Notable Info

• Refinement of veteran profiling adjustment due to results of objective analysis.

Notable Info

• The latest rankings include the initial iteration of “veteran profiling”, which will help prevent continual overrating of experienced fighters.  Although code is in place to prevent this from a general perspective, some experienced late-career fighters creep back up the rankings with incremental point bursts without ever fighting top competition again only to perpetually drop the ball against lower rated competition.
  The belief is that if they did fight top competition, they would lose and have their progress reversed or at least halted more often.  This is evidenced by multiple losses to lower-rated competition, which have been treated consistently across the board… this will no longer be the case, though this initial version is very mild in its effects.

Notable Info (Intermediate Release)

• Fixed bug which affected some newly ranked women to be incorrectly interpreted as men for rating calculation purposes.  Due to division differences, this caused some newly ranked women to be rated higher than they should’ve been for their debut ranking.  This always resolved itself on the second run, but now it is no longer an issue.
• Very minor tweak with regards to handling of super-elite fighters with a habit of fighting sporadically while keeping a strong opposition profile.

Notable Info

• [#31] Konstantin Gluhov, one of the most inconsistent fringe contenders you’ve never heard of, pops back into the Top 50 at Heavyweight for what seems to be the billionth time, with a win over respectable journeyman [#55] Kenny Garner.
• Speaking of Heavyweight journeymen, [#64] James Thompson returned with a win over now barely ranked, [#232] Colin Robinson.  Amazingly, Thompson is 4-0 with a no contest, in his last 5.  Though 3 of those wins are against former pro wrestlers and musclebound freak-shows.  I don’t know enough about Robinson to categorize him as such.
• A three-headed dragon has emerged at Welterweight for the top contender spot, between [#2] Rory MacDonald, [#3] Hector Lombard, and [#4] Tyron Woodley.  My gut tells me we’ll see MacDonald get the shot at one of the Canadian shows in September or October.  Lombard/Woodley makes a good “next contender” match, but leaves [#5] Robbie Lawler as the odd man out.
• Page 3 of the Featherweight rankings yield a “WTF” moment, as one will notice we got a late result for [#147] Alexandre Franca Nogueira who jumped 74 spots. Yes, the same Nogueira that was basically the top Featherweight between 2000 and 2005.
• It appears the wheels have finally come off of the leftovers from the golden era of the Shooto 56kg division, as [#62] Yasuhiro Urushitani and [#65] Shinchi Kojima both were beaten in their respective bouts this past weekend.  Ratings-wise they were both in nearly 50/50 fights and in all fairness, Kojima’s opponent badly missed weight, but they join [#68] Mamoru Yamaguchi in the same segment of the Flyweight rankings.