Schoolboy Rugby – Ruggas.co.za Rankings Explained

 

The Ruggas.co.za rankings did undergo a bit of an overhaul to make it a "more" fair system, however, we also accept that our system has its own flaws and should never be used to start a fight with your wife or the "dominee". However, with a success rate of 85% plus and 400+ schools being rated you will not often lose your money or the fight if you use the ruggas.co.za rankings.

Our calculations are based on the formula used by World Rugby, however, to start a new year with historical rankings, especially at schoolboy levels, is often criticised which resulted in us adapting our formula in order to aggressively reflect the strengths of the current year's teams.

Using this method could result in a team who competes against the top-tier schools still being ranked higher than a school competing against lower-tier schools. Therefore who you play is often more important than winning or losing.

The winner will gain ranking points while the losing team will lose the same amount of points the winner will gain.

The most ranking points a team can gain or lose is 3 ranking points. If a team beats a school who have ten or more ranking point less than itself no ranking points will be awarded, however, if the lower-ranked team win the normal calculations will apply. If the difference between the two teams is 20 or more log points the highest ranked team will automatically lose 1 ranking point while the lower ranked team will gain 1 ranking point irrespective of the result, however, if the lower ranked team win the normal calculations will apply.

 

In 2024 the u/14A ranking will start with the school's combined ranking ended with at the end of the previous year. The u/15A's will carry over their ranking ended in the previous year as u/14A's while the U/16A are also carrying over their rankings from their u/15A year.

The 1st XV's ranking points will be carried over year after year.