Stat Fun with the Generated Historical Rankings

In case you didn’t know, every week or so we re-compile the Generated Historical Rankings with the latest version of the ranking system and the latest data.  This is a quarterly ranking since 1/1/1994 to the latest quarter beginning.  We may eventually expand this to an earlier date, but prior to the last quarter of 1993, there was only Shooto and independent events.

There -is- some funny business in the early quarterlies, where some weight classes weren’t “recognized”, so they’re filled with fighters based on where they weighed in assuming we even have this data.  There’s also some quarterly sets where there just wasn’t enough data to provide a Top X.  There’s more about this latter issue in the description at the top of the rankings pages.

Anyway, I thought it’d be interesting to run some statistics based on the latest run, so here it is:

Most Quarters at #1 (By Division)

Most Quarters in Top 5 (By Division)

Most Quarters at #1 in a Division (Any Division)

Most Quarters in Top 5 in a Division (Any Division)

Most Quarters between First And Most Recent Appearance in a Division Top 5 (Any Division)