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Announcing the FightMetric Fellowship Program

It has always been the stated goal of the FightMetric project to advance the understanding of Mixed Martial Arts and share findings with the community at-large. Unfortunately, we haven't been able to devote as much time to advanced analysis as we'd hoped, due to the inevitable obligations of running the business. Over time, we've gotten numerous offers of help from many of you who were interested in running their own analysis. Unfortunately, we didn't have a good way to include those that wanted to get involved. Now we're opening up the opportunity for advancement to you.

To further this effort, we are very proud to announce the launch of the FightMetric Fellowship Program. This is a chance for people who want to get involved doing the in-depth research on MMA data and publish their findings. Those accepted into the program will have unfettered access to our entire database of fight statistics. There's enough data in there to keep any analyst busy for quite a long time and it's a wide open field in which to make a contribution. No one has yet shown us what the data truly says about MMA. This is an open call to be one of the people who can make that happen.

We're very excited about this program and believe it has tremendous potential. There are plenty of very talented people out there who could do amazing things with our data. All we need to make it a success is you.

We plan to make this an annual program, accepting new cohorts of fellows for each academic year. For the inaugural cohort, the deadline to apply is September 10, 2009. All the details and application materials can be found on the site's FightMetric Fellowship page.

Thank you for your continued support of FightMetric. We're as interested to see what you can come up with as anyone.

Fun Facts from Silva-Griffin

* Silva landed 13 of 25 total strikes, for an accuracy percentage of 52%. That is his lowest hit rate since coming to the UFC and the third lowest of his career. He landed 51% against Ryo Chonan and 50% in his first pro fight against Luiz Azeredo. Silva has still never had a fight in which he landed less than half his attempted strikes.

* If you want to consider Silva's head movement, consider that Griffin landed 1 of 35 strikes thrown to Silva's head, or 3%. The average is 29%.

* With his three knockdowns against Griffin, Silva becomes the only fighter in UFC history with two fights containing three knockdowns. He also did it in the second fight against Rich Franklin.

* The three knockdowns also moves Silva into second place for most knockdowns in UFC history, behind only Chuck Liddell.

DREAM is Up-to-Date

It was a much bigger deal when we completed the historical database of the entire modern era of the UFC, but we're still proud to announce that every fight in DREAM history is now complete and included in the FightMetric database. So why choose DREAM as the next initiative after UFC? A few good reasons:

1. After completing the UFC, it was important to complement this information with data from a Japanese organization. This will allow us to do some study on the differences between American and Japanese MMA.

2. DREAM has run enough events to get a significant enough data set.

3. They haven't run so many events that the data collection project would take more than a month.

4. They are the heir-apparent to Pride. While the fans would love to see full Pride stats, it's more important to keep up with current fights and fighters.

5. Who doesn't love Shinya Aoki?

So now that the data collection is done, we have to ask: For which DREAM fights do you want to see reports?

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Announcing the FightMetric Fellowship Program

Sunday, August 9, 2009

Fun Facts from Silva-Griffin

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

DREAM is Up-to-Date

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