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Robert McDaniel

28-10-0
43y·6' 3"·75" reach·Southpaw
5:17
Control / 15m
time on top
-0.34
Striking diff.
landed minus absorbed
100%
Finish rate
wins inside the distance
0
Power
knockdowns per 100 landed

How they fight

Every significant strike they have landed across 3 recorded bouts, 53 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 60%Clinch 15%Ground 25%
And how often each lands
Head40%
Body56%
Legs56%
Distance34%
Clinch80%
Ground76%

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 SUB
2Losses1 SUB · 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.

49%
Smith
31%
Tavares
10%
Strickland

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
R11.44100%3
R22.402
R31.032

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

Career numbers

Strikes landed / min1.64
Strikes absorbed / min1.98
Striking accuracyof everything thrown44%
Striking defenceof what comes back, missed56%
Takedowns / 15 min0.93
Takedown accuracyof attempts that land50%
Takedown defenceof attempts stuffed50%
Sub attempts / 15 min1.4
Pacestrikes landed and absorbed, added together3.62
Average bout lengthhow long their fights actually last, across 3 bouts10.8m

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.

34.4%
Landed at range
93 thrown over 3 bouts
Expected
against these opponents
Gap
below the cutoffs
Coverage
from real records

It takes 5 bouts before this comparison says anything. There are 3 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

LSean StricklandMar 2014SUB R10:26 ctrl4 str1 td
Significant strikes
4 of 10 · 40%
Total strikes
4 of 10 · 40%
Takedowns
1 of 1 · 100%
Control
0:26
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Submission, R1 4:33
Rear Naked Choke
Target
Head 25%Body 50%Legs 25%
Position
Distance 100%Clinch 0%Ground 0%
This fight on UFCStats
LBrad TavaresAug 2013U-DEC4:41 ctrl14 str1 td
Significant strikes
14 of 56 · 25%
Total strikes
35 of 78 · 45%
Takedowns
1 of 3 · 33%
Control
4:41
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
0
Reversals
0
Ended
Unanimous decision, 3 rounds
Target
Head 50%Body 21%Legs 29%
Position
Distance 71%Clinch 14%Ground 14%
This fight on UFCStats
WGilbert SmithApr 2013SUB R36:16 ctrl35 str0 td
Significant strikes
35 of 54 · 65%
Total strikes
97 of 117 · 83%
Takedowns
0 of 0
Control
6:16
Knockdowns
0
Sub attempts
3
Reversals
2
Ended
Submission, R3 2:49
Triangle Choke On Ground
Target
Head 74%Body 14%Legs 11%
Position
Distance 51%Clinch 17%Ground 31%
This fight on UFCStats

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