Template:World Rugby Rankings/sandbox

Men's World Rugby Rankings Top 30 as of 21 March 2022
Rank	Change*	Team	Points
1		South Africa	090.61
2	1	France	088.88
3	1	New Zealand	088.75
4		Ireland	088.22
5		England	084.50
6		Australia	083.92
7		Scotland	081.80
8	1	Argentina	080.58
9	1	Wales	079.28
10		Japan	078.26
11		Fiji	076.62
12	1	Georgia	073.78
13	1	Samoa	073.59
14		Italy	072.33
15		Spain	068.26
16		Tonga	067.72
17	1	Romania	066.95
18	1	United States	066.54
19		Uruguay	066.40
20		Portugal	065.72
21		Canada	061.80
22		Hong Kong	061.23
23		Chile	059.88
24		Namibia	059.72
25		Russia	058.06
26		Netherlands	056.31
27		Belgium	055.74
28	1	Brazil	053.31
29	1	South Korea	053.11
30	2	Poland	052.91
* Change from the previous week
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Source: World Rugby Graph updated to 21 March 2022

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Usage

This template is meant to help quickly update the World Rugby Rankings for all men's national rugby union teams of World Rugby, displayed in the infobox on each national team article. When given a country code, the template outputs the WBSC World Ranking of a country, along with a movement indicator (increase, decrease, or steady), and by how many spots a country moves, if applicable. The date of the rankings is also listed, along with a reference to the rankings from WBSC's website.

If desired, the World Rugby ranking reference can be used elsewhere in the article using the name "World Rugby Rankings" (i.e. <ref name="World Rugby Rankings"/>).

Parameters

• 1 (unnamed): WBSC country code
• mdy: Switches dates to month-day-year format

Example

An example of the code used to display the ranking of Colombia:

{{World Rugby Rankings|COL}}

This code produces the following:

Men's World Rugby Rankings Top 30 as of 18 March 2024
Rank	Change*	Team	Points
1		South Africa	094.54
2		Ireland	090.69
3		New Zealand	089.80
4		France	087.92
5		England	085.75
6		Scotland	082.82
7		Argentina	080.68
8	1	Italy	079.41
9	1	Australia	077.48
10	2	Wales	077.26
11		Fiji	076.38
12		Japan	074.27
13		Georgia	074.02
14		Samoa	072.23
15	1	Tonga	071.57
16	1	Portugal	070.28
17		United States	067.94
18		Uruguay	067.39
19		Spain	064.37
20		Romania	061.66
21		Canada	060.90
22		Namibia	060.56
23		Chile	060.49
24		Hong Kong	059.80
25		Russia	058.06
26		Switzerland	057.44
27		Netherlands	057.29
28	1	Belgium	055.89
29	1	Brazil	055.37
30	1	Korea	053.46
* Change from the previous week

Updating

The main template page is not meant to be updated. The rankings should be updated at Module:SportsRankings/data/World Rugby Rankings. To update the template, first update the day and month (along with the year if necessary) to the date of the current World Rugby Rankings. Then add a country's new position, along with how many spots they moved (e.g. 2 for increase of two positions, 0 for no movement, -5 for decrease of two positions).

All positions can be quickly updated using a spreadsheet. For example, after copying the entire table from World Rugby's ranking list, the following formula can be used in an external spreadsheet to generate the code necessary to update the data page (given the WBSC rankings begin in cell A1):

="| {{subst:str sub old|"&B1&"|0|3}} = "&A1&" | {{subst:str sub old|"&B1&"|0|3}}_move = "&E1

The code generated can be saved on the data page, and the rankings will be updated. Once the cache of a national team page is purged, the updated ranking will be displayed.

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