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Posted on February 4, 2009 by jcs
We’ve seen fighters decline tremendously in recent years, but the bottom has really fallen out of Drew Fickett’s FightMatrix rating. Below, you’ll find a graph of how Fickett’s rating hit an all-time high in early 2008, and has since dropped into journeyman status. On January 30th, Fickett was knocked out by Ferrid Kheder to cap off a 1-3 record in his last four fights.
What makes this drop even worse, is that these values were not time adjusted. With FightMatrix ratings, the value of a point has gotten increasingly lower through time as competition thickens.
Posted in MMA Ranks | Comments (2)
February 5th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
We could normalize it somehow.. but I never came up with a fair, proven method to do so
February 5th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
“What makes this drop even worse, is that these values were not time adjusted. With FightMatrix ratings, the value of a point has gotten increasingly lower through time as competition thickens.”
Hmm…I can understand how this happens, but isn’t it adjustable somehow? I know the value of a point probably changes constantly, but couldn’t you adjust for this at some point by normalizing the rating system for each period of time? I’m just curious.