Re: Yaocho (defined for Goldie and everyone else)

[Joe Petrow <joepet@sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 6 Oct 1999, Doreen Simmons wrote:

> > 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!

But even in those situations, not everything is equal.  Suppose an M15
ends up fighting an M11.  Obviously, one of those rikishi can "afford" the
makekoshi, while the other one kind (I'll leave it as an exercise to the
reader to determine which is which)

Joe Petrow
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