First XV Rugby: The First Top 100 Rankings for 2018

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The 2018 school rugby season is still very much in its embryonic stage and the form and fortunes of many teams are bound to fluctuate during the course of a very busy season.

 

However with the smorgasbord of rugby that was on display during the many Easter Weekend Festivals that are now strewn across the country, we can take a very early look at how some of the teams are faring so far.

Of course there are many teams that still need to be entered onto the rankings once more matches are played however it is good to see several of the leading teams already showing good form.

Paul Roos Gym take an early grasp on the top spot after notching up some huge wins at the St.John’s Festival. It will be interesting to see just how long PRG can remain on top as the opposition gets tougher but all in all a good start by Paul Roos.

Paarl Gim and Affies make up the remaining spots in the top 3 with Gimmies in particular looking menacing in their outings against Waterkloof and EG Jansen where they managed to notch up over 50 points per match.

Bishops have played some wonderful rugby so far and outplayed a good Grey High School and St.Stithians over the past week to announce that they are prepared to battle it out to remain amongst the leading teams in the country.

The top 10 are all unbeaten so far and are marginally separated mainly by the strength of opposition that they have played.

Expect the rankings table to change as more teams are added and more matches get played and this first publishing is really a rough guide to who has already displayed some winning form. The first publishing of the rankings is also a good reminder to many of the schools to ensure they are back into the groove of sending their results through to us at [email protected].

Bear in mind that the rankings equation is based on a very similar equation used by the ICC Rankings. Factors that are taken into account is the strength of the opposition, home and away status of matches, margin of victory, margin of loss, actual points scored etc.

FIRST XV RANKINGS 3 APRIL, 2018
RANK TEAM PLAYED AVG PTS
1 PAUL ROOS GYM 4 7.500
2 PAARL GIM 3 7.433
3 AFFIES 2 7.350
4 BISHOPS 4 6.100
5 WYNBERG 4 6.075
6 GLENWOOD 4 6.050
7 HELPMEKAAR 5 6.000
8 GREY COLLEGE 2 5.600
9 RONDEBOSCH 3 5.233
10 HILTON COLLEGE 4 5.100
11 SACS 4 5.050
12 MENLOPARK 5 4.960
13 JEPPE 6 4.900
14 GREY HIGH SCHOOL 4 4.550
15 TRANSVALIA 4 4.425
16 MONUMENT 5 4.380
17 ST ANDREWS COLLEGE 4 4.375
18 KES 4 4.375
19 FRAMESBY 6 4.367
20 DHS 5 4.120
21 KEARSNEY COLLEGE 5 4.080
22 BOLAND LANDBOU 3 3.967
23 BEN VORSTER 7 3.914
24 HTS DROSTDY 5 3.880
25 ST ALBANS COLLEGE 7 3.786
26 DF MALAN 2 3.650
27 RUSTENBURG 4 3.400
28 GARSFONTEIN 7 3.214
29 SELBORNE COLLEGE 5 3.200
30 BRANDWAG 2 3.200
31 PEARSON 3 3.000
32 EG JANSEN 3 2.800
33 WESTVILLE 5 2.740
34 POTCH VOLKIES 4 2.525
35 LYDENBURG 2 2.350
36 ST JOHNS COLLEGE 4 2.350
37 PRETORIA BOYS HIGH 5 2.300
38 FLORIDA 6 2.250
39 HUDSON PARK 6 2.217
40 ST BENEDICTS 5 2.200
41 ST STITHIANS 4 2.175
42 MARLOW 7 2.129
43 DIE BRANDWAG 5 2.120
44 KINGSWOOD COLLEGE 5 2.080
45 SECUNDA 5 2.060
46 UPINGTON 3 1.967
47 LICHTENBURG 3 1.933
48 KEMPTON PARK 4 1.775
49 CLIFTON 5 1.760
50 MIDDELBURG HS 3 1.633
51 BRACKENFELL 3 1.633
52 WOODRIDGE COLLEGE 3 1.567
53 NORTHWOOD 5 1.560
54 DESPATCH 5 1.560
55 WITTEBERG 3 1.533
56 WATERKLOOF 5 1.510
57 NICO MALAN 3 1.500
58 HS ALBERTON 3 1.500
59 MONTANA PTA 5 1.440
60 HANS MOORE 6 1.433
61 RANDBURG 3 1.400
62 DIAMANTVELD 6 1.333
63 NORTHCLIFF 2 1.300
64 FRIKKIE MEYER 4 1.300
65 TYGERBERG 2 1.300
66 NOORDHEUWEL 8 1.275
67 DURBANVILLE 5 1.260
68 DIE ANKER 2 1.250
69 WELKOM GYM 7 1.157
70 HOPEFIELD 2 1.120
71 ST DAVIDS 4 1.100
72 LILYFONTEIN 3 1.067
73 DR MALAN 2 1.050
74 KRUGERSDORP 2 1.050
75 FERRUM 3 1.033
76 PRETORIA NOORD 2 1.000
77 NOORD KAAP 3 1.000
78 HTS MIDDELBURG 7 0.971
79 FOCHVILLE 2 0.900
80 JEUGLAND 3 0.900
81 ST CHARLES COLLEGE 3 0.867
82 CAMBRIDGE 2 0.850
83 OOS MOOT 4 0.850
84 CURRO NELSPRUIT 4 0.850
85 HUGENOTE WELL 3 0.833
86 UNION HS 2 0.800
87 PIONIER 2 0.800
88 POTCH GIM 4 0.775
89 STANDERTON 3 0.633
90 STRAND 3 0.567
91 FICHARDTPARK 3 0.567
92 VEREENIGING GIM 3 0.533
93 GRAEME COLLEGE 4 0.500
94 MERENSKY 3 0.500
95 VOORTREKKER BETH 4 0.475
96 OTTO DU PLESSIS 6 0.300
97 MARAIS VILJOEN 7 0.243
98 NELSPRUIT 5 0.24
99 MICHAELHOUSE 5 0.2
100 DALE COLLEGE 6 0.083