Some UFC cards are stacked, some not so much. The Stacked Rank is an attempt to quantify how stacked an event is. The number cannot capture all the factors that make an event epic, but it provides a measure of the level of talent on the card.

Each fighter on the card is assigned points, from 20-1, based on their UFC ranking, with 20 being the champ, and 1 being unranked. Further, P4P rankings are added in, with the #1 P4P fighter getting another 20 points, and #15 getting 5 points. Lastly, another 20 points are added when a belt is on the line.

The maximum possible raw score for a 13-fight card, with the champ in each of the 12 UFC divisions fighting the #1 contender, and a #2 and #3 contender fighting in the 13th bout, would be 12 x (20+20+19) + (18+17) = 743. The minimum possible score would be all unranked fighters, or a 26.

However, the 26-743 numbers are hard to grasp, so the figures are put on a 0 to 100 scale, with 0 being a card with no ranked fighters, and 100 being the Stack Ranking for UFC 200.

So the stellar UFC 200 had a Stacked Rank of 100.
Saturday’s UFC on ESPN+ 20 had a Stacked Rank of 8.
And next week’s UFC 244 has a Stacked Rank of 64.