UFC Performance Based Fighter Rankings: Welterweights: Nov 25/19

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	351.5
4	4	5	Leon Edwards	289.5
5	5	8	Santiago Ponzinibbio	265
6	8	4	Jorge Masvidal	244
7	6	12	Robbie Lawler	236
8	7	6	Rafael dos Anjos	228.5
9	15	9	Stephen Thompson	200
10	10	11	Anthony Pettis	177
10	11		Anthony Rocco Martin	177
12	19		Niko Price	163
13	14		Michael Chiesa	148
14	12	7	Demian Maia	145
15	17		Gunnar Nelson	139
16	18		Claudio Silva	134
17	13	13	Vicente Luque	132
18	35		James Krause	130.5
19	21		Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	121
20	22		Matt Brown	120
21	24		Abdul Razak Alhassan	117.5
22	25	14	Gilbert Burns	112.5
22	25		Michel Prazeres	112.5
24	27		Alexey Kunchenko	112
24	16		James Vick	112
26	28		Li Jingliang	107.5
27	37		Randy Brown	106
28	29	16	Neil Magny	103.5
29	30	15	Geoff Neal	102.5
30	20		Warlley Alves	98
31	32		Mike Perry	94.5
32	33		Belal Muhammad	90
33	34		Alex Oliveira	88.5
34	31	10	Nate Diaz	85.5
35	36		Ismail Naurdiev	83
36	45		Muslim Salikhov	80.5
37	39		Jake Matthews	80
38	41		Alberto Mina	75.5
38	41		Diego Sanchez	75.5
40	53		Lyman Good	74
41	43		Rustam Khabilov	72.5
42	40		Alex Morono	71
43	44		Alan Jouban	69.5
44	45		Dwight Grant	67.5
44	45		Mickey Gall	67.5
46	50		Bryan Barberena	65
47	51		Ramazan Emeev	56.5
48	52		Dhiego Lima	56
49	54		Siyar Bahadurzada	49.5
50	55		Ben Saunders	48.5
51	56		Chad Laprise	47.5
52	57		Carlos Condit	45
53	58		Zak Ottow	44.5
54	59		Tim Means	44
55	60		Song Kenan	42.5
56	62		Danny Roberts	42
57	61		Nordine Taleb	41
58	63		Michel Pereira	36
59	64		Nicolas Dalby	33.5
60	65		Laureano Staropoli	26.5
61	67		Chance Rencountre	24.5
61	66		Max Griffin	24.5
63	68		Takashi Sato	22.5
64	79		David Zawada	20
65	69		Thiago Alves	19.5
66	70		Bartosz Fabinski	16
67	72		Luke Jumeau	12.5
68	71		Court McGee	12
68	73		Erik Koch	12
70	74		Tristan Connelly	10
71	75		Emil Meek	8
72	76		Callan Potter	5
72	NR		Miguel Baeza	5
72	NR		Sean Brady	5
75	76		Sergey Khandozhko	4.5
76	78		Daichi Abe	4
77	NR		Abubakar Nurmagomedov	0
77	79		Cole Williams	0
77	79		Hector Aldana	0
77	79		Luigi Vendramini	0
77	79		Maki Pitolo	0
77	79		Ricky Rainey	0
77	79		Rostem Akman	0
77	79		Salim Touahri	0
77	79		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
Pound for Pound

 

 

 

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