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<blockquote data-quote="Which Tyler" data-source="post: 1139701" data-attributes="member: 73592"><p>It's an indicator, nothing more.</p><p>Last week, France beat Fiji by 15+ at the same time as South Africa beat Wales by 15+</p><p>Fiji started the weekend ahead of Wales</p><p>But because France were at home and South Africa were away from home, South Africa earned more ranking points; and therefore overtook France in the table. The difference between those 2 teams is now 0.15 points. Home advantage counts for 3 whole points.</p><p></p><p>The rankings currently say that Ireland are better than NZ - by 1.05 points; so by about 1/3 as much as home advantage would account for.</p><p>This weekend, NZ play South Africa on neutral territory. Because South Africa are good, there's quite a few rankings points up for grabs, and they can overtake a team who aren't playing.</p><p></p><p>So it's similar to a league structure, but one with more nuance than "everyone plays everyone else H&A". In a league structure, if you're 1 point ahead of your rival, but have a rest weekend, and your rival wins their match - they overtake you, even if you beat that rival last time you played. Same goes here.</p><p></p><p>IIRC, this has been the case for 20-odd years now, it really shouldn't be news to any rugby fan.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Which Tyler, post: 1139701, member: 73592"] It's an indicator, nothing more. Last week, France beat Fiji by 15+ at the same time as South Africa beat Wales by 15+ Fiji started the weekend ahead of Wales But because France were at home and South Africa were away from home, South Africa earned more ranking points; and therefore overtook France in the table. The difference between those 2 teams is now 0.15 points. Home advantage counts for 3 whole points. The rankings currently say that Ireland are better than NZ - by 1.05 points; so by about 1/3 as much as home advantage would account for. This weekend, NZ play South Africa on neutral territory. Because South Africa are good, there's quite a few rankings points up for grabs, and they can overtake a team who aren't playing. So it's similar to a league structure, but one with more nuance than "everyone plays everyone else H&A". In a league structure, if you're 1 point ahead of your rival, but have a rest weekend, and your rival wins their match - they overtake you, even if you beat that rival last time you played. Same goes here. IIRC, this has been the case for 20-odd years now, it really shouldn't be news to any rugby fan. [/QUOTE]
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