The TPR data for UFC 83 is up today, with stats for the six fights on the telecast. In addition, the career reports of Georges St. Pierre and Matt Serra have been updated to include their latest fight.
One interesting note: Quarry gets a TPR of 61, proving that it’s tough to put in an above-average performance when your opponent won’t engage. Starnes’ TPR of 24 is not exactly fair. The system awards him 10 points just for surviving to a decision, which is usually something of an accomplishment. Conceivably, if more fighters start using the “Starnes Strategy” we’d have to modify the equation. But we’d probably stop watching the sport before it ever came to that.
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UFC 84 Stats Bonanza
Some shows are good for stats, other shows are not. UFC 84 was a great card for stats. The reason is that a bunch of really unique/weird/rare things happened. We have an article up at Yahoo Sports talking about:
* BJ Penn’s historic use of the jab
* Tito Ortiz’s first round ineffectiveness
* Rousimar Palhares’s grappling perfection
* Yoshiyuki Yoshida’s rare submission
We’ve also got a bunch of great stats available here on the site. First, the TPR Report for the televised fights is available here.
Next, the complete stats for the Penn-Sherk fight is up, so you can see just how good BJ’s jab was.
Finally, we’ve put up a fight report with complete stats from the Machida-Ortiz fight. In addition, we’ve created a special report due to some remarks that we’ve seen in forums and comments. Some have compared Lyoto’s performance to that of Kalib Starnes. To put that sentiment to bed, we’ve posted the striking stats for the fight between Nate Quarry and Kalib Starnes.
There simply is no comparison. Starnes landed 15 strikes in the entire fight. Machida landed more than 15 strikes in each of the three rounds of the fight. There’s a difference between avoiding action and picking your shots.
Source:UFC 84 Stats Bonanza
New Fight Report – Liddell vs. Jardine
We’ve got a new in-depth fight report up today, the first non-Dan Henderson report in quite a while. This one analyzes the fight between Chuck Liddell and Keith Jardine. The scores for the fight make one wonder how this could have been a split decision in the first place. Seems Marcos Rosales was feeling a little contrarian that evening; it was the same night he gave Diego Sanchez the nod over Jon Fitch.
Our Bad
So we made a bit of mistake. With all the craziness surrounding Affliction and Silva vs. Irvin, we mistook the date for UFC 87. In planning a release schedule for material leading up to GSP vs. Fitch, we blew all our good material last week. So we’re forced to dig pretty deep to get something out this week. Today, we have the report for the blowout between Jon Fitch and Kuniyoshi Hironaka. Tomorrow we put out a report on Jon Fitch vs. Chris Wilson. With those two, it wraps up all the decisions in Fitch’s career (and there are a bunch of them). Toward the end of the week, we’ll have some thoughts on Fitch’s career and some important stats that could affect the match-up this Saturday night.
Source:Our Bad
The Mother of All Battles
We’ve uploaded a huge amount of content in the last few days, you should check out the homepage for career reports for Rampage Jackson and Forrest Griffin, along with a bunch of their fights.
But the biggest addition is the biggest fight in MMA history: the match between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar to conclude the first season of The Ultimate Fighter.
The stats are interesting for the sheer volumes we’re dealing with. The total effectiveness scores are 459 and 405. Remember that an average 15-minute fight would have an average score of 180. The combined total of 864 points is, by a large margin, the highest-scoring fight we’ve ever come across. The next highest total was for the Diego Sanchez-Karo Parisyan fight, with a total of 756.
Source:The Mother of All Battles
'Page Fought "The Law" and "The Law" Won
Or at least that’s the conclusion one could draw from the report released today with stats from the fight between Quinton “Rampage” Jackson and Matt Lindland. The FightMetric system gives the fight to Lindland 29-28 for winning rounds one and three.
But that’s only half the story. The overall scores for the fight are 159-163, which falls within FightMetric’s four-point margin for error. That means the fight overall is a draw, which sounds more than reasonable. While Rampage landed more effective strikes, Lindland stayed busy on the ground and attempted five submissions.
What we’re learning over the course of the FightMetric project is that there probably should be many more draws in MMA than are actually called. In many cases, a controversial decision is controversial because the fight really was too close to call. But the ten-point must system makes fools of us all when judges refuse to call 10-10 rounds. Calling a round even carries the stigma of indecision, as if a better judge should have been able to spot the victor, even when there fairly shouldn’t be one.
Will this change anytime soon? Probably not. The reason seems clear: A close decision disappoints only the fans that thought the losing fighter won; a draw disappoints almost everyone.