Does MMA Math Work? A Study on Sports Prediction Applied to Mixed Martial Arts

Predicting the outcome of sporting events make for an interesting and not altogether trivial AI and machine learning problem. In spite of the popularity of both AI and sports, most applications were of unsupervised learning to discover interesting new structure in sports. Of sports predictors, there has only been a single paper written: MYMAIT, which used neural networks to predict rugby results. This system achieved 67% accuracy on its initial run, and after 10 years of additional data, this accuracy has increased to 85%.