Male UFC Fighters by Reach and Weight Class, Highlighting…
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Male UFC Fighters by Reach and Weight Class, Highlighting Ape Index Outliers
**Notes and Caveats:**
* **Ape Index** is the ratio of reach to Height. A number greater than 1 indicates a reach longer than their height.
* There is warranted skepticism on the accuracy of some fighters measurements - especially height, which will likely skew the ape index calculations.
* **Artem Lobov** is tied for the smallest ape index (0.94) with Cole Smith.
* **Joaquin Buckley** (1.25 ape index) is tied for the second highest reach behind Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (1.28, but i'm less confident in this recording just by eyeballing).
* So for comparison, here are examples of two extremes: Artem Lobov https://gidstats.com/fighters/artem_lobov.html , Joaquin Buckley https://media.gettyimages.com/id/2189423588/photo/ufc-fighter-portraits.jpg?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=anG3PvwtioAMP7_lGymotinwiXoVUqeXgN-HjG8Ik9c=
Source: Kaggle Dataset https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/neelagiriaditya/ufc-datasets-1994-2025/data
Tool: R (ggplot library)
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**Notes and Caveats:**
* **Ape Index** is the ratio of reach to Height. A number greater than 1 indicates a reach longer than their height.
* There is warranted skepticism on the accuracy of some fighters measurements - especially height, which will likely skew the ape index calculations.
* **Artem Lobov** is tied for the smallest ape index (0.94) with Cole Smith.
* **Joaquin Buckley** (1.25 ape index) is tied for the second highest reach behind Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou (1.28, but i'm less confident in this recording just by eyeballing).
* So for comparison, here are examples of two extremes: Artem Lobov https://gidstats.com/fighters/artem_lobov.html , Joaquin Buckley https://media.gettyimages.com/id/2189423588/photo/ufc-fighter-portraits.jpg?s=2048x2048&w=gi&k=20&c=anG3PvwtioAMP7_lGymotinwiXoVUqeXgN-HjG8Ik9c=
Source: Kaggle Dataset https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/neelagiriaditya/ufc-datasets-1994-2025/data
Tool: R (ggplot library)
#education
source
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