UFC Performance Based Fighter Rankings: Welterweights: July 13/18

There is constant debate about the “official” UFC fighter rankings, which are based on voting from a panel of journalists. Such is the case with something as subjective as voting – it’s totally based on voter’s opinion, and biases are bound to seep through, whether intentional or no. So to try to put a fresh, objective, data-driven spin on rankings, The MMA Manifesto has come up with a performance based ranking system, solely based on how a fighter has performed in the cage. Next up: The Welterweights.

*stipulations: 1) any fighter currently suspended or 2) inactive for at least 12 months (without an upcoming fight scheduled) are excluded from the rankings

Scoring based on a fighter’s past 10 UFC performances (we use a seven year time limit, so if they have fought less than 10 times in past seven years, only the fights within that time frame are counted)
Points based on a fighter’s opponent’s UFC win/loss record (ie strength of schedule – the more successful a vanquished opponent is, the more points awarded), extra points given for finishes, extra points given for title fight wins.
Points are weighed so most recent fights are worth more (ie most recent fight counts the most, 10th most recent fight the least)
No points awarded for a loss

(first column performance based ranking, second column is last rank, last column is official UFC ranking from UFC.com)

Stats	Last	UFC		Total
Rank	Rank	Rank
1	1	1	Tyron Woodley	553.5
2	4	2	Colby Covington	391
3	2	6	Robbie Lawler	390
4	3	4	Rafael dos Anjos	343
5	5	7	Kamaru Usman	233.5
6	17	12	Leon Edwards	227.5
7	6	3	Darren Till	226
8	7	10	Jorge Masvidal	202
9	8	5	Stephen Thompson	192
10	9	11	Santiago Ponzinibbio	184
11	10	8	Demian Maia	154.5
12	11	15	Alex Oliveira	150.5
13	13	14	Gunnar Nelson	147
14	14		Matt Brown	146
15	15		Vicente Luque	135
16	16	9	Neil Magny	128
17	NR		Paul Felder	119.5
18	12	13	Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone	118
19	17		Yancy Medeiros	113
20	22		Jake Matthews	108.5
21	39		Mike Perry	100.5
22	20		Alex Garcia	95.5
23	23		Michel Prazeres	93
24	24		Claudio Silva	92.5
25	25		Bryan Barberena	91
26	26		Ryan LaFlare	89.5
27	27		Carlos Condit	89
28	28		Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	87.5
29	29		Sergio Moraes	87
30	19		Jake Ellenberger	85
31	30		Warlley Alves	82.5
32	31		Alan Jouban	80.5
33	33		Siyar Bahadurzada	78.5
34	32		Curtis Millender	77
35	34		Niko Price	77
36	35		Alberto Mina	75.5
36	36		Mickey Gall	73.5
38	37		Peter Sobotta	72.5
38	39		Sean Strickland	72
40	57		Ben Saunders	71.5
41	41		Randy Brown	69.5
42	37		Belal Muhammad	69
43	42		Diego Sanchez	68.5
43	43		Keita Nakamura	67
45	44		Nordine Taleb	66
46	44		Ramazan Emeev	66
47	46		Abdul Razak Alhassan	65
48	47		Tim Means	62.5
48	48		Danny Roberts	60.5
50	49		Zak Ottow	59.5
51	51		Jordan Mein	58.5
52	52		Chad Laprise	57
53	49		Li Jingliang	56
54	53		Zak Cummings	56
56	54		Yushin Okami	53.5
57	55		Drew Dober	53
58	58		Tony Martin	49.5
59	71		Song Kenan	47.5
59	59		Thiago Alves	46
61	60		Alex Morono	43
62	60		Alexander Yakovlev	43
63	62		Jack Marshman	39.5
64	64		Mike Pyle	35
65	65		Hyun Gyu Lim	34
66	67		Joe Proctor	32
67	63		Max Griffin	32
68	NR		Sage Northcutt	31
69	68		Tarec Saffiedine	31
70	69		George Sullivan	30.5
70	66		Shinsho Anzai	29
72	70		Geoff Neal	25
73	71		Muslim Salikhov	25
73	73		Bojan Velickovic	23
75	74		Antonio Braga Neto	22.5
76	74		Luan Chagas	22.5
77	76		Brad Scott	20
78	77		Lyman Good	18
79	78		Dominique Steele	17.5
80	79		Court McGee	16.5
80	80		Luke Jumeau	14
82	81		Emil Meek	9
83	81		Sultan Aliev	9
83	83		Nico Musoke	7
85	84		Carlo Pedersoli Jr	5
85	NR		Mike Jackson	5
85	84		Sheldon Westcott	5
85	86		Frank Camacho	4.5
89	86		Jessin Ayari	4.5
90	86		Nathan Coy	4.5
91	86		Daichi Abe	4
91	90		Dhiego Lima	3
91	91		Josh Burkman	2.5
91	92		Brian Camozzi	0
91	NR		Chance Rencountre	0
91	NR		CM Punk	0
91	92		Craig White	0
91	NR		Hector Aldana	0
91	92		Oliver Enkamp	0
91	92		Ricky Rainey	0
91	92		Sabah Homasi	0
91	92		Salim Touahri	0

Check back Monday for our lightweight rankings

Performance Based Rankings:

Heavyweights
Light Heavyweights
Middleweights
Lightweights
Featherweights
Bantamweights
Flyweights
Women’s Feather/Bantamweights
Women’s Flyweights
Women’s Strawweights
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UFC Performance Based Fighter Rankings: Welterweights: July 13/18

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