World Rugby Rankings^TM, March 2017

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 England (2) 3 Ireland (3) 4 Australia (4) 5 Wales (5) 6 South Africa (6) 7 France (9) +2 8 Scotland (7) -1 9 Argentina (8) -1 10 Fiji (10) 11 Japan (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Samoa (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 Italy (15) 16 Germany (23) +7 17 Romania (16) -1 18 United States (17) -1 19 Namibia (19) 20 Kenya (21) +1 21 Spain (22) +1 22 Uruguay (24) +2 23 Canada (18) -5 24 Russia (20) -4 25 Uganda (25) 26 Hong Kong (26) 27 Portugal (27) 28 Belgium (28) 29 Brazil (30) +1 30 Chile (29) -1 31 Netherlands (32) +1 32 Zimbabwe (31) -1 33 Switzerland (33) 34 South Korea (34) 35 Senegal (35) 36 Tunisia (36) 37 Czech Republic (37) 38 Poland (38) 39 Moldova (39) 40 Ukraine (40) 41 Paraguay (41) 42 Malta (42) 43 Lithuania (43) 44 Sweden (44) 45 Madagascar (45) 46 Cote d'Ivoire (46) 47 Malaysia (47) 48 Algeria (48) 49 Latvia (49) 50 Israel (50) 51 Croatia (51) 52 Botswana (52) 53 Luxembourg (56) +3 54 United Arab Emirates (53) -1 55 Sri Lanka (54) -1 56 Kazakhstan (55) -1 57 Singapore (57) 58 Philippines (58) 59 Andorra (60) +1 60 Cyprus (61) +1 61 Hungary (62) +1 62 Slovenia (63) +1 63 Serbia (64) +1 64 Taiwan (59) -5 65 Thailand (65) 66 Austria (66) 67 Denmark (67) 68 Bosnia (68) 69 Turkey (69) 70 Norway (70) 71 Greece (71) 72 Finland (72) 73 Bulgaria (73) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 856 (gross) 222.4 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 695 [81.2%] (gross) 192.2 [86.4%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2017-02-03      Brazil   17       Chile   3 2017-02-04      Scotland   27       Ireland   22 2017-02-04      England   19       France   16 2017-02-04      United States   29       Uruguay   23 2017-02-05      Wales   33       Italy   7 2017-02-11      England   21       Wales   16 2017-02-11      Ireland   63       Italy   10 2017-02-11      Georgia   31       Belgium   6 2017-02-11      Germany   41       Romania   38 2017-02-11      Spain   16       Russia   6 2017-02-11      United States   51       Brazil   3 2017-02-11      Canada   36       Chile   15 2017-02-11      Andorra   15       Cyprus   14 2017-02-12      France   22       Scotland   16 2017-02-18      Romania   13       Spain   3 2017-02-18      Russia   25       Belgium   18 2017-02-18      Portugal   35       Poland   10 2017-02-18      Uruguay   23       Brazil   12 2017-02-18      United States   51       Canada   34 2017-02-19      Georgia   50       Germany   6 2017-02-25      Scotland   29       Wales   13 2017-02-25      Ireland   19       France   9 2017-02-25      Uruguay   17       Canada   13 2017-02-25      United States   57       Chile   9 2017-02-26      England   36       Italy   15 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)