World Rugby Rankings^TM, May 2017

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Ireland (2) 3 England (3) 4 Australia (4) 5 France (5) 6 Wales (6) 7 South Africa (7) 8 Scotland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 Fiji (10) 11 Japan (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Samoa (13) 14 Tonga (14) 15 Italy (15) 16 Romania (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Namibia (18) 19 Kenya (19) 20 Spain (20) 21 Russia (21) 22 Germany (22) 23 Uruguay (23) 24 Uganda (24) 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Portugal (26) 27 Belgium (27) 28 Brazil (28) 29 Canada (29) 30 Chile (30) 31 Zimbabwe (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Switzerland (33) 34 South Korea (34) 35 Senegal (35) 36 Tunisia (36) 37 Czech Republic (37) 38 Poland (38) 39 Paraguay (39) 40 Malta (41) +1 41 Moldova (40) -1 42 Ukraine (42) 43 Lithuania (43) 44 Madagascar (44) 45 Malaysia (49) +4 46 Algeria (50) +4 47 Cote d'Ivoire (45) -2 48 Israel (46) -2 49 Croatia (47) -2 50 Latvia (51) +1 51 Sweden (48) -3 52 Botswana (52) 53 United Arab Emirates (53) 54 Sri Lanka (54) 55 Kazakhstan (55) 56 Luxembourg (56) 57 Singapore (57) 58 Philippines (58) 59 Andorra (59) 60 Cyprus (60) 61 Hungary (61) 62 Bosnia (68) +6 63 Slovenia (62) -1 64 Taiwan (64) 65 Thailand (65) 66 Serbia (63) -3 67 Austria (66) -1 68 Denmark (67) -1 69 Turkey (69) 70 Norway (70) 71 Finland (71) 72 Bulgaria (73) +1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 840 (gross) 225.1 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 685 [81.5%] (gross) 193.4 [85.9%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2017-04-08      Poland   14       Netherlands   13 2017-04-08      Israel   57       Andorra   17 2017-04-08      Bosnia   22       Slovenia   15 2017-04-15      Czech Republic   54       Latvia   3 2017-04-22      Japan   47       South Korea   29 2017-04-22      Switzerland   22       Poland   12 2017-04-22      Lithuania   24       Luxembourg   12 2017-04-22      Malta   39       Israel   10 2017-04-22      Denmark   53       Finland   5 2017-04-22      Hungary   42       Norway   7 2017-04-22      Austria   13       Slovenia   0 2017-04-22      Bosnia   21       Serbia   10 2017-04-29      Japan   80       South Korea   10 2017-04-29      Latvia   16       Sweden   9 2017-04-29      Malta   14       Croatia   14 2017-04-29      Serbia   29       Austria   12 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)