Nick Klein
"Blue Collar"
6-3-0
Thin UFC data
VS
Joseph Kropschot
"The Land Animal"
8-3-0
Thin UFC data
Market vs Model VALUE
Nick Klein
Joseph Kropschot
Opening line
+280
-350
Market says
25%
75%
Main + Market says
30%
70%
Gap vs market
+5
-5
Market Margin says
33%
67%
Edge at that price
+7
-11
Nick Klein at +280:
Market Margin gives 33% vs 26% needed to break even
— a 7-point edge on the underdog.
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
43%
Nick Klein
Fighters who are returning from a layoff of a year or more have won 43% of their UFC fights (624-820)
Nick Klein: 15 months since last fight
23%
Market check · Nick Klein
Big underdogs (opening line under 33%) have won 23% of their fights — 4 points below the 27% the opening lines implied (n=2630)
Nick Klein: opening line implies a 25% chance to win
41%
Division & format
Middleweight fights go the distance 41% of the time (vs 48% of all UFC fights, n=1074)
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.
What Every Model Says
Main + Market
currently viewing
30.0%
70.0%
Joseph Kropschot
XGBoost
53.2%
46.8%
Nick Klein
LightGBM
54.2%
45.8%
Nick Klein
Logistic (Core)
48.8%
51.2%
Joseph Kropschot
CatBoost
50.5%
49.5%
Nick Klein
Ensemble
53.1%
46.9%
Nick Klein
Market Margin · XGBoost
33.4%
66.6%
Joseph Kropschot
Recency-Heavy · CatBoost
50.6%
49.4%
Nick Klein
Recency-Heavy · Ensemble
53.2%
46.8%
Nick Klein
Recency-Heavy · LightGBM
53.3%
46.7%
Nick Klein
Recency-Heavy · Logistic (Core)
48.0%
52.0%
Joseph Kropschot
Recency-Heavy · XGBoost
51.7%
48.3%
Nick Klein
With Odds · CatBoost
30.1%
69.9%
Joseph Kropschot
With Odds · Ensemble
30.3%
69.7%
Joseph Kropschot
With Odds · LightGBM
27.4%
72.6%
Joseph Kropschot
With Odds · Logistic (Core)
48.8%
51.2%
Joseph Kropschot
With Odds · XGBoost
27.4%
72.6%
Joseph Kropschot
Click a model to view the fight through its eyes — probabilities, prediction and explanation update.
How It Ends
31%
Decision
42%
KO / TKO
27%
Submission
How long it lasts 5-round fight
30%
Goes the distance
fair +237
70%
Ends in a finish
fair -237
| Rounds line | Over | Under |
|---|---|---|
| 0.5 | 90% -893 | 10% +893 |
| 1.5 | 61% -157 | 39% +157 |
| 2.5 | 53% -112 | 47% +112 |
| 3.5 | 42% +138 | 58% -138 |
| 4.5 | 34% +196 | 66% -196 |
When it ends
"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 10%
(log loss; 46% of 5-round fights go the distance),
so treat it as a tilt away from the base rate, not a certainty.
Why XGBoost leans this way
Nick Klein
Joseph Kropschot
15%
9%
6%
6%
5%
5%
5%
4%
4%
4%
3%
2%
2%
2%
← pushes toward Nick Klein
pushes toward Joseph Kropschot →
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.
Nick Klein
Win Streak
N/A
Finish Rate
N/A%
Avg Duration
7.5m
Last 5 fights (most recent first)
L
KO
L
KO
Height:
185 cm
Weight:
185 lbs
Reach:
196 cm
Stance:
Orthodox
Joseph Kropschot
Win Streak
N/A
Finish Rate
N/A%
Avg Duration
N/Am
Height:
N/A cm
Weight:
185 lbs
Reach:
N/A cm
Stance:
N/A
Head-to-Head Stats
Nick Klein
ADVANTAGE
Joseph Kropschot
Striking Accuracy
Strikes Landed/Min
Strikes Absorbed/Min
Striking Defense
Takedown Accuracy
Takedown Defense
Knockdowns/Fight
Avg Control Time (sec)
Strikes Per Round
Head Strike %
Body Strike %
Leg Strike %