Brian Johnston

Where the 1461.5 rating comes from

From 6 bouts played between 12 July 1996 and 27 July 1997, and from them alone. Every line below was written at computation time: nothing is recomputed to show this page.

How to read this

On the right: the change this bout produced, then the value before → after. A line's arrival value is the next line's starting value, down to the starting rating given to every newcomer. A ±0.0 is a counted bout that did not move the rating, a walkover for instance.

6 bouts, from the most recent to the first

beaten by Dan Bobish
27/07/97 · UFC 14 · heavyweight semifinals · detail
−24.71486.2 1461.5
beaten by Ken Shamrock
07/12/96 · UFC Ultimate Ultimate 1996 · quarterfinals · detail
−19.21505.4 1486.2
beaten by Mark Coleman
20/09/96 · UFC 11 · semifinals · detail
−18.21523.7 1505.4
20/09/96 · UFC 11 · quarterfinals · detail
+24.01499.7 1523.7
beaten by Don Frye
12/07/96 · UFC 10 · semifinals · detail
−24.31524.0 1499.7
12/07/96 · UFC 10 · quarterfinals · detail
+24.01500.0 1524.0

Only the bouts the source publishes appear; what is missing is listed. The source gives the day, not the hour: two bouts on the same day are ordered by a reproducible rule, which is not necessarily the real order.