Australia v New Zealand
What the record holds about this fixture, beside what the model says about it.
28 – 7
28 August 1999Accor Stadium, Sydney
What the model says about Australia v New Zealand
- Kick-off
- 10:00 UTC
- Elevation
- 3 m
- Temperature
- 15.9 °C
- Rainfall
- 4.0 mm
- Wind
- 14 km/h
Daily means at the ground, from the ERA5 reanalysis via Open-Meteo.
Beside a name: points of margin the side has beaten its own rating by with him in the squad, against the same period without him. 10 of the 44 named here have enough matches on both sides to measure.
Australia
- 1Richard Harry
- 2Phil Kearns
- 3Andrew Blades
- 4David Giffin+0.8
- 5Mark Connors
- 6Matt Cockbain
- 7David Wilson(c)
- 8Toutai Kefu
- 9George Gregan
- 10Rod Kafer
- 11Jason Little
- 12Tim Horan
- 13Dan Herbert
- 14Ben Tune-0.3
- 15Matt Burke
Replacements
- 16Nathan Grey+10.3
- 17Patricio Noriega
- 18Owen Finegan
- 19Michael Foley
- 20Tiaan Strauss
- 21Chris Whitaker
- 22Joe Roff-6.5
New Zealand
- 1Carl Hoeft-11.7
- 2Anton Oliver-0.3
- 3Kees Meeuws+2.5
- 4Norm Maxwell
- 5Robin Brooke
- 6Dylan Mika
- 7Josh Kronfeld
- 8Taine Randell(c)
- 9Justin Marshall
- 10Andrew Mehrtens-8.3
- 11Tana Umaga-18.3
- 12Daryl Gibson
- 13Alama Ieremia
- 14Christian Cullen
- 15Jeff Wilson
Replacements
- 16Jonah Lomu
- 17Andrew Blowers
- 18Royce Willis
- 19Byron Kelleher-16.4
- 20Tony Brown
- 21Craig Dowd
- 22Mark Hammett
Measured against the side's point-in-time rating, so opposition and venue are already removed, and over the years between a player's first and last cap rather than his side's whole history. None of the 778 players assessed has a gap larger than chance explains once the number tested is corrected for — a rating already contains the players who usually play for a side, so what a team sheet can add to it is small. Team selection is not an input to the forecast on this page. The full table and the method.
Context beside the forecast, never inside it. Weather, team selection and match statistics are not model inputs, so a published probability does not move because any of them changed.