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Originally Posted by SeikanJudanski
What on earth was the person thinking making this rule,
"For example, there is a rank #5 fighter. The rank #1 and rank #2 figher fight, and the rank #2 figher wins by KO. The rank #1 fighter drops to rank #6, and the rank #5 fighter becomes ranked #4."
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The drop 5 ranks rule? Look at it this way. The #1 and #2 guy fight, the #1 guy loses and drops to 6th. He then fights the #7 guy, and loses again. That'd drop him to rank #11th. Two losses in a row to top 10 guys makes it seem that maybe, that although that person is really good, maybe not quite top 10 material. This is also helps weed out people who get fluke wins. For example, little nog just got beat down by a no rank fighter - he should obviously drop quite a few spaces, in this case 5 as per the rules. That fighter (I'm not going to bother trying to find his name so I can spell it) would've then taken Nog's rank in Pride at 205 (definitely top 5). However, is that fighter really top 10 material, or was that a fluke? Well, if it wasn't a fluke, he'll keep winning, and he won't lose rank or his rank will go up. If it was a fluke and he loses a few, he'll be out of the top 10 where he doesn't belong anyways (not saying either way about this guy, but it's just one possible example).
Yeah, I know the rankings are terrible. Whoever said I should probably go halfway through 2006 and come forward is right, I should actually probably go back to 1993 and come forward, but they'll come along with time. I think in about a year they'll be pretty accurate for the UFC (maybe not so much for Pride though, who holds far less events).
I was doing the IFL too, but meh. I'm not interested enough to keep that going.