QF 3: Australia v South Africa (Wellington) On the rugby stats, South Africa could be expected to dominate on the field, but on our social equality rankings, it comes a lowly 18th and would be out of the competition at this phase. Australia ranks 8th, aided by a much better Gini coefficient of 35 on a 0-100 scale (where 0 represents total equality ...

25 September (Wellington) We have a make or break game today between Scotland and Argentina – very likely that the winner of this game will go through as the second-placed team in group B (probably meeting the All Blacks in the next round) and the losers will be out. The Bravehearts are 8th and the Pumas 9th in the IRB world rankings, so it’s g ...

Saturday 17 September (Invercargill) Glancing at our ranking table in preparation for the Argentina-Romania game, it’d be easy to assume that these were two countries in a pretty similar situation. That assumption would, however, be entirely incorrect. Income equality is where Romania really shines – the country blowing its fellow post-Communi ...