Explaining TPR: Volume III - The Method Component (Cont.)
Part Two
(Read Part One here)
With the hard question of finished fights vs. decisions out of the way, we set the total number of points for the Method component at 10 based on survey results and our own calculations. The next issue was that of apportioning points for the different victory methods. Method is unlike win/loss, in which the binary choice means one fighter gets all the points and the other gets nothing. Different victory methods say different things about each fighter's performance.
We categorized all fights (except no contests) into these categories:
KO/TKO
Submission
Decision
Disqualification
Doctor's Stoppage
The first two indicate a decisive victor. When a fighter gets a knockout or submission, he receives all 10 possible points and the defeated fighter gets nothing. This is his reward for deciding the fight without putting it in the hands of any outside parties.
Decisions of all forms - unanimous, split, and draws - mean both fighters failed equally in their goal to end the fight. Since it's impossible to generalize about the quality of decisions, the fighters split the 10 points, receiving five apiece.
A disqualification means one fighter won, but didn't beat his opponent. In this case, the winning fighter gets five points; he didn't finish, but wasn't finished himself, same as in a decision. The losing fighter gets nothing. In a sense, his illegal actions mean that he finished himself.
Doctor's stoppages, which usually mean cuts, are difficult to value because they come in two forms. Some injury stoppages are the result of a quality performance, like Rich Franklin's stoppage of Evan Tanner. Some represent a single good technique in an overall poor performance, like Kenny Florian's elbow on Chris Leben in the first season of The Ultimate Fighter. The common denominator, though, is that the decision to end the fight was made by an outside party. Even in a case of accumulated damage due to domination, fighters will still argue that they could have continued. Just like in a decision, it is impossible to generalize about the validity of a stoppage. Therefore, the points are awarded the same, with both fighters receiving five.
As a point of clarification, fights that end by TKO because an injured fighter could not defend himself - think Mauricio Rua's loss to Mark Coleman - are considered TKO's. Despite the fact that the winning fighter capitalized on an injury he did not cause, the stoppage was as a result of his succeeding strikes and not the decision of a doctor.
posted by FightMetric @ 8:35 AM
0 Comments
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home