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https://sumostats.com

a fun side project to track Sumo stats.

Every two months there’s a 15-day tournament where 670 rikishi(sumo wrestler) fighting ~160 matches each day. I’m recording all the results and kimarite (winning moves) into a browsable database with charts and videos.

Recently I have been using Gemini to process and edit the daily match videos. It works surprising well. It can detect the start/end of each bout, recognise the wrestlers and assign the correct rikishi id to them.

Still early, but if you want to get into Sumo feel free to join! Its fun to watch and the matches are quick!


Sumo fan here, this is cool. UI is great. I assume you know about sumodb? I don't say that to discourage you, but people are tracking stats.

Since you are good at UI, here's something I would really like: a Natto-style page for each bout that I can manually page through as I watch the basho. Since Natto is underground, I have to watch the basho on NHK or Abema or via Kintamayama - all fine, but I miss the Natto graphics. If you could do that in a way that I could tap through each match, I'd use it every day of the basho and I think so would everyone on r/sumo.

BTW if you don't know what I'm talking about, reach out and I will explain.


Sumodb is great and still better in many ways!

I was testing something like this with https://sumostats.com/live (a second-screen style page, so you can quickly look up the current match and it follows along live).

But I think I know what you mean... I'll check out Natto graphics again (haven't seen it in a while) and will try make something up for next basho!


Given that people bet on sumo, wouldn't people pay a lot of money for your stats?


Haven't met anyone who bets on sumo so I don't know. The stats are out there, so I don't think its worth anything more than a bit of ui convenience


Just a fun little site I made while waiting and checking the status of corona in Japan. I hope to keep it updated since I am checking the news and looking at the numbers daily anyway! Thanks for checking it out!


I'm not going to Japan anytime soon but I was pleasantly surprised by how the site delivered 100% on what it promised. No more no less. Beautiful.

Cheers!


I read this comment, expecting the site to simply be a large "NO"

I was very disappointed to see that there are articles, covid stats, and whatnot linked


Really happy to hear that! Thanks a lot :)


This is great man. I’m traveling right now and looking for destinations. Do you have any in mind that are accepting tourists?


I'm in Thailand right now, they just suspended the Test&Go scheme, but they still have some "sandbox" destinations. Still accepting tourists.


I stumbled on this kayak "where can I travel?" map a few months back and it's been handy as a starting point: https://www.kayak.com/travel-restrictions

I personally always double-check another source before booking anything to be safe (e.g. government site), but it's nice to have it all in one place.


Not OP, but my brother has just gotten back from Nepal. He reported back that it was a very pleasant trip and very quiet right now however they are needing tourism.


I would go to Nepal for sure


Any part of the world in mind?

It is not near Japan but... Portugal is a really nice place (you do need a negative test before you go though).


Anywhere in the world


Bali and Fiji IIRC tho Fiji just had cyclone


Ctrl + W closes the tab while playing. Happened to me a lot :/


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