Alon Cohen

So there may be more head strikes landed, power head strikes landed, and there may be some other head strikes landed.

But there's probably not a tight submission or a Kimura or something like that.

But these are different kinds of submission types that we would track.

And so all of them are available on the sheet so that you can just tick those off and move on.

Right.

So those are the 67 independent boxes on the sheet that we could mark something down on.

A couple of things are happening inside of an MMA match that are worthy of note to the average fan.

It is scored per round.

And one of the problems that you have when you score per round is that people don't think per round, right?

They don't get to the end of round one and say, round one is over.

I will make a decision about round one.

Let us now go to—they don't do that.

They look at the totality of the match.

The shorthand I used for this for a long time is you make the invisible visible to people.

Like, what exactly did I see?

The other thing that—the last thing that the numbers do for us is they tend to combat recency.

Because you just forget what happened in round one or it just doesn't leave a strong impression.

And of course, fighters fight to that.

What do you do right at the end of the round?

You take a dude and you take him down.