FightLines: UFC Light Heavyweights

by Mike Fagan on May 26, 2009 4:15 PM EDT in MMA News

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JARDINE > GRIFFIN > JACKSON > JARDINE
JARDINE > LIDDELL > W SILVA > JARDINE

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that dang Keith Jardine

is a one man loop, wiping out almost the whole division.

"the spirit of your average dumbass with more overblown rhetoric" OR "the self-appointed savior of MMA"

by Kid Nate on May 26, 2009 4:23 PM EDT reply actions

He definitely deserves his reputation for mucking up the division.

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by Mike Fagan on May 26, 2009 5:04 PM EDT up reply actions

Hey Mike, I think you forgot an arrow: from Griffin to Jackson. At least on the photo from the flickr site.

by Tizoc on May 26, 2009 4:43 PM EDT reply actions

JARDINE > GRIFFIN > JACKSON > JARDINE

that’s a loop that got edited out.

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by Brent Brookhouse on May 26, 2009 4:46 PM EDT up reply actions

i.e.

if there is a loop like that that forms a full “circle” of guys beating each other it gets edited out.

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by Brent Brookhouse on May 26, 2009 4:47 PM EDT up reply actions

ah

Gotcha. Thanks.

by Tizoc on May 26, 2009 4:48 PM EDT reply actions

How long does it take to make this?

by bigweeze on May 26, 2009 4:52 PM EDT reply actions

Doing just UFC ones like this is much much quicker than the old method. The old way I would have to take the meta-rankings, create a spreadsheet of wins/losses, pick out guys who have two or more fights, add wins/losses for them, and then finally do the graph.

Doing it this way allows me to just fire up my Access database for the past three years of a division. I wasn’t timing it but it was less than an hour for sure.

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by Mike Fagan on May 26, 2009 5:02 PM EDT up reply actions

Machida vs. Jackson is going to be epic.

by Nick Thomas on May 26, 2009 4:56 PM EDT reply actions

^ This

by Derek Suboticki on May 26, 2009 5:46 PM EDT up reply actions

What about Bader over Marrero.

by Graven Image on May 26, 2009 5:41 PM EDT reply actions

Whoops, good catch. Doesn’t change too much.

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by Mike Fagan on May 26, 2009 5:48 PM EDT up reply actions

There are tons of middleweights and fighters who haven’t been in the UFC in years on this diagram, making it needlessly complicated.

You could paint a much clearer picture of the division if you trimmed some of the fat.

by George Lucas on May 26, 2009 5:41 PM EDT reply actions

Yeah, but those fights still happened and shape the division.

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by Mike Fagan on May 26, 2009 5:56 PM EDT up reply actions

I think you forgot GraphMLViewer.js in the rar file.

by asa on May 26, 2009 7:25 PM EDT reply actions

Thanks. I updated the link, let me know if that works.

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by Mike Fagan on May 26, 2009 7:42 PM EDT up reply actions

Lol at Sinosic in there.

Food goes in here

by Pandanus on May 27, 2009 5:18 AM EDT reply actions

So I am guessing you don’t have an arrow from Machida to Sokoudjou because Sokoudjou isn’t in the UFC anymore? And is is there no arrow from Ortiz to Griffin because Ortiz also isn’t in the UFC anymore? If that’s the case, how far back are you tracing this? I have seen this before but never really took the time to try and understand it. Can you explain?

by GetItOn on May 28, 2009 1:24 AM EDT reply actions