World Rugby Rankings

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Current World Rankings

IRB Rankings at
http://www.worldrugby.org/rankings#mru

Fixtures according to http://www.espn.co.uk/rugby/fixtures/_/league/180659/

Best odds for each result category from a range of bookies as at http://www.oddschecker.com/rugby-union/six-nations

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Saturday, March 18

Scotland v Italy 12:30 PM -- BT Murrayfield, Edinburgh

sco (on 82.18 points) at home -vs- ita (on 71.17 points)

If sco win by 1-15 points 0.000 82.18 71.17 No
If sco win by more than 15 0.000 82.18 71.17 No
If result is a draw 1.000 81.18 72.17 No
If ita win by 1-15 points 2.000 80.18 73.17 No
If ita win by more than 15 3.000 79.18 74.17 No

Scotland (1/16)
Draw (66/1)
Italy (15/1)

France v Wales 2:45 PM -- Stade de France, Saint-Denis

fra (on 81.21 points) at home -vs- wal (on 82.16 points)

If fra win by 1-15 points 0.795 82.00 81.36 Yes
If fra win by more than 15 1.193 82.40 80.97 Yes
If result is a draw 0.205 81.00 82.36 No
If wal win by 1-15 points 1.205 80.00 83.36 No
If wal win by more than 15 1.807 79.40 83.97 No

France (8/13)
14:45TV
 

France (8/13)
Draw (25/1)
Wales (13/8)

Ireland v England 5:00 PM -- Aviva Stadium, Dublin

ire (on 83.18 points) at home -vs- eng (on 91.02 points)

If ire win by 1-15 points 1.484 84.66 89.54 No
If ire win by more than 15 2.226 85.41 88.79 No
If result is a draw 0.484 83.66 90.54 No
If eng win by 1-15 points 0.516 82.66 91.54 No
If eng win by more than 15 0.774 82.41 91.79 No

Ireland (6/4)
Draw (25/1)
England (9/13)



Original thread:
https://www.606v2.com/t12724p950-irb-world-rankings-part-1


Sources:
Fixtures : http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/fixtures/4776295.stm
IRB Rankings : http://www.espn.co.uk/scrum/rugby/match/fixtures/international.html
Rankings explanation : http://www.irb.com/rankings/explain/index.html
Rankings archive : http://www.irb.com/rankings/archive/index.html
Fixtures : http://www.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/current/match/scores/recent.html

Online calculator (Courtesy of Robbo277 (thanks)) : http://www.lassen.co.nz/pagmisc.php#hrh

Where’s Portnoy with his updates? I miss the auld fella!

Yep, Portnoy is certainly missed. Made this section his own.

Change in ranking points after weekend - Australia creep up at expense of Scotland

team	pts	change
NEW ZEALAND	93.40
IRELAND	90.12
WALES	86.35	0.41
ENGLAND	86.16	0.48
SOUTH AFRICA	83.03	-0.48
AUSTRALIA	82.86	0
SCOTLAND	82.61	-0.41
FRANCE	79.10
ARGENTINA	78.01
FIJI	76.54

You’ve got NZ’s points wrong.

Where is Portnoy?

Nevermind that Cyril. The real story is I'll be eternally grateful to England (for maybe a week ) if your lads help us become Numero Uno!!!!!!!............................. for a week......................

SecretFly wrote:Nevermind that Cyril.  The real story is I'll be eternally grateful to England (for maybe a week ) if your lads help us become Numero Uno!!!!!!!............................. for a week......................  

Confident of beating Argentina are you ?

LordDowlais wrote:

SecretFly wrote:Nevermind that Cyril.  The real story is I'll be eternally grateful to England (for maybe a week ) if your lads help us become Numero Uno!!!!!!!............................. for a week......................  

Confident of beating Argentina are you ?

You'd need to be Lord. If you had a team that was playing the ABs the following week.... you'd need to be confident about beating the team before them.

Big two weeks coming. Anything could happen.... including two loses.

Ireland made a gain of about 1 point?

The stingy *&*^%$!!!! It's like pulling teeth getting closer to the ABs. We should refuse to play in the 6N now as protest.

SecretFly wrote:Ireland made a gain of about 1 point?

The stingy *&*^%$!!!!  It's like pulling teeth getting closer to the ABs.   We should refuse to play in the 6N now as protest.

And deny Wales any competition ?

How many ranking points did Wales get from the weekends win over Tonga ? They did put a hefty score on them. It looks as though Australia got more points for beating Italy than Wales did for beating Tonga.

Did either side get anything for the wins? Tonga and Italy are a long way behind Wales and Aus in the rankings so few, if any points, were on offer. Plus Wales were at home so that weighting goes against them. You shouldn’t really be expecting gains from a home win against Tonga. Similarly England won’t have gained any ranking points after beating Japan at home even though (like Wales) it was in the higher of the two win brackets.

Wales got null points - they were playing at home so once you add the home bonus of 3pts to their rankings for the calculation they are more than 10pts ahead of Tonga so can't score points increase. Australia - playing away - so Italy has the 3pts added and that brings them to within the magic 10pt level of Australia.And then Aus got in excess of 15pts more - so their bonus for winning gets increased. (If Aus had been at home they would have got no points for the win)