Ultimate Fighting Championship Analysis

  • Cheong Soon Loong (WQD190023)
  • Nurshara Fazreen (WQD190029)
  • Chan Pei Shan (WQD180100)
  • Tang Kit Lim (WQD190032)

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What is UFC?

  • A sport where 2 people fight using mixed martial arts with minimum rules.
  • Consist of 2 categories known as RED and BLUE fighters
  • UFC Generates over 750 Million USD revenue in year 2018 plot of chunk unnamed-chunk-2

Why UFC?

  • UFC is one of the biggest emerging sports that helps athletics to showcase their skills
  • A good platform to introduce martial arts and their uniqueness from around the world
  • In this analysis, we explore on
    1. How to help fighter prepare for their next fight?
    2. Who has the higher chances of winning given both of their fight history ?

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Our Dataset

  • Our dataset was retrieved from Kaggle where it consist of all the history of the previous fights by all fighters around the world between 1993 to 2019.
  • Separated into 2 sets, which are for Figthers data and Modeling data

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Project Methodology

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The source code can be found here.
Now, let's have a look at our UFC player analysis app here.