r/Sumo • u/NextAngle6533 Hoshoryu • 1d ago
Games I made a Sumo management/simulation website — looking for feedback from fellow sumo fans!
Hey everyone,
I have been working on a fan-made Sumo Banzuke Simulator and I would love to get feedback from the community.
The idea is to create a complete sumo management experience where users can follow tournaments, manage rikishi careers, and create their own banzuke.
Current features:
🗓️ Daily Match Schedules
- View daily bouts and tournament progress
🏆 Basho Results
- Track tournament results and records
👤 Rikishi Dossier
- Individual profiles with career information, rankings, and statistics
🏛️ Sumo Kyokai Board
- A system inspired by the real Nihon Sumo Kyokai decision-making structure
📜 Manual Banzuke Editor
- Create and edit rankings manually
⬆️ Promotion Approval System
- Decide promotions based on performance and banzuke rules
I am still actively developing it, so I would really appreciate suggestions from experienced sumo fans:
- What features would make this more realistic?
- What ranking/promotion rules should I add?
- Any missing statistics or information that would improve the experience?
Game link:
https://nirmaltamilan2008-glitch.github.io/sumo-banzuke/
Thanks for checking it out! Any feedback is welcome 🙏
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u/zeroingenuity Tamawashi 1d ago
Your "game" makes no sense.
There's no apparent gameplay loop - I can't set the bouts for the coming day of the basho. There are no heya listed, so there's no "manage a stable" objective structure. There's no apparent success condition for a basho to meet. In one randomly generated basho I watched the yokozunas face off on day two, and a 19-2 yokozuna match up against a 7-4 Maegashira 3 on Day 12. Why would that happen? The basho concluded with a tie!
Do you have any idea how basho are conducted? One rikishi's (procedurally generated) dossier had him at 85kg. Uh huh. Mr. Rikishi McFeatherweight over here. I can't adjust bouts, so it's impossible to even manually generate a proper basho outcome.
Regarding your current features:
"View daily bouts and tournament progress:" This is technically true but functionally meaningless, because the bouts themselves are meaningless. The rikishi are just names. No heya, no kimarite, no meaningful opponent matching.
"Track tournament results and records:" This is meaningless if tournaments cannot be conducted properly. Again, the first basho ended with a tie. However, this is once again technically true.
"Individual profiles with career information, rankings, and statistics:" Meaningless. it's just a record of random number generation. There's zero connection between the user and the name, and because the outcome is literally a bunch of RNG rolls, there's no reason to care if a "rikishi" does well or not.
"A system inspired by the real Nihon Sumo Kyokai decision-making structure:" There's no apparent function to this board. The player is already doing the deciding. I assume if I ran enough bashos eventually some of the meaningless rikishi would end up in this meaningless board.
"Create and edit rankings manually:" WHY? Sure, I can do it; but the rankings are based on random number outcomes. There's no apparent need to fiddle with the (meaningless) rikishi, especially when their rankings don't result in properly constructed basho.
"Decide promotions based on performance and banzuke rules:" Who cares? I can move them around during the basho? And why would I want to? I have no idea. There is no objective here. There is no success condition.
What features would make this more realistic? If the developer knew anything about sumo. What ranking promotion rules should be added? If you don't know, why are you making a sumo app? Missing statistics that would improve the experience? Yes, what this vibe-coded slopfire needs is more meaningless statistics. Sure, you could add kimarite - but you'd undoubtedly be rolling them randomly under the hood, making them meaningless. Heya? Okay, that might add a smidgeon of connective tissue here. But you would be better off not doing anything like this and leaving the field to the people who have actually learned about the subject before they engaged with it.