'Page Fought "The Law" and "The Law" Won
Or at least that's the conclusion one could draw from the report released today with stats from the fight between Quinton "Rampage" Jackson and Matt Lindland. The FightMetric system gives the fight to Lindland 29-28 for winning rounds one and three.
But that's only half the story. The overall scores for the fight are 159-163, which falls within FightMetric's four-point margin for error. That means the fight overall is a draw, which sounds more than reasonable. While Rampage landed more effective strikes, Lindland stayed busy on the ground and attempted five submissions.
What we're learning over the course of the FightMetric project is that there probably should be many more draws in MMA than are actually called. In many cases, a controversial decision is controversial because the fight really was too close to call. But the ten-point must system makes fools of us all when judges refuse to call 10-10 rounds. Calling a round even carries the stigma of indecision, as if a better judge should have been able to spot the victor, even when there fairly shouldn't be one.
Will this change anytime soon? Probably not. The reason seems clear: A close decision disappoints only the fans that thought the losing fighter won; a draw disappoints almost everyone.
posted by FightMetric @ 11:07 PM
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2 Comments:
Rami,
[I tried to email you but your SMTP rejected it.]
Now that half the year has past, MMA Ratings has published its results for best fights and events of the year so far:
http://www.mmaratings.net/#2008highestratedfights
I know you're real busy, but let me know if you have any TPR statistics on these fights and events. I'd love to write up an article about it.
Something I was thinking I would live to see on your site, is some kind of chart or listing that showed fights and their metrics. Maybe sorted by by highest PR, or highest PR differentials.
Take care.
http://www.mmaratings.net
Looking back from now, man was this an unfortunate title for the article...
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