Posted on May 16, 2011 by Jonathan

Bellator Fighting Championships 44 May 14, 2011 Caesars Atlantic City Hotel and Casino, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States Bellator Lightweight Tournament Final Lightweight (155 lbs) Michael Chandler (8 – 0 – 0) won a unanimous decision over Patricky Freire (9 – 2 – 0).  Chandler upset Freire, spending the first two rounds trading with [...]

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Posted on April 21, 2011 by jcs

  If I get a chance, I’ll make the lines easier to follow, but this is a list of the proportion of divisional bouts (using our limits — men only) taking place within a calendar year.  In other words, 27.6% of bouts in 2001 that we have division info for, took place at Heavyweight. Here [...]

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Posted on April 14, 2011 by jcs

Today, we’re going to look at a fighter’s prime, and if a distinctive peak period can be ascertained by looking at a combination of age AND “career age” (time between debut date and fight date).  In most professional sports, it’s usually agreed upon that a person’s prime is between their late 20s and early-mid 30s, [...]

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Posted on April 13, 2011 by jcs

With almost 3,000 birthdates now (nearly twice as many as before), we’re now going to see if fighters get more complacent with age.  This analysis looks at almost 28,000 fights, which I consider to be an acceptable sample set. Furthermore, I am only analyzing wins with known outcome types and am considered a finish as [...]

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Posted on April 13, 2011 by jcs

Today, we look at the rate of stoppage losses and how it affects aging fighters.  The critics against older fighters competing should have a good time with this one. First, a few notes. I included TKOs, KOs, and DQs in the stoppages. The “dotted line” represents the sample average. The “red line” represents the trendline [...]

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Posted on April 12, 2011 by jcs

A little disclaimer before viewing the following results. Obviously, the fighters we actually have birthdates are, for the most part, more “well known” than the fighters who we don’t have birthdates for.  So, in the following, you can’t compare to a 50% win percentage (you can’t anyway, because draws are included), you’ll have to compare [...]

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Posted on April 12, 2011 by jcs

This was spurred on by the Bloody Elbow/Fight Metric Research Contest.  I wonder if using FM data makes it ineligible? Whatever the case is, here I am with another “stat geek” article for our readers’ consumption.   Some notes before I get into the bulk of it: 1,361 fighters have valid birthdates in the database (this [...]

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Posted on April 11, 2011 by jcs

BloodyElbow recently took a close look at prospects around the sport.  They (as far as I know) did not use set criteria like we do, but it is interesting to see that some fights are on both lists.  Furthermore, it will be interesting to re-visit this and see how many fighters are eventually picked up [...]

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Posted on April 8, 2011 by jcs

If you don’t remember the first part of this article, you can find it here. In September 2010, we looked at non-elite fighters who had been ranked for two years, and consistently won fights, but had become stagnant. Revisiting the Top 5 1. Nick Penner (9/1/10 Rank: #77 vs. 9/1/08 Rank: #72 | [5-0-0 2yr]) [...]

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Posted on April 1, 2011 by jcs

Much is brought up in MMA and boxing about the creation of an additional division that splits the gargantuan Heavyweights from their slightly smaller counterparts. One of the data elements that I have recently added and started populating the database with are official weigh-in weights. The sample set so far is small, but in 166 [...]

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