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BloodyElbow November MMA Meta-Rankings: Featherweight

Promoted from the fanposts by Kid Nate. Richard always helps out with the metas, this time he's going above and beyond. Thanks Richard!

Fighter PointsPromotionLast Rank
1. Urijah Faber 338 WEC 1
1. Mike Brown 338 WEC 2
3. Leonard Garcia 266 WEC 11
4. Wagnney Fabiano 263 WEC 3
5. Hatsu Hioki 236 Shooto 5
6. Jeff Curran 223 WEC 5
7. Akitoshi Tamura 222 WEC 7
8. Masakazu Imanari 202 DEEP 4
9. Dokonjonosuke Mishima 190 DEEP 8
10. Takeshi Inoue 183 Shooto 12
11. Hideki Kadowaki 171 Shooto 9
12. Norifumi Yamamoto 153 K-1 10
13. Hiroyuki Takaya 118 WEC 14
14. Jens Pulver 90 WEC 13
15. Rafael Assuncao 89 Ironheart Crown
15
16. Yuji Hoshino 88 GCM 19
17. Josh Grispi 83 WEC 21
18. Mark Hominick 82 Affliction 18
19. Bao Quach 81 Icon Sport
20
20. Marlon Sandro 78 Pancrase 16
21. Akiyo Nishiura 76 GCM 17
22. Cub Swanson 60 WEC 21
23. Wilson Reis 43 EliteXC 23
24. Antonio Carvalho 42 GCM 24
24. Savant Young 42 Affliction 37
24. Fredson Paixao 42 GFC 25

The WEC remains the dominant promotion for featherweights with 10 of the top 25 and six of the top 10 calling it their home (10 & four last month).

WEC 36 & 37 had a fairly substantial impact on the rankings.  #2 Mike Brown's TKO of #1 Urijah Faber in the main event  of 36 locked them in a tie at the top.  And #11 Leonard Garcia's destruction of #13 Jens Pulver launched him up the ladder to #3 ahead of WEC debutante, #3 Wagnney Fabiano who successully felled #7 Akitoshi Tamura at 37 where #21 Cub Swanson defeated #14 Hiroyuki Takaya.

Oddly enough, winners Swanson and Fabiano each fell a spot while loser Takaya rose one.

Sadly, my knowledge of the featherweight scene doesn't extend across the Pacific, so anything those of you more knowledgeable can add would be much appreciated.  Also, I don't normally do the write-ups for these, so please cut me a little slack if it's terrible.  Also, some of you will be happy to see that Octagon Buzz was not included in the rankings.

NOTE: The Meta-Rankings are not the subjective opinion of the BloodyElbow team or myself, but rather a compilation of the rankings of over twenty leading MMA web sites. It is our opinion that these are the most informative MMA rankings anywhere.

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Based on the premise that opinions are like assholes, everybody has one and they all stink. instead of putting up our own subjective fighter rankings, we compile and average the rankings of every source we could find online.

The goal is to show how the MMA community rates the fighters, not to bore you with our opinions.

Be sure and look at the points, they're a much more telling number than the ranking. There's clearly a huge gulf between the top 9 fighters and those that follow.

A total of 50 fighters were ranked in the top 25 by one source or another, for reasons of sanity I only track the top 25 (26 due to a tie) most highly rated fighters.

25 points are awarded for a first place ranking, 16 for a 10th place ranking, 1 for a 25th place ranking. A formula is used to "normalize" the data so all fighters are awarded points from those lists that do not include a full 25 fighters. Fuller explanation below.

The normalization scheme as explained by JCS of FightMatrix  is here:

The "normalization number" (new name) would be:

120
divided by
(Total Fighters Found in Any List minus 10)

Every fighter found somewhere else, but on a Top 10 list would be assigned this number.

The "normalization" number would not apply to a fighter not found on a Top 25 list. They would simply get 0.

So the process would be:

Do all of the Top 25 lists first, #1 = 25, #2 = 24…. #24 = 2, #25 = 1
Do all of the Top 10 lists, same scoring structure.. stops at #10 = 16

Figure out that normalization variable.

Fill in the normalization variable to all fighters not found in the Top 10 lists, but found elsewhere.

Do your totals and rank.

 

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Great job, Richard – but really, if Mike Brown and Urijah Faber are tied in points, Brown just beat him and there’s no way alphabetically to justify it, shouldn’t Brown be at the top out of sheer principle?

by subo on Dec 12, 2008 5:28 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Oh, and it looks like the full charts are for HWs.

by subo on Dec 12, 2008 5:30 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Oh son of a bitch.

Bolts from the Blue // People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

by Richard Wade on Dec 12, 2008 5:46 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

What are you talking about ? That’s why I rec’d it. :)

by Rundownloser on Dec 12, 2008 5:49 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

haha

Well, sorry to let you down, but I fixed it.

Bolts from the Blue // People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

by Richard Wade on Dec 12, 2008 5:50 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Thanks. I can’t believe I didn’t notice that.

Bolts from the Blue // People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

by Richard Wade on Dec 12, 2008 5:49 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Urijah is on top because that’s where Excel put him when I sorted by column.

Bolts from the Blue // People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

by Richard Wade on Dec 12, 2008 5:51 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

This is excellent. Definitely rec’d.

by Rundownloser on Dec 12, 2008 5:45 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Bantam and Flyweight should be up either later today or this weekend.

Bolts from the Blue // People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

by Richard Wade on Dec 12, 2008 6:09 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

Considering how long it’s been since he’s fought, I’m not surprised.

by Tonley on Dec 12, 2008 7:24 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Not to mention the distinct lack to top talent he faces when he does fight.

by ilostmydog on Dec 12, 2008 11:35 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

He’s listed at bantamweight on some sites.

Bolts from the Blue // People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

by Richard Wade on Dec 12, 2008 9:16 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Nothing but YouTube footage

thats all I’ve seen of Kid Yamamoto… I’m still waiting to see an updated fight or something, that flying knee knockout he had and the fight with Jeff Curran were great fights.

by Gunslinger20 on Dec 12, 2008 9:20 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Good work.

Do you know we are in high demand, Laura?

by Eugene Schelfaut on Dec 12, 2008 7:52 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

why in the world would that site rank mike brown at 10??? He’s the only reason why their tied.

http://weoweoweo.deviantart.com/

by Anton Tabuena on Dec 12, 2008 10:14 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

No idea. The site is in Japanese.

Bolts from the Blue // People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

by Richard Wade on Dec 12, 2008 10:33 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Well, that explains Akitoshi Tamura being #3.

by Rundownloser on Dec 12, 2008 10:43 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Some of these sites have rankings that are way out there. It’s like they either don’t watch MMA or have yet to update their rankings to include the last six months of fights.

by ilostmydog on Dec 12, 2008 11:44 PM EST reply actions   0 recs

umm okay?

I know these rankings are based on the averages of 20 sites but I still have a bone to pick. Could someone explain to me why #22 Cub Swanson who beat #13 Hiroyuki Takaya dropped a spot lower for the win over a higher ranked fighter while the guy he beat gained a spot!!!! That makes absolutely no sense at all!

by irepdaronx on Dec 13, 2008 2:27 AM EST reply actions   0 recs

Because a lot of the sites Richard uses for rankings don’t keep very good or up to date ones.

by ilostmydog on Dec 13, 2008 2:05 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

Takaya moved up a spot because Pulver who was directly ahead of him lost. And more people saw that fight than saw Takaya’s loss. That would be my guess.

Bolts from the Blue // People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

by Richard Wade on Dec 13, 2008 3:20 PM EST up reply actions   0 recs

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