Community-Driven MMA Rankings

by ghettoiam on Sep 17, 2009 4:36 PM EDT

Rankings are a central part of the MMA community.

We all know that, but we don't know who the MMA community really thinks is the best. What if the whole community could collaborate and create rankings, in real-time?

That's what I'm presenting to the MMA community with http://www.rankedmma.com. A community-based, real-time, living, rankings system.

To elaborate, every user manages their own rankings. These rankings can be shared out via a personal URL (http://www.rankedmma.com/rankings_by/ghettoiam/) or embedded in a website. Then in real-time, the rankings of each user are combined to calculate the overall "Official Rankings" for the site.

Rankedmma.com has other features as well (i.e. groups, archives, date ranges) but this the crux of the site - community-driven MMA rankings. I want to know who 10,000 people think is #1 P4P fighter in the world, not who WAMMA thinks. :)

The site is still in beta but could use some users. :) If you find bugs please let me know.

And just so you know, there is no advertising on the site. No fees. I built because I wanted to learn something and wanted to contribute to MMA online.

The FanPosts are solely the subjective opinions of Bloody Elbow readers and do not necessarily reflect the views of Bloody Elbow editors or staff.

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Now about to give it a go, sounds very interesting.

by Barry619 on Sep 17, 2009 5:22 PM EDT reply actions

Can’t argue with the vision. Better put my input in now, while my votes count for so much. ;)

…. ugh activation fail, I’ll try again later tonight

by Graven Image on Sep 17, 2009 5:24 PM EDT reply actions

error message from activation link, but I appear to be activated

by Graven Image on Sep 17, 2009 5:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Thanks. I'll look into it.

I said it was in beta. :)

by ghettoiam on Sep 17, 2009 8:15 PM EDT up reply actions

Only weird thing I’ve seen so far is that Martin Kampmann is listed at 185 rather than 170.

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by Llewdor on Sep 17, 2009 6:08 PM EDT reply actions

well then I guess you didnt notice that somehow Lesnar is #5 p4p on there.

really people??

by beersnbroads on Sep 17, 2009 6:20 PM EDT up reply actions

Noted. Will fix.

I`d eventually like to give users the ability to keep the site up to date. I just don`t have the infrastructure their yet.

by ghettoiam on Sep 17, 2009 8:16 PM EDT up reply actions

Also missing Frank Trigg

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by Llewdor on Sep 18, 2009 6:34 PM EDT up reply actions

so it’s a popularity contest.

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by BadB on Sep 17, 2009 6:24 PM EDT reply actions

Aren’t all rankings a popularity contest to a certain degree?

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by mattman73 on Sep 17, 2009 7:43 PM EDT up reply actions

I`m hoping the site will skew away from the casual fan so that (to some degree) it`ll be a meaningful popularity contest.

by ghettoiam on Sep 17, 2009 8:18 PM EDT up reply actions

It will be interesting to find out what kind of rankings this will generate. At least I will find it interesting but I found it interesting the other day that on UFC.com a poll for the Huerta/Maynard fight was almost 60% in favor of Huerta winning. While on this site a poll for the very same fight was almost 70% in favor of Maynard winning. I found it interesting that the UFC’s website apparently attracts a very different audience than Bloody Elbow. So if you can combine what seems to be a wide variety of opinion from the MMA community it will be interesting to see the outcome of the rankings.

Just BE.

by mattman73 on Sep 17, 2009 8:03 PM EDT reply actions

Dude

You said ‘interesting’ 5 times… Interested?

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by funnytiger on Sep 17, 2009 11:36 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions

That was bad on my part but still interesting to me.

Just BE.

by mattman73 on Sep 18, 2009 10:48 AM EDT up reply actions

hehe

Just bustin’ your balls. ;)

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by funnytiger on Sep 18, 2009 1:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Pretty sure there’s already a site that does this. The rankings suck.

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by Mike Fagan on Sep 17, 2009 8:34 PM EDT reply actions

You think rankings suck or specifically my sites rankings suck? :)

by ghettoiam on Sep 17, 2009 11:44 PM EDT up reply actions

Whatever the other site is. I guess it’s Playground from the comments.

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by Mike Fagan on Sep 18, 2009 12:28 PM EDT up reply actions

There’s also that other one that was in the meta rankings but did shit like overturn decisions they didn’t agree with and weird stuff.

by Phildo on Sep 19, 2009 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions

Doesn’t MMA Playground already do this?

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by Richard Wade on Sep 17, 2009 8:46 PM EDT reply actions

Yes, MMA Playground already does this

but MMA Playground is a UI mess. I can appreciate a site with a single simple purpose.

by Graven Image on Sep 17, 2009 9:55 PM EDT up reply actions

This is cool, great work!

Folks might be pointing out redundancies with other sites, but I’ve never been to those other sites. I enjoy the personal utility of what you’ve built here though.

Thus far, the only snag I’ve hit is that Diego Sanchez is needed @ 155

by LBo on Sep 17, 2009 9:00 PM EDT reply actions

Deigo Sanchez

Thanks for adding him. He’s been approved.

by ghettoiam on Sep 17, 2009 11:43 PM EDT up reply actions

There is

no Jose Aldo @ 145, I don’t know if people just didn’t vote for him or whether he’s just plain missing, but he certainly should be ranked in the top 5/ 10

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by ElliotMatheny on Sep 18, 2009 4:32 AM EDT reply actions