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How it works

The method, in plain English.

No jargon, no black box. Here's how we call every UFC fight, what our confidence ratings actually mean, and exactly how often each one has hit in 2026 — graded in public.

Step by step

How FightIQ works

Every fight on a card runs through the same process. You never see the machinery — you see one pick and one honest confidence number.

01

Every fight, modelled

We run each bout through several independent models — different ways of reading the same fight, built on years of results and the live market.

02

Blended into one read

Those models are combined into a single consensus. Where they agree, confidence rises; where they disagree, it falls — honestly.

03

One confidence %

The result is one pick per fight with a confidence rating from a coin-flip up to a lock. The number is the signal — read it at face value.

04

Graded in public

The pick is timestamped before the cage door shuts and graded after. Wins, losses and toss-ups all go on the public record.

The centerpiece

How to read a pick — the confidence tiers

Every pick lands in one of five tiers by how confident the models are. Higher tier, higher conviction — and, so far in 2026, a higher hit rate. These are the real live numbers (2026-08-15, 27 cards), not a target.

LOCK Highest conviction
80%
16-4 · n=20
HIGH Strong read
79.69%
51-13 · n=64
MED Solid lean
76.7%
79-24 · n=103
LOW Slight edge
62.12%
41-25 · n=66
TOSS-UP A coin flip — and we say so
52.05%
38-35 · n=73

Read it top to bottom: our LOCK and HIGH calls are where we have the most conviction and the best record. A TOSS-UP is exactly that — a coin flip, and we label it one. We never say to bet a toss-up; it's shown for honesty, and it's in the record.

The honest number

The every-fight record

This is the headline because it's the whole truth: every fight we called in 2026, toss-ups included, nothing dropped.

69.02%
225-101 — every fight we called in 2026 (n=326).
every pick · incl. toss-ups
Why we grade all of them. A tipster who only shows their winners can look unbeatable. We show every call — including the coin flips and the ones we got wrong — because the honest full-season number is the only one worth trusting. That's the difference between a track record and a highlight reel.
The confidence gradient

When our models agree

Not every call is equal. When the independent models line up on the same fighter, the pick gets sharper — and the record shows it.

77.78%
63-18 when our models strongly agree (n=81).
strong consensus
74.7%
124-42 whenever our models agree at all (n=166).
models agree
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Honest caveats

Every number on this page carries its sample size and cohort. Here's what they do — and don't — mean.

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