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Small Sample Size: with thresholds set at 6 media members and 10 fan scorecards, it is quite possible that those small thresholds could yield results that vary significantly from the general MMA populace.Welcome to rMMA.

Geographical Bias (Media): Though made an effort in 2014 to include more international media scorers, the media scorecards tracked on this site are predominantly submitted by US-based media members.

Fan voting from that country was likely biased in the Pole's favour, ensuring Jedrzejczyk's fan scorecards were kept above the 40% threshold. Cláudia Gadelha fight led to a distinct increase in website traffic from Poland.

Geographical Bias (Fans): Sometimes certain countries generate more traffic than others, which could lead to a bias in fan voting.

Loser Bias: Fans who disagree with the outcome are more likely to submit a scorecard than those who are content with the decision.

There are several possible sources of bias that could have affected the members and order of this list.

#Mma decisions twitter series

Only fights from Bellator, Cage Warriors, World Series of Fighting and the UFC were considered.A fight must have a minimum of 10 fan scorecards.A fight must have a minimum of 6 media scores.

Only decisions in which at least 60% of the tracked media scores disagreed with the actual winner AND decisions in which at least 60% of the submitted fan scorecards disagreed with the actual winner were included.The same criteria used to create the list in 2013 were applied to generate this year's list: * - Marking these fights as such does not imply that the judges held a geographical bias of any sort it is merely an objective observation. Conversely, if the loser was from the event's country and his/her opponent was from elsewhere, the fight was marked as an "away-country decision". By definition, they are those fights in which the winner hailed from the country in which the fight was held, and his/her opponent was from another country. In spite of only accounting for four of the 23 entries on the list, Bellator was the only organization with two events that contributed multiple entries.įor the first time, "home-country decisions" have been noted. He went 2-1 in those fights, losing a split decision against John Moraga and winning split decisions against Justin Scoggins and Ray Borg. Dustin Ortiz: Amazingly, three of Dustin Ortiz' 2014 fights made it to this year-end list.Though most agreed the Green fight could have gone either way, it still barely met the criteria for this list and was the 23rd and final entry. Josh Thomson: He came up short twice in two close decisions to Benson Henderson and Bobby Green.While Diego Sanchez appeared at the top of the list each of the past two years, there were two fighters who appeared multiple times on this year's list alone.

In each year, there were 7 fights in which the media were unanimous in their disagreement with the victor.

Remarkably, in both years, he sided with the winner in 5 fights and sided with the loser in 2 fights.

The judge that appeared on both year's lists the most was Sal D'Amato.

In 2013, Sanchez/Gomi was the year's most disputed decision, while in 2014, Sanchez/Pearson led the way.

A Diego Sanchez fight topped the list each time.

In both years, exactly 23 fights qualified for the list.

There were several eerie similarities between this year's list and the 2013 list. Without further ado, here are The Most Disputed Decisions of 2014 (commentary follows):

And once again, there were lots of contentious decisions to choose from. For the second year in a row, has compiled a list of the most disputed MMA decisions of the year.