Kody Steele
7-1-0
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VS
2026-10-24
UFC 333: Volkanovski vs. Evloev
Lightweight
Noah Gugnon
9-2-0
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RECENCY-HEAVY · ENSEMBLE PREDICTION
Kody Steele
51.7% CONFIDENCE
Market vs Model VALUE
Kody Steele
Noah Gugnon
Opening line
-150
+128
Market says
58%
42%
Ensemble says
52%
48%
Gap vs market
-6
+6
Market Margin says
69%
31%
Edge at that price
+9
-13
Kody Steele at -150: Market Margin gives 69% vs 60% needed to break even — a 9-point edge.
The gap uses whichever model you've selected. Value always comes from Market Margin, the one model whose disagreements with the betting line were backtested (flagged sides returned about +8% for favorites and +18% for underdogs on flat bets at the opening price across ~2,800 past fights). Other models' disagreements with the market haven't held up, so they don't get a value flag. It's measured against the opening line — if the price has moved, the edge will be different.
Fight Insights
63%
Noah Gugnon
Fighters who are 5+ years younger than their opponent have won 63% of their UFC fights (1773-1054)
Noah Gugnon is 26, Kody Steele is 32
Real UFC history since 2006, using each fighter's record, form and stats as they stood before every past fight. Only patterns that hold up statistically (corrected for testing many ideas at once) and point the same way in both halves of history are shown — these describe the past, they are not predictions.
How It Ends
46%
Decision
28%
KO / TKO
26%
Submission
Decision46.2%
KO / TKO27.8%
Submission26.1%
How long it lasts 3-round fight
42%
Goes the distance
fair +136
58%
Ends in a finish
fair -136
Rounds lineOverUnder
0.5 87% -671 13% +671
1.5 58% -138 42% +138
2.5 42% +136 58% -136
When it ends
Round 135%
Round 216%
Round 37%
Goes the distance42%
"Over 1.5" means the fight lasts past the middle of round 2, the way sportsbooks settle it. Fair odds are the break-even price with no vig, so compare them with a book's line. On unseen fights this model beat the plain base rate by about 4% (log loss; 51% of 3-round fights go the distance), so treat it as a tilt away from the base rate, not a certainty.
Why XGBoost leans this way
Kody Steele
Noah Gugnon
Age edge (significant gap)
Matchup +5.49
12%
Strike rate delta r1 to r3
Kody Steele -0.88
9%
Net striking dominance
Matchup -0.26
8%
Age
Noah Gugnon 26.0 yrs
7%
Last 2 avg fight time
Noah Gugnon 81
6%
Avg takedowns attempted
Noah Gugnon 2.32
5%
Total career fights (incl. non-UFC)
Kody Steele 8
5%
Experience edge (total fights)
Matchup -3
5%
Body strikes absorbed per min
Kody Steele 0.43
4%
Head-strike accuracy edge
Matchup 10%
4%
Strikes absorbed/min
Kody Steele 4.22
3%
Career head strikes absorbed
Noah Gugnon 5
3%
Fights per year
Kody Steele 1.63
3%
Sub attempts/fight
Noah Gugnon 0.52
3%
← pushes toward Kody Steele pushes toward Noah Gugnon →
Bars show each factor's SHAP contribution to this specific prediction — how much it pushed the win probability toward one fighter, given everything else the model knows. Percentages are each factor's share of the total push across the top 30 factors.

Kody Steele

Win Streak
1
Finish Rate
50%
Avg Duration
9.5m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
W SUB
L DEC
Height: 175 cm
Weight: 155 lbs
Reach: 180 cm
Stance: Orthodox

Noah Gugnon

Win Streak
1
Finish Rate
100%
Avg Duration
1.4m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
W SUB
Height: N/A cm
Weight: 155 lbs
Reach: N/A cm
Stance: N/A
Head-to-Head Stats
Kody Steele
ADVANTAGE
Noah Gugnon
Striking Accuracy
37.8%
+7.1%
44.8%
Strikes Landed/Min
2.90
+0.30
2.59
Strikes Absorbed/Min
4.22
+1.58
2.64
Striking Defense
51.9%
+4.7%
56.6%
Takedown Accuracy
39.2%
+1.7%
37.5%
Takedown Defense
62.5%
EVEN
62.5%
Knockdowns/Fight
0.14
+0.02
0.16
Avg Control Time (sec)
77.38
+1.97
75.41
Strikes Per Round
14.92
+0.59
14.33
Head Strike %
66.1%
+4.4%
61.7%
Body Strike %
19.9%
+0.1%
20.1%
Leg Strike %
13.9%
+4.3%
18.2%
Last 5 Win Rate
50.0%
+50.0%
100.0%
Last 5 Finish Rate
50.0%
+50.0%
100.0%