Thanks to a question of JCS_FM's and a free afternoon of mine, BloodyElbow's Meta-Rankings will at least for this month contain bantamweight and (probably for just this month) flyweight rankings.

Only seven sites that I am familiar with rank bantamweights.  If you know of any others, please let me know in the comments.

Just like the featherweight division, bantamweight is largely dominated by the WEC.  Five of the top 10 and 10 of the top 25 are WEC fighters.

#1 Miguel Torres most recently dominated #10 Manny Tapia at WEC 37.  And #2 Brian Bowles submitted #7 Will Ribeiro.

The only other top 10 fighter to have competed recently is #8 Takeya Mizugaki who defeated unranked Masahiro Oishi.

#11 Norifumi Yamamoto (who is  #12 at featherweight thanks to splitting his rankings between weight classes) has not competed since last New Year's Eve when he defeated #12 Rani Yahya.

I'm afraid there's not much more for me to add, but if any of you do, I'd like to hear it.

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.

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.