This year (2019) is a rugby world cup year. I like data visualisation, and I like rugby. So here's my primitive attempt to calculate the results of the pool stages of the 2019 World Cup. My simple heuristic is that world ranking (as of Aug 22nd 2019) is a predictor of a team's success. In effect, my simple algorithm states that a team with a higher ranking will always beat a team with a lower ranking.
