Bloody Elbow December 2012 Meta-Rankings: Featherweight

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Frankie Edgar sits at 14 despite never fighting at Featherweight.

Our sources are cited at the bottom of this post.

Rank	Fighter	Points	Promotion	Last Rank
1	Jose Aldo	225	UFC	1
2	Chad Mendes	208	UFC	2
3	Ricardo Lamas	185	UFC	4
4	Pat Curran	184	Bellator	3
5	Chan Sung Jung	173	UFC	5
6	Dennis Siver	163	UFC	7
7	Hatsu Hioki	154	UFC	6
8	Dustin Poirier	139	UFC	9
9	Erik Koch	131	UFC	8
10	Diego Nunes	122	UFC	10
11	Cub Swanson	117	UFC	12
12	Tatsuya Kawajiri	109	DREAM	11
13	Daniel Straus	87	Bellator	13
14	Frankie Edgar	66	UFC	22
15	Marlon Sandro	63	Bellator	17
16	Darren Elkins	62	UFC	15
17	Hiroyuki Takaya	61	DREAM	15
18	Robert Peralta	57	UFC	14
18	Hacran Dias	57	UFC	18
20	Manny Gamburyan	53	UFC	18
21	Clay Guida	51	UFC	NR
22	Mike Brown	45	UFC	21
23	Nik Lentz	43	UFC	20
23	Bart Palaszewski	43	UFC	24
25	Patricio Freire	42	Bellator	22

Based on the premise that all MMA rankings are subjective but that it’s still useful and informative to know who the online MMA community as a whole ranks as the best fighters in MMA, we collect and average the rankings of the top MMA websites to produce our consensus rankings. We compile the top MMA rankings from each of our sources and award 25 points 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. This formula ensures that each ranking site awards the same number of total points regardless of how many fighters they choose to rank. Each fighter’s total is divided by the number of possible points to determine their standing in the Consensus Rankings.