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Prepared by the Pod Index, LLC – a sports statistics company, Raw data provided by CompuBox Inc.
A plethora of data—most of which is unavailable to the public—was loaded into a statistical tool to analyze the fight from a purely quantitative perspective. The analysis is in three parts, looking at basic punch stats, advanced metrics, and performance on the judges’ scorecards.
Basic Punch Stats
Jabs
First, we preview some very basic statistics (raw data provided by CompuBox). When analyzing jabs, on (median) average, Pacquiao has the edge over Mayweather in jabs thrown per round (26 to 20). However, landing jabs is different story. Mayweather lands more on average than Pacquiao (6 to 4). As the box plot below indicates, Mayweather has his share of outliers, sometimes landing more than 20 jabs in a single round. Pacquiao rarely lands more than 10 jabs in a round.
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A plethora of data—most of which is unavailable to the public—was loaded into a statistical tool to analyze the fight from a purely quantitative perspective. The analysis is in three parts, looking at basic punch stats, advanced metrics, and performance on the judges’ scorecards.
Basic Punch Stats
Jabs
First, we preview some very basic statistics (raw data provided by CompuBox). When analyzing jabs, on (median) average, Pacquiao has the edge over Mayweather in jabs thrown per round (26 to 20). However, landing jabs is different story. Mayweather lands more on average than Pacquiao (6 to 4). As the box plot below indicates, Mayweather has his share of outliers, sometimes landing more than 20 jabs in a single round. Pacquiao rarely lands more than 10 jabs in a round.
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