Statistical Analysis: All UFC 2017 Fights

UFC Truck said:
If you divide by 0 you get infinite.

But it is actually an indeterminate number.
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ThePeoplesMMA said:
Will do brother, thanks again!
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No problem.
 
fiftywattmafia said:
Nice. Good stuff TS.
Conor 2018 fights...oh that’s still at 0.0%
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Funny thing about Conor haters is that no matter the subject they think about Conor <Lmaoo>
You guys more so than us fans are what keep him rich/relevant, you deserve all the credit.
 
acannxr said:
Note: I excluded fights that ended in No Contest.

Division Activity (descending order):
71 fights | Welterweight
67 fights | Lightweight
53 fights | Middleweight
46 fights | Featherweight
41 fights | Bantamweight
38 fights | Light Heavyweight
36 fights | Heavyweight
34 fights | Women's Strawweight
29 fights | Men's Flyweight
15 fights | Women's Bantamweight
11 fights | Women's Flyweight*
03 fights | Women's Featherweight

444 fights | Total
*The inaugural champion was crowned on December 1, 2017.

Knockout Percentage (descending order):
52.8% | Heavyweight
50.0% | Light Heavyweight
45.3% | Middleweight
32.8% | Lightweight
31.0% | Welterweight
30.4% | Featherweight
24.4% | Bantamweight
20.7% | Flyweight
05.9% | Women's Strawweight
*Excluded Womens' Featherweight, Bantamweight, and Flyweight due to small sample size.

Submission Percentage (descending order):
27.6% | Flyweight
22.0% | Bantamweight
20.9% | Lightweight
17.6% | Women's Strawweight
17.0% | Middleweight
15.8% | Light Heavyweight
15.2% | Featherweight
13.9% | Heavyweight
11.3% | Welterweight
*Excluded Womens' Featherweight, Bantamweight, and Flyweight due to small sample size.

Finish Percentage (descending order):
66.7% | Heavyweight
65.8% | Light Heavyweight
62.3% | Middleweight
53.7% | Lightweight
48.3% | Flyweight
46.3% | Bantamweight
45.7% | Featherweight
42.3% | Welterweight
23.5% | Women's Strawweight
*Excluded Womens' Featherweight, Bantamweight, and Flyweight due to small sample size.

Knockout-Type Breakdown:
63.4% | Punch(es)
17.2% | Combination
08.3% | Knee(s)
05.5% | Elbow(s)
03.5% | Doctor/Corner Stoppage/Injury
02.1% | Kick(s)

Submission-Type Breakdown:
45.0% | Rear-Naked Choke
13.8% | Guillotine Choke
12.5% | Armbar
06.3% | Arm-Triangle Choke
03.8% | D'arce Choke
03.8% | Von Flue Choke
03.8% | Anaconda Choke
02.5% | Triangle Choke
02.5% | Kimura
02.5% | North-South Choke
01.3% | Kneebar
01.3% | Calf Slicer

I was personally surprised by:
-How active Women's Strawweight was this last year, and how barren Women's Bantamweight is becoming.
-How high Women's Strawweight was in submission percentages compared to the other divisions.
-Flyweight having a higher finish percentage than four other weight classes.
-Welterweight having the lowest finish percentage of all weight classes.

If anyone wants additional information not written in this post, let me know and I'll include it.
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Since I will surely be challenged, where/how did you get these stats?
 
ThePeoplesMMA said:
Since I will surely be challenged, where/how did you get these stats?
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I pulled up all the UFC events and copied down the result of the bouts and what division they were in, then sorted the information accordingly. It took awhile.
 
