Height-Weight Scatterplot for November 2025 Grand Sumo Tournament

Plus some links to banzuke reviews

Nov 08, 2025

At the end of this post, I’ll link/embed others’ reviewscof the banzuke/previews of the November 2025 basho.

Let me jump right into my own visualization of the banzuke:

Height-Weight Scatterplot for November 2025 Grand Sumo Tournament

With 42 wrestlers, there are often lots of overlapping points with all of them in one graph, so I’ll be splitting them into three groups below.

There’s a general diagonal ellipse of where the wrestlers fall, given there is a general shape to humans… the short guys tend to be lighter, the taller guys tend to be heavier. I’ve had outliers in the past, but no major crazy beanpoles nor cannonballs right now.

The size of the bubbles is an attempt to distinguish the ranks (approximately): the bigger the bubble, the higher the rank.

(The color goes along with bubble size, but the colors are similar, being from the Hokusai3 colorway of MetBrewer).

I have three subsets of the above scatterplot, as 42 dots, many of which overlap, is a lot to look at:

Sanyaku (Yokozuna, Ozeki, Sekiwake, Komusubi)
Upper Maegashira (M01 - M08)
Lower Maegashira (M09 - M18)

All the graphs use the same limits on both horizontal and vertical axes, allowing you to see where the wrestlers are positioned in relation to height and weight.

Because I will be using the same axes on all three groupings, there will be a bunch of white space in some of these…

Sanyaku November 2025

You will see that Aonishiki, the new sekiwake, is the shortest of the sanyaku.

Last time, we had two major clusters of “light guys” and “heavy guys”… and they were somewhat balanced with 4 guys on the light side (Wakatakakage, Aonishiki, Kirishima, and Hoshoryu) and 3 on the heavy side (Takayasu, Kotozakura, and Onosato). There was a height component as well, with all the heavy guys at least as tall as the short guys.

Mind you, Aonishiki is the shortest of the guys — at 182 cm, he’s essentially 6 feet tall. He’s short only compared to the other guys. Onosato is 192cm — 10 cm taller — or 6’4”, so they’re all within 4 inches of each other in height.

Well… two of the light guys got knocked out of the sanyaku (bye bye Wakatakakage & Kirishima), Oho and Takanosho, two heavier guys, have entered the sanyaku.

There is a difference of at least 20 kg between the guys, or over 40 pounds. Onosato is the monster, of course, with a 50 kg gap between him and Aonishiki — an over-100-pound difference.

That makes for really interesting bouts. But as Wakatakakage and Kirishima (and Hoshoryu) can tell you, the weight difference can make it very difficult to deal with Onosato.

Upper Maegashira November 2025

Now here is where we see the very wide difference in weights and heights.

Atamifuji, at 192 kg (423 lbs), is the heaviest in Makuuchi.

Wakatakakage is the lightest at 137 kg (302 lbs).

So we’re covering about the same space in weight as sanyaku.

But the heights range from 175 cm (5’9”) with Ura up to 195 cm (6’5”) with Kinbozan.

In the September tournament, both Ura and Kinbozan were at Maegashira 8, but this time Ura has risen to Maegashira 3 after a 10-5 record in September, and Kinbozan has stayed at M08 after a 7-8 record. (He was on the West side, and stayed there.)

Just a quick comment on Ura’s performance last time: he did straightforward sumo, with 5 of his 10 wins being oshidashi. I think he focused on winning last time, instead of theatricality, and he got the wins.

Last note: Yoshinofuji had been Kusano in September, and had a shikona change before this tournament.