Nick Klein
"Blue Collar"
6-3-0
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VS
2026-10-31
UFC Fight Night: Klein vs. Kropschot
Middleweight
Joseph Kropschot
"The Land Animal"
8-3-0
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MARKET MARGIN · XGBOOST PREDICTION
Joseph Kropschot 'The Land Animal'
66.6% CONFIDENCE
Market vs Model VALUE
Nick Klein
Joseph Kropschot
Opening line
+280
-350
Market says
25%
75%
XGBoost says
33%
67%
Gap vs market
+8
-8
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.
How It Ends
31%
Decision
42%
KO / TKO
27%
Submission
Decision31.1%
KO / TKO41.8%
Submission27.1%
How long it lasts 5-round fight
30%
Goes the distance
fair +237
70%
Ends in a finish
fair -237
Rounds lineOverUnder
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
Round 123%
Round 219%
Round 312%
Round 49%
Round 57%
Goes the distance30%
"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
Reach
Nick Klein 196 cm
7%
Avg takedowns attempted
Nick Klein 4.20
7%
Elo rating
Nick Klein 1,455
6%
Elo rating edge
Matchup -45
6%
Reach
Joseph Kropschot
5%
Experience edge (total fights)
Matchup -2
5%
Days since last fight
Nick Klein 455 days
4%
Share vs elite fighters
Nick Klein 0.50
4%
Leg-strike share
Nick Klein 21%
4%
Leg strikes absorbed per min
Nick Klein 0.27
4%
Years past divisional prime
Nick Klein 1.15
3%
Total career fights (incl. non-UFC)
Nick Klein 9
3%
Years past divisional prime
Joseph Kropschot 1.37
3%
Distance strike defense
Nick Klein 59%
3%
← 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
47.2%
+47.2%
0.0%
Strikes Landed/Min
2.43
+2.43
0.00
Strikes Absorbed/Min
2.77
+2.77
0.00
Striking Defense
50.9%
+50.9%
0.0%
Takedown Accuracy
35.5%
+35.5%
0.0%
Takedown Defense
63.0%
+63.0%
0.0%
Knockdowns/Fight
0.17
+0.17
0.00
Avg Control Time (sec)
88.53
+88.53
0.00
Strikes Per Round
13.34
+13.34
0.00
Head Strike %
58.4%
+58.4%
0.0%
Body Strike %
20.6%
+20.6%
0.0%
Leg Strike %
21.0%
+21.0%
0.0%