ThePeoplesMMA said:
Funny thing about Conor haters is that no matter the subject they think about Conor <Lmaoo>
You guys more so than us fans are what keep him rich/relevant, you deserve all the credit.
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Not a hater. It’s a statement of fact. A statistic. True of 2017 also 0.0% fights. Wow. Interesting fact.
 
fiftywattmafia said:
Not a hater. It’s a statement of fact. A statistic. True of 2017 also 0.0% fights. Wow. Interesting fact.
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So was my tweet, this is a posting about yearly stats per division and all you could think about is Conor.
Him having so much real estate in your mind is almost as funny as the fact that you're in denial about it.
 
acannxr said:
Based on what? There are plenty of men's divisions with higher submission percentages than Women's Strawweight, does that mean they're average on the ground too?
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It means you can watch them on the ground and see that they suck.
 
Interesting spread, some interesting numbers too. Offhand I'd say most MMAheads would be able to give an educated guess on the Division Activity, just from the amount we watch. It'd seem Featherweight has made some serious strides in the last few years, we can near say with certainty, that McGregor & USADA are legit reasons as to why. Their division(the FLW's), was almost an after thought for ages until he came over, and with USADA; the amount of calibre fighters switching up weight classes has been drastic, and for the better I feel.

That Knock Percentage order is near identical to the weight class order form heaviest to lightest lol, crazy. And maybe obviously too just from the power that bigger people can & tend to generate.

Almost surprised WW was, is so low on the Submission Percentage but I figure the mitigating factor there, is that the division is so stacked and the athletes so well rounded; it's just so damn hard to catch someone. You'd not really think that a mere 2.6% is the difference between the thoroughbreds at WW and the big boys at HW. Especially when you look at how many fights there have been in eaches division at 71 and 36 respectively. Nearly doubled lol.

No real surprise either I think in the Finish Percentage order. I'd wager again that most of us could give an educated guess and come somewhat close to them numbers.

I'd have thought combinations would have had a higher percentage and that Guillotine would have too.

Thanks for the info, the work and the read @acannxr bro. Good stuff mate, cheers.



MMAFanatic86 said:
No matter how many numbers you throw at us, we'll still bitch about what little WMMA bouts we're forced to sit through.
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I hear you mate but last weekends Fox 28 card gave us 3 solid woman fights. A pleasant surprise.

Franc Mittelo said:
Those are only descriptive statistics, you can't make any inferences until you do some statistical tests to prove that the differences in those percentages are statistically significant and not just random chance.

Who has the time to run an ANOVA test to determine whether the means of those groups are different?
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No doubt, but it's a nice stat layout for a quick forum read.

chuckleknuckle said:
Funny how people can defend a triangle and armbar, but can't defend a RNC with gloves on? WTF? Does people giving up their back when rocked make up for most of those chokes?
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First thing I was thinking when I read that stat bro.
 
DanaWhitesButler said:
I bet you're correct. I wonder if we will see them start to release some fighters in that division to balance out the roster since they are not booking enough fights to keep them as active.
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If that did happen I'd honestly not be surprised. It happening thought is a different matter.

Pancake Sprawl said:
it's the same as his lifetime loss percentage vs guys under 7ft and 900lbs.

his only losses are to Godzilla and a 8'9 4000lb Nate Diaz.
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Legit lol'd aloud ::D:

ThePeoplesMMA said:
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I don't tweet but have an account, I'll like and follow though bud.
 
clumseygenius said:
It'd seem Featherweight has made some serious strides in the last few years, we can near say with certainty, that McGregor & USADA are legit reasons as to why. Their division(the FLW's), was almost an after thought for ages until he came over, and with USADA; the amount of calibre fighters switching up weight classes has been drastic, and for the better I feel.

That Knock Percentage order is near identical to the weight class order form heaviest to lightest lol, crazy. And maybe obviously too just from the power that bigger people can & tend to generate.

Almost surprised WW was, is so low on the Submission Percentage but I figure the mitigating factor there, is that the division is so stacked and the athletes so well rounded; it's just so damn hard to catch someone. You'd not really think that a mere 2.6% is the difference between the thoroughbreds at WW and the big boys at HW. Especially when you look at how many fights there have been in eaches division at 71 and 36 respectively. Nearly doubled lol.

No real surprise either I think in the Finish Percentage order. I'd wager again that most of us could give an educated guess and come somewhat close to them numbers.

