Notable Info

• Improved handling of fighters who hit their career decline faster then the norm.  This is triggered by a streak of consecutive dominant losses.

Notable Info

• Flyweight rankings have been expanded to Top 50!
• Minor bug fixed that caused inflated ratings for VERY low rated fighters who made big division jumps.
• Many corrections and bouts added to the database.

Notable Info

• Latest results represent movements from shows in the last two weeks, most notably from UFC and K-1.
• Hundreds of corrected and previously missing bouts added to the database, mostly from 2007 and earlier.
• Minor code change that prevents fighters from earning quality performances in DQ wins.  As a result, short quality performance decay exemption periods will be issued to winners in these fights as long as the opponent is of reasonable caliber.  This exemption has also been extended to those in “no contests”.

Light Heavyweight
[#3] Rashad Evans vs. [#10] Thiago Silva

Welterweight
[#10] Paul Daley vs. [#22] Dustin Hazelett

Lightweight
[#30] Joe Lauzon vs. [#47] Sam Stout

Lightweight
[#20] Jim Miller vs. [#71] Duane Ludwig

Heavyweight
[#5] Junior dos Santos vs. [#24] Gilbert Yvel

Welterweight
[#23] Martin Kampmann vs. [#58] Jacob Volkmann

Lightweight
[#85] Dan Lauzon vs. [#156] Cole Miller

Middleweight
[#69] Ryan Jenzen vs. [#113] Mark Munoz

Welterweight
[#20] Mike Pyle vs. [#39] Jake Ellenberger

Lightweight
[#80] John Gunderson vs. [#114] Rafaello Oliveira

Ranking Notes: Dark green font represents an approximate ranking. An asterisk represents a fighter who is ranked, but too low for an approximation. These two scenarios will clear up slightly as we move forward. “NR” means the fighter is not ranked, due to inactivity, or due to a rating that is at or below the default starter rating.

Notable Info

• This update will be the last of 2009.  New rankings will be released just after UFC 108.

Thanks to Polpov from the forum for putting this together.

Middleweight
[#24] Scott Smith vs. [*] Cung Le

Lightweight (Strikeforce Championship)
[#17] Gilbert Melendez vs. [#32] Josh Thomson

Middleweight
[#38] Ronaldo Souza vs. [#42] Matt Lindland

Heavyweight
[#21] Muhammed Lawal vs. [#26 LHW] Mike Whitehead

Ranking Notes: Dark green font represents an approximate ranking. An asterisk represents a fighter who is ranked, but too low for an approximation. These two scenarios will clear up slightly as we move forward. “NR” means the fighter is not ranked, due to inactivity, or due to a rating that is at or below the default starter rating.

Notable Info

• Fighters’ last five decisions are now viewable upon mousing over their ranking.

UFC/FightMatrix Lightweight Championship
[#1] B.J. Penn vs. [#4] Diego Sanchez

Heavyweight
[#4] Frank Mir vs. [#15] Cheick Kongo

Welterweight
[#2] Jon Fitch vs. [#16] Mike Pierce

Lightweight
[#8] Kenny Florian vs. [#21] Clay Guida

Heavyweight
[#38] Stefan Struve vs. [#40] Paul Buentello

195lb Catchweight Middleweight
[#17 MW] Alan Belcher vs. [#20 MW] Wilson Gouveia

Lightweight
[#86] Matt Wiman vs. [#157] Shane Nelson

Welterweight
[#53] Johny Hendricks vs. [*] Ricardo Funch

Middleweight
[#29] Rousimar Palhares vs. [#64] Lucio Linhares

Welterweight
[#60] Edgar Garcia vs. [#450] Damarques Johnson

Welterweight
[#40] T.J. Grant vs. [#82] Kevin Burns

Ranking Notes: Dark green font represents an approximate ranking. An asterisk represents a fighter who is ranked, but too low for an approximation. These two scenarios will clear up slightly as we move forward. “NR” means the fighter is not ranked, due to inactivity, or due to a rating that is at or below the default starter rating.

Notable Info

• Two new ‘mouse over’ statistics have been added: Record in last three years, and last quality performance date.

