The IRL Men's World Rankings are the ranking system for men's national teams in the sport of rugby league football. The teams of the member nations of the International Rugby League , rugby league football's world governing body, are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest. A point system is used, with points being awarded based on the results of IRL-recognized international matches. Under the existing system, rankings are based on a team's performance over the last three years, with more recent results and more significant matches being more heavily weighted to help reflect the current competitive state of a team.
6-413: IRL World Rankings may refer to: IRL Men's World Rankings IRL Women's World Rankings IRL Wheelchair World Rankings Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title IRL World Rankings . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
12-649: A three-year cycle will be penalised under the current point structure. The rankings are used by International Rugby League to view the progression and ability of the national rugby league teams . The data is currently used in things as seeding for tournaments such as the European Cup , Oceania Cup MEA Championship , Americas Championship and the South American Championship and the World Cup . A weighting system has been implemented by
18-415: A three-year cycle. Under the structure, matches deemed of higher importance such as World Cup games, Four Nations and other major tournament finals draw more points than mid-season Tests and other ‘Internationals’. For each match that a nation participates they are given a base level of points. This base level is affected upon the type of match (World Cup, Major Tournament, Test Match and International) and
24-511: The IRL to give more points to teams if they gain a victory over a major team in a major tournament, with friendlies ranked with considerably fewer points than any World Cup finals match or the final of Cups such as the European, Mediterranean and Pacific Cups. The IRL has organized the ranking so that a win against a very highly ranked opponent is a considerably greater achievement than a win against
30-456: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=IRL_World_Rankings&oldid=1091418364 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages IRL Men%27s World Rankings The IRL World Rankings are calculated based on an average of points accumulated by each nation over
36-463: The status of the opponent. Bonus points are given for teams that reach certain milestones deemed of significant international importance including reaching a tournament final or qualifying for an event such as a World Cup. From the total number of points that a nation will receive these points are then averaged to help give a more accurate view of the performance of a nation over the three-year cycle. Nations which have played fewer than 5 matches over
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