I started this to prevent further hi-jacking of Sue's thread ("NZ Rankings).

Felix, you have missed my point. I think that people's big problem with Jason's ranking is not that it doesn't correctly make a judgement of his future performance, but rather that it doesn't accurately reflect his performance to date. You must surely admit from both an intuitive and logical standpoint that there is a problem with the system when Jason can make it to the final of the K-1 Melbourne and still be rated lower than every fighter he defeated to get there-with the exception of tsuyoshi and Mike Angove (who I see isn't on the list - Felix you stirrer!). K-1 fighters, at least those working their way up through the qualifiers, are disadvantaged by the rules you have set. Most of their fights are going to be tournament fights by virtue of nature of the K-1. The top 8 will fight one-offs against other top rated fighters during the year (and therefore contribute/detract from their ranking) but the up-and-comers will obviously concentrate all of their efforts on the tournaments and the people they fight in the first round of a tournament are usually going to be lower or close to their own rank. I think you actully need a separate list for K-1 fighters where you count semi finals and finals to reflect the nature of that competition. To measure K-1 specialists against an instrument that is designed to rank according to the results of one-off fights is unfair. It's a different game. Also, fighters with high rankings who don't fight K-1 are artificially 'protected' as they are unlikely to face K-1's elite.