Recovery Protocol (Combat) Calculator

Total recovery days is calculated as its own formula — baseDays × damageMultiplier × roundFactor × ageRecoveryFactor plus dehydration days — rather than as the sum of the acute and sub-acute phase outputs, which use their own partial multipliers (0.3 and 0.5 of base days respectively). The total is then floored against both mandatory injury rest and commission suspension days, so it's the largest of three separately-computed numbers, not a simple addition of the phases shown above it.

Injury type carries its own mandatory rest floor — 0 days for none, 3 for minor bruising, 14 for a hand/foot injury, 45 for concussion symptoms — and the calculator takes the maximum of the damage-based total, this mandatory injury rest, and any commission suspension. So even a fight with moderate self-rated damage severity will get pushed to at least 14 days of recovery if you selected a hand/foot injury, regardless of what the damage multiplier alone would compute.

The age recovery factor only kicks in above 25: it stays at 1.0 up to that age, then adds 2% per year above it, so a 35-year-old fighter gets a 1.2× multiplier (10 years × 2%) applied to every damage-and-rounds-based recovery number, while a 22-year-old gets no adjustment at all. This multiplier compounds with damage severity and rounds fought, so the age effect is more pronounced after a harder fight than after light sparring.

Dehydration days is calculated purely as waterCutKg × 0.5, added directly to the acute and total recovery calculations — it doesn't scale by your body weight, only by the absolute kilograms cut. The dehydration percentage output (water cut as a share of body weight) is reported separately for context, but it doesn't feed back into how many extra recovery days the calculator adds; only the raw kilogram figure does.

No — commission suspension (up to 60 days for a KO/TKO loss) and the damage-based total recovery calculation are computed independently, and the calculator reports whichever is larger as your competition return timeline. If your damage severity and rounds fought would only project a shorter recovery, the mandatory commission suspension still applies as a floor, since athletic commissions impose these regardless of how the fighter feels afterward.