Notable Info

• As is the case every week, bouts have been added and updated.  This was a relatively busy week, especially with updates, so there will be fluctuations.
• The Mouse Over statistics are now in effect but we are experiencing general issues with Internet Explorer.

Starting with the next update, we’ll be debuting “mouse over” stats on the ranking pages. Just hover your mouse over a ranked fighter and test it out. The first set of statistics will be as follows:

Quality Performance % – The percentage of fights that the system feels the fighter fought an acceptable opponent and substantiated their current rating (at the time).

“Big 15” Record – The Win-Loss-Draw record for the fighter in the “Big 15”. This “Big 15” refers to the top 15 organizations based on a statistical analysis we performed (UFC, PRIDE, Pancrase, Icon Sport, Shooto, K-1, WEC, Smack Girl, Absolute FC, Strike Force, IFL, BoDog, EliteXC, WVR, DREAM).

Win Finish % – The percentage of a fighter’s wins that do not reach a decision.

540 Opponent Metric – This is an experimental metric that attempts to reflect a fighter’s recent opposition quality.  The metric goes back 1,080 days, and looks at all the fighter’s opponents’ W-L-D records within a window of 540 days before, and 540 days after their respective bout(s) with the fighter.  All of the records are added up and the cumulative win percentage is presented by this metric in a “strength of schedule” format.

If you have ideas for new statistics, please let us know.  Please do not suggest anything that is already represented on the main ranking page, or can be derived from the total W-L-D record (e.g. total win %).

Light Heavyweight
[#5] Forrest Griffin vs. [*] Tito Ortiz

Welterweight
[#4] Josh Koscheck vs. [#17] Anthony Johnson

Welterweight
[#9] Paulo Thiago vs. [#53] Jacob Volkmann

Light Heavyweight
[#13] Luiz Cane vs. [#15] Antonio Rogerio Nogueira

Welterweight
[#92] Phil Baroni vs. [#322] Amir Sadollah

Welterweight
[#24] Marcus Davis vs. [#70] Ben Saunders

Middleweight
[#43] Jake Rosholt vs. [#52] Kendall Grove

Welterweight
[#25] Brock Larson vs. [#88] Brian Foster

Lightweight
[#31] Caol Uno vs. [#44] Fabricio Camoes

Lightweight
[#74] Jason Dent vs. [#115] George Sotiropoulos

Ranking Notes: Dark green font represents an approximate ranking. An asterisk represents a fighter who is ranked, but too low for an approximation. These two scenarios will clear up slightly as we move forward. “NR” means the fighter is not ranked, due to inactivity, or due to a rating that is at or below the default starter rating.

Notable Info

• More divisional data was entered, so expect fluctuations.
• Scorecards are now consumed and analyzed in three-round unanimous decisions.   The effect is mild, but will be apparent as we enter this data.
• Results from recent shows and older shows, as always, resulted in changes across the board.

Light Heavyweight
[#9 HW] Randy Couture vs. [#18] Brandon Vera

Welterweight
[#5] Mike Swick vs. [#8] Dan Hardy

Middleweight
[#15] Michael Bisping vs. [#22] Denis Kang

Welterweight
[#48] Matt Brown vs. [#207] James wilks

Lightweight
[#87] Aaron Riley vs. [#108] Ross Pearson

Welterweight
[#50] John Hathaway vs. [#85] Paul Taylor

Lightweight
[#34] Terry Etim vs. [#153] Shannon Gugerty

Welterweight
[#94] Matt Riddle vs. [#350] Nick Ospiczak

Lightweight
[#95] Paul Kelly vs. [#137] Dennis Siver

Light Heavyweight
[*] Jared Hamman vs. [#73] Alexander Gustafsson

Lightweight
[#249] Andre Winner vs. [#400] Rolando Delgado

Ranking Notes: Dark green font represents an approximate ranking. An asterisk represents a fighter who is ranked, but too low for an approximation. These two scenarios will clear up slightly as we move forward. “NR” means the fighter is not ranked, due to inactivity, or due to a rating that is at or below the default starter rating.