Re: Yaocho (defined for Goldie and everyone else)

[Doreen Simmons <jz8d-smmn@asahi-net.or.jp>]

At 11:16 +0100 6/10/99, Tabehodaiyama wrote:
> > BTW, you make the 7-7 vs 8-6 match situation sound automatic.  Has
> > everybody already forgotten the Miyabiyama/Kotoryu match from Nagoya??
>
> Wasn't that the exception, rather than the rule?  That's why we were all so
> surprised by it.

Hardly. I'm not one to wave statistics about as if they told the whole
truth, but this is one of the things I tend to keep an eye on during the
last day's bouts. My own ballpark figure would be about two to one in favor
of the man with seven and needing the eighth.  Ands don't forget that many
of the final day's 7-7 bouts are 7-7 doshi - that is, both parties have 7-7,
so there's a real crunch there!

Doreen in sumoland
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