x   MMA SCORING

The four catergories of judging for MMA are: Effective Striking, Grappling, Ring/Cage Control and Aggression.

Effective Striking: Clean efficient light strikes and clean effective heavy strikes; punches, elbows, kicks and knees.

Effective Grappling: Clean takedowns, active guard positions, passing the guard and submission attempts. The guard position alone is neutral, its what you do in/with it that counts. A clean reversal is equal to a clean takedown.

Judges must not favour one style, technique or art over another. Striking and grappling are prioritized equally, although grappling should be given priority when a fight is on the ground and striking should be given priority when a fight is standing.

Ring/Cage Control: The fighter who is dictating the fights pace and place. A striker who continually fends off a takedown, a grappler continually getting takedown, a ground fighter continually creating submission, mount or clean striking opportunities.

Effective Aggressiveness: The criteria of least importance as it simply means who is moving forward and finding success.



USAGE GUIDE

Click configure to adjust the values given to each section.

During the fight press A, S, D or J, K, L depending on the action.

Press spacebar at the end of a round and you'll be asked who won the striking and grappling, who controlled the pace and place of the fight, and if either fighter had any points deducted.

Press escape at the end of the fight and the bout totals will be displayed.

Note: You must press spacebar at the end of the last round before pressing escape to signify the end of the bout.

x   Configuration Screen

: Section 1 'Striking Knockdown' value

: Section 2 'Takedown, Throw, Full Mount, Reversal' value

: Section 3 'Submission Attempt' value

: End of Round 'Striking' value

: End of Round 'Grappling' value

: End of Round 'Pace and Place' value

: % Score variance to produce a round winner

: % Score difference to indicate a dominating, 10:8, round

Note: If you have any idea's as to how to improve upon this scoring page, please do contact us.

x   NOTES

MMA scoring needs more liberal use of 10-10 and 10-8 rounds:
   If nobody clearly wins the round it should be scored 10-10.
   If someone clearly wins the round it should be scored 10-9.
   If someone clearly wins the round and gets their opponent in serious trouble it should be scored 10-8.
   If someone dominates the round and the fight was on the verge of being stopped it should be scored 10-7.

MMA scoring seems to be very subjective; judges appear to have their own preferred techniques be they striking, wrestling or submission attempts ... but in reality all of these techniques should be treated as a whole and have equal value, only when the technique puts someone in trouble should they be scored higher.

MMA judges score too many rounds 10-9, they should feel less inhibited about scoring close rounds 10-10 and one-sided rounds 10-8, or even 10-7.

If a round, or fight, was very close it should be scored a draw, it is not a cop-out if its a true reflection of the action.