World Rugby Rankings^TM, May 2013

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Australia (2) 3 South Africa (3) 4 Wales (4) 5 England (5) 6 France (6) 7 Scotland (7) 8 Ireland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Samoa (10) 11 Italy (11) 12 Canada (12) 13 Fiji (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 Japan (15) 16 United States (16) 17 Georgia (17) 18 Romania (18) 19 Russia (19) 20 Portugal (20) 21 Belgium (21) 22 Spain (22) 23 Uruguay (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 Moldova (30) +5 26 Poland (25) -1 27 Germany (26) -1 28 South Korea (31) +3 29 Hong Kong (32) +3 30 Ukraine (27) -3 31 Madagascar (33) +2 32 Namibia (34) +2 33 Zimbabwe (35) +2 34 Sweden (28) -6 35 Czech Republic (36) +1 36 Netherlands (37) +1 37 Switzerland (40) +3 38 Lithuania (38) 39 Croatia (41) +2 40 Uganda (39) -1 41 Cyprus (29) -12 42 Kenya (44) +2 43 Brazil (45) +2 44 Malta (42) -2 45 Israel (43) -2 46 Tunisia (46) 47 Armenia (48) +1 48 Latvia (47) -1 49 Denmark (50) +1 50 Andorra (49) -1 51 Bosnia (n/a) 52 Paraguay (54) +2 53 Bulgaria (58) +5 54 Luxembourg (59) +5 55 United Arab Emirates (64) +9 56 Slovenia (55) -1 57 Hungary (56) -1 58 Serbia (57) -1 59 Finland (62) +3 60 Greece (63) +3 61 Norway (60) -1 62 Austria (61) -1 63 Philippines (51) -12 64 Sri Lanka (52) -12 65 Kazakhstan (65) 66 Taiwan (66) 67 Thailand (53) -14 68 Singapore (67) -1 69 Iran (69) 70 India (70) 71 Malaysia (68) -3 72 China (71) -1 73 Guam (72) -1 74 Indonesia (73) -1 75 Pakistan (74) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 792 (gross) 224.2 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 633.5 [80.0%] (gross) 192.4 [85.8%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2010-03-27      Cyprus   15       Bosnia   0 2012-11-03      Norway   11       Bosnia   9 2012-11-17      Greece   22       Bosnia   17 2013-04-06      Sri Lanka   49       Kazakhstan   18 2013-04-06      Taiwan   52       Thailand   23 2013-04-06      Germany   73       Sweden   17 2013-04-06      Switzerland   19       Malta   10 2013-04-06      Israel   17       Latvia   15 2013-04-06      Hungary   11       Austria   10 2013-04-06      Bulgaria   20       Slovenia   14 2013-04-07      Moldova   38       Ukraine   18 2013-04-13      Moldova   24       Poland   20 2013-04-13      Switzerland   37       Lithuania   21 2013-04-13      Netherlands   48       Malta   10 2013-04-13      Denmark   38       Serbia   0 2013-04-13      Bosnia   33       Luxembourg   23 2013-04-13      Greece   21       Norway   14 2013-04-20      Japan   121       Philippines   0 2013-04-20      Hong Kong   53       United Arab Emirates   7 2013-04-20      Netherlands   29       Croatia   24 2013-04-20      Israel   46       Denmark   3 2013-04-20      Cyprus   16       Hungary   15 2013-04-20      Slovenia   22       Austria   20 2013-04-20      Luxembourg   20       Greece   7 2013-04-20      Bosnia   19       Finland   15 2013-04-26      South Korea   75       United Arab Emirates   10 2013-04-27      Japan   38       Hong Kong   0 2013-04-27      Chile   38       Brazil   22 2013-04-27      Argentina   29       Uruguay   18 2013-04-27      Lithuania   15       Croatia   14 2013-05-02      Argentina   84       Chile   10 2013-05-02      Uruguay   58       Brazil   7 For more information About the World Rugby Rankings Subjective comments about this month's rankings The complete set of match results from which the rankings were generated Some additional rugby links The International Rugby Board (IRB) (which now has their own 'world rankings') The World Rugby Rankings are updated monthly, shortly after the start of the month. (The most recently computed rankings can be found at http://wrr.live555.com/) ©1996-2013 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2013 Paul Waite)