RLIF Rankings page

[DaneCampbell]

Maybe a little rant on my behalf, but I am little disappointed to see on the RLIF website under the rankings tab http://www.rlif.com/rankings that Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Niue and Greece are not mentioned (even under the Unranked teams), yet there are nations such as Singapore who have never played a game nor had any active development. Indonesia had some things going on when Chris Newman was up there but since his departure I haven't seen anything from there for the best part of 18 or so months.

It may seem like a little / petty thing, but for nations such as the ones mentioned that are actively trying to develop the sport to not be included or recognised on the official RLIF website is a little disappointing. Especially when other nations that have shown no development / movement are still on there???

 

[miguel de cervantes]

The RLIF website is about as useful and meaningful as an appendix. I'm sure developing nations would be much more interested in funding.

 

[Evil Homer]

RLIF are probably unaware of the activity in Vanuatu and Solomon Islands.

 

[Craigo]

RLIF are probably unaware of the activity in Vanuatu and Solomon Islands.

but they're aware of activity in Indonesia and Singapore?? The RLIF needs a major overhaul with new blood that have vision IMO.

 

[Craigo]

Maybe a little rant on my behalf, but I am little disappointed to see on the RLIF website under the rankings tab http://www.rlif.com/rankings that Vanuatu, Solomon Islands, Niue and Greece are not mentioned (even under the Unranked teams), yet there are nations such as Singapore who have never played a game nor had any active development. Indonesia had some things going on when Chris Newman was up there but since his departure I haven't seen anything from there for the best part of 18 or so months.

It may seem like a little / petty thing, but for nations such as the ones mentioned that are actively trying to develop the sport to not be included or recognised on the official RLIF website is a little disappointing. Especially when other nations that have shown no development / movement are still on there???

Don't feel too bad Dane, they are probably still using Windows '95 mate. The RLIF aren't really known as visionaries of the game...

 

[Evil Homer]

but they're aware of activity in Indonesia and Singapore?? The RLIF needs a major overhaul with new blood that have vision IMO.

They probably saw that old Singapore RL freewebs site and added them to the list.

 

[deluded pom?]

Where are Catalonia in the rankings? :sarcasm:

 

[rlinternational]

Are these rankings going to be updated soon now that the world cup is over? It says each month it gets updated. I think it's only been updated twice this year
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[mtngry]

Updated Rankings. http://www.rlwc2013.com/rugby-league-world-news/article/1462/australia-strengthen-grip-as-world

 

[DINGb@T]

Does anyone know how they work out these numbers? Browsing them now they seem to be quite accurate. Which actually surprises me a little.

Australia almost doubles England in third place. Which sounds about right going on results, with New Zealand half way between the two.

The curve is exponential which is also fairly accurate. Australia is exponentially better than the minnow nations which, while sort of heartbreaking, is honest.

Positions 4 through 14 would be the 'second tier' nations, reflecting their participation in the Four Nations/Hemisphere Cup competitions which are the now happening with some sort of consistency. They're the 'organised' nations who can put together regular, consistent matches and their points reflect their position above others and relative to each other.

The two outliers would be USA and Italy which relects their successful WC campaigns that have punched them up into the second tier pack. Without regular games in the Cup comps you'd expect them to slide back down in the next 3 years.

And speaking of successful WC campaigns - USA and Scotland are both hitting above 100 points. It's just a statistical coincidence but being above 100 points seems to cement the idea that they reached rarified air with their success. It looks right.

Below that there's the minnow nations led by Russia with some interesting names in the pack. I'd suggest this is where the only real suprise is with the rankings with Lebanon and Jamaica seeming to be a lot lower than I would have thought (didn't Jamaica win at least a game in the tri-nations with Canada/USA? And Lebanon should be higher than Norway, surely).

I'd be interested to see what the formula for working out these numbers and what a nation would need to do to get higher. I'd like to think that simply playing more, regular games is the way to increase your score, with extra points for beating teams much higher up the ladder than you are, but that's just guesswork without a detailed explanation of how they work it all out.

 

[rlinternational]

Australia have actually lost points compared to the last rankings in October. Tonga lost points yet Italy gained BUT I think with Italy beating the 4th ranked Wales plus England before the World Cup, it moved with their gain. Ireland also gained a lot of points somehow??

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[IowaRL]

Jamaica are rather low partially because they don't get a lot of international games. I don't think they have had a home international yet, and just against USA and Canada.

 

[deluded pom?]

BUT I think with Italy beating the 4th ranked Wales plus England before the World Cup

They surely can't take WC warm ups that weren't recognised as genuine international matches into consideration.