Performance Rating Roundup for UFC 80
UFC 80 gave us a new set of fights to process using FightMetric's newly-released Total Performance Rating statistic. Here is our report for the eight televised fights from last night's UFC 80 broadcast.
Some TPR notes from each fight:
Penn unleashed a truly impressive amount of offense, accumulating 495 effectiveness points for offensive volume in just over 9 minutes. That works out to 54.8 points per minute (PpM), compared to the historical average of 12.33. Penn earned a TPR of 90, while Stevenson's TPR of 23 reflects his heart and relentlessness until the fight-ending tapout.
Gabriel Gonzaga might not have come away from his loss looking as bad as Joe Stevenson, but his TPR of 27 reflects how ineffective he was in his nine minutes of fight time. Despite executing three takedowns and winning the first round, Werdum's domination in the second round put much distance between the two fighters, resulting in a disappointing score for Gonzaga.
Both Gouveia and Lambert have good things and bad on their report. Gouveia won, but his TPR of 69 was the lowest of any winner at UFC 80. Lambert had above-average marks for offensive volume, but his TPR of 45 is exactly the average for losing fighters.
Give Paul Taylor credit for an above-average performance in his loss to Paul Kelly. Despite heavy damage, Taylor gutted out a decision, leaving him with a TPR of 50.
How close was Marcus Davis to perfection? His TPR of 99 would have been a perfect 100 if he had finished the fight four seconds faster.
Jorge Rivera was nearly as close, with a TPR of 97. Kendall Grove scores a 1 for lasting into the third minute of the fight.
Despite missing on his only strike attempt, James Lee gets a TPR of 19 for his three takedowns. It looked like he might have had Sakara going there for a minute.
Congrats to Antoni Hardonk for the evening's only perfect score. Taking only 17 seconds to TKO Colin Robinson and absorbing no strikes in the process will do that.
posted by FightMetric @ 11:12 PM
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2 Comments:
I think this TPR statistic is really cool, but there is something I don't get. In the Gonzaga-Werdum fight, Gonzaga was dominating the first round using leg kicks, takedowns/throwdowns, working the top effectively, etc. Though he came out flat in the second round and was eventually stopped, I cannot fathom how the discrepancy between his final score and Werdum's got so large when the two rounds were almost mirror-images and, further, how this fight's TPR was so similar to the far more lopsided Sakara-Lee fight. Anyhow, keep up the great work!
Thanks for the comment. Two things:
No one wants to hear it, but leg kicks don't end fights. Leg kicks set up the things that end fights. As such, leg kicks are not worth that much in the FightMetric system. Still my favorite technique, though.
Most of Werdum's offensive points came from the final barrage that ended the fight. Conceptually, that acts as a punishment to Gonzaga for basically giving up and waiting for the ref to save him. Much as fans do, TPR would rather have someone go out guns blazing and lose than sit and absord punishment while doing nothing about it.
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