Match predictor

Benetton Treviso vs Harlequins

What the model says about this fixture, at either ground and at a neutral one, with the record behind it. Ratings as at 2026-08-24.

Who wins, and where it is played
Benetton Treviso at home26-25 average
Benetton Treviso 49.4%draw 2.5%48.1% Harlequins
Harlequins at home32-18 average
Harlequins 75.3%draw 2.5%22.2% Benetton Treviso
Neutral ground22-28 average
Benetton Treviso 35.5%draw 2.5%62.0% Harlequins

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.

How the runs finished

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

Margin percentiles

p10 Harlequins +16p25 Harlequins +7p50 levelp75 Benetton Treviso +8p90 Benetton Treviso +17

Eight runs in ten finished between 16 Harlequins and 17 Benetton Treviso, with the middle run at level.

Those are gaps rather than scorelines. How much scoring the match produces is drawn separately — between 32 and 72 points in eight runs out of ten — so one bar covers many scores. The middle run above is 20-20 on a tight afternoon and 31-31 on an open one.

Why Benetton Treviso are not favoured

Starting from an even match and adding what the model reads, in percentage points of win probability. Positive favours Benetton Treviso, negative favours Harlequins.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap-18.3 pp

Benetton Treviso 1478, Harlequins 1668 — 190 points, favouring Harlequins

Venue+11.4 pp

Benetton Treviso are at home

Form and context+6.3 pp

Recent results, head-to-head record and rest days, as the XGBoost heads weigh them. Deliberately capped, so it can nudge the rating but never overrule it.

Benetton Treviso win49.4%

Head to head

Benetton Treviso101Harlequins

2 meetings, 2018 to 2018 · Harlequins by 3.0 on average

DateMatchCompetitionVenue
2018-12-15Harlequins 209 Benetton TrevisoEuropean Challenge CupTwickenham Stoop
2018-12-08Benetton Treviso 2621 HarlequinsEuropean Challenge CupStadio Comunale di Monigo

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

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