MMA Weight Class Fight Results
Chi square tests
Fisher Exact tests
categorical variable analysis
Data with MMA fight results by weight class; can examine if there is an association between weight class and different types of results.
Motivation
The data is derived largely from publicly available data from ESPN (https://www.espn.com/mma/) and the MMA (http://mmadecisions.com/). Interest is in whether the weight class changes the likelihood of various types of fight results; for example, are lighter weight fights more likely to “go the distance” (last all rounds)? ## Data
Each row is a single fight; 28,771 fights are included.
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| date | date of the event (mdy) |
| month | month of the event |
| year | year of the event |
| event | name of the event |
| championship | is the event a championship event |
| decision | fight result |
| decision_group | aggregated groups of decision variable |
| round | how many rounds the fight lasted |
| time | time the fight ended |
| p1_result | result of the fight for fighter 1 |
| p1_id | a unique ID for fighter 1 |
| p1_name | full name of fighter 1 |
| p1_country | home country of fighter 1 |
| p1_sex | sex of fighter 1 |
| p2_result | result of the fight for fighter 2 |
| p2_id | a unique ID for fighter 2 |
| p2_name | full name of fighter 2 |
| p2_country | home country of fighter 2 |
| p2_sex | sex of fighter 2 |
| wtClass | aggregated groups of Weight Class |
Questions
Are lighter weight fights more likely to end in a decision?
Which weight class is most likely to produce a knockout?
References
The data is derived largely from publicly available data from ESPN (https://www.espn.com/mma/) and the MMA (http://mmadecisions.com/)