Bench Bouts (though Kyushu 2011)
How “benchy” is bench sumo?
There have been 70260 bouts in Bench Sumo
14502 (21.21%) of those bouts were decided on the Bench
· Of the 720 Aki bouts, 172 (23.9%) bouts were won on the bench.
Here’s how they were all won… (bold/blue indicates a change from last basho)
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Rule 1 = Rikishi on your 'bench'
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· 6940 (103 this basho) were won by Rule 1, 1st bench
· 3579 (63 this basho) were won by Rule 1, 2nd bench
· 1963 (35 this basho) were won by Rule 1, 3rd bench
· 975 (14 this basho) were won by Rule 1, 4th bench
· 355 (10 this basho) were won by Rule 1, 5th bench
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Rule 2 = Positioning of your 'team'
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· 171 (5 this basho) were won by Rule 2, 1st 2 pointer
· 143 (2 this basho) were won by Rule 2, 1st 3 pointer
· 24 were won by Rule 2, 4 pointer
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Rule 3 = Rank of winning rikishi in your 'squad'
(also, youngest winner at one time = Rule 3A)
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· 372 (5 this basho) were won by Rule 3, lowest winning rikishi
· 119 (2 this basho) were won by Rule 3, 2nd lowest winning rikishi
· 38 were won by Rule 3, 3rd lowest winning rikishi
· 19 were won by Rule 3, 4th lowest winning rikishi
· 7 were won by Rule 3, 5th lowest winning rikishi
· 5 were won by Rule 3, 6th lowest winning rikishi
· 2 were won by Rule 3, 7th lowest winning rikishi
· 3 were won by Rule 3A, youngest winning rikishi (deprecated)
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Rule 4 = Higher ranked Bench Rikishi
(a.k.a., 'the Doitsuyama rule')
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· 40 were won by Rule 4 (a.k.a., Doitsuyama's rule)
Misc. Bench Stats
· Benchiest Basho = Natsu 07 – 396 bench matches
o Kyushu 2011 was the 28th benchiest basho (239 tiebreakers)
o Percentage-wise, Kyushu 2011 was the 10th benchiest basho (25.3% or 239 of 945 bouts)
· Least Benchy Basho = Aki 99 – 19 bench matches
· Benchiest Day = Aki 05 – 58 bench matches
o Kyushu’s benchiest days was Day 10 with 24 bench matches (tied for 92nd all-time)!
· Only 9 days (of Bench Sumo’s 900 days) have ended without a bench match
o The last day without a bench match was Day 1 of Kyushu 00 (~9 years?!)
· Bench Sumoers have lost 3127 times in a bench match by scoring 14 tech pts
o It happened 38 times this basho!
o On Day 11, 14 BSers lost with a 14 (57th worst day for that stat)
· 13 matches have been won on the bench with 0 tech pts (the last in Natsu 08)
o 7 matches were won with 0 tech pts in Kyushu 11 alone!!! That’s more than all the previous bashos combined!!!
o 397 matches (tiebreaker or not) have been lost with 0 tech pts
o 29 Kyushu losers lost with 0 points this time (on Day 15)> that shatters the record of 23 in Nagoya02!
