South Africa v New Zealand
What the record holds about this fixture, beside what the model says about it.
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16 August 2008DHL Newlands, Cape Town
What the model says about South Africa v New Zealand
- Kick-off
- 13:00 UTC
- Elevation
- 24 m
- Temperature
- 14.1 °C
- Rainfall
- 0.0 mm
- Wind
- 19 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. 37 of the 44 named here have enough matches on both sides to measure.
South Africa
- 1Tendai Mtawarira+6.9
- 2Bismarck du Plessis+4.3
- 3CJ van der Linde-5.3
- 4Andries Bekker+0.8
- 5Victor Matfield(c)-1.4
- 6Schalk Burger+6.0
- 7Juan Smith+0.6
- 8Pierre Spies-4.0
- 9Fourie du Preez+10.4
- 10Butch James+0.9
- 11Bryan Habana+1.1
- 12Jean de Villiers+0.5
- 13Adrian Jacobs-2.7
- 14JP Pietersen+0.8
- 15Percy Montgomery+0.2
Replacements
- 16Adriaan Strauss-3.8
- 17Brian Mujati
- 18Danie Rossouw+0.7
- 19Luke Watson
- 20Ricky Januarie-1.8
- 21Francois Steyn+7.8
- 22Conrad Jantjes
New Zealand
- 1Tony Woodcock+5.2
- 2Andrew Hore-5.4
- 3Greg Somerville+6.5
- 4Brad Thorn+3.6
- 5Ali Williams+2.0
- 6Jerome Kaino+0.5
- 7Richie McCaw(c)+1.0
- 8Rodney So'oialo+1.2
- 9Jimmy Cowan-3.2
- 10Dan Carter+1.9
- 11Sitiveni Sivivatu-9.3
- 12Ma'a Nonu+0.9
- 13Conrad Smith+4.0
- 14Richard Kahui
- 15Mils Muliaina
Replacements
- 16Keven Mealamu+2.6
- 17John Afoa-1.5
- 18Anthony Boric
- 19Adam Thomson+2.1
- 20Piri Weepu-4.9
- 21Stephen Donald
- 22Isaia Toeava+11.9
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.
Scoring
| South Africa | Measure | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|
| — | Tries | 3 |
| — | Conversions | 2 |
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.