World Rugby Rankings^TM, November 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 Lithuania (37) +5 33 Uganda (32) -1 34 Morocco (33) -1 35 Switzerland (34) -1 36 Poland (35) -1 37 Czech Republic (36) -1 38 Ukraine (39) +1 39 Sweden (41) +2 40 Moldova (38) -2 41 Algeria (40) -1 42 Malaysia (42) 43 Latvia (49) +6 44 Luxembourg (51) +7 45 Paraguay (43) -2 46 Tunisia (44) -2 47 Zimbabwe (45) -2 48 Cote d'Ivoire (46) -2 49 Senegal (47) -2 50 Malta (48) -2 51 Croatia (52) +1 52 Israel (53) +1 53 Gibraltar (50) -3 54 Zambia (54) 55 Madagascar (55) 56 Botswana (56) 57 Mauritius (61) +4 58 Bosnia (57) -1 59 Andorra (58) -1 60 Cyprus (59) -1 61 Hungary (60) -1 62 Finland (68) +6 63 Denmark (65) +2 64 Norway (69) +5 65 Austria (62) -3 66 Slovenia (63) -3 67 Bulgaria (66) -1 68 Serbia (64) -4 69 Turkey (67) -2 70 Estonia (70) 71 Slovakia (71) 72 Montenegro (72) Number of match results that were used to compute the rankings: 873 (gross) 224.3 (time-weighted) Number [%] of these results that are correctly predicted by these rankings: 724.5 [83.0%] (gross) 193.8 [86.4%] (time-weighted) New results contributing to this month's rankings 2018-10-06      Australia   45       Argentina   34 2018-10-06      New Zealand   32       South Africa   30 2018-10-10      Israel   20       Gibraltar   17 2018-10-13      Lithuania   30       Czech Republic   10 2018-10-13      Ukraine   24       Luxembourg   12 2018-10-13      Croatia   40       Bosnia   11 2018-10-13      Finland   22       Denmark   18 2018-10-13      Norway   9       Austria   6 2018-10-13      Bulgaria   35       Serbia   29 2018-10-20      Sweden   80       Moldova   6 2018-10-20      Malta   21       Israel   14 2018-10-20      Croatia   46       Cyprus   24 2018-10-20      Latvia   24       Finland   7 2018-10-20      Algeria   31       Zambia   0 2018-10-27      New Zealand   37       Australia   20 2018-10-27      Croatia   19       Israel   16 2018-10-27      Malta   41       Bosnia   7 2018-10-27      Denmark   42       Norway   10 2018-10-27      Latvia   26       Austria   20 2018-10-27      Slovenia   25       Bulgaria   13 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)