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Marc Diakiese vs Rafael Alves

Statlab take

baseline
Heavy favorite Confidence: High
Marc Diakiese
Rafael Alves
70% 30%
Why
73"
Reach
Δ 5"
68"
29
Age
Δ 2y
31
17-8
Career record
Δ 7 pp
20-13
L1
Current streak
L1
9
UFC fights in our DB
1

Logistic-regression model trained on ~5,000 UFC/DWCS fights since 2016 (71.9% test accuracy). The "Why" panel shows interpretable inputs; the headline probability comes from the model.

Statlab projections

Method classifier: 0.55 accuracy on 2083 fights
Actual result
Submission · Round 1
Diakiese: 3 sig / 0 TD · Alves: 6 sig / 0 TD
Marc Diakiese
Rafael Alves
40
Sig strikes landed
37
99
Sig strikes attempted
78
58
Total strikes landed
46
1.2
Takedowns landed
0.3
3.4
Takedowns attempted
0.8
0.20
Knockdowns
0.30
148s
Control time
32s
Method
Decision
53%
KO/TKO
36%
Submission
10%

Stat regressor (GBT MultiOutput) trained on 8348 fighter-fight rows. Per-stat MAE vs naive-mean baseline: SigStrikesLanded: 25.4 (naive 28.2); SigStrikesAttempted: 52.3 (naive 59.4); TakedownsLanded: 1.1 (naive 1.3); TakedownsAttempted: 2.5 (naive 3.0); Knockdowns: 0.3 (naive 0.3); ControlTimeSeconds: 113.9 (naive 131.8); TotalStrikesLanded: 33.8 (naive 37.1).

Red corner
L1

Marc Diakiese

"Bonecrusher"
17-8
Career record
Height
70"
Reach
73"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
29
In our database 9 fights · 5-4
Last 5
L UFC Fight Night: Figueiredo vs.…
W UFC Fight Night: Hermansson vs.…
W UFC Fight Night: Till vs. Masvi…
L UFC Fight Night: Shogun vs. Smi…
L UFC 219: Cyborg vs. Holm
Blue corner
L1

Rafael Alves

"The Turn"
20-13
Career record
Height
68"
Reach
68"
Stance
Orthodox
Age
31
In our database 1 fight · 0-1
Last 1
L UFC Fight Night: Font vs. Garbr…