Posted on Tuesday, 23rd November 2010 by jcs

I’ve seen a great amount of negative feedback from posters on a popular forum about the Welterweight placement of B.J. Penn.  They apparently do not understand, or do not care about how our site rankings work.  Either way, I wanted to explain a few things. Our system is a software-based ranking system that has been [...]

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Posted on Monday, 21st September 2009 by oleg

UFC 103 took place in Dallas, TX and in lieu of any title matchups, the event was highlighted by the return of a few old-school UFC fighters: Vitor Belfort, Frank Trigg, and Vladimir Matyushenko all made an appearance in the Octagon after years spent fighting in other organizations.  For the first time in the promotion’s [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 26th April 2008 by oleg

Several readers have asked for a search feature on our site, and now we have one!  You can use the power of Google to search FightMatrix.com, please try it out and leave us some feedback in our forum.

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Posted on Tuesday, 11th March 2008 by jcs

Since the quality performance decay (QPD) is now working as intended, I figured I would do a quick write-up with regards to its purpose. In short, the QPD is meant to gradually decrease the rating of a fighter who has not necessarily been a victim of losing, or inactivity, but one who has not recently [...]

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Posted on Friday, 8th February 2008 by jcs

A very small update has been released.  Josh Rave, has blasted onto the extremely thin Flyweight (130 and under) rankings with a defeat over the previously ranked #9 fighter, Omar Chowdury.  Rave likely should have been ranked before this, but we did not know his division.  Also, some bout results have been updated and applied, [...]

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Posted on Tuesday, 5th February 2008 by oleg

Love our rankings? Hate our rankings? Wondering why your favorite fighter is not ranked? Want to help us out with the unknown weight division fighters? Now you can do all that, and more, by posting in our new discussion forums! Please leave us some feedback – we appreciate it!

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Posted on Sunday, 13th January 2008 by jcs

How would you sum up the FightMatrix rating system? This software rating system takes an unbiased, objective look at all available professional MMA results from day 1 to the present. The rankings are a hybrid of boxing rankings and traditional MMA rankings in that they represent the “right now” like a boxing system, but fighters [...]

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Posted on Saturday, 8th December 2007 by oleg

Welcome to FightMatrix.com – combat sports analytics! The purpose of this website is to create a computerized system of ranking top mixed martial arts fighters. We want to eliminate the guesswork and subjectivity that is the basis of all conventional ranks, and come up with a system that is based purely on statistics. Obviously, some [...]

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