World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 2011

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Australia (2) 3 South Africa (3) 4 Tonga (5) +1 5 France (6) +1 6 England (4) -2 7 Wales (7) 8 Ireland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Scotland (10) 11 Italy (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 Uruguay (21) 22 Spain (22) 23 Namibia (23) 24 Portugal (24) 25 Tunisia (28) +3 26 Ukraine (29) +3 27 Poland (30) +3 28 Belgium (25) -3 29 Moldova (26) -3 30 Czech Republic (27) -3 31 Germany (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Hong Kong (33) 34 Sweden (34) 35 Lithuania (35) 36 Malta (36) 37 Croatia (38) +1 38 Cyprus (37) -1 39 Bosnia (42) +3 40 Denmark (49) +9 41 Israel (50) +9 42 Hungary (51) +9 43 United Arab Emirates (43) 44 Kazakhstan (44) 45 South Korea (45) 46 Sri Lanka (46) 47 Singapore (52) +5 48 Latvia (47) -1 49 Austria (53) +4 50 Serbia (57) +7 51 Switzerland (39) -12 52 Armenia (40) -12 53 Andorra (41) -12 54 Slovenia (48) -6 55 Norway (54) -1 56 Slovakia (55) -1 57 Monaco (56) -1 58 Bulgaria (59) +1 59 Greece (60) +1 60 Luxembourg (61) +1 61 Finland (62) +1 62 Philippines (58) -4 63 Azerbaijan (63) 64 Malaysia (64) 65 Taiwan (65) 66 Thailand (66) 67 Iran (67) 68 India (68) 69 China (69) 70 Guam (70) 71 Indonesia (71) 72 Pakistan (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 745 (gross) 222.6 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 585.5 [78.6%] (gross) 189.4 [85.1%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2011-10-08      Cyprus   48       Luxembourg   7 2011-10-08      Wales   22       Ireland   10 2011-10-08      France   19       England   12 2011-10-09      Australia   11       South Africa   9 2011-10-09      New Zealand   33       Argentina   10 2011-10-15      Poland   20       Czech Republic   13 2011-10-15      Denmark   28       Norway   5 2011-10-15      Bosnia   48       Slovakia   15 2011-10-15      France   9       Wales   8 2011-10-16      New Zealand   20       Australia   6 2011-10-16      Hungary   41       Serbia   7 2011-10-21      Australia   21       Wales   18 2011-10-22      Sweden   30       Lithuania   30 2011-10-22      Israel   28       Austria   26 2011-10-22      Bulgaria   19       Luxembourg   16 2011-10-22      Belgium   31       Croatia   12 2011-10-23      New Zealand   8       France   7 2011-10-29      Malta   28       Latvia   0 2011-10-29      Sweden   24       Croatia   18 2011-10-29      Serbia   52       Slovenia   0 2011-10-29      Denmark   21       Hungary   13 2011-10-29      Israel   22       Norway   11 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/) ©1996-2011 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2011 Paul Waite)