folks who are getting the high (and low) scores are those who deviate from
the above selection and get (in my opinion) lucky.  It would be far more of
a thinking game if we went with the option you suggested that I have
included.  I always try to get at least two rikishi from the lower half of
Maegashira [initially I was taking four, but I was also getting bad
results] to keep things interesting, but making us do this would keep all
of the other scores just as likely to drop and reward the thinkers.

Oh, and the rules would still hold with your 11 rikishi scenario if the
alternate is included as one of the rikishi under the guidelines you give.

Richard Webb
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