UFC Performance Based Fighter Rankings: Heavyweights: Aug 3/20

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	545
2	2	1	Stipe Miocic	509
3	3	3	Francis Ngannou	330.5
4	4	4	Curtis Blaydes	228.5
5	5	8	Alistair Overeem	174.5
6	6	11	Aleksei Oleinik	147.5
7	7	6	Junior dos Santos	130
8	8		Ovince Saint Preux	118
9	9	5	Derrick Lewis	117
10	10	9	Alexander Volkov	112.5
11	22	14	Fabricio Werdum	99
12	11	11	Walt Harris	98
13	12	13	Shamil Abdurakhimov	97
14	13	7	Jairzinho Rozenstruick	94
15	14		Ben Rothwell	81.5
16	16		Marcos Rogerio de Lima	72
17	15		Ilir Latifi	71
18	19		Stefan Struve	66
19	20		Tai Tuivasa	64.5
20	16		Marcin Tybura	61.5
21	18		Alexander Gustafsson	59
21	21	15	Sergei Pavlovich	59
23	23	16	Ciryl Gane	52.5
24	24		Blagoy Ivanov	40.5
24	24		Chase Sherman	40.5
26	26		Andrei Arlovski	36
27	27	10	Augusto Sakai	34.5
28	39		Tanner Boser	32.5
29	28		Dmitriy Sosnovskiy	30
30	29		Greg Hardy	29.5
31	30		Sergey Spivak	29
32	32		Juan Espino	25
33	33		Maurice Greene	24
34	33		Yorgan De Castro	22.5
35	31		Gian Villante	21
36	NR		Tom Aspinall	20
37	35		Jake Collier	18.5
38	36		Justin Tafa	10
38	36		Rodrigo Nascimento	10
40	38		Raphael Pessoa	4.5
41	40		Ben Sosoli	0
41	NR		Carlos Felipe	0
41	40		Don’Tale Mayes	0
41	40		Ike Villanueva	0
41	40		Jarjis Danho	0
41	40		Jeff Hughes	0
41	40		Justin Frazier	0
41	NR		Maxim Grishin	0
41	40		Michel Batista	0
41	40		Philipe Lins	0
41	40		Todd Duffee	0

 

Check back Friday 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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