UFC Performance Based Fighter Rankings: Welterweights: Feb 24/20

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 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	1	Kamaru Usman	470.5
2	2	2	Tyron Woodley	426
3	4	16	Conor McGregor	305
4	3	3	Colby Covington	303.5
5	5	5	Leon Edwards	289.5
6	6	4	Jorge Masvidal	244
7	8	7	Stephen Thompson	200
8	9	11	Robbie Lawler	194
9	10		Anthony Rocco Martin	177
10	11		Niko Price	163
11	12	8	Michael Chiesa	148
12	13	6	Demian Maia	145
13	14		Gunnar Nelson	139
14	7	9	Rafael dos Anjos	137.5
15	15		Claudio Silva	134
16	16	14	Vicente Luque	132
17	17		Matt Brown	131
18	19		Elizeu Zaleski dos Santos	121
19	20	12	Geoff Neal	116
20	22	13	Gilbert Burns	112.5
21	24		Alexey Kunchenko	112
21	24		James Vick	112
23	26		Li Jingliang	107.5
24	27		Randy Brown	106
25	28		Neil Magny	103.5
26	20		Donald ‘Cowboy’ Cerrone	98
26	29		Warlley Alves	98
28	30		Belal Muhammad	90
29	31		Alex Oliveira	88.5
30	32	10	Nate Diaz	85.5
31	33		Ismail Naurdiev	83
32	34		Muslim Salikhov	80.5
33	36		Mike Perry	75.5
34	38		Lyman Good	74
35	39		Rustam Khabilov	72.5
36	35		Jake Matthews	70
37	41		Alan Jouban	69.5
38	42		Dwight Grant	67.5
38	42		Mickey Gall	67.5
40	36		Diego Sanchez	66.5
41	44		Bryan Barberena	62
42	40		Alex Morono	60.5
43	NR		Khaos Williams	60
44	49		Song Kenan	57
45	46		Ramazan Emeev	56.5
46	47		Dhiego Lima	54.5
47	45		Tim Means	50
48	48		Siyar Bahadurzada	49.5
49	50		Danny Roberts	42
50	NR		Daniel Rodriguez	35
51	54		Nicolas Dalby	33.5
52	53		Michel Pereira	32
53	55		Laureano Staropoli	26.5
54	56		Chance Rencountre	24.5
54	56		Max Griffin	24.5
56	58		Takashi Sato	22.5
57	59		David Zawada	20
58	60		Bartosz Fabinski	16
59	63		Court McGee	12
59	63		Erik Koch	12
61	65		Tristan Connelly	10
62	66		Emil Meek	7
63	67		Miguel Baeza	5
63	67		Sean Brady	5
65	67		Callan Potter	4.5
65	70		Sergey Khandozhko	4.5
67	71		Abubakar Nurmagomedov	0
67	71		Cole Williams	0
67	71		Maki Pitolo	0
67	71		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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