World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 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 (36) 37 Paraguay (37) 38 Czech Republic (38) 39 Moldova (39) 40 Netherlands (40) 41 Poland (41) 42 Croatia (42) 43 Malta (43) 44 Sweden (46) +2 45 Madagascar (44) -1 46 Cote d'Ivoire (45) -1 47 Botswana (47) 48 Malaysia (48) 49 Sri Lanka (52) +3 50 Latvia (49) -1 51 Lithuania (50) -1 52 Israel (51) -1 53 Kazakhstan (54) +1 54 United Arab Emirates (57) +3 55 Singapore (58) +3 56 Luxembourg (59) +3 57 Philippines (60) +3 58 Taiwan (63) +5 59 Andorra (53) -6 60 Cyprus (55) -5 61 Slovenia (61) 62 Hungary (56) -6 63 Serbia (62) -1 64 Austria (64) 65 Denmark (65) 66 Bosnia (66) 67 Thailand (68) +1 68 Turkey (69) +1 69 Norway (67) -2 70 Greece (71) +1 71 Finland (70) -1 72 Bulgaria (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 844 (gross) 212.7 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 689.5 [81.7%] (gross) 186.4 [87.6%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2016-10-08      New Zealand   57       South Africa   15 2016-10-08      Australia   33       Argentina   21 2016-10-08      Norway   48       Finland   31 2016-10-08      Hungary   25       Denmark   13 2016-10-08      Austria   29       Bosnia   22 2016-10-22      New Zealand   37       Australia   10 2016-10-22      Latvia   31       Luxembourg   24 2016-10-22      Malta   63       Andorra   15 2016-10-22      Denmark   20       Norway   0 2016-10-29      Malta   31       Cyprus   3 2016-10-29      Croatia   47       Andorra   15 2016-10-29      Slovenia   74       Serbia   13 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)