South Africa v New Zealand
What the record holds about this fixture, beside what the model says about it.
DHL Stadium, Cape Town
What the model says about South Africa v New Zealand
- Kick-off
- 15:00 UTC
- Elevation
- 16 m
- Temperature
- 12.1 °C
- Rainfall
- 0.0 mm
- Wind
- 23 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. 43 of the 46 named here have enough matches on both sides to measure.
South Africa
- 1Ox Nché-5.2
- 2Bongi Mbonambi-3.5
- 3Frans Malherbe+7.2
- 4Eben Etzebeth-12.7
- 5Ruan Nortjé
- 6Siya Kolisi+2.4
- 7Pieter-Steph du Toit-6.8
- 8Jasper Wiese+5.9
- 9Grant Williams-4.8
- 10Handré Pollard-4.0
- 11Cheslin Kolbe-0.2
- 12Damian de Allende-0.1
- 13Jesse Kriel-6.1
- 14Canan Moodie+6.3
- 15Willie le Roux+4.6
Replacements
- 16Malcolm Marx-4.3
- 17Gerhard Steenekamp+3.4
- 18Vincent Koch-5.2
- 19Kwagga Smith-8.0
- 20Elrigh Louw
- 21Jaden Hendrikse+5.8
- 22Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu+5.9
- 23Lukhanyo Am-2.4
New Zealand
- 1Tamaiti Williams+6.5
- 2Codie Taylor-2.6
- 3Tyrel Lomax-0.1
- 4Scott Barrett+2.6
- 5Tupou Vaa'i-5.8
- 6Wallace Sititi-6.7
- 7Sam Cane+0.2
- 8Ardie Savea-6.0
- 9Cortez Ratima+0.5
- 10Damian McKenzie+0.5
- 11Mark Tele'a-5.2
- 12Jordie Barrett+6.6
- 13Rieko Ioane+3.4
- 14Sevu Reece-4.1
- 15Will Jordan-8.9
Replacements
- 16Asafo Aumua-2.6
- 17Ofa Tu'ungafasi-3.5
- 18Fletcher Newell-6.9
- 19Sam Darry
- 20Luke Jacobson+2.4
- 21TJ Perenara-8.3
- 22Anton Lienert-Brown+2.0
- 23Beauden Barrett-1.1
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.
Discipline
| South Africa | Measure | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Yellow cards(fewer is better) | 2 |
Scoring
| South Africa | Measure | New Zealand |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Tries | — |
| 1 | Conversions | — |
| 2 | Penalty goals | 4 |
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.