UFC Performance Based Fighter Rankings: Welterweights: Oct 11/21

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 a voter’s opinion, and biases are bound to seep through, whether intentional or not.  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 the 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	1	Kamaru Usman	967
2	2	2	Colby Covington	445
3	3	4	Leon Edwards	425
4	4	5	Vicente Luque	364
5	5	15	Muslim Salikhov	344
6	6	13	Santiago Ponzinibbio	337
7	7	12	Li Jingliang	298.5
8	8	3	Gilbert Burns	297.5
9	9		Shavkat Rakhmonov	269
10	10	6	Stephen Thompson	238
11	11	7	Jorge Masvidal	227
12	12		James Krause	224.5
13	13		Kevin Lee	223
14	14	9	Neil Magny	222
15	15	10	Belal Muhammad	218
16	16	14	Sean Brady	215
17	17	8	Michael Chiesa	209
18	18		Randy Brown	157
19	22		Max Griffin	155.5
20	19		Alex Morono	155
21	23		Claudio Silva	154
22	24	16	Daniel Rodriguez	153.5
23	21		Francisco Trinaldo	152
24	26		Khaos Williams	144
25	27		Warlley Alves	143.5
26	25		Michel Prazeres	138.5
27	28		Miguel Baeza	131
28	29	11	Geoff Neal	129
29	NR		Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	118
30	30		Jake Matthews	117.5
31	31		Matt Brown	117
32	19		Niko Price	115.5
33	33		Dwight Grant	107
34	34		Michel Pereira	104
35	35		Khamzat Chimaev	103
36	52		Carlston Harris	96
37	36		Court McGee	88
38	51		Matthew Semelsberger	87
39	38		Mike Perry	82.5
40	39		Jeremiah Wells	80
41	40		Song Kenan	76.5
42	41		Takashi Sato	70
43	42		Ramazan Emeev	68
44	45		Tim Means	65
45	46		Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone	62
46	47		Dhiego Lima	61
47	44		Mickey Gall	60
48	42		Impa Kasanganay	59
49	48		Danny Roberts	55
50	49		Mounir Lazzez	54
50	37		Nicolas Dalby	54
52	50		Philip Rowe	50
53	52		Ramiz Brahimaj	40
53	52		Sasha Palatnikov	40
55	56		Bryan Barberena	37
56	57		David Zawada	32
57	59		Jason Witt	26
58	61		Jared Gooden	18
59	58		Alex Oliveira	17.5
60	62		Abubakar Nurmagomedov	10
60	62		Gabriel Green	10
62	64		Sergey Khandozhko	9
63	65		Nate Diaz	8
64	66		Jordan Williams	0
64	66		Louis Cosce	0
64	NR		Martin Sano Jr.	0
64	66		Mike Jackson	0
64	66		Niklas Stolze	0
64	66		Orion Cosce	0
64	66		Preston Parsons	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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