Tapology

For anyone who has recently started seeing "Please turn off your ad blocker" messages on Tapology, we wanted to offer some context. These messages have been on Tapology for quite some time. We suspect most of the people newly encountering them are using uBlock, as something appears to have changed recently in how it handles some sites. We haven't made any changes on our end. Operating Tapology at our scale is expensive. Our database is compiled and maintained by hand, with contributions from roughly 40 people. We're one of the larger combat sports websites, serving millions of users and requiring substantial technical infrastructure to keep everything running. We fund these operations through advertising and subscriptions. When someone uses an ad blocker, we generally earn nothing from their visits, but every page they view still uses our servers, and every image they load costs us money in storage and bandwidth fees. We understand that repeatedly encountering these messages can be annoying. For people who prefer not to see ads, we offer an ad-free subscription starting at $3/month, which we think is a reasonable price for someone who regularly uses the site. Regarding the broader combat sports data ecosystem. Some sites offering similar information simply scrape and republish data compiled by Tapology, Sherdog, BoxRec, UFC Stats and others, without permission or the expense of collecting and maintaining it themselves. That information has to originate somewhere. Tapology and other established operations invest considerable resources in producing and maintaining the data that many other services rely on. And supporting millions of users involves substantially greater infrastructure costs than serving a smaller audience. Everyone has their own preferences when it comes to advertising and subscriptions. Other blocking tools from uBlock may still work the way you prefer. Ultimately, our goal is to keep Tapology accessible, useful, and sustainable for the long term. Advertising and subscriptions are what make that possible.

Brendan Allen! The Tapology UFC Rankings have been updated. View the new rankings (tapology.com/rankings/ufc), and read the next post for highlights.

Payton Talbott vs Deiveson Figueiredo is an example of pretty extreme disagreement between Tapology automated rankings and UFC Meta automated rankings. Tapology has Figgy at 18, Meta still with him at 12 despite losing 4 of last 5. And Tapology already has Talbott inside the top-10 because it considered his Henry Cejudo win to be very high value (this could be debated, but that's what our system did).