I'd have thought combinations would have had a higher percentage and that Guillotine would have too.

Thanks for the info, the work and the read @acannxr bro. Good stuff mate, cheers.
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As far as whether or not McGregor and USADA are responsible for the influx in Featherweight fights, I'd have to compare 2017 with probably say 2014 (similar number of fights that year, pre-USADA, and pre-McGregor becoming a star).

As far as the low submission percentage at Welterweight, another contributing factor might be if that division has a higher percentage of fighters with wrestling backgrounds, that would prevent the fight from ever going to the ground, and submission offense/defense might play no part in it at all.

Another interesting statistic: guillotine chokes only occurred from 135-185 lb divisions; there were none at Women's Strawweight, Men's Flyweight, Men's Light Heavyweight, or Men's Heavyweight. Of course it's impossible to infer anything from that without comparing another year of fights, but honestly that's more work that I want to do put into this <45>.

And you're very much welcome.
 
acannxr said:
Note: I excluded fights that ended in No Contest.

Division Activity (descending order):
71 fights | Welterweight
67 fights | Lightweight
53 fights | Middleweight
46 fights | Featherweight
41 fights | Bantamweight
38 fights | Light Heavyweight
36 fights | Heavyweight
34 fights | Women's Strawweight
29 fights | Men's Flyweight
15 fights | Women's Bantamweight
11 fights | Women's Flyweight*
03 fights | Women's Featherweight

444 fights | Total
*The inaugural champion was crowned on December 1, 2017.

Knockout Percentage (descending order):
52.8% | Heavyweight
50.0% | Light Heavyweight
45.3% | Middleweight
32.8% | Lightweight
31.0% | Welterweight
30.4% | Featherweight
24.4% | Bantamweight
20.7% | Flyweight
05.9% | Women's Strawweight
*Excluded Womens' Featherweight, Bantamweight, and Flyweight due to small sample size.

Submission Percentage (descending order):
27.6% | Flyweight
22.0% | Bantamweight
20.9% | Lightweight
17.6% | Women's Strawweight
17.0% | Middleweight
15.8% | Light Heavyweight
15.2% | Featherweight
13.9% | Heavyweight
11.3% | Welterweight
*Excluded Womens' Featherweight, Bantamweight, and Flyweight due to small sample size.

Finish Percentage (descending order):
66.7% | Heavyweight
65.8% | Light Heavyweight
62.3% | Middleweight
53.7% | Lightweight
48.3% | Flyweight
46.3% | Bantamweight
45.7% | Featherweight
42.3% | Welterweight
23.5% | Women's Strawweight
*Excluded Womens' Featherweight, Bantamweight, and Flyweight due to small sample size.

Knockout-Type Breakdown:
63.4% | Punch(es)
17.2% | Combination
08.3% | Knee(s)
05.5% | Elbow(s)
03.5% | Doctor/Corner Stoppage/Injury
02.1% | Kick(s)

Submission-Type Breakdown:
45.0% | Rear-Naked Choke
13.8% | Guillotine Choke
12.5% | Armbar
06.3% | Arm-Triangle Choke
03.8% | D'arce Choke
03.8% | Von Flue Choke
03.8% | Anaconda Choke
02.5% | Triangle Choke
02.5% | Kimura
02.5% | North-South Choke
01.3% | Kneebar
01.3% | Calf Slicer

I was personally surprised by:
-How active Women's Strawweight was this last year, and how barren Women's Bantamweight is becoming.
-How high Women's Strawweight was in submission percentages compared to the other divisions.
-Flyweight having a higher finish percentage than four other weight classes.
-Welterweight having the lowest finish percentage of all weight classes.

If anyone wants additional information not written in this post, let me know and I'll include it.
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Thank You! Impressive work.
 
clumseygenius said:
If that did happen I'd honestly not be surprised. It happening thought is a different matter.



Legit lol'd aloud ::D:



I don't tweet but have an account, I'll like and follow though bud.
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Cool, see you there! Name?
 
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