World Rugby Rankings^TM, October 2014

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 South Africa (3) +1 3 England (4) +1 4 Australia (2) -2 5 Ireland (5) 6 Wales (6) 7 France (7) 8 Scotland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Japan (10) 11 Georgia (11) 12 Samoa (12) 13 Fiji (13) 14 Italy (14) 15 Romania (15) 16 Canada (16) 17 Tonga (17) 18 United States (18) 19 Russia (20) +1 20 Uruguay (19) -1 21 Spain (21) 22 Portugal (22) 23 Namibia (23) 24 Hong Kong (24) 25 Belgium (25) 26 Zimbabwe (26) 27 South Korea (27) 28 Moldova (28) 29 Germany (29) 30 Chile (30) 31 Kenya (31) 32 Ukraine (32) 33 Paraguay (33) 34 Tunisia (34) 35 Brazil (35) 36 Madagascar (36) 37 Uganda (37) 38 Cyprus (38) 39 Philippines (39) 40 Sri Lanka (40) 41 Poland (41) 42 Czech Republic (42) 43 Netherlands (43) 44 Malta (44) 45 Sweden (45) 46 Lithuania (46) 47 Switzerland (47) 48 Croatia (48) 49 Latvia (49) 50 Israel (50) 51 Andorra (51) 52 United Arab Emirates (52) 53 Kazakhstan (53) 54 Singapore (54) 55 Hungary (57) +2 56 Denmark (55) -1 57 Taiwan (56) -1 58 Austria (58) 59 Serbia (59) 60 Bosnia (60) 61 Luxembourg (61) 62 Norway (62) 63 Malaysia (63) 64 Iran (64) 65 Thailand (65) 66 Slovenia (66) 67 India (67) 68 Bulgaria (68) 69 Finland (69) 70 Greece (70) 71 China (71) 72 Guam (72) 73 Indonesia (73) 74 Pakistan (74) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 816 (gross) 205.2 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 665 [81.5%] (gross) 179.2 [87.3%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2014-09-13      New Zealand   14       South Africa   10 2014-09-13      Australia   32       Argentina   25 2014-09-27      South Africa   28       Australia   10 2014-09-27      New Zealand   34       Argentina   13 2014-09-27      Russia   22       Uruguay   21 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 World Rugby Rankings are updated monthly, shortly after the start of the month. (The most recently computed rankings can be found at https://wrr.live555.com/) ©1996-2013 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2013 Paul Waite)