UFC Fight Night: Moicano vs. Nolan
12 bouts at Meta APEX. The model read 9 of them.
Win chance is the fight model's published winner probability — not a sportsbook price. Method lean is the most likely way the fight ends, for either fighter, from the model's method head; it is not the chance that the pick wins that way, and method and round are not yet graded. Unavailable means too little tracked history to forecast. Paper and educational.
Model Performance: backtested on past cards and graded publicly beside the de-vigged sportsbook line, on a small live sample so far (the old moneyline model was retired) — see the graded record.
Live fight tracking for UFC is not available yet. This page shows the pregame card and forecasts; results and grading appear after the card is officially settled.
Card and model read · updated Oct 29, 1:10 PM ET
From the tracked records (a summary, not the model's reasoning): Tom Nolan has won 5 of 6 tracked bouts (83%) to Moicano's 13 of 20 (65%); Nolan has the shorter tracked record (6 bouts to Moicano's 20). The model's method read has a decision as the most likely of three endings (37%), short of a majority.
3-2 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 9 of 13 wins came by finish (69%); 6 of 20 tracked fights reached the judges (30%).
5-0 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 2 of 5 wins came by finish (40%); 3 of 6 tracked fights reached the judges (50%).
From the tracked records (a summary, not the model's reasoning): Jacobe Smith has won 3 of 3 tracked bouts (100%) to Brown's 14 of 22 (64%); Smith has finished 3 of 3 wins (100%), and Brown has been finished in 5 of 8 losses (63%). The model's method read has a decision as the most likely of three endings (50%), short of a majority.
2-3 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 7 of 14 wins came by finish (50%); 10 of 22 tracked fights reached the judges (45%).
3-0 in the last 3 tracked bouts. 3 of 3 wins came by finish (100%); 0 of 3 tracked fights reached the judges (0%).
From the tracked records (a summary, not the model's reasoning): Ode' Osbourne has finished 3 of 5 wins (60%), and Durden has been finished in 7 of 9 losses (78%). The model's method read makes a decision more likely than not (51%).
1-4 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 3 of 5 wins came by finish (60%); 5 of 13 tracked fights reached the judges (38%).
1-4 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 2 of 7 wins came by finish (29%); 7 of 16 tracked fights reached the judges (44%).
From the tracked records (a summary, not the model's reasoning): Luana Santos has won 6 of 7 tracked bouts (86%) to Santos's 7 of 12 (58%). The model's method read makes a decision more likely than not (70%).
3-2 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 0 of 7 wins came by finish (0%); 9 of 12 tracked fights reached the judges (75%).
4-1 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 3 of 6 wins came by finish (50%); 4 of 7 tracked fights reached the judges (57%).
Neither fighter has enough UFC history in our corpus to build a read from.
2-0 in the last 2 tracked bouts. 0 of 2 wins came by finish (0%); 2 of 2 tracked fights reached the judges (100%).
1-0 in the last 1 tracked bout. 0 of 1 win came by finish (0%); 1 of 1 tracked fight reached the judges (100%).
From the tracked records (a summary, not the model's reasoning): Francis Marshall has won 4 of 7 tracked bouts (57%) to Hope's 0 of 1 (0%). The model's method read makes a decision more likely than not (53%).
0-1 in the last 1 tracked bout. No tracked wins; 1 of 1 tracked fight reached the judges (100%).
3-2 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 2 of 4 wins came by finish (50%); 4 of 7 tracked fights reached the judges (57%).
Neither fighter has enough UFC history in our corpus to build a read from.
0-1 in the last 1 tracked bout. No tracked wins; 0 of 1 tracked fight reached the judges (0%).
0-1 in the last 1 tracked bout. No tracked wins; 0 of 1 tracked fight reached the judges (0%).
From the tracked records (a summary, not the model's reasoning): JeongYeong Lee has the shorter tracked record (4 bouts to Erosa's 18). The model's method read has a decision as the most likely of three endings (46%), short of a majority.
3-2 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 6 of 9 wins came by finish (67%); 5 of 18 tracked fights reached the judges (28%).
2-2 in the last 4 tracked bouts. 0 of 2 wins came by finish (0%); 3 of 4 tracked fights reached the judges (75%).
The model reads it 56% — nothing in either tracked record separates them cleanly, so the number rests on the model's wider inputs rather than a headline stat.
1-4 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 5 of 6 wins came by finish (83%); 5 of 13 tracked fights reached the judges (38%).
2-3 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 2 of 4 wins came by finish (50%); 3 of 8 tracked fights reached the judges (38%).
Neither fighter has enough UFC history in our corpus to build a read from.
0-2 in the last 2 tracked bouts. No tracked wins; 0 of 2 tracked fights reached the judges (0%).
