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Name: MMA Player Rankings — Redraft & Dynasty (UFC)
Creator: The Expert Sports

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The Expert Sports MMA Rankings — Last updated: October 28, 2026

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Ages are shown only where a player's date of birth is verified (via their profile source); a dash means no verified date of birth yet.

Sources & methodology

Basis — Redraft: Anchored on the official UFC media pound-for-pound rankings released 20 Oct 2026 (Makhachev No. 1, Volkanovski No. 2, Gaethje No. 3) and the women's pound-for-pound list, extended with every reigning UFC champion (Gane, Ulberg, Strickland, Harrison, Nunes, Silva, Dern) and the No. 1-4 contenders in the deepest divisions after UFC 333 (24 Oct 2026) - via UFC rankings records, ESPN and MMA Junkie. Extended to a Top 75 on 27 Oct 2026 from the official UFC divisional rankings at UFC.com (released 24 Oct 2026, after UFC 333): ranks 51-75 are built in contender-rank rounds across all 11 divisions - every No. 1 to No. 5 contender not already in the Top 50, followed by the No. 6 contenders in the men's flyweight, featherweight, lightweight, welterweight and middleweight divisions. Nationalities are as listed in the UFC rankings record (Wikipedia's UFC rankings tables, ISO flags, same 24 Oct 2026 release). Extended to a Top 172 on 27 Oct 2026 by continuing the same contender-rounds method through the No. 7 to No. 15 contenders in the official UFC rankings record (Wikipedia's UFC Meta rankings tables, released 24 Oct 2026 after UFC 333): ranks 76-172 are built round by round - every No. 7 contender not already in the Top 75, then every No. 8 contender, and so on through No. 15 - across all 11 divisions in the tables' order (heavyweight, light heavyweight, middleweight, welterweight, lightweight, featherweight, bantamweight, flyweight, women's bantamweight, women's flyweight, women's strawweight). The only No. 7-15 contenders skipped are women's flyweights Rose Namajunas (No. 7) and Maycee Barber (No. 9), already in the Top 75. Nationalities are as listed in that rankings record (ISO flags). Dynasty: Dynasty re-orders the same verified Top 50 pool for long-term value: fighters in their 20s on title trajectories (Topuria, Van, Ulberg, Chimaev, Tsarukyan, Evloev, Kape, Taira, Morales, Hokit) move up; champions in their late 30s (Volkanovski, Gaethje, Nunes, Namajunas) hold redraft value but slide for the long term. The same Top 75 pool: the original Top 50 dynasty order is unchanged and the 25 added fighters are appended in the same contender-round order. The same Top 172 pool: the Top 75 dynasty order is unchanged and the 97 added fighters are appended in the same contender-round order.

List depth: Top 172 (UFC pound-for-pound + divisional champions and contenders through the No. 15 contender in every division).

How to read this board: trade values use the house model — value = 1000 × 0.987^(rank−1) — with a ±5% fairness band on trades. House terms: trade value · value over replacement · dynasty vs redraft · UPM · all house terms

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