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MMAHitlist.com Launches Objective Ranking System for Mixed Martial Arts

Written by Press Release on Mon, Feb 25, 2008

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MMAHitlist.com (http://www.mmahitlist.com) is proud to announce its launch as the first objective ranking system of its kind for mixed martial artists. MMAhitlist.com applies a standard set of formulas to each competitors’ resume to produce a statistic called the Fighter Value. The Fighter Value is measured against the other competitors’ Fighter Values within the same weight class to provide the MMAhitlist.com rankings. Universally applied criteria to the UFC’s competitors presents BJ Penn, Matt Serra, Anderson Silva, Quinton Jackson, and Antonio Nogueira as ranked first in their respective weight divisions coincidental to their holding championship belts in those divisions.

MMAhitlist.com currently provides MMA fans and media with an unbiased analysis of the UFC’s competitors using universally applied criteria free from the prejudices inherent in subjective poll ranking systems. Users are invited to use these objective ratings to better inform their own subjective opinions and rankings.

It has been often repeated that Mixed Martial Arts is like kinetic chess. As such, the Elo system used to rate chess players has been used as a starting point to create MMAhitlist.com’s rating system. However, the criteria of win / loss has been augmented with additional criteria such as finish victory or loss and the rarity of a finish in the respective weight division, unanimous decision or split decision, or draw, the opponent’s fighter value, how recent the fights being considered occurred, how recent the fight has occurred in that competitor’s resume, whether the fight occurred in the same or a different weight class from the weight class the fighter value is being provided, at what place in the fight card the fight occurred as well as what type of fight card, and whether the fight was for a title. These criteria are standardized and applied universally to all competitors without prejudice.

Users of the website may also create their own Fighter Banners for their own websites and social networking sites, featuring rankings and Fighter Values for individual fighters that are automatically updated to be current at all times.

Currently focused on the UFC, MMAhitlist.com is looking to expand to other organizations using the Unified Rules of Mixed Martial Arts.

For more information on MMAHitlist.com, its criteria and formulas please visit http://www.mmahitlist.com/welcome/about or email info@mmahitlist.com.

1 Comments For This Post

  1. Suzette Says:

    Awesome! The site will be informative.

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