Yeah. It's really a slippery slope of where to cut it off. Take returning fighters, for example: I think that betting on a Mokaev return to UFC and getting ranked is a prefecture laudable risk, but Nunes is already booked to fight Harrison, so I wouldn't call picking Amanda necessarily "brave."
I guess the risk is just in the loss. Yeah, Islam and Ilia scored huge points because they won, but Zhang lost, and rankers (usually) don't like trying to rank division-jumpers based on no wins in the weight division, so bets on her ended up with zero points.
I sorta just inherited the system at the last minute in 2024, and this year around, because my final quarter has been a fucking mess, I didn't have enough time to revisit this for any substantial changes. I don't know if I'd remove the ability to pick ranked fighters altogether, or maybe implement a cost, like people could choose a ranked fighter to jump, but at a 5-10 deficit, or only half points or something
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