Sports and mathematics is a match made in heaven, you just can’t deal with one and ignore the other. And mathematics has always been in the faces of many sports lovers in Uganda, especially those who follow the national football team, the Cranes ardently.
Unfortunately for 37 years no man has been able to successfully solve the football equations. The Rugby Cranes will host the Rugby Africa Tier 1B tournament with only one country qualifying for the Tier 1A.
Uganda will battle Ivory Coast, Madagascar, Mauritius, Botswana and Senegal for that one slot. At the completion of the games, teams will be ranked basing on their accumulated match points to determine the final ranking and the overall winner.
If at the completion of all the matches two or more Teams are level on match points, then the following criteria will be used in the following order until one of the Teams can be determined as the higher ranked
1. The winner of the match in which the two tied Teams have played each other shall be the higher ranked;
2. The Team which has the best difference between points scored for and points scored against in all its matches shall be the higher ranked;
3. The team which has the best difference between tries scored for and tries scored against in all its matches shall be the higher ranked;
4. The team which has scored most points in all its matches shall be the higher ranked;
5. The Team which has scored most tries in all its matches shall be the higher ranked;
6. Should the tie be unresolved at the conclusion of steps 1 through 5, the rankings as per the updated official rugby world rankings on July 03, 2015 will determine the higher ranked team
In all the six teams vying for the Rugby Africa Tier 1A slot, Senegal (40) is the highest ranked country in the world.
Madagascar are 445th, Ivory Coast 48th, Uganda are 54th and Botswana 66th and Mauritius are 87th in the world currently.
