UFC Performance Based Fighter Rankings: Heavyweights: Sept 30/19

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 Heavyweights.

 

*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 five year time limit, so if they have fought less than 10 times in past five 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

 

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

Stats	Last	UFC		Total
Rank	Rank
1	1	2	Daniel Cormier	584
2	2	1	Stipe Miocic	521
3	3	3	Francis Ngannou	319
4	4	8	Alistair Overeem	229.5
5	7	4	Curtis Blaydes	168
6	5	5	Junior dos Santos	160.5
7	6	6	Derrick Lewis	138
8	7	7	Alexander Volkov	136.5
9	9	14	Aleksei Oleinik	118.5
10	10	11	Walt Harris	114
11	11	11	Shamil Abdurakhimov	97
12	12		Ben Rothwell	90
13	14	15	Tai Tuivasa	88.5
14	13		Marcin Tybura	82
15	NR		Stefan Struve	78
16	15	9	Cain Velasquez	72
17	16		Marcos Rogerio de Lima	57
18	17	10	Blagoy Ivanov	51.5
19	18		Andrei Arlovski	45
20	29	13	Augusto Sakai	33
21	19		Adam Wieczorek	31
22	20		Dmitriy Sosnovskiy	30
23	21	16	Maurice Greene	29.5
24	22		Jairzinho Rozenstruick	29
25	NR		Ciryl Gane	25
25	23		Juan Espino	25
27	24		Greg Hardy	24.5
28	25		Chris De La Rocha	22.5
28	25		Daniel Spitz	22.5
30	27		Junior Albini	18
30	27		Todd Duffee	18
32	30		Sergey Pavlovich	10
33	31		Juan Adams	8
34	32		Allen Crowder	4.5
35	33		Jeff Hughes	0
35	33		Justin Frazier	0
35	33		Michel Batista	0
35	NR		Raphael Pessoa	0
35	33		Sergey Spivak	0

 

Check back Monday for our light heavyweight rankings

 

Performance Based Rankings:

Light Heavyweights
Middleweights
Welterweights
Lightweights
Featherweights
Bantamweights
Flyweights
Women’s Feather/Bantamweights
Women’s Flyweights
Women’s Strawweights
Pound for Pound

 

 

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