Data & Methodology

This page describes where Fight Blueprint information comes from, how analysis is produced, and how we signal what is known versus estimated. It is published so that any figure on the platform can be challenged and traced.

1. Two kinds of information

Source facts — name, record, height, reach, stance, weight class, opponents, dates and results — come from public reporting and reference sources, and are stored with the source and the date retrieved.

Derived intelligence — Blueprint Score, subscores, tendencies, style fingerprints, weaknesses, matchup analysis, camp recommendations and similarity — is produced by Fight Blueprint’s own analysis layer from those facts. It is always presented as analysis, never as third-party fact.

2. Discipline integrity

Every profile is validated against the sport it is classified under before any report is generated. Outcomes that cannot occur in a sport, ratings belonging to another sport, and analysis language drawn from another rule set are flagged rather than displayed. Where evidence in a profile’s own fight history contradicts its label, the profile is reclassified to the sport the evidence supports; records and fight history are never rewritten in that process.

An athlete who competes in more than one sport is modelled as one identity with separate careers. An MMA record is never reused as a boxing record.

3. Confidence and coverage

Every report states how strongly it is supported: how much evidence exists, how recent it is, and how many independent sources contributed. Low-coverage reports are labelled as early reads rather than settled patterns, and cross-source verification produces a published grade.

4. Missing data

When a value is unknown it is shown as unknown. Fight Blueprint does not substitute zero for missing data, does not infer a rating from an absent statistic, and does not display historical progression unless dated evidence exists.

5. Source governance

Sources are registered internally and classified as approved, needs review, restricted, licensed, first-party or public factual. Restricted sources are excluded from the enrichment pipeline. Each stored field keeps its own provenance record: source, retrieval date and confidence.

6. Video evidence

Tape references link to footage on the rights holder’s own platform with a timestamp. Fight Blueprint does not rehost broadcast footage. See Copyright & IP.

7. Corrections

If a figure looks wrong, tell us through the contact page and include the page URL. Corrections to source facts are applied at the data layer and re-flow into derived analysis on the next refresh.