World Rugby Rankings^TM, May 2012

"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 Tonga (6) 7 France (7) 8 Ireland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Italy (10) 11 Scotland (11) 12 Samoa (12) 13 Japan (13) 14 Fiji (14) 15 Georgia (15) 16 Canada (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Romania (18) 19 Chile (19) 20 Russia (20) 21 Spain (21) 22 Namibia (22) 23 Uruguay (23) 24 Ukraine (24) 25 Portugal (25) 26 Belgium (27) +1 27 Poland (26) -1 28 Germany (29) +1 29 Moldova (30) +1 30 Czech Republic (31) +1 31 Netherlands (32) +1 32 Cyprus (38) +6 33 Hong Kong (33) 34 Sweden (34) 35 Lithuania (35) 36 Brazil (39) +3 37 Tunisia (28) -9 38 Croatia (37) -1 39 Malta (36) -3 40 Switzerland (47) +7 41 Bosnia (40) -1 42 Latvia (41) -1 43 Armenia (48) +5 44 Andorra (49) +5 45 Denmark (42) -3 46 Israel (43) -3 47 Hungary (44) -3 48 Austria (45) -3 49 Monaco (58) +9 50 Slovakia (52) +2 51 Serbia (46) -5 52 United Arab Emirates (53) +1 53 Kazakhstan (54) +1 54 South Korea (55) +1 55 Slovenia (50) -5 56 Norway (51) -5 57 Azerbaijan (65) +8 58 Philippines (64) +6 59 Sri Lanka (56) -3 60 Paraguay (59) -1 61 Bulgaria (60) -1 62 Greece (61) -1 63 Luxembourg (62) -1 64 Finland (63) -1 65 Taiwan (67) +2 66 Singapore (57) -9 67 Iran (68) +1 68 Thailand (69) +1 69 India (70) +1 70 Malaysia (66) -4 71 China (71) 72 Guam (72) 73 Indonesia (73) 74 Pakistan (74) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 748 (gross) 199.0 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 588.5 [78.7%] (gross) 168.6 [84.7%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2012-04-06      Tunisia   15       United Arab Emirates   7 2012-04-07      Belgium   20       Poland   13 2012-04-07      Netherlands   40       Moldova   26 2012-04-14      Andorra   9       Serbia   7 2012-04-14      Austria   19       Slovenia   5 2012-04-15      Sri Lanka   36       Taiwan   8 2012-04-15      Philippines   37       Singapore   20 2012-04-18      Sri Lanka   35       Singapore   10 2012-04-18      Philippines   34       Taiwan   12 2012-04-21      Poland   32       Netherlands   19 2012-04-21      Malta   22       Sweden   14 2012-04-21      Croatia   45       Serbia   14 2012-04-21      Israel   44       Hungary   5 2012-04-21      Denmark   28       Austria   22 2012-04-21      Luxembourg   26       Finland   3 2012-04-21      Philippines   28       Sri Lanka   18 2012-04-21      Taiwan   49       Singapore   31 2012-04-27      Hong Kong   85       United Arab Emirates   10 2012-04-28      Japan   87       Kazakhstan   0 2012-04-28      Lithuania   48       Latvia   8 2012-04-28      Croatia   31       Malta   16 2012-04-28      Cyprus   94       Bulgaria   3 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 Rugby Guide" 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/) ©1996-2012 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2012 Paul Waite)