Major change introduced to world rankings in time for Nations Championship

I smell a rat.

While this is all framed as a modern cleanup for neutral-venue matches, the balance of probabilities suggests the Six Nations just engineered the ultimate rankings safety net ahead of the new Nations Championship.

Under the old math, the North faced massive ranking volatility. Now, they get a two-way shield:

A Six Nations team losing to the Springboks or All Blacks in London, Paris, or Dublin in November will no longer see their ranking plummet.

Southern giants lose the massive "away jackpot" points payout for winning up North.

When Northern teams tour the Southern Hemisphere in July, the rankings impact of an away defeat is drastically reduced.

The North has essentially legislated away the massive rankings risk of playing the South, now that they’ll be touring the South a bit more often than they normally would.

Rugby has shot itself in the foot with rule changes that turn it into a gym bunnies contest rather than a contest for all body types and shapes. They have introduced rules that make it easier to score tries and points so that scores are similar to basketball scores. The game has lost its gloss and tinkering like this to manipulate standings does nothing but expose the fraud this once glorious game has become. How would Gareth Edwards, Barry John, Zin Zan Brooke, Conrad Smith, Doug Howlett and co… beuatiful elusive runners everyone … survive in todays game? They wouldn’t, they’d go to Rugby League or play Football… as is happening to the real talent these days…. I grew up on Rugby, loved it, dreamed of it. Now I find it so hard to watch….. like many others I know. Take note, do not ignore these warnings…

What a mess this “new competition" is before it even started… there is already too many matchs everywere. Players have to deal far more frequently heavy injuries, but no, let’s create a new stupid competition. World Rugby just love money, that's all. They should stop talking about “players safety”. It’s just unnatural to hear them on that subject.

Australia at Suncorp are virtually unbeatable with. Nick Barry they are unbeatable .

Perhaps just penalise SA in the rankings for being South African ?

Best not to mess around with with an imperfect system that is irrelevant .

This will hurt a team that tours a lot, like NZ, getting less bang for their buck (wins).

World Rugby, sigh.

Maybe for six nations or rugby championship, the ranking should be calculated at the end of compétition and not after every game with considering the ranking before the compétition…

For the last six nations ,with exactly the same scores, the ranking at the end should be very différent if you had change just the order of the rounds…

This seems completely nonsensical.

Why not just cancel the home weighting when matches aren't played at home?

Fiji don't have an advantage playing in England - but England do

Common sense at last