World Rugby Rankings^TM, April 2008

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Australia (5) +3 3 South Africa (2) -1 4 Wales (6) +2 5 Argentina (3) -2 6 England (9) +3 7 France (4) -3 8 Ireland (7) -1 9 Italy (10) +1 10 Scotland (8) -2 11 Samoa (11) 12 Tonga (12) 13 Fiji (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 Hong Kong (42) +1 42 South Korea (43) +1 43 Switzerland (41) -2 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 (60) 61 Malaysia (61) 62 India (62) 63 Pakistan (63) 64 Guam (64) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 697 (gross) 181.7 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 563 [80.8%] (gross) 155.8 [85.7%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2008-03-15      Italy   23       Scotland   20 2008-03-15      England   33       Ireland   10 2008-03-15      Wales   29       France   12 2008-03-15      Russia   12       Romania   8 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)