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Originally Posted by CONN CHRIS

Well, it is just something I did for personal use but I suppose that we'll have to agree to disagree about what it does to past ratings. I think the ones that it impacts the most are the dreadful fighters that have been given high zero-type ratings. A high zero rating is a pretty decent fighter really and we have tons of fighters that are of the 0-2, 0-3, 0-1 variety that have those types of ratings.

Anyway, the average fighter in real life is what he is and we have tended to lump him in with guys that are nearly the worst possible fighters in terms of ratings. Without the lower gradations, a guy that gets a 12-8-2 record with 9 KOs who is in turn blasted to oblivion by a fighter that we all agree is a one just isn't possible otherwise.

Very well stated!!