Bench Matches by basho
|
Basho |
Total Matches |
Bench Matches |
% of Bouts |
|
Aki 99 |
135 |
18 |
13.3% |
|
Kyushu 99 |
240 |
49 |
20.4% |
|
Hatsu 00 |
270 |
40 |
14.8% |
|
Haru 00 |
376 |
62 |
16.5% |
|
Natsu 00 |
390 |
79 |
20.3% |
|
Nagoya 00 |
420 |
58 |
13.8% |
|
Aki 00 |
450 |
76 |
16.9% |
|
Kyushu 00 |
450 |
73 |
16.2% |
|
Hatsu 01 |
540 |
108 |
20.0% |
|
Haru 01 |
570 |
112 |
19.6% |
|
Natsu 01 |
630 |
103 |
16.3% |
|
Nagoya 01 |
600 |
106 |
17.7% |
|
Aki 01 |
735 |
147 |
20.0% |
|
Kyushu 01 |
720 |
166 |
23.1% |
|
Hatsu 02 |
795 |
123 |
15.5% |
|
Haru 02 |
765 |
160 |
20.9% |
|
Natsu 02 |
795 |
174 |
21.9% |
|
Nagoya 02 |
750 |
142 |
18.9% |
|
Aki 02 |
780 |
157 |
20.1% |
|
Kyushu 02 |
840 |
115 |
13.7% |
|
Hatsu 03 |
930 |
149 |
16.0% |
|
Haru 03 |
1005 |
163 |
16.2% |
|
Natsu 03 |
1080 |
231 |
21.4% |
|
Nagoya 03 |
885 |
136 |
15.4% |
|
Aki 03 |
975 |
173 |
17.7% |
|
Kyushu 03 |
1080 |
206 |
19.1% |
|
Hatsu 04 |
1110 |
214 |
19.3% |
|
Haru 04 |
1215 |
244 |
20.1% |
|
Natsu 04 |
1170 |
245 |
20.9% |
|
Nagoya 04 |
1080 |
232 |
21.5% |
|
Aki 04 |
1170 |
212 |
18.1% |
|
Kyushu 04 |
1260 |
328 |
26.0% |
|
Hatsu 05 |
1275 |
270 |
21.2% |
|
Haru 05 |
1365 |
274 |
20.1% |
|
Natsu 05 |
1230 |
318 |
25.9% |
|
Nagoya 05 |
1125 |
235 |
20.9% |
|
Aki 05 |
1260 |
321 |
25.5% |
|
Kyushu 05 |
1290 |
273 |
21.2% |
|
Hatsu 06 |
1305 |
271 |
20.8% |
|
Haru 06 |
1275 |
370 |
29.0% |
|
Natsu 06 |
1260 |
208 |
16.5% |
|
Nagoya 06 |
1110 |
328 |
29.5% |
|
Aki 06 |
1245 |
279 |
22.4% |
|
Kyushu 06 |
1230 |
251 |
20.4% |
|
Hatsu 07 |
1215 |
242 |
19.9% |
|
Haru 07 |
1245 |
283 |
22.7% |
|
Natsu 07 |
1230 |
396 |
32.2% |
|
Nagoya 07 |
1140 |
231 |
20.3% |
|
Aki 07 |
1125 |
212 |
18.8% |
|
Kyushu 07 |
1200 |
261 |
21.8% |
|
Hatsu 08 |
1170 |
188 |
16.1% |
|
Haru 08 |
1185 |
246 |
20.8% |
|
Natsu 08 |
1140 |
218 |
19.1% |
|
Nagoya 08 |
1020 |
163 |
16.0% |
|
Aki 08 |
1035 |
193 |
18.6% |
|
Kyushu 08 |
1125 |
268 |
23.8% |
|
Hatsu 09 |
1170 |
232 |
19.8% |
|
Haru 09 |
1125 |
187 |
16.6% |
|
Natsu 09 |
1095 |
242 |
22.1% |
|
Nagoya 09 |
1095 |
274 |
25.0% |
|
Aki 09 |
1170 |
267 |
22.8% |
|
Kyushu 09 |
1110 |
253 |
22.8% |
|
Hatsu 10 |
1140 |
299 |
26.2% |
|
Haru 10 |
1200 |
360 |
30.0% |
|
Natsu 10 |
1035 |
224 |
21.6% |
|
Nagoya 10 |
855 |
195 |
22.8% |
|
Aki 10 |
1005 |
228 |
22.7% |
|
Kyushu 10 |
1065 |
299 |
28.1% |
|
Hatsu 11 |
1080 |
263 |
24.4% |
|
Natsu 11 |
510 |
107 |
21.0% |
|
Nagoya 11 |
720 |
172 |
23.9% |
|
Aki 11 |
930 |
194 |
20.9% |
|
Kyushu 11 |
945 |
239 |
25.3% |