World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 2009

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 South Africa (1) 2 New Zealand (2) 3 Australia (3) 4 Ireland (4) 5 Wales (5) 6 England (6) 7 France (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 Scotland (9) 10 Italy (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Canada (12) 13 Samoa (13) 14 Japan (14) 15 Tonga (15) 16 United States (16) 17 Georgia (17) 18 Russia (18) 19 Romania (19) 20 Portugal (20) 21 Namibia (21) 22 Spain (22) 23 Uruguay (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 Germany (25) 26 Ukraine (26) 27 Czech Republic (29) +2 28 Lithuania (27) -1 29 Poland (28) -1 30 Belgium (31) +1 31 Moldova (30) -1 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Kazakhstan (33) 34 South Korea (34) 35 Hong Kong (35) 36 Armenia (36) 37 Croatia (37) 38 Hungary (42) +4 39 Israel (38) -1 40 Malta (39) -1 41 Sweden (40) -1 42 Slovenia (41) -1 43 Malaysia (44) +1 44 China (45) +1 45 Singapore (46) +1 46 Norway (50) +4 47 Cyprus (47) 48 Serbia (48) 49 Denmark (49) 50 Switzerland (51) +1 51 Latvia (43) -8 52 Andorra (52) 53 Greece (53) 54 Arabian Gulf (54) 55 Taiwan (55) 56 Sri Lanka (56) 57 Bulgaria (57) 58 Austria (58) 59 Luxembourg (59) 60 Finland (60) 61 Bosnia (61) 62 Thailand (65) +3 63 Slovakia (62) -1 64 Monaco (63) -1 65 Azerbaijan (64) -1 66 India (66) 67 Philippines (67) 68 Pakistan (68) 69 Guam (69) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 718 (gross) 174.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 569.5 [79.3%] (gross) 148.9 [85.5%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2009-10-10      Ukraine   13       Belgium   11 2009-10-10      Lithuania   40       Andorra   12 2009-10-10      Hungary   17       Slovenia   11 2009-10-10      Bosnia   23       Monaco   8 2009-10-17      Austria   15       Slovenia   13 2009-10-17      Norway   15       Denmark   8 2009-10-24      Croatia   23       Latvia   9 2009-10-24      Serbia   13       Switzerland   8 2009-10-24      Bulgaria   25       Luxembourg   12 2009-10-25      Czech Republic   19       Poland   5 2009-10-31      New Zealand   32       Australia   19 2009-10-31      Belgium   14       Moldova   3 2009-10-31      Croatia   34       Malta   14 2009-10-31      Netherlands   19       Sweden   16 2009-10-31      Denmark   27       Hungary   18 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/) ©1996-2009 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2009 Paul Waite)