Talk:List of past sumo wrestlers

(Revised) Rank sorting system

It seemed efficacious to be able to sort this list by ranks, so I devised a system to keep the sorting script from simply sorting alphabetically. For the list to sort wrestlers by their ranks top/down, I devised the following, revised, system:

Put the following code before the rank name in the rank column:

<span style="display:none">X</span>

The X needs to be replaced by a number corresponding to the rank:

Yokozuna = a

Ozeki = b

Sekiwake = c

Komusubi = d

Maegashira #1-#9 = e

Maegashira #10 and up = f

Juryo #1-#9 = g0

Juryo #10 and up = g1

Makushita = h

Sandanme = i

Jonidan = j

Jonokuchi = k

Makushita downwards wrestlers have a lot of wrestlers and in order to be sorted correctly they would need even more numbers following them: i.e. Makushita #20-29 = g2, Jonidan #40-49 = i4, etc. I have sorted this way for the few Makushita wrestlers listed, though this is largely overkill unless a lot more lower ranked wrestlers are added, which is unlikely. FourTildes (talk) 04:10, 3 April 2009 (UTC)

For later

Putting retired Kagamio here for now, so I can move him to past list when I get a minute. |- |Kagamiō
鏡桜 |data-sort-value="j18e"|East Jonokuchi 18 |2003-7 |Kagamiyama | (1988-02-09) February 9, 1988 | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia |best rank maegashira 9, first sekitori from his very small stable since the current coach Tagaryū was active in 1991, took jūryō championship after losing two playoffs in previous tournaments