World Rugby Rankings^TM, March 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 Australia (7) +2 6 Wales (13) +7 7 Ireland (5) -2 8 Scotland (8) 9 England (6) -3 10 Italy (9) -1 11 Samoa (10) -1 12 Tonga (11) -1 13 Fiji (12) -1 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 (41) 42 Hong Kong (42) 43 South Korea (43) 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 Azerbaijan (62) +2 61 Malaysia (60) -1 62 India (61) -1 63 Pakistan (63) 64 Guam (64) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 708 (gross) 189.2 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 579 [81.8%] (gross) 163.7 [86.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2008-02-09      Wales   30       Scotland   15 2008-02-09      France   26       Ireland   21 2008-02-09      Georgia   22       Romania   7 2008-02-10      England   23       Italy   19 2008-02-16      Portugal   42       Czech Republic   6 2008-02-23      Wales   47       Italy   8 2008-02-23      Ireland   34       Scotland   13 2008-02-23      England   24       France   13 2008-02-23      Georgia   11       Portugal   6 2008-02-23      Romania   17       Spain   11 2008-03-01      Russia   41       Portugal   26 2008-03-08      Wales   16       Ireland   12 2008-03-08      Scotland   15       England   9 2008-03-08      Romania   21       Portugal   15 2008-03-08      Russia   42       Spain   16 2008-03-09      France   25       Italy   13 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)