The model reads it 56% — nothing in either tracked record separates them cleanly, so the number rests on the model's wider inputs rather than a headline stat.
4-1 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 0 of 5 wins came by finish (0%); 5 of 6 tracked fights reached the judges (83%).
4-1 in the last 5 tracked bouts. 1 of 4 wins came by finish (25%); 4 of 5 tracked fights reached the judges (80%).
2-2 in the last 4 tracked bouts. 1 of 2 wins came by finish (50%); 1 of 4 tracked fights reached the judges (25%).
Three markets publish — winner, method and ending round — each tested separately by walking forward through 3,557 held-out fights from a corpus of 8,642 bouts (Mar 1994 to Aug 2026). A head that fails its bar is withheld while the others still publish.
| Market | Model | Baseline | Log loss |
|---|---|---|---|
| Winner | 60.6% | 50.0% | 0.661 vs 0.693 |
| Method | 52.7% | 46.7% | 0.969 vs 1.025 |
| Ending round | 60.6% | 55.3% | 0.915 vs 0.955 |
Accuracy is measured against a base-rate baseline. Paper and educational — research estimates, never advice, and never presented as an advantage over the sportsbook price.
Moneyline: This card publishes the model's own probabilities and carries no price beside them. UFC prices are captured separately and live in the odds and moneyline-grading artifacts; they are not joined into this document.
Schedule source: ESPN public scoreboard
12 bouts at Meta APEX. The model read 9 of them.
Winner, method and finishing round for every bout with enough tracked fighter history; the rest are marked Unavailable with the reason. Paper and educational.
Fight-winner picks: the model's chosen fighter and its probability, graded against the official result.
90 graded picks is still a small sample. A hit rate over this many outcomes has a wide enough margin of error to be consistent with almost any true accuracy.
The market's own de-vigged probability for the same bout is shown alongside. This is the only sport here where the two are recorded together.
| Date | Event | Model said | What happened | Market priced it | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-24 | Movsar Evloev vs Alexander Volkanovski | Movsar Evloev · 69.4% | Alexander Volkanovski | 50.4% | MISS |
| 2026-10-24 | Petr Yan vs Merab Dvalishvili | Petr Yan · 55.3% | Petr Yan | 57.8% | HIT |
| 2026-10-24 | Alexander Volkov vs Rizvan Kuniev | Alexander Volkov · 61.4% | Alexander Volkov | 52.2% | HIT |
| 2026-10-24 | Dominick Reyes vs Azamat Murzakanov | Dominick Reyes · 51.9% | Dominick Reyes | 34.9% | HIT |
| 2026-10-24 | Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev vs Nikita Krylov | Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev · 74.9% | Abdul-Rakhman Yakhyaev | 80.8% | HIT |
| 2026-10-24 | Cam Rowston vs Abus Magomedov | Cam Rowston · 68.8% | Abus Magomedov | 53.7% | MISS |
Showing the 6 most recent of 90 graded.
Settled from the official ESPN MMA scoreboard. Winners + ending round/time + scheduled rounds are official from the ESPN MMA feed. Specific finish method (KO/TKO vs submission) is not exposed by the connected feed, so method grading is at the finish-vs-decision level only; KO-vs-submission is needs_review. Expanded model-only props graded for calibration only — no betting P&L. Paper-only educational tracking.
This is one settled event (7 graded fights). A single-card record is an outcome log, not model validation — the moneyline model was retired unvalidated.
The two eras never share a metric. The current record grades a three-head fight model against the de-vigged price recorded before each card; the archive is the retired read's outcome log from before any model was scored against anything. Adding them together would average two different questions.
On 3,557 fights held out of the fit, log loss (lower is better) was 0.661 against 0.693 for a coin flip on the winner, 0.969 against 1.025 for the method base rate and 0.915 against 0.955 for the round base rate. These are point estimates against simple baselines, with no uncertainty interval, and they are not a comparison with sportsbook prices.
Before it went live, this model was scored on past seasons it had never seen and cleared bars set in advance against simpler baselines. That is a bar, not a promise, and not a claim that it beats sportsbook prices.
Measured by log loss (lower is better) over 90 graded: 0.715 for this call against 0.693 for a coin flip, a difference of +0.021 (95% interval −0.072 to +0.127). The interval includes zero, so this call cannot yet be told apart from a coin flip.
Over the games graded so far, this call is slightly behind its floor, but not by enough to be sure it is worse. It keeps publishing while the record grows.
UFC 329: McGregor vs. Holloway 2 (July 11, 2026) was listed with market-implied reads only before the event; no model picks were published for it and no official settlement was ingested, so no record is claimed for it.