Boxing matches dataset?
Posted: 05 Dec 2016, 14:22
I am a researcher working with network analyses (in biology, actually) but a big boxing fan, and was wondering where I could obtain a table or compiled data set with boxing matches fromm the 1960s to 2010. I really would like to fiddle with boxing data.
The idea would be to plot networks of all matches and who won. Try to get a sense of who were the most prominent fighters of each time period across different weight classes. Maybe find some of the unsung heroes based on solid data.
I am not interested in bet prediction or anything in that sense. I am more interested in knowing how matches were distributed from the early days to later on, which fighters occupied a more central position in matchmaking networks, etc... academic type questions for personal curiosity.
Baseball and football data are pretty easy to find, but I don't really care for those. I can't find anything already compiled for boxing. I could make it from scratch, but I am not inclined to do so if it exists somewhere already, especially because it would take a very long time.
I will be happy to post the results here for general curiosity. Any feedback is quite welcome.
The idea would be to plot networks of all matches and who won. Try to get a sense of who were the most prominent fighters of each time period across different weight classes. Maybe find some of the unsung heroes based on solid data.
I am not interested in bet prediction or anything in that sense. I am more interested in knowing how matches were distributed from the early days to later on, which fighters occupied a more central position in matchmaking networks, etc... academic type questions for personal curiosity.
Baseball and football data are pretty easy to find, but I don't really care for those. I can't find anything already compiled for boxing. I could make it from scratch, but I am not inclined to do so if it exists somewhere already, especially because it would take a very long time.
I will be happy to post the results here for general curiosity. Any feedback is quite welcome.