World Rugby Rankings^TM, October 2016

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 England (2) 3 Australia (3) 4 South Africa (4) 5 Wales (5) 6 Ireland (6) 7 Scotland (7) 8 Argentina (8) 9 France (9) 10 Georgia (10) 11 Fiji (11) 12 Japan (12) 13 Italy (13) 14 Samoa (14) 15 Tonga (15) 16 United States (16) 17 Romania (17) 18 Canada (18) 19 Namibia (19) 20 Uruguay (20) 21 Russia (21) 22 Kenya (22) 23 Spain (23) 24 Germany (24) 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Portugal (26) 27 Chile (27) 28 Brazil (28) 29 Ukraine (29) 30 Belgium (30) 31 South Korea (31) 32 Senegal (32) 33 Uganda (33) 34 Zimbabwe (34) 35 Tunisia (35) 36 Switzerland (37) +1 37 Paraguay (36) -1 38 Czech Republic (38) 39 Moldova (39) 40 Netherlands (40) 41 Poland (41) 42 Croatia (46) +4 43 Malta (47) +4 44 Madagascar (43) -1 45 Cote d'Ivoire (44) -1 46 Sweden (42) -4 47 Botswana (45) -2 48 Malaysia (48) 49 Latvia (49) 50 Lithuania (50) 51 Israel (52) +1 52 Sri Lanka (51) -1 53 Andorra (56) +3 54 Kazakhstan (53) -1 55 Cyprus (57) +2 56 Hungary (60) +4 57 United Arab Emirates (54) -3 58 Singapore (55) -3 59 Luxembourg (59) 60 Philippines (58) -2 61 Slovenia (62) +1 62 Serbia (63) +1 63 Taiwan (61) -2 64 Austria (64) 65 Denmark (65) 66 Bosnia (66) 67 Norway (67) 68 Thailand (68) 69 Turkey (69) 70 Finland (70) 71 Greece (71) 72 Bulgaria (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 850 (gross) 217.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 692.5 [81.5%] (gross) 189.1 [87.0%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2016-09-03      Czech Republic   56       Sweden   14 2016-09-10      New Zealand   57       Argentina   22 2016-09-10      Australia   23       South Africa   17 2016-09-17      New Zealand   41       South Africa   13 2016-09-17      Australia   36       Argentina   20 2016-09-24      Poland   22       Ukraine   0 2016-10-01      South Africa   18       Australia   10 2016-10-01      New Zealand   36       Argentina   17 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 See also "World Rugby" (formerly the "International Rugby Board (IRB)") - which now has their own, unrelated '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/) ©1996-2016 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2016 Paul Waite)