Disadvantages Of Being Big

[The Old LefHook]

John Bois of Sports Nation does these wonderful statistical evaluations of football and baseball called Chart Party - I have said before and got absolutely no responses whatsoever, that if we came up with a reasonable question and promoted it collectively maybe we could get his eye and effort to turn to the history of prize fighting.

Anyway if you are a stats geek and haven't experienced one of his videos, you should.

Cleveland Browns Fans Live in Hell is a good one, also The Worst Punt Ever or Kick-offs are Useless.

I don't watch Woke-ball, never will.

[Willie Pep 229]

I don't watch Woke-ball, never will.

Didn't want you to . . . Want to redirect his interest towards boxing.

[The Old LefHook]

Another good project is to select any division and then find randomly its average height. I doubt that shorties would do as well as average height boxers, but I don't know about those who are extra tall for their divisions. In math intuition often does poorly.

[Bundana]

I can't. The last time I did math I had a seizure. Besides, it takes a special subscription, which I do not have, to see all the information. I am going to do math again though. I have to, since I am working on a card game with 65 cards and 5 suits. Figuring out hand values was harder than I anticipated. For instance, a flush beats a full house when there are 5 suits. Finally, I did all calculations 2 ways. You can have a true rainbow when you have 5 different suits, (which is called a rainbow). Now a rainbow straight is extremely hard to get, and ranks just below 4 of a kind. But remember, you can have 5 of a kind in this game.

I want one of the other boys to see statistically how galoots do compared to normals, since Willie and Apples both did fine jobs, and I know some of my boys have special subscriptions..

I'm curious... can you direct me to the thread, where Apples did extensive statistical work?

[The Old LefHook]

I'm curious... can you direct me to the thread, where Apples did extensive statistical work?

By buggery, maybe I mixed you and Apples up. But I thought he did some statistics too. My mistake, I guess.

[Bundana]

By buggery, maybe I mixed you and Apples up. But I thought he did some statistics too. My mistake, I guess.

By buggery, I think you did!

[them_apples]

Another good project is to select any division and then find randomly its average height. I doubt that shorties would do as well as average height boxers, but I don't know about those who are extra tall for their divisions. In math intuition often does poorly.

That would be very interesting. Esp if we did a whole decade. Theres gotta be a way to punch this data into a program easily.

I wonder if boxrec allows for data downloading

I bet the probably of being a big “galoot” and getting knocked out cold by a smaller fighter is standard across the board in all decades Loo

[them_apples]

By buggery, maybe I mixed you and Apples up. But I thought he did some statistics too. My mistake, I guess.

I just requested it, to go by the numbers of the top 20 or so fighters (something like that) and to also divide by length of careers.

Bundana did the real work

[Bundana]

Good stuff to read -

Is the KO % off because of early stoppages I.e. fighter safety or possibly more deliberate mismatches ? ? ?

I have no idea, why you think the numbers (taken from BoxRec) may be off... is it because they are different, from what you expected?

[Willie Pep 229]

I have no idea, why you think the numbers (taken from BoxRec) may be off... is it because they are different, from what you expected?

I don't think they are off . . . I was offering possibilities as to why the KO mean was twice as high for the 2000 group than the 1930 group.

Why did you think I was challenging the numbers.

P.S. Sorry I see my mistake now, when I said 'off' I meant off from eachother. E.g. 55% vs. 27%. Sorry I confused.