Bloody Elbow February 2013 Meta-Rankings: Heavyweight

Antonio Silva's incredible knockout of Alistair Overeem has changed the heavyweight landscape.

Our sources are cited at the bottom of this post.

Rank	Fighter	Points	Promotion	Last Rank
1	Cain Velasquez	225	UFC	1
2	Junior dos Santos	216	UFC	2
3	Daniel Cormier	204	UFC	3
4	Fabricio Werdum	193	UFC	4
5	Antonio Silva	192	UFC	8
6	Frank Mir	173	UFC	5
7	Alistair Overeem	169	UFC	6
8	Josh Barnett	156	Strikeforce	7
9	Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira	149	UFC	9
10	Roy Nelson	115	UFC	10
11	Stefan Struve	113	UFC	11
12	Mark Hunt	86	UFC	12
13	Travis Browne	72	UFC	13
13	Gabriel Gonzaga	72	UFC	14
15	Cheick Kongo	68	UFC	15
16	Sergei Kharitonov	59	Russian MMA Championship	16
16	Andrei Arlovski	59	WSOF	16
16	Brendan Schaub	59	UFC	20
19	Ben Rothwell	55	UFC	18
20	Alexander Volkov	53	Bellator	21
21	Stipe Miocic	52	UFC	19
22	Damian Grabowski	49	Bellator	22
23	Shane Carwin	46	UFC	25
23	Jeff Monson	46	Road Fighting Championship	23
23	Kenny Garner	46	M-1 MixFC	23

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.