2019 M.League season

The 2019-2020 M.League Season is the second season to M.League. All teams were required to have at least one male and one female team member. All rosters are the same, with the addition of added team members. In addition, a new team was added, the KADOKAWA Sakura Knights, who drafted a complete roster of three team members. The season opened on September 30, 2019. The regular season consists of 90 days with two hanchan each, followed by a 12-day semifinal and a 6-day final.

2019 M.League season

M.League logo
Host M.League
Type Professional league
Team count 8 teams
Finalists
Champion U-NEXT Pirates
Runner up Sega Sammy Phoenix
Third Shibuya Abemas
Fourth KADOKAWA Sakura Knights

Rosters

Team name Previous roster Drafted player(s)
Akasaka Drivens Ken Sonoda (Saikouisen)
Jun Murakami (Saikouisen)
Taro Suzuki (Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyokai)
Kanako Maruyama (Saikouisen)
EX Furinkazan Aki Nikaido (JPML)
Kazunori Takizawa (JPML)
Kenji Katsumata (JPML)
None
KADOKAWA Sakura Knights None Kotaro Uchikawa (JPML)
Sayaka Okada (JPML)
Makoto Sawazaki (JPML)
Konami Mahjong Fight Club Hisato Sasaki (JPML)
Mari Takamiya (JPML)
Yudai Maehara (JPML)
Satoshi Fujisaki (JPML)
Shibuya Abemas Takaharu Ooi (RMU)
Sho Shiratori (JPML)
Yoshihiro Matsumoto (Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyokai)
Aiko Hinata (Saikouisen)
SegaSammy Phoenix Yuumi Uotani (JPML)
Seiichi Kondo (Saikouisen)
Sayaka Kayamori (Saikouisen)
Akira Wakutsu (JPML)
TEAM RAIDEN Masato Hagiwara (JPML)
Naoki Setokuma (JPML)
Saki Kurosawa (JPML)
None
U-NEXT Pirates Go Kobayashi (Mahjong Union)
Koushin Asakura (Saikouisen)
Nobuhiro Ishibashi (Saikouisen)
Akina Mizuhara (Saikouisen)

Roster changes

Teams were expanded to four players each, and each team is mandated to have at least one male and one female member. A draft was held on July 9, 2019. Of the eight teams, three opted to remain as three member teams.

Format

The regular season ran from September 30, 2019 to March 9, 2020. Each team played out 90 hanchan. In the regular season standings, the top six teams move on to a semifinal series to determine the top four teams into the final series.

Standings

Regular season

 
Graphical representation of regular season standings.
# Team Points Difference
1 Sega Sammy Phoenix 495.5 -
2 Shibuya Abemas 273.9 221.6
3 Konami Mahjong Fight Club 195.0 78.9
4 KADOKAWA Sakura Knights 48.4 146.6
5 TEAM RAIDEN -80.1 128.5
6 U-NEXT Pirates -202.3 122.2
7 Akasaka Drivens -276.3 74.0
8 EX Furinkazan -474.1 197.8

Semifinal

# Team Start Net End Difference
1 KADOKAWA Sakura Knights 24.2 260.5 284.7 -
2 Sega Sammy Phoenix 247.8 -75.8 172.0 112.7
3 Shibuya Abemas 137.0 -73.0 64.0 108.0
4 U-NEXT Pirates -101.1 97.6 -3.5 67.5
5 Konami Mahjong Fight Club 97.5 -162.5 -65.0 61.5
6 TEAM RAIDEN -40.0 -46.8 -86.8 21.8

Final

# Team Start Net Final Difference Prize
1 U-NEXT Pirates -1.7 246.4 244.7 - ¥50 million
2 Sega Sammy Phoenix 86.0 99.1 185.1 59.6 ¥20 million
3 Shibuya Abemas 32.0 46.0 78.0 107.1 ¥10 million
4 KADOKAWA Sakura Knights 142.4 -391.5 -249.1 327.1

Individual awards

Individual score

  1. Yuumi Uotani
  2. Jun Murakami
  3. Seiichi Kondo

Top hanchan

  1. Yuumi Uotani
  2. Makoto Sawazaki
  3. Naoki Setokuma

Fourth place avoidance

  1. Seiichi Kondo
  2. Go Kobayashi
  3. Jun Murakami

Yakuman

External links

2019 M.League season in Japanese Wikipedia