If you head on over to http://fightmetric.com/, you can find an example of typical sports analysis. I do not mean to diminsh the monumental undertaking in the application of statistical analysis, I do want to establish something that all statistics have in common: they have unidimensional qualitative value. Stats only measure the number of times something has happened. While we should all be students of history, we need to remember that history provides lessons in what to do, and what not to do.
If you want to know what is popular among fighters, or if you want to know what the current trend in mma or the hotest moves trained by the pros in the moment, stats are what you want. It can be effective to measure the number of fights that had been won by headstrikes by foot or submisions from the rearmount. If you want to know what strikes are more likely to be successful for knock outs, stats are not the way you want to go. While it is easy to argue against analyzing episodes by episodes, the truth is that every situation is anecdotal. If a fighter's hands are in a double high guard, the percentage of roundhouse kicks to that side of the face will remain zero. On the other hand, the number of times a roundhouse kick suceeds in a headstrike when the hands drop.... will remain100%, just as you can see below.
If you want to win the position, study your situation. If you want to make use of statistics, study the statistical information of your own training. What is the average effective time of a roundhouse kick to the head in UFC? What percentage of your kicks fall within the standard deviation of that time? What changes can you make to your technique that retain safety but increase the percentage of kicks falling within the first deviation or matching or even beating the standard, effective, time?
Train hard, train often.
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