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Game · 2022-23 Semifinal Series

5/2 Game 2

Kenji Katsumata finished 1st (+69.4pt). The game was decided in East 1, 1 honba: Kenji Katsumata tsumo 6,000, which moved Kenji Katsumata's expected points by +25.0.

1st-place probabilityat the start of each hand

0%25%50%75%100%East 1East 2South 1End● Kenji Katsumata● Yu Suzuki● Hisato Sasaki● Masato Hagiwara0%25%50%75%100%East 1South 1End● Kenji● Yu● Hisato● Masato
The chance of finishing 1st, at the start of each hand (estimated by simulation). Shaded: the hand that decided this game.

Hand by handexpected pt change = how much the hand's result moved the expected final points

HandsResultKenji Katsumata
1st-place chance
Yu Suzuki
1st-place chance
Hisato Sasaki
1st-place chance
Masato Hagiwara
1st-place chance
Kenji Katsumata
Expected pt change
Yu Suzuki
Expected pt change
Hisato Sasaki
Expected pt change
Masato Hagiwara
Expected pt change
East 1Exhaustive draw26%25%24%25%+1.9-1.7-1.5+1.3
East 1, 1 honbaKenji Katsumata tsumo 6,00027%23%23%26%+25.0-7.7-9.5-7.8
East 1, 2 honbaKenji Katsumata ron 7,700 from Yu Suzuki46%17%16%21%+16.8-16.6+2.0-2.2
East 1, 3 honbaHisato Sasaki ron 3,900 from Yu Suzuki62%9%15%15%0.0-10.1+8.9+1.2
East 2Hisato Sasaki ron 8,000 from Masato Hagiwara61%6%18%15%+1.1-3.2+19.7-17.6
East 3Kenji Katsumata ron 8,000 from Hisato Sasaki61%3%28%8%+18.3+1.5-19.5-0.3
East 4Hisato Sasaki ron 2,600 from Kenji Katsumata83%2%10%5%-2.8-0.7+8.2-4.6
South 1Kenji Katsumata ron 3,900 from Yu Suzuki83%2%12%3%+5.9-7.3+0.3+1.0
South 1, 1 honbaKenji Katsumata ron 5,800 from Yu Suzuki87%1%9%3%+8.4-9.7-0.5+1.7
South 1, 2 honbaYu Suzuki ron 8,000 from Kenji Katsumata92%0%7%1%-10.9+12.5+0.3-1.9
South 2Exhaustive draw88%1%8%2%+2.0-3.3+2.4-1.1
South 3, 1 honbaExhaustive draw92%0%7%1%+1.7+3.4-4.3-0.7
South 4, 2 honbaHisato Sasaki ron 1,000 from Yu Suzuki97%0%1%2%+0.9-8.4+5.5+2.0

All 2022-23 games / This game's record (M League Haifu)