News UFC partners with Meta to create New Ranking System

New ranking will magically ensure, however undeserving, Jon Jones will be ranked no. 1 despite his inactivity as per Dana White's obsession with Jon Jones.
 
Imo they need to rank the entire division for it to have any merit. Because there's alot of guys with 4 or 5 fight win streaks not even in the top 15
 
Please automate rankings to drop inactive fighters or slowly drop ranking, and reward guys on high win streaks. I'll take anything over the current system.

Sure there are guys like Cruz where they get injured and you can say okay they probably still are a top BW, but most guys like Colby or Usman right now the system should fade their ranking hard. I thought the average mma media would do better than what we have.
 
No doubt the AI is going to boost lower guys if they're popular, fun and entertaining because AI wants to see popular fighters fighting fun and entertaining fights too.
 
Python: 
def meta_ufc_rank(fighter):
    if fighter.name == "Jon Jones":
        return 🐐
    else:
        return calculate_rank(fighter.total_followers, fighter.ppv_sales)

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Since the UFC already controls the UFC ranking system I don't expect a damn thing to change.

Nothing is stopping the UFC to change they way they do things right now.
 
Well there's your fucking big news from Dana.

I was hoping for a new line of hotdog branders.
Leaving disappointed
 
The ranking problems are most traceable to statements like this where Dana White says things like he’s gonna be handing its responsibility over to an AI company, operated by a fellow oligarch of sorts, in exchange for massive advertising assets in social media. All he is saying here really is that he just struck a great advertising deal in exchange for ranking privileges. Like there’s nothing said here about how this new ranking system will work, just the ad deal. And this is because the attitude is that it doesn’t matter. The fights aren’t made based on rankings very often anyway, they’re made based on data discovery from watching the pulse of effective hype and hype development. It’s never gonna be transparent how this works and it’s never gonna be transparent what the standard is for matchmaking. They’re just gonna pop a meta logo on it and meta is gonna pump ufc media.

Their problem is the 8-10 fights to title shots, with rare exception and the clogging of the top 5 who have perhaps fallen out of relevancy for title contention. Then they run rematches like needless film sequels because the negotiations and the numbers are comfortably predictable. This damages momentum, prime moments, and the integrity of sport itself catering to known over unknown. They see it as less risky cause they safely guess the numbers, but I don’t think they’re really looking at what they’re losing by micro-managing things in a manner that is disruptive and damaging of the sport.

O’Malley vs Umar would have crushed Prudential and tv way harder than this rematch, but I think they’re doing it because they fear they lose this double payday if Umar wins and then Umar beats Merab. But I still think they’re wrong. Merab vs Sean is much more interesting after Umar beats them both, and Sandhagen vs Merab/sean are also great fights.

Belal probably should have been headliner in Newark. The name Mohammad alone fighting at prudential would better connect with local interests.
 
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As I understand it UFC will get a staring role in their weird one... of the Meta family "Threads". They get to take it over. They will get clips made just for threads, sounds like they will be able to get AI art and AR funny clips made and hire influencers. Threads is popular with both the extreme Maga right and extreme Left and UFC seems to do well in both the extremes. Also, UFC will promote those smart glasses, so UFC will look more nerdy.
 
This is so dumb, there is nothing wrong with the ranking system, sure I might disagree with some positions but it mostly have everyone where they should be.

Not to mention that they already ignore it when they want to and the UFC themselves control it, I don't know if this was some BS Dana cooked up to finally drop the illusion that they are independent or something else.

Now they will just steal data from here or Tapology and make some shitty algorithm based on top 10 wins, finishes etc, crunching stats.
 
WillyWarminski said:
But then how will Dana use his
"It makes sense" comment for pairing unranked Irishmen for title shots?
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Stipe probably would've been long dropped from the rankings for years inactivity instead of being in the top 10 over 4 years removed from his last win.
 
The appearance of the law must be upheld. Especially when it's being broken.
 
An AI can take into account things like opponents records and whatnot, but I doubt it has any way to account for a fighters decline.

So it would count Jones win over Stipe as a great win even though we could all see that he was washed.
 
"AND! we will also be using meta to spy on all your personal data!"

Then months later when shit isn't working as well as hoped.

"Mark Fuckerberg was never my friend"
 
Nothing will change. The UFC assigns the rankings. They demote guys they don’t like and promote guys they do like. They actively plot to give fighters bad matchups to justify dropping them in the rankings when contract time rolls around. None of this will change. The old way: tell journalists how to vote.
The new way: tell AI how to vote/rank.
 
lol..... now nobody is to blame for fuckery in the rankings.... it's just the AI.

Rankings mean fuck all anyway.
 
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