UFC Performance Based Fighter Rankings: Welterweights: Oct 10/19

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 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 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

 

(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	Rank
1	1	2	Tyron Woodley	451
2	2	1	Kamaru Usman	370.5
3	3	3	Colby Covington	352.5
4	4	5	Leon Edwards	289.5
5	5	8	Santiago Ponzinibbio	265
6	6	14	Robbie Lawler	236
7	7	6	Rafael dos Anjos	228.5
8	8	4	Jorge Masvidal	227
9	9		Kevin Lee	204
10	10	13	Anthony Pettis	177
11	11		Anthony Rocco Martin	172.5
12	12	11	Demian Maia	163
13	14	15	Vicente Luque	159
14	16		Michael Chiesa	148
15	15	9	Stephen Thompson	147
16	NR		James Vick	141
17	13		Gunnar Nelson	139
18	18		Claudio Silva	137.5
19	19		Niko Price	127.5
20	20		Warlley Alves	123.5
21	17		Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	121
22	NR		Matt Brown	120
22	21		Sean Strickland	120
24	22		Abdul Razak Alhassan	117.5
25	26	16	Gilbert Burns	112.5
25	23		Michel Prazeres	112.5
27	24		Alexey Kunchenko	112
28	48		Li Jingliang	107.5
29	27		Neil Magny	103.5
30	28		Geoff Neal	102.5
31	29	7	Nate Diaz	98
32	30		Mike Perry	94.5
33	40		Belal Muhammad	90
34	25		Alex Oliveira	88.5
35	32		James Krause	86
36	35		Ismail Naurdiev	83
37	33		Randy Brown	82.5
38	34		Sergio Moraes	80.5
39	31		Jake Matthews	80
40	36		Alex Morono	76
41	37		Alberto Mina	75.5
41	37		Diego Sanchez	75.5
43	NR		Rustam Khabilov	75
44	41		Alan Jouban	69.5
45	42	12	Ben Askren	67.5
45	42		Curtis Millender	67.5
45	42		Dwight Grant	67.5
45	42		Mickey Gall	67.5
45	65		Muslim Salikhov	67.5
50	46		Bryan Barberena	65
51	47		Ramazan Emeev	64
52	50		Dhiego Lima	56
53	53		Lyman Good	50
54	49		Siyar Bahadurzada	49.5
55	54		Ben Saunders	48.5
56	54		Chad Laprise	47.5
57	56		Carlos Condit	45
58	57		Zak Ottow	44.5
59	58		Tim Means	44
60	59		Song Kenan	42.5
61	52		Nordine Taleb	41
62	60		Danny Roberts	40.5
63	61		Michel Pereira	36
64	73		Nicolas Dalby	33.5
65	62		Laureano Staropoli	29.5
66	63		Max Griffin	29
67	64		Chance Rencountre	27.5
68	65		Takashi Sato	22.5
69	67		Thiago Alves	19.5
70	68		Bartosz Fabinski	16
71	69		Court McGee	14
72	NR		Luke Jumeau	12.5
73	70		Erik Koch	12
74	NR		Tristan Connelly	10
75	71		Emil Meek	8
76	76		Callan Potter	5
76	72		Sergey Khandozhko	5
78	73		Daichi Abe	4
79	75		Cole Williams	0
79	75		David Zawada	0
79	75		Derrick Krantz	0
79	75		Hector Aldana	0
79	75		Kyle Prepolec	0
79	75		Kyle Stewart	0
79	75		Luigi Vendramini	0
79	NR		Maki Pitolo	0
79	75		Ricky Rainey	0
79	75		Rostem Akman	0
79	75		Salim Touahri	0
79	75		Zelim Imadaev	0

 

Check back Friday 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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