My suggestion of computer scoring was to prevent crazy robberies where one fighter clearly won according to the rest of the world but was robbed by blind or corrupt judges.
If the computer gave the fight to Dirrell on accuracy here who would complain? It was a very close that could have gone either way.
My argument wasn't that a computer would be more accurate in all cases but more consistently accurate over the majority of the cases, and where it would have problems would be in very close fights such as this where ultimately it doesnt matter which side it chooses.
A computer would have a certain bias its true but judges have waaaaaaay more.
You had 100 fights judged by a computer and 100 the traditional way my bet is you would have far less fans crying robbery in the computer scoring fights.
However I think MORE fighters might complain if the computer was judge, easier to say they were robbed by silicon than a man.....
You would be hard pressed to find more than two rounds that Froch outlanded Dirrell you would have scorecards reading 117-110 Dirrell (because of the point deduction). I challenge you to find anyone that would say that was a fair judgement of the fight. Impact matters, aggression matters, all of the things that a computer would be unable to calculate. So it doesn't solve the robbery cries that tend to follow pretty much every decision nowadays.
For every story told that divides us, I believe there are a thousand untold that unite us.
Well most on here would here would think scores of 117-110 Dirrell would be highly accurate it seems
Anway I think you underestimate what computers could potentially do. Why do you assume they couldn't calculate aggression and other subtle things relating to the fight?
A computer is capable of much more than just registering whether a punch lands like, like some kind of counter.
They can do all kinds of things with computers these days and if research was put into it I bet they could in time make a computer that virtually removed the subjective aspect of scoring entirely.
They could track who pressed the most and who was backed up as easily as they can track possession times in a football video game, motion cameras and sensors could be set up, all kinds of data.
Because I make sensors that feed data to computers for a living and am quite aware of what is possible, I attend annual conferences so hardware engineers can discuss what is on the "cutting edge" and what they hope to achieve with new said technologies. I think you overestimate what is possible what you are talking about is unrealistic by today's standards.
For every story told that divides us, I believe there are a thousand untold that unite us.
You know it's ironic, when I discussed Obama policy with Jazmerkin it turned out he was a journalist, when I discussed geology with Salty it turned out he was a geologist and now I am discussing computer sensors with a man who makes them for a living.
Oh and when I went on about chess it turned out ICB was a chess prodigy at school who could beat grandmasters.
It seems I always come up against an expert in whatever field I talk about.
Talented folks here on Saddos.
I certainly wouldn't say I'm the expert, but in fairness my knowledge in what your talking about is equal to your knowledge in chess. I like how you add the air of suspicion around the three of us by adding ICB in the mix as well. I know it's hard to understand, but some of us have to work.
Last edited by killersheep; 10-18-2009 at 02:01 AM.
For every story told that divides us, I believe there are a thousand untold that unite us.
I had it 8 rounds to 4 for Dirrell without regarding the point deduction. So I ended up having it 7-4-1 for Dirrell with the point taken into the scoring.
I also thought I was being generous to Froch.![]()
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