World Rugby Rankings^TM, October 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 (4) 5 Wales (5) 6 South Africa (6) 7 Fiji (7) 8 Scotland (8) 9 Argentina (9) 10 France (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 Spain (19) 20 Russia (20) 21 Canada (21) 22 Namibia (22) 23 Hong Kong (23) 24 South Korea (24) 25 Germany (25) 26 Brazil (26) 27 Belgium (27) 28 Chile (28) 29 Kenya (29) 30 Portugal (30) 31 Netherlands (31) 32 Uganda (32) 33 Morocco (35) +2 34 Switzerland (36) +2 35 Poland (37) +2 36 Czech Republic (33) -3 37 Lithuania (34) -3 38 Moldova (38) 39 Ukraine (39) 40 Algeria (40) 41 Sweden (41) 42 Malaysia (42) 43 Paraguay (43) 44 Tunisia (44) 45 Zimbabwe (45) 46 Cote d'Ivoire (46) 47 Senegal (47) 48 Malta (48) 49 Latvia (49) 50 Gibraltar (n/a) 51 Luxembourg (50) -1 52 Croatia (51) -1 53 Israel (52) -1 54 Zambia (53) -1 55 Madagascar (54) -1 56 Botswana (55) -1 57 Bosnia (56) -1 58 Andorra (57) -1 59 Cyprus (58) -1 60 Hungary (59) -1 61 Mauritius (60) -1 62 Austria (61) -1 63 Slovenia (62) -1 64 Serbia (63) -1 65 Denmark (64) -1 66 Bulgaria (65) -1 67 Turkey (66) -1 68 Finland (67) -1 69 Norway (68) -1 70 Estonia (69) -1 71 Slovakia (70) -1 72 Montenegro (71) -1 Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 877 (gross) 222.5 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 731.5 [83.4%] (gross) 190.9 [85.8%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2016-04-06      Malaysia   49       Gibraltar   0 2017-04-08      Gibraltar   22       Finland   17 2017-10-06      Gibraltar   21       Hungary   15 2018-02-24      Gibraltar   33       Hungary   14 2018-03-17      Gibraltar   17       Finland   5 2018-09-08      New Zealand   46       Argentina   24 2018-09-08      Australia   23       South Africa   18 2018-09-15      South Africa   36       New Zealand   34 2018-09-15      Argentina   23       Australia   19 2018-09-29      South Africa   23       Australia   12 2018-09-29      New Zealand   35       Argentina   17 2018-09-29      Poland   41       Czech Republic   22 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/) ©1996-2018 Ross Finlayson. "World Rugby Rankings" is a trademark of Live Networks, Inc. (Title logo ©1996-2018 Paul Waite)