World Rugby Rankings^TM, February 2008

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 South Africa (2) 3 Argentina (3) 4 France (4) 5 Ireland (5) 6 England (6) 7 Australia (7) 8 Scotland (8) 9 Italy (9) 10 Samoa (10) 11 Tonga (11) 12 Fiji (12) 13 Wales (13) 14 Japan (14) 15 Georgia (15) 16 Russia (16) 17 Romania (17) 18 Canada (18) 19 United States (19) 20 Portugal (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Germany (22) 23 Moldova (23) 24 Belgium (24) 25 Spain (25) 26 Uruguay (26) 27 Chile (27) 28 Czech Republic (28) 29 Ukraine (29) 30 Netherlands (30) 31 Croatia (31) 32 Armenia (32) 33 Kazakhstan (33) 34 Poland (34) 35 Lithuania (35) 36 Malta (36) 37 Latvia (37) 38 Andorra (38) 39 Sweden (39) 40 Denmark (40) 41 Switzerland (43) +2 42 Hong Kong (41) -1 43 South Korea (42) -1 44 Hungary (44) 45 Serbia (45) 46 Arabian Gulf (46) 47 Norway (47) 48 Austria (48) 49 Bulgaria (49) 50 Slovenia (50) 51 Luxembourg (51) 52 Sri Lanka (52) 53 China (53) 54 Singapore (54) 55 Taiwan (55) 56 Thailand (56) 57 Finland (57) 58 Israel (58) 59 Bosnia (59) 60 Malaysia (60) 61 India (61) 62 Azerbaijan (62) 63 Pakistan (63) 64 Guam (64) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 709 (gross) 190.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 574.5 [81.0%] (gross) 165.1 [86.6%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2008-01-06      China   64       Taiwan   17 2008-01-09      China   52       Taiwan   27 2008-02-02      Ireland   16       Italy   11 2008-02-02      Wales   26       England   19 2008-02-02      Georgia   31       Portugal   3 2008-02-03      France   27       Scotland   6 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/) ©1996-2008 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2008 Paul Waite)