Comments on: The rise and fall of Drew Fickett http://www.fightmatrix.com/2009/02/04/the-rise-and-fall-of-drew-fickett/ Mixed Martial Arts Rankings Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:34:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jcs http://www.fightmatrix.com/2009/02/04/the-rise-and-fall-of-drew-fickett/comment-page-1/#comment-6250 jcs Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:19:44 +0000 http://www.fightmatrix.com/?p=375#comment-6250 We could normalize it somehow.. but I never came up with a fair, proven method to do so :) We could normalize it somehow.. but I never came up with a fair, proven method to do so :)

]]> By: ICTimer http://www.fightmatrix.com/2009/02/04/the-rise-and-fall-of-drew-fickett/comment-page-1/#comment-6248 ICTimer Fri, 06 Feb 2009 01:29:25 +0000 http://www.fightmatrix.com/?p=375#comment-6248 "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. “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.

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