Light Heavyweight
[#3] Rashad Evans vs. [#4] Quinton Jackson

Middleweight
[#15] Michael Bisping vs. [#32] Dan Miller

Heavyweight
[#30] Mike Russow vs. [#38] Todd Duffee

Light Heavyweight
[#9] Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs. [#41] Jason Brilz

Welterweight
[#8 LW] Diego Sanchez vs. [#52] John Hathaway

Welterweight
[#28] Dong Hyun Kim vs. [#31] Amir Sadollah

Lightweight
[#138] Efrain Escudero vs. [#189] Dan Lauzon

Lightweight
[#51] Melvin Guillard vs. [#160] Waylon Lowe

Light Heavyweight
[#18] Luis Arthur Cane vs. [#38] Cyrille Diabate

Lightweight
[#147] Aaron Riley vs. [#256] Joe Brammer

Middleweight
[#108] Jesse Forbes vs. [#113] Ryan Jensen

UPDATE:  We got some late results in, so we’re refreshing the rankings at about 5:15 ET.

We’re tweaking some processes and making quite a few improvements to the database, so we decided to release an intermediate mid-week update.

Fight Outcomes

[#10] Seth Bacyznski W-UD(3) [#4] Joe Henle

New Rankings After Episode 7 Results – Quarterfinalists Only

1. Kyle Noke

2. Brad Tavares

3. Nick Ring

4. Josh Bryant

5. Court McGee

6. Seth Bacyznski

7. Kyacey Uscola

8. Jamie Yager

9. Kris McCray

Light Heavyweight Championship
[#1] Lyoto Machida vs. [#4] Mauricio Rua

Welterweight
[#3] Josh Koscheck vs. [#10] Paul Daley

Lightweight
[#29] Sam Stout vs. [#81] Jeremy Stephens

Heavyweight
[#77] Kimbo Slice vs. [#342] Matt Mitrione

Middleweight
[#14] Alan Belcher vs. [Inactive] Patrick Cote

Middleweight
[#36] Joe Doerksen vs. [#83] Tom Lawlor

Welterweight
[#42] Marcus Davis vs. [Inactive] Jonathan Goulet

Welterweight
[#34] TJ Grant vs. [#69] Johny Hendricks

Heavyweight
[#43] Joey Beltran vs. [#71] Tim Hague

Welterweight
[#52] Yoshiyuki Yoshida vs. [#63] Mike Guymon

Middleweight
[#33] Jason MacDonald vs. [#238] John Salter

Lightweight (160 lbs)
[#6] Eddie Alvarez vs. [#71] Josh Neer

Lightweight
[#33] Roger Huerta vs. [#92] Pat Curran

Lightweight
[#36] Toby Imada vs. [#196] Carey Vanier

Fight Outcomes

[#7] Nick Ring W-MD(3) [#3] Court McGee

New Rankings After Episode 6 Results

1. Kyle Noke

2. Brad Tavares

3. Nick Ring (+4)

4. Joe Henle

5. Josh Bryant

6. Court McGee* (-3)

7. Rich Attonito (-1)

8. Kyacey Uscola*

9. Jim Hammortree*

10. Seth Bacyznski

11. Jamie Yager

12. Kris McCray*

13. Charles Blanchard*

14. Clayton McKinney*

In extreme obscurity, a slimmed down Ricco Rodriguez fought an equally in-shape Travis Fulton on Saturday.  Rodriguez was able to seal the deal with a knockout of Fulton.  This will move Ricco up a few spots, while Fulton will drop outside of the Top 100, as the conqueror of tomato cans, yet again finds himself on the losing end against an opponent with name value.

Notable Info

• The effect on fighters’ points after having moved divisions has been amplified from a reciprocal power of 1.75 to 2.5.

Fight Outcomes

[#6] Josh Bryant W-UD(3) [#9] Kris McCray

New Rankings After Episode 5 Results

1. Kyle Noke

2. Brad Tavares

3. Court McGee

4. Joe Henle

5. Josh Bryant (+1)

6. Rich Attonito (-1)

7. Nick Ring

8. Kyacey Uscola*

9. Jim Hammortree* (+1)

10. Seth Bacyznski (+1)

11. Jamie Yager (+1)

12. Kris McCray* (-3)

13. Charles Blanchard*

14. Clayton McKinney*

Note: We are going to keep all active 14 fighters ranked due to “wildcard” possibilities.  Fighters who have lost are tagged with an asterisk.

One of the biggest issues that onlookers have with the FightMatrix ranking system is how we initially rank fighters that move divisions.

Due to the nature of the point-based system, we cannot take away all of a fighter’s point balance and start them unranked, simply because they moved divisions.  If this was the case, the opponents who beat them would gain nothing for doing so, and in all but the most extreme cases, this would be 100% incorrect.  Fighters outside of the big organizations shift divisions all of the time, so its not as if a new division means its a new sport with new rules or even an entirely new crop of fighters.

We do reduce the point balances of fighters who move up in division, in order to represent the increased difficulty in fighting “bigger” fighters in more proven weight divisions.  This is done at a rate of approximately 12-15% per division.  I provided a range here, because some divisional jumps differ in size and we do take that into account.  Note: This isn’t something we’ve always done.  It was always planned, but we did not have enough divisional information until late 2009.

In order to make this work, we must do the inverse when a fighter moves down in division.  This means a fighter’s points will actually increase, as they are moving into a division with smaller fighters.  Current examples of this are Wanderlei Silva (#4 MW), and Wagnney Fabiano (#5 BW).  Even if these fighters have only fought once in their latest tenure (or career) at the lower division, please understand that for the most part, their new divisional ratings should be considered as projection unless its a “rating-solidifying” result (big win, big loss, draw against equal-rated).  This downward move is more controversial than the upward move, especially when a fighter makes a drastic weight cut that ultimately ends up being a bad idea.

When we debut our comprehensive historical month-by-month and all-time divisional rankings (ETA: Unknown), we’ll have enough data around the divisional moves to provide modified information as to whether or not the moves should have been compensated for.