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!

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wd776g5 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

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.

	▲	thgil 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		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!

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BJones12 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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

	▲	thgil 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		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