Americas Rankings – October 8 2017

The Americas Rankings have been updated following the completion of international competition this weekend. The October 8 2017 rankings see changes for Argentina, Barbados, Colombia and Peru.

Argentina’s Rugby Championship campaign was poor. Los Pumas lost every single match, gaining no competition points and conceding 17 points or more in every match. As a result of losing in Mendoza on Saturday Argentina fall from 77.83 to 76.93 points. It is notably lower than Fiji’s 9th placed world ranking of 79.48.

Rankings points were not up for grabs in Montevideo. Canada, Uruguay and the USA all played on Saturday in the Americas Pacific Challenge. With the team’s all being official ‘A’ sides no rankings points were on the line. Had they been capped then Uruguay would have gained tremendously from beating Tonga.

Points were on the line in Lima. Peru’s home defeat against Colombia sees a slight fall for Los Tumis and a gain for Los Tucanes. Peru fall from 36.82 to 36.54 points. In doing so they drop below Barbados in the Americas Rankings.

The result sees Colombia improving from 47.97 points to now have 48.25. It does not see an overall change in the Americas Rankings but does see Colombia closing in on Paraguay who retain 7th position. In the World Rankings Colombia move both Morocco and Kazakhstan.

The Americas Rankings will be updated again next Sunday. Rankings points will be on the line in Peru’s home match against Venezuela.

RANK		COUNTRY	POINTS	WRR
1		Argentina	76.93	10
2		USA	65.84	17
3		Uruguay	63.15	18
4		Canada	59.47	23
5		Chile	54.76	28
6		Brazil	54.50	29
7		Paraguay	48.54	39
8		Colombia	48.25	42
9		Guyana	46.55	49
10		Trinidad & Tobago	45.51	53
11		Cayman Islands	45.20	54
12		Mexico	45.12	55
13		Venezuela	41.14	62
14		Jamaica	38.76	69
15		Bermuda	37.39	76
16		Barbados	36.48	83
17		Peru	36.54	82
18		Bahamas	34.03	87
=		Guatemala	34.03	=
20		Turks & Caicos Islands	33.53	90
21		St. Vincent and the Grenadines	33.12	91
22		Costa Rica	32.16	93
23		St. Lucia	31.79	95
24		Ecuador	30.57	100
25		Belize	30.00	–
=		Bolivia	30.00	–
=		British Virgin Islands	30.00	–
=		Cuba	30.00	–
=		Guadeloupe	30.00	–
=		Haiti	30.00	–
=		Honduras	30.00	–
=		Martinique	30.00	–
=		St. Kitts and Nevis	30.00	–
=		Suriname	30.00	–
35		Nicaragua	29.16
36		Dominican Republic	29.12	–
37		Panama	27.32	–
38		Curaçao	27.08	–
39		El Salvador	26.63	–