Bloody Elbow Meta-Rankings: March

by Kid Nate on Apr 2, 2008 5:03 PM EDT in News

Sorry for the delay in posting these. I had a bit of a busy month.

So I'm posting all of the March rankings in one post without commentary. We also planned to add several sites to our rankings calculations but didn't get time. We'll do that next month and I wanted to thank BE reader Dennis Nolasco for the helpful suggestions.

Rankings are based on an average of Media Rankings (MMA Weekly, Sherdog, World Fight, Cage Potato, Inside MMA, MMAFighting.com and 5 oz of Pain), Fan Rankings (represented by MMA HQ and MMA Playground) and Computer Rankings (represented by Fight Matrix). If we missed a good ranking someone is doing let us know, we'll add them to the mix. Particularly other computerized or fan vote rankings. A #1 vote is worth 10 points, #2 is 9 points and so on. Media rankings are totaled and divided by 7 to represent the average media ranking, this is then added to the computer and fan ranking points to create the total (perfect score is 30 points). Thanks to Brent Brookhouse for doing all the math work on this.

Fighter	Points	Last Time (Rank)
1. Fedor Emelianenko	29.57	28.88 (1)
2. Antonio Rodrigo Noguiera	25.71	26.13 (2)
2. Randy Couture	25.71	26 (3)

4. Josh Barnett	17	10.25 (7)
5. Fabricio Werdum	15.43	13.88 (4)
6. Andrei Arlovski	13.79	13.25 (6)
7. Tim Sylvia	13.57	13.63 (5)
8. Gabriel Gonzaga	8.79	9.13 (9)
10. Mirko Filipovic	8.57	7 (10)
11. Heath Herring	2.14	NA
12. Ben Rothwell	1.86	1.63 (12)
13. Aleksander Emelianenko	1.43	3.38 (11)
13. Cheick Kongo	0.79	9.38 (8)
14. Sergei Kharitonov	0.64	1 (14)

Lt Heavyweight Fighter	Points	Last Time
1. Quinton Jackson	30	30 (1)
2. Chuck Liddell	26	25.07 (2)
3. Forrest Griffin	20.57	18.14 (4)
4. Lyota Machida	19.93	20.57 (3)
5. Mauricio Rua	17.86	15.07 (7)
6. Keith Jardine	16.50	16.57 (6)
7. Dan Henderson	8.21	17.57 (5)
8. Wanderlei Silva	8.21	8.86 (8)
9. Rameau Thierry Sokoudjou	6.14	5.5 (9)
10. Ricardo Arona	3.29	3.43 (10)
11. Tito Ortiz	2.93	0.5
12. Rashad Evans	2.79	1.86 (11)
13. Thiago Silva	1.29	1 (12)
14. Vladimir Matyushenko	0.71	0.71 (13)
Antonio Rogerio Nogueira	0.57	NA

Middleweight Fighter	Points	Last Time
1. Anderson Silva	30	30 (1)
2. Paulo Filho	26	24.64 (2)
3. Dan Henderson	21.79	16.33 (5)
4. Rich Franklin	20.64	20.79 (3)
5. Robbie Lawler	16.64	18.21 (4)
6. Matt Lindland	10.14	13.21 (6)
7. Yushin Okami	9.71	6.14 (9)
8. Kazuo Misaki	9.5	9.5 (8)
9. Nathan Marquardt	8.93	9.86 (7)
10. Yoshihiro Akiyama	5.57	5.86 (10)
11. Denis Kang	3.5	4.43 (11)
12. Frank Trigg	1.86	1.71 (13)
13. Jason Miller	0.57	1.43 (15)
14. Jorge Santiago	0.14	3.14 (12)

Welterweight Fighter	Points	Last Time
1. Georges St. Pierre	29.86	30 (1)
2. Matt Serra	25.21	24.5 (3)
3. Matt Hughes	23.71	25.17 (2)
4. Jon Fitch	23.07	22.17 (4)
5. Karo Parisyan	15.64	16.33 (5)
6. Josh Koscheck	14.93	12 (6)
7. Jake Shields	11.71	9.33 (7)
8. Diego Sanchez	7.36	7 (9)
9. Carlos Condit	6.29	7.33 (8)
10. Hayato Sakurai	2.86	1 (12)
11. B.J. Penn	2	4 (10)
11. Marcus Davis	0.79	1.5 (11)
12. Shinya Aoki	0.71	1 (12)
13. Nick Thompson	0.57	0.5 (16)
14. Jay Hieron	0.14	0.17 (17)
15. Thiago Alves	0.14	NA

Lightweight Fighter	Points	Last Time
1. Takanori Gomi	27.29	28 (1)
2. BJ Penn	26.14	25.83 (2)
3. Gesias Calvancante	24.79	23.33 (3)
4. Sean Sherk	18.36	16.17 (4)
5. Mitsuhiro Ishida	15.07	12.5 (6)
6. Gilbert Melendez	12.21	14.33 (5)
7. Shinya Aoki	10.07	11.83 (7)
7. Tatsuya Kawajiri	10.07	7.17 (9)
9. Roger Huerta	5.64	6.83 (10)
10. Joe Stevenson	4.5	4.17 (11)
11. Vitor Ribeiro	4	1.33 (14)
12. Kenny Florian	2.43	3 (12)
13. Hayato Sakurai	2.14	7.67 (8)
14. Joachim Hansen	1.71	2 (13)
15. Tyson Griffin	0.29	NA
16. Frank Edgar	0.29	0.33 (16)

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Re: Bloody Elbow Meta-Rankings: March

Always interesting. And, Vitor Ribeiro should be 11th, not 14th.

by Richard on Apr 2, 2008 5:23 PM EDT 0 recs

Re: Bloody Elbow Meta-Rankings: March

Fixed. Thanks for the heads up

by Brent Brookhouse on Apr 2, 2008 5:33 PM EDT up 0 recs

Re: Bloody Elbow Meta-Rankings: March

I know it's a math calculation of other rankings but how is Werdum ranked above Arlovski when he lost to him and how is Tyson ranked over Edgar when he just lost to him? If the fights were way back then I would understand but both fights were recent. I don't get it.

by dropkick101 on Apr 2, 2008 8:38 PM EDT 0 recs

Re: Bloody Elbow Meta-Rankings: March

We're just reporting an average of the rankings. If anything we're over-weighting fan ranks and computer rankings so that might explain some of it. But the thing that got me about this one was all the movement in rankings of fighters who are inactive. Chuck Liddell moving up? Why? Denis Kang?? Akiyama dropping despite his loss being ruled a NC and yet Gomi never drops, despite a loss (I mean a NC) and a year off. We're just reporting, the oddities are the responsibility of the rankers.

by Kid Nate on Apr 2, 2008 8:44 PM EDT up 0 recs

Re: Bloody Elbow Meta-Rankings: March

Forrest moving up was another weird one to me. He passed up Machida based on what? Just buzz over him being on TUF? Machida hasn't done anything to drop and Forrest hasn't done anything to move up...but because of the show he is on people's minds and that results in him moving up.

by Brent Brookhouse on Apr 2, 2008 10:35 PM EDT up 0 recs

Re: Bloody Elbow Meta-Rankings: March

Definitely. Despite the odd changes I think the Meta-ranking system is real interesting to see where the majority of the hardcore fans are putting guys. With that said I think it would also be interesting to see Bloody Elbow's own rankings to coincide with the meta-rankings. Too much? I don't think so.

by dropkick101 on Apr 2, 2008 11:06 PM EDT up 0 recs