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Brian Ebersole

51-18-1 (1 NC)
45y·6' 0"·73" reach·Southpaw
5:03
Control / 15m
time on top
+0.18
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
17%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0.4
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 8 recorded bouts, 241 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 59%Body 17%Legs 24%
Position
Distance 59%Clinch 17%Ground 24%
And how often each lands
Head43%
Body54%
Legs68%
Distance40%
Clinch66%
Ground75%

How fights end

UFC bouts only, so these will not add up to the record above. Counts rather than rates: two knockouts in three wins is not a 67% finisher.

6Wins1 KO · 5 DEC
3Losses1 KO · 2 DEC

Control, bout by bout

Seconds spent controlling the opponent in each fight, oldest on the left. UFCStats records this per bout and never adds it up; this is what that looks like added up.

50%
Lytle
47%
Hallman
60%
Patrick
55%
Waldburger
19%
Head
3%
Story
22%
Howard
0%
Akhmedov

As the fight goes on

Which measure to show

Significant strikes landed, per minute fought. Every round is measured against round one, except rounds reached by fewer than 3 bouts, which are dimmed and left uncompared.

Landed / minvs R1Bouts
R12.38100%8
R22.1791%6
R32.73115%6

Only fights that reached a round count towards it, so later rounds are a smaller sample.

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min2.32
Strikes absorbed / min2.14
Striking accuracyof everything thrown49%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed56%
Takedowns / 15 min1.7
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land23%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed61%
Sub attempts / 15 min0.1
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together4.46
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 8 bouts12.4m

Earned Accuracy

How hard the opponents on this record were to hit at distance, and whether they beat it. Distance strikes only, so nobody gets credit for accuracy they picked up hammering someone already flat on the floor.

40.3%
Landed at range
352 thrown over 7 bouts
34.3%
Expected
against these opponents
+6.0pp
Gap
above expected
75.0%
Coverage
from real records
The fine print

Distance strikes only

Nothing thrown in the clinch or on the ground counts. Those land at about 72% and 71%, against 44% at distance, so a blended accuracy mostly measures where a fight happened. Rank the sport that way and its best strikers are all wrestlers.

One pass, not a rating

How much each opponent lets through is taken raw. It isn't adjusted for who they fought, so a fighter whose opponents all had soft schedules comes out looking better here than they are. Running it to convergence is a later job.

Coverage, and who gets ranked

Coverage is how much of the expected number came from the opponents' own records instead of the division average. Under 65% it's mostly the division talking, so the comparison gets hidden. Same for anyone under 5 qualifying bouts, or under 300 distance strikes of their own, which is where an accuracy still moves on a single exchange. Miss any of the three and you'll see what they landed, nothing else, and they stay out of any ranking.

Short records get pulled to the middle

An opponent who hasn't been shot at much gets dragged toward their division's average, and the drag fades as their record fills in. At 60 distance strikes faced, their own record and the division average count for the same.

Bout log

LOmari AkhmedovJun 2015KO R10:00 ctrl2 str0 td
Significant strikes
2 of 13 · 15%
Total strikes
3 of 14 · 21%
Takedowns
0 of 1 · 0%
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 5:00
to Knee Injury
Target
Head 50%Body 0%Legs 50%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
WJohn HowardSep 2014S-DEC3:15 ctrl49 str1 td
Significant strikes
49 of 94 · 52%
Total strikes
104 of 156 · 67%
Takedowns
1 of 5 · 20%
Control
3:15
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 43%Body 14%Legs 43%
Position
Distance 65%Clinch 27%Ground 8%
This fight on UFCStats
LRick StoryNov 2013U-DEC0:25 ctrl42 str0 td
Significant strikes
42 of 114 · 37%
Total strikes
42 of 114 · 37%
Takedowns
0 of 7 · 0%
Control
0:25
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 69%Body 14%Legs 17%
Position
Distance 90%Clinch 10%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LJames HeadJul 2012S-DEC2:54 ctrl35 str1 td
Significant strikes
35 of 88 · 40%
Total strikes
51 of 104 · 49%
Takedowns
1 of 15 · 7%
Control
2:54
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 37%Body 26%Legs 37%
Position
Distance 91%Clinch 3%Ground 6%
This fight on UFCStats
WTJ WaldburgerJun 2012U-DEC8:16 ctrl39 str2 td
Significant strikes
39 of 59 · 66%
Total strikes
90 of 118 · 76%
Takedowns
2 of 5 · 40%
Control
8:16
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 74%Body 15%Legs 10%
Position
Distance 36%Clinch 15%Ground 49%
This fight on UFCStats
WClaude PatrickDec 2011S-DEC9:00 ctrl23 str2 td
Significant strikes
23 of 39 · 59%
Total strikes
53 of 74 · 72%
Takedowns
2 of 12 · 17%
Control
9:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Split decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 61%Body 9%Legs 30%
Position
Distance 39%Clinch 43%Ground 17%
This fight on UFCStats
WDennis HallmanAug 2011KO R12:07 ctrl19 str0 td
Significant strikes
19 of 24 · 79%
Total strikes
49 of 58 · 84%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
2:07
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
1
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:28
Elbows to Head From Guard
Target
Head 95%Body 5%Legs 0%
Position
Distance 0%Clinch 0%Ground 100%
This fight on UFCStats
WChris LytleFeb 2011U-DEC7:32 ctrl32 str4 td
Significant strikes
32 of 61 · 52%
Total strikes
73 of 104 · 70%
Takedowns
4 of 8 · 50%
Control
7:32
Knockdowns
1
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 53%Body 28%Legs 19%
Position
Distance 47%Clinch 25%Ground 28%
This fight on UFCStats

Numbers from UFCStats. Control time and strike placement are summed from each bout, everything else is as published.