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Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Throwdown Tips: How To Pick Your Fighters ?
Ever wanted to try playing fantasy boxing but haven’t because you’re having a hard time picking the fighters for your team? You’re in luck because we’ve got some good tips on how to pick your fighters at Throwdown Fantasy so that you can start winning in our games: Look at Win-Loss Records
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Win-loss records tell the story of a fighter’s career. It tells you
how many wins, losses, draws, no-contests, knockouts and wins by
decision he’s had throughout his entire career. For discussion purposes,
let’s take a look at the record of Timothy Bradley Jr., who’s one of the featured competitors in Throwdown Fantasy‘s #BronerPorter games. Here is the record of Desert Storm: 31-1-1-1 12 KOs.
Bradley’s statline says that he has 31 wins, 1 loss, 1 draw, 1
no-contest and 12 knockout wins (in that particular order). Now what’s
the significance of this?
With 12 KOs in 31 wins, his record says that he’s not the one to pick
if you’re looking for KOs because he’s not a knockout artist like say A
Deontay Wilder and Gennady Golovkin
who have a combined 62 KOS in 66 fights. So while Bradley is a good pick
because he’s won 91% of his fights, he’s most probably going to do it
by decision rather than by abbreviation.
Let’s go Bradley’s June 27 bout with Jessie Vargas, because if we take a look at Vargas’ win-loss record, it says 26-0-0-0 with 9 KOs. If
you match that up against Bradley’s, Doesn’t it make Vargas better
because he is undefeated? Not necessarily, and that brings us to our
next item for discussion: Quality of past opponents.
Look at Past Opponents
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Tim Bradley Jr. has fought Manny Pacquiao twice, going 1-1 against the Filipino ring legend. Impressive? Bradley’s also beaten Kendall Holt, Lamont Peterson, Devon Alexander, Joel Casamayor, Ruslan Provodnikov, Juan Manuel Marquez . That’s some murderer’s row right there, don’t you think?
On the other hand, Jessie Vargas is the WBA light welterweight champion, winning the title via unanimous decision from Khabib Allakhverdiev in April 2014. He also owns victories over Vivian Harris, Josésito López, Steve Forbes, Wale Omotoso and most recently Antonio DeMarco. That list isn’t a cherry picker’s list either, but it’s not as impressive as Bradley’s list.
We’d like to discuss each opponent to drive home our point, but that
would make this too long. Instead, you may click on the names of
Bradley’s and Vargas’ opponents to see their records too and compare
them. Or if you know boxing really well, you know what we’re driving at:
The quality of past opponents gives out the quality of the fighter,
although this is not also absolute. So this is the reason why Bradley is
priced higher than Vargas in our game. Look at their Stats
Stats are what wins you the games. So let’s try to read this head to
head between Bradley and Vargas. We saw in their win-loss records that
both Vargas and Bradley aren’t KO artists with a combined 21 KOs in 57 wins. Now notice that their punch stats are high
and that’s because most of their fights go the distance( that’s where
they earn their fantasy points from). Let’s compare it with a different
card:
Now don’t let this one mislead you. Deontay Wilder does average 88.48 fantasy points per fight, but yes he does connect only on an average of 40.7 punches per fight. Here’s why: Wilder’s won all but one of his fights by KO and in some instances as in the Audley Harrison and Malik Scott bout, he needed just 5 and 4 punches respectively, to win. So if you’re looking for KO points, you’ve got to notice fighters like Wilder who don’t land too many punchesbut average big fantasy points because these are knockout artists. Look for Weight
We all know what happened to Daniel Geale against Miguel Cotto and while we don’t want to take credit away from Cotto and Freddie Roach, the strategy to set a catchweight of 157 pounds was key in their bout. The result? Geale rehydrated to 180 pounds
on fight night, looked unhealthy and was flat. He also didn’t have good
balance while his punches lacked sting. Cotto knocked him out in Round 4. So before you pick fights, know what weight the fight is at and relate that to the boxers involved in the fight.
Secondly, let’s go back to the previous item which we discussed: The stats. Usually, the higher the weight class, the more possibility of knockouts. So with the exception of say Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez who is a KO artist despite being the smallest fighter in the Top 10 Pound for Pound list, smaller fighters usually go the distance while fights at heavier weight classes usually end in KOs. Look for Style of Fight
We go back to our launch last May 2 during the #MayPac $10K Throwdown. Coming in to the fight, we all knew Manny Pacquiao was all-action, throwing punches is bunches and finishing with KOs. We also knew that Floyd Mayweather Jr. is the best defensive fighter the sport has ever seen and fights at a distance. Here was their pre-fight head to head stats:
Mayweather’s high punch stats denote that he’s a boxer, a master
boxer at that. Pacquiao meanwhile has all the KOs in his resume, 38 to be exact so his punch stats are lower. But how did styles come into play during the fight?
Well Money made Manny miss a lot and he nailed Pacquiao with a lot of counter rights each time the Filipino
tried to penetrate his defense. Forget that injured shoulder, it wasn’t
a factor. Mayweather’s defense was the key to the fight. As they say,
styles make fights and you’ve got to pick the right style in every
match-up. Salary Cap
Every game has a fantasy salary cap of $25,000 that you have to use to draft five fighters, so that’s an average of $5,000 per boxer. With that amount, you can’t draft five favorites in one team. You have to be able to mix your favorites with the right underdogs. So unless you want to enter the game more than once (which you can do with Throwdown Fantasy)
what you do is make use of the other factors discussed above in
choosing fighters. If you choose wisely, you could be our next big
winner.
The current big game is #BronerPorter $2K Throwdown which ends on June 20. Go check it out at Throwdown Fantasybecause
by far, it’s got the most exciting group of bouts with a lot of live
underdogs who can really win it for you. What are you waiting for, Throwdown now! Special thanks to Throwdownfantasy.com
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