Ratings and Fighter Rankings

By Eric Kamander (erickamander@mmaratings.net)

Ratings and rankings are both ways to indicate someone or something's relative standing. However, ratings seek to gauge the value within a spectrum, in the case of MMA Ratings, the five star system. Meanwhile rankings seek to determine the vlaue within a consecutive order.

MMA Ratings uses fight and event ratings, to ultimately determine fight and event rankings.

Meanwhile, every site seems to have their own fighter rankings, and every fan seems to want to publi
Ratings and rankings are both ways to indicate someone or something's relative standing. However, ratings seek to gauge the value within a spectrum, in the case of MMA Ratings, the five star system. Meanwhile rankings seek to determine the vlaue within a consecutive order. MMA Ratings uses fight and event ratings, to ultimately determine fight and event rankings. Meanwhile, every site seems to have their own fighter rankings, and every fan seems to want to publicize their own rankings.

The result is that the multitude of fighter rankings are so speculative and diluted that they lose their value. Bloody Elbow seeks to create meta-rankings, which combine the results of major fighter ranking providers.

MMA Ratings values public opinion and as such publicizes the MMA Playground fighter rankings. Their rankings are based off of the community's fighter rankings via their My Fighter Rankings page. Users their own personal rankings, and each rank (1-10) has a static point value assigned to it. The points awarded via the rankings are then modified based on the individual user's career performance in the MMAPlayground.com fantasy picks game. The higher a player's overall career percentage of correct picks made on MMA events is compared to that of other users, the more value a member's vote carries. The result is that the people with the greatest knowledge of the fighters and have demonstrated a proven ability at predicting fights have a larger say in determining the fighter rankings, while still allowing enthusiasts and casual fans to have some input as well. They use a diminishing returns curve so that players must participate in making picks for several events* before their ranking points count for a fuller amount. Players must update and/or re-approve their rankings after an event occurs before their vote is counted and calculated again. This is done so that the rankings are up to date and accurately reflect the opinions of an active MMA userbase. Point totals are updated every day at 12 noon EST.