World Rugby Rankings^TM, March 2018

"The original Internet rugby union world rankings"

Rank Team Previous ranking Change 1 New Zealand (1) 2 Ireland (2) 3 England (3) 4 Australia (5) +1 5 Wales (6) +1 6 South Africa (7) +1 7 Fiji (10) +3 8 Scotland (4) -4 9 Argentina (8) -1 10 France (9) -1 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 Hong Kong (23) 24 Chile (24) 25 Germany (25) 26 Kenya (26) 27 Brazil (27) 28 Belgium (28) 29 Portugal (29) 30 Uganda (30) 31 South Korea (31) 32 Netherlands (32) 33 Switzerland (33) 34 Czech Republic (34) 35 Poland (35) 36 Lithuania (36) 37 Paraguay (39) +2 38 Moldova (37) -1 39 Ukraine (38) -1 40 Tunisia (42) +2 41 Zimbabwe (43) +2 42 Cote d'Ivoire (48) +6 43 Senegal (49) +6 44 Malta (40) -4 45 Madagascar (50) +5 46 Croatia (41) -5 47 Israel (44) -3 48 Latvia (45) -3 49 Sweden (46) -3 50 Botswana (53) +3 51 Luxembourg (47) -4 52 Sri Lanka (51) -1 53 Philippines (52) -1 54 Andorra (54) 55 Cyprus (55) 56 Hungary (56) 57 Austria (57) 58 Bosnia (58) 59 Slovenia (59) 60 Serbia (60) 61 Denmark (61) 62 Turkey (62) 63 Finland (63) 64 Norway (64) 65 Bulgaria (65) 66 Estonia (66) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 839 (gross) 219.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 703.5 [83.8%] (gross) 194.6 [88.7%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2018-02-03      Ireland   15       France   13 2018-02-03      Wales   34       Scotland   7 2018-02-03      Uruguay   32       Canada   31 2018-02-03      Brazil   16       Chile   14 2018-02-03      Switzerland   30       Cote d'Ivoire   27 2018-02-04      England   46       Italy   15 2018-02-09      Uruguay   27       Brazil   18 2018-02-10      England   12       Wales   6 2018-02-10      Ireland   56       Italy   19 2018-02-10      Georgia   47       Belgium   0 2018-02-10      Spain   20       Russia   13 2018-02-10      Romania   85       Germany   6 2018-02-10      Portugal   36       Netherlands   12 2018-02-10      United States   29       Canada   10 2018-02-11      Scotland   32       France   26 2018-02-17      Georgia   64       Germany   0 2018-02-17      Russia   48       Belgium   7 2018-02-17      United States   45       Chile   13 2018-02-17      Canada   45       Brazil   5 2018-02-18      Spain   22       Romania   10 2018-02-24      France   34       Italy   17 2018-02-24      Ireland   37       Wales   27 2018-02-24      Scotland   25       England   13 2018-02-24      Portugal   31       Switzerland   17 2018-02-24      Uruguay   67       Chile   15 2018-02-24      United States   43       Brazil   16 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)