For all the times people turn to compubox stats to back up there opinions etc.. By looking at how it runs I would say it's less reliable than the scoring of three judges. One person to compute for each fighters, its completely manual nothing scientific about it. Four buttons, "jab connect, jab miss, power punch connect, and power punch miss" one operator monitoring each fighter and filling it in. Multi-tasking eh
I thought this was well known by the community for a long time now. Nevertheless, you are correct on a number of counts. Compubox is more susceptible to "tainted" results. Compubox is also less objective due to the mathematics and mechanics of the system.
i think Compubox should acknowledge that watching a fight in real time is very innacurate due to the spead, and the angle your watching the fight. They should also watch the fight after in super slowmotion and in black and white (important) and then release the actual figures to go on record permenantly. Who cares if the figures are differant. We're bigboy, we understand being able to tell if punches land at real speed is incredibly hard.
I did not know it worked like this at all. Appalled at how flimsy the system is yet everyone talks about it like its utter fact. I assumed it would be like a huge number of people recording the hits etc and then an average across the counters or something. Not just one person watching and inputting. They mean nothing to me now. Only reason I looked it up is because I thought the compubox numbers for bradley manny were complete horse****
