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Anderson Silva Does Whatever a Spider Can
If Anderson Silva's deconstruction of Forrest Griffin didn't impress you enough, FightMetric offers up some pretty impressive stats: * Silva landed 13 of 25 total strikes, for an accuracy percent...
Fighting by Numbers: Bloody Elbow Exclusive Interview With Rami Genauer of FightMetric
In 1977, Bill James published the first of his Baseball Abstracts. The newsletter sparked the beginning of an objective revolution in baseball that continues to this day thirty years later. MMA...
Finishing Rates by Country in 2008
The UFC and WEC represent the American portion, while Dream and Sengoku make up the Japanese side. We're looking at some pretty small samples (262 American fights, 107 Japanese fights) so ther...
A Cursory Look at Referee Statistics and Another Call for Volunteers
If you remember this post, I called for volunteers to help me with a project involving referees and judges. I've put the judge project on hold for now, but we're still going strong on the ref si...
Finishing Rates by Round and a Call for Volunteers
In my piece defending the five round title fight, I argued against Rami Genaur's posit that additional rounds would lead to more decisions. Rami realized his error in logic prior to reading my p...
On Submissions, Part II (Dave Meltzer Edition)
In his piece about the growing concern over MMA refereeing, Dave Meltzer slipped this paragraph in: Fighters often feel pressure trying to please the live crowd, wanting to be perceived as having q...
On Submissions in MMA
Nate highlighted Josh Gross's piece about the lack of submissions in the past few UFC cards and whether or not it's becoming a trend in MMA. Being a big follower of sabermetrics and sabermetric ...
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