Notable Information

• Changes from recent UFC, KHAN, HEAT, and other shows.

Kenny Florian moves into the Lightweight Top 10, while Thiago Alves blasts his way into the Welterweight Top 5!  Check out all of the divisions to see the various changes caused by these recent shows.

The next update will be on Sunday, which will display the effects from the FatalFemmes and EliteXC shows, as well as others.

Notable Information

• Code updated to 1.15b.  Re-worked technical decision outcome consideration. Fixed bug in draws which could occur in fights w/ huge gap in points.  Reduced extreme upset protection, relying more on past results then prediction.
• Effects from shows in past week, as well as old shows recently added.

Rankings have been updated on March 27, 2008

Notable Info

• Rating code updated from 1.13c to 1.14b.  Changes related to situations in which fighters come back from inactivity.  Especially those who have had good performances in their 1st and 2nd bouts back.  This has caused moderate reshuffling throughout the divisions, but leaves the top 25s relatively untouched.
• Shows from the past week (WEC, Pancrase), as well as old bouts have been added to the database.

Expect the next update to come on Sunday.

Information

• WEC 33 results, as well as recently added bouts.
• Updated basic code for properly placing fighters coming back from inactivity.  This will cause minor effects throughout the divisions, especially for those who had recent instances of inactivity, as well as their recent opponents.

Rankings posted.  Data from March 23, 2008.

Notable Changes

• Ratings code updated to 1.13c. GTR modification, support for technical decisions/draws (rare), code cleanup.
• Rankings expanded to Top 100 for Lightweight through Heavyweight.
• Rankings expanded to Top 50 for Bantamweight, Featherweight, and Women’s.
• Rankings expanded to Top 25 for Flyweight.
• Fighter names are now hyper-linked and directed to the fighter’s Sherdog profile.
• Approximately 250 bouts added since last update for shows in March 2008.
• Approximately 160 bouts added since last update for shows prior to March 2008.

Now that the weight classes are expanded so far in the thinnest divisions (Women, Bantam, Fly), it is almost a certainty that we are mistakenly excluding fighters toward the bottom of the lists due to lack of division assignment.  If you feel there is a fighter that should be in one of the lists, please feel free to ask us for their current division assignment for verification.

Its a slow week… but we will be releasing an update on Sunday.

Expected Changes

• Expanding Lightweight through Heavyweight to Top 100.  There should be expansions for the smaller divisions as well.
• Fighter names will now be hyper-linked to their Sherdog profiles.
• Code updated to v1.13.  Only change is an update to the GTR initiative mentioned in the previous post.  The effects will be minor and limited to the lowest weight divisions.
• Approximately 250 old bouts added to the database.
• A few minor recent shows added to the database.