I have a question about judge placement during fights. Where do they sit. Does each judge sit on a different side of the ring? Also, what do you guys think about his idea to help with judging??? Have a total of 5 judges 1 on each side of the ring 1 in a booth watching it on a television as we would see it, except with no sound. I think that format could definitely provide a more accurate assessment of the fight.
Why not just leave the official scoring up to the hundreds of sports reporters that cover and score the fight? Then throw out the top 30% of the cards that are furthest apart from each other. The remaining cards will determine the winner. You'd get a good mix of cards from guys watching it live, online, on HBO, Sky, or whatever foreign broadcast they're on. This would have to be more accurate than three 85 year olds sitting ringside, also would make it near impossible to pay off enough of them to rig a decision.
What a ridiculous idea. And no, don't ask me if I have a better one. The only idea I have is to stop people paying judges off. No names mentioned, and no it's not just the obvious one you're thinking of.
That's not an idea without proposing a way to stop this from happening. There really is no realistic way that i can think of.
Better yet, don't even consider the entire card as a whole to determine the winner; do it on a round by round basis that decides who offically won that round on a "master" scorecard. i.e. 90 of the 105 judges scored round one 10-9 for fighter X, therefore he wins that round 10-9 on the official card. This would lead to only once score for the fight, instead of three, five or 100. In cases where the difference of opinion is less than 5% then the round is officially a draw on the master scorecard. Judges who consistently turn in scores that differ greatly than the majority could just then be not allowed to participate in the future. Even allowing the fans to score the fight would be better than what they're doing now, you'd have millions of scorecards to determine the winner; throw out the top and bottom 20% and there you go.
This is also a very good idea. Using a little bit of statistics would nearly eliminate bad scorecards. Considering this to be the age of technology. These reporters can be given access to a secure online scoring system. If programmed properly, an online scoring system could easily identify invalid score cards (those that vary too much from the norm) Now we just need an ESB member who does computer programming to develop this system. Hell, I'll help.
