Week 5 - Calling Month Starts Now!

I have the beginnings of a calling system now. Considering my previous playstyle, maybe it's more of a "restriction" than a "system." Next step, drilling it into habit.

Week 4 - Real (?) Games

 I somehow forgot what it was like to play against beginner players. Never make me play bronze room easts again.

Analysis - Four Winds Draw

While watching a ないおトン stream, he verbally acknowledged cutting the third wind to aim for the draw, as his hand was bad. And, it worked. Let's run an analysis on this case.

Analysis - Dama vs Riichi Win Rates

I am not content with how my last dama analysis showed riichi having overall higher winrates than dama, while people still say to dama mangans. Why would I dama a mangan if it lowers my winrate? So, I'm trying again, looking at things a different way.

Analysis - Shanten Estimation by River Composition

While watching a ないおトン stream, he said, "My river looks fast." Can you actually glean meaningful information from the composition of a player's discards? Is someone who discarded only honors faster or slower than someone who only discarded middle tiles? Let's take a look.

Week 3 - Graduation

Another week down, the last week of pure preparation. I decided to do a daily journal thing this time.

Week 2 - Awakening

I was on vacation from work this week, so I had a lot of free time. I ended up watching a lot of Mahjong videos on YouTube.

Among those, I watched several videos from the guy who played with Northernlion, yu_song. After having watched ないおトン so much, going to watching a middling player was quite interesting. The difference in play was immediately obvious. And as my goal is above yu_song's level, knowing where those differences lie is valuable. Watching critically with the mentality of, "I must surpass this person."