Jejima's next Ozeki results....

[Jezz <jezz@urban.ne.jp>]

Jejima's next Ozeki results....

The moment you have all (possibly) been waiting for.....
Before I divulge the results, here are a few comments.

No, I wasn't seriously sugggesting Terao as a serious Ozeki candidate
(for all those who questioned Jejima's sanity!).  I slipped him in as a
'control'.  He is of course a famous, popular rikishi, whose name gets
seen on the ML far more often than his actual potential justifies.  If
someone was just voting, without really knowing too much about sumo, I
was suspecting that his name might be put high up on their list.  Any
such voting form, I was going to ignore with the justification that the
person voting didn't really know what he/she was talking about.....!
Anyway, everyone passed the elligibility test, as Terao was ranked at 10
(or worse) on everyone's list.

The people on the ML are a tricky bunch....  Despite asking them to
merely list the 10 rikishi in order of Ozeki potentiallity, from 1 - 10,
many came up with their own systems, such as ranking all those they
didn't think had any chance with a 10.  (One person ranked 4 with a
'10'.... suggesting that Kaio had equal chance of making Ozeki as Terao,
Akinoshima and Kotonishiki....???!!!  In Kaio's case this changes his
overall average rank by 0.25 points!!!)  This skews the results against
those rikishi whom the individuals didn't bother to rank.  A better way
(as some ML used), would have been to rank the rikishi anyway, and then
under comments write, 'I only think that #s 1- 6 actually stand a
serious shot.'  Some voters, decided not to even bother ranking some of
the rikishi (I have awarded all of those '10 points' in such cases)....
A couple of people created their own 'list' by putting in extra
rikishi.  I admit, that a better selection of candidates should have
included Wakanosato and Toki (would have made the vote more
interesting)... but it is too late to change things!

So, please note that the below results should be taken with a Mitiozumi
sized handful of salt due to the above discrepancies.  A big thank you
to all 34 people who took part, and especially for the interesting
comments.  Without further ado, here are the results (in reverse
order):-

Posn   Name         Av. rank
10     Terao        10.29
9      Akinoshima    8.24
8      Kotonishiki   8.06
7      Tosanoumi     6.91
6      Chiyotenzan   5.24
5      Miyabiyama    4.59
4      Musoyama      4.00
3      Tochiazuma    3.38
2      Dejima        2.53
1      Kaio          2.00

All the best,

Jejima  ;-)