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Richie Vaculik

10-4-0
43y·5' 6"·69" reach·Orthodox
2:59
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.40
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
0%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 4 recorded bouts, 166 in total. Target and position are two readings of the same strikes, so each adds to 100.

Target
Head 64%Body 19%Legs 17%
Position
Distance 80%Clinch 14%Ground 7%
And how often each lands
Head38%
Body72%
Legs88%
Distance42%
Clinch77%
Ground92%

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.

1Wins1 DEC
3Losses2 KO · 1 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.

0%
Scoggins
48%
Sangcha'an
11%
Smolka
5%
Martinez

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
R13.45100%4
R24.00116%3
R33.69107%3

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min3.69
Strikes absorbed / min4.09
Striking accuracyof everything thrown46%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed57%
Takedowns / 15 min3
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land45%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed31%
Sub attempts / 15 min1
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together7.78
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 4 bouts11.3m

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.

42.2%
Landed at range
313 thrown over 4 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

It takes 5 bouts before this comparison says anything. There are 4 here, so it's only showing what they actually landed.

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

LDanny MartinezNov 2015U-DEC0:45 ctrl63 str3 td
Significant strikes
63 of 156 · 40%
Total strikes
82 of 176 · 47%
Takedowns
3 of 3 · 100%
Control
0:45
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 67%Body 10%Legs 24%
Position
Distance 86%Clinch 6%Ground 8%
This fight on UFCStats
LLouis SmolkaNov 2014KO R31:05 ctrl74 str2 td
Significant strikes
74 of 142 · 52%
Total strikes
84 of 153 · 55%
Takedowns
2 of 2 · 100%
Control
1:05
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
1
Reversals
1
Ended
KO / TKO, R3 0:18
Kick to Head At Distance Side Kick
Target
Head 70%Body 22%Legs 8%
Position
Distance 81%Clinch 14%Ground 5%
This fight on UFCStats
WRoldan Sangcha'anJun 2014U-DEC7:08 ctrl27 str4 td
Significant strikes
27 of 50 · 54%
Total strikes
55 of 82 · 67%
Takedowns
4 of 15 · 27%
Control
7:08
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
2
Reversals
1
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 44%Body 33%Legs 22%
Position
Distance 59%Clinch 33%Ground 7%
This fight on UFCStats
LJustin ScogginsDec 2013KO R10:00 ctrl2 str0 td
Significant strikes
2 of 7 · 29%
Total strikes
19 of 24 · 79%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
0:00
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
KO / TKO, R1 4:43
Punches to Head From Back Control
Target
Head 50%Body 0%Legs 50%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats

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