Re: Yaocho (defined for Goldie)

["Chuck & Luisa Finberg" <cfinberg@wco.com>]

If you search for my "picking winner" type posts from Day 14 and Day 15 of
almost every basho during the past two years, you will find a running
tabulation of predicted results of bouts like those mentioned by Rich
Pardoe.

Although 7-7 rikishi defeat 6-8 or 8-6 rikishi consistently -- no, virtually
always -- I'm not sure that it's always in return for a specific past or
future fall.  It seems more plausible to me that everyone gets a helping
hand up.  How else could well more than 50 percent of makuuchi rikishi
consistently attain their kachi-koshi?

----- Original Message -----
From: Pardoe, Richard (PRDR) <PRDR@chevron.com>
Subject: Yaocho (defined for Goldie)


Yaocho ... imply that one of the rikishi has agreed to lose the match in
return for favours ....In the future, if the opportunity presents itself,
the losing rikishi will get some favours (easy wins) in return.