A new way to score fights

Discussion in 'World Boxing Forum' started by asweetscience, Oct 14, 2024.

  1. asweetscience

    asweetscience New Member Full Member

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    Hi!

    I’m working on an iOS app that I think the community here might be interested in.

    At it’s core is a strike-by-strike scoring interface that lets users quickly asign a value to moments in a fight via clockwise and counterclockwise gestures.

    The problem i’m trying to solve is that scoring is subjective, but there’s no tool out there that can quantify your interpretation of the action in a fight.

    If instead there was timestamped data in the form of graphs and lists that could be referenced and compared, we could elevate the standard of conversation around scoring.

    Saturday’s main event was a good example of why this approach could be valuable. I noticed that most of the debate between the Bivol and Beterbiev camps ultimately reached a stalemate, where ‘it depends what you like’ was the conclusion.

    Right now development is moving at a slow, but steady pace, with the core mechanics finalized, but lots of work to do around UI, UX and data handling.

    It’s a solo venture, and i’m a working dad, so the timeline for release isn’t set in stone. But i am planning on hosting a series of closed beta tests, to a small group of fans.

    If this sounds at all interesting, and you would like to join one of the beta tests, shoot me a DM.

    Likewise if this sounds like a fundamentally broken idea, that has no use case, tell me why you think that. I’ve used the Alpha version to score a bunch of contentious fights, and felt that it really helped clarify my own interpretation of what was happening. So I’d like to try and change your mind.