CompuBox: What Say Ye?

[Hop]

As all of you scintillatingly brilliant boxing bosses know, CompuBox is a computerized system of tallying and classifying punches during a boxing match whose roots go back (under a former name) to the 1980's. Reaction to this high tec addition to scoring has been mixed and ranging. Thought I'd ask this fine forum:

Q: Overall, how would you describe your feelings toward Compubox?

(Please see survey.)

[ManUtd626]

Its computerized as in keeping count of what is deemed a punch. However, it is people who decide what is a punch and if it landed. This is a major problem. The people working compubox can be influenced by their own biases which can skew the results of compubox. Also compubox does not reflct quality punches. Let say a fighter has thrown 100 slapping/grazing hooks (fighter x) vs 30 strong,effective hooks (fighter z). You will get people saying look at compubox fighter x landed more so he wins. Boxing is just not that simple.

[Hop]

Its computerized as in keeping count of what is deemed a punch. However, it is people who decide what is a punch and if it landed. This is a major problem. The people working compubox can be influenced by their own biases which can skew the results of compubox. Also compubox does not reflct quality punches. Let say a fighter has thrown 100 slapping/grazing hooks (fighter x) vs 30 strong,effective hooks (fighter z). You will get people saying look at compubox fighter x landed more so he wins. Boxing is just not that simple.

Really a good post, ManUtd. Thanks. Appreciated the computerized/human breakdown. Insightful.

[mrpain81]

It's really inaccurate but that's not surprising considering it's probably old men pushing buttons.

To make it accurate they need to hire some young gamers with fast reaction and good vision.

1 kid to count jabs thrown/landed, one clicker on each hand.

1 kid to count body shots thrown/landed, one clicker on each hand.

1 kid to count power shots thrown/landed, one clicker on each hand.

X 2 = 6 people in the truck or ringside.

I really don't know how they have it set up but I see a lot of punches that don't get accounted for.

[NEETzsche]

i don't trust it or pay any attention to it

[Russian Crushin]

It's sorely an entertainment tool, 2 guys with clickers

I like it but only when it's shown after rounds and not during because it starts convincing you that a fighter may be winning a round when he isn't.

[DoktorSleepless]

I only like it for the punches thrown. By the most part, that should be easy to keep track of and it's usually fairly reliable. Not always though like in the first round of Angulo-Kirkland where compubox had Angulo only throw a ridiculous 70 punches in the first round when it really was close to double that.

Punches landed is inaccurate as hell. It's not even worth paying attention to.

[InSaiyan]

i dont pay attention to it, its really just something for the commentators to gab about

[toshmurph]

I use to have a lot of faith in it when I first seriously started watching boxing... But I've no faith in it now, the punches that they miss are ridiculous, and they seem to add to fighters outputs by times (Broner vs Malignaggi)

I honestly don't even look at it anymore

[ßringer]

It's just two ****s at a table clicking a button anytime they think they see a punch land. The keyword there being "think", of course. It's idiotic, redundant, and only given any legitimacy whatsoever by dull NSB users who seem to think that compubox numbers are the "be all, end all" criteria for scoring a fight.

I can't take anybody in a boxing debate seriously once they start using those questionable statistics as the basis for their argument.