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Why No July WBAN Rankings for the
Three Heaviest Weights?
By Dee Williams
July 3, 2008 |
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(JULY 3) Those of you who follow the
WBAN boxer rankings may have noticed that there are no fighters
ranked this month at light heavyweight, cruiserweight, or
heavyweight - super middleweight (168 bs) is the heaviest weight
class for which we have published any rankings for
July.
For a number of months now, there have been only four boxers (Kathy
Rivers, Carlette Ewell, Vonda Ward, and Monica McGowan) ranked in
these three weight classes combined, and only one or two fights a
year occur that could produce changes in the boxer rankings.
As the
results of head-to-head competition among the rankable boxers are at
the heart of my computer ranking system, the ranking scores for
these weight classes are much less robust than those for weight
classes where there are many more fights between the rankable
boxers.
Until the number of competitive fights in these three weight classes
increases significantly, Sue and I have decided to not publish any
rankings for them.
My computer program will still calculate ranking scores for light
heavyweight, cruiserweight, and heavyweight boxers each month, but
until there are at least four boxers with scores over 250 in our
system in a weight class, we will not publish scores and rankings
for that weight class, just the list of "relevant fight results".
(We will revisit this criterion as time goes by.)
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