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Bath Rugby vs Castres Olympique

What the model says about this fixture, at either ground and at a neutral one, with the record behind it. Ratings as at 2026-10-19.

Who wins, and where it is played
Bath Rugby at home33-20 average
Bath Rugby 82.0%draw 2.5%15.5% Castres Olympique
Castres Olympique at home26-27 average
Castres Olympique 45.5%draw 2.5%52.0% Bath Rugby
Neutral ground30-22 average
Bath Rugby 67.7%draw 2.5%29.8% Castres Olympique

Each figure is 5,000 simulations of this fixture. The score is where those runs are centred, not a likely scoreline — a rugby result is spread far too widely for any single one to be likely.

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How the runs finished

Winning margin across 5,000 simulations of this fixture. Bars right of the centre are Bath Rugby wins; the faded bars at each end hold everything beyond 75 points.

Margin percentiles

  • Middle 8 in 10
  • Middle half
  • Median
  • Level
  • Average

Eight runs in ten finished between 4 Castres Olympique and 33 Bath Rugby, half of them between 2 Bath Rugby and 20 Bath Rugby, with the middle run at 10 Bath Rugby.

Those are gaps rather than scorelines. How much scoring the match produces is drawn separately — between 33 and 75 points in eight runs out of ten — so one bar covers many scores. The middle run above is 26-16 on a tight afternoon and 37-27 on an open one.

Why Bath Rugby are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Bath Rugby winning. It starts at an even 50%, and each line below adds to that or takes from it, in percentage points (pp): a bar to the right helps Bath Rugby, a bar to the left helps Castres Olympique.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap+24.1 pp

Bath Rugby 1768, Castres Olympique 1456 — 312 points, favouring Bath Rugby

Venue+10.8 pp

Bath Rugby are at home

Form and context-2.9 pp

Recent results, past meetings between the two sides, and days of rest. It has a limit, so it can nudge the rating but never overrule it.

Bath Rugby win82.0%
Castres Olympique win15.5%
Draw2.5%

Head to head

Bath Rugby1–0–0Castres Olympique

1 meeting, 2026 to 2026 · Bath Rugby by 23.0 on average

DateMatchCompetitionVenue
2026-01-09Castres Olympique 20–43 Bath RugbyEuropean Champions CupStade Pierre Fabre

None of this feeds the forecast: both ratings already contain these results.

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