World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 2017

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 England (2) 3 Australia (3) 4 Wales (4) 5 South Africa (5) 6 Ireland (6) 7 France (7) 8 Fiji (8) 9 Scotland (9) 10 Argentina (10) 11 Japan (11) 12 Georgia (12) 13 Tonga (13) 14 Italy (14) 15 Romania (15) 16 Samoa (16) 17 United States (17) 18 Uruguay (18) 19 Canada (19) 20 Spain (20) 21 Russia (21) 22 Namibia (22) 23 Germany (23) 24 Kenya (24) 25 Hong Kong (25) 26 Belgium (26) 27 Uganda (27) 28 Chile (28) 29 Brazil (29) 30 Portugal (30) 31 Netherlands (31) 32 South Korea (32) 33 Switzerland (33) 34 Czech Republic (34) 35 Poland (35) 36 Lithuania (36) 37 Moldova (37) 38 Ukraine (38) 39 Paraguay (39) 40 Croatia (45) +5 41 Malta (40) -1 42 Tunisia (41) -1 43 Zimbabwe (42) -1 44 Senegal (43) -1 45 Israel (44) -1 46 Latvia (46) 47 Sweden (47) 48 Madagascar (48) 49 Luxembourg (50) +1 50 Cote d'Ivoire (49) -1 51 Botswana (52) +1 52 Andorra (53) +1 53 Cyprus (54) +1 54 Hungary (55) +1 55 Sri Lanka (51) -4 56 Austria (60) +4 57 Bosnia (56) -1 58 Slovenia (57) -1 59 Serbia (58) -1 60 Denmark (61) +1 61 Turkey (62) +1 62 Philippines (59) -3 63 Finland (64) +1 64 Norway (63) -1 65 Bulgaria (65) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 825 (gross) 211.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 685.5 [83.1%] (gross) 184.7 [87.4%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2017-10-07      New Zealand   25       South Africa   24 2017-10-07      Australia   37       Argentina   20 2017-10-14      Sweden   12       Hungary   10 2017-10-14      Luxembourg   18       Denmark   3 2017-10-14      Finland   15       Norway   8 2017-10-21      Australia   23       New Zealand   18 2017-10-21      Latvia   12       Hungary   6 2017-10-21      Israel   27       Andorra   22 2017-10-21      Austria   27       Serbia   25 2017-10-28      Czech Republic   19       Poland   14 2017-10-28      Lithuania   33       Latvia   19 2017-10-28      Ukraine   29       Sweden   8 2017-10-28      Malta   52       Bosnia   20 2017-10-28      Croatia   32       Israel   17 2017-10-28      Denmark   24       Norway   12 2017-10-28      Slovenia   30       Serbia   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 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/) ©1996-2017 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2016 Paul Waite)