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Game · 2025-26 Regular Season

3/16 Game 2

Aki Nikaido finished 1st (+53.1pt). The game was decided in South 4, 2 honba: Aki Nikaido ron 3,900 from Naoki Setokuma, which moved Aki Nikaido's expected points by +33.3.

1st-place probabilityat the start of each hand

0%25%50%75%100%East 1East 4South 2End● Aki Nikaido● Naoki Setokuma● Takaharu Ooi● Akina Mizuhara0%25%50%75%100%East 1South 1End● Aki● Naoki● Takaharu● Akina
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

HandsResultAki Nikaido
1st-place chance
Naoki Setokuma
1st-place chance
Takaharu Ooi
1st-place chance
Akina Mizuhara
1st-place chance
Aki Nikaido
Expected pt change
Naoki Setokuma
Expected pt change
Takaharu Ooi
Expected pt change
Akina Mizuhara
Expected pt change
East 1Exhaustive draw27%25%23%25%-5.6+6.0-0.1-0.4
East 2, 1 honbaAkina Mizuhara ron 2,000 from Takaharu Ooi23%29%24%25%-1.8-1.7-8.0+11.6
East 3Takaharu Ooi ron 5,800 from Akina Mizuhara22%27%18%34%-1.6-0.5+18.8-16.7
East 3, 1 honbaNaoki Setokuma tsumo 2,00019%27%31%22%-1.3+10.4-7.1-2.0
East 4Aki Nikaido ron 1,600 from Takaharu Ooi19%34%25%22%+3.9-0.3-2.4-1.2
South 1Exhaustive draw23%36%23%19%+7.4-3.8+1.2-4.8
South 1, 1 honbaAkina Mizuhara ron 1,000 from Aki Nikaido27%32%25%17%-7.3-0.4+1.9+5.8
South 2Aki Nikaido ron 5,200 from Akina Mizuhara21%32%26%21%+23.5-1.7-2.0-19.8
South 3Exhaustive draw42%26%22%10%+2.9+0.3-5.7+2.5
South 4, 1 honbaAkina Mizuhara tsumo 2,10043%26%18%13%-2.6-2.5-5.1+10.1
South 4, 2 honbaAki Nikaido ron 3,900 from Naoki Setokuma44%24%15%18%+33.3-43.7+14.2-3.7

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