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Exeter Chiefs vs Stade Francais Paris

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
Exeter Chiefs at home26-25 average
Exeter Chiefs 57.1%draw 2.5%40.4% Stade Francais Paris
Stade Francais Paris at home28-23 average
Stade Francais Paris 65.4%draw 2.5%32.1% Exeter Chiefs
Neutral ground24-27 average
Exeter Chiefs 42.0%draw 2.5%55.5% Stade Francais Paris

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 Exeter Chiefs 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 15 Stade Francais Paris and 19 Exeter Chiefs, half of them between 6 Stade Francais Paris and 10 Exeter Chiefs, with the middle run at 2 Exeter Chiefs.

Those are gaps rather than scorelines. How much scoring the match produces is drawn separately — between 31 and 72 points in eight runs out of ten — so one bar covers many scores. The middle run above is 21-19 on a tight afternoon and 32-30 on an open one.

Why Exeter Chiefs are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Exeter Chiefs 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 Exeter Chiefs, a bar to the left helps Stade Francais Paris.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap-2.6 pp

Exeter Chiefs 1716, Stade Francais Paris 1731 — 15 points, favouring Stade Francais Paris

Venue+17.5 pp

Exeter Chiefs are at home

Form and context-7.8 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.

Exeter Chiefs win57.1%
Stade Francais Paris win40.4%
Draw2.5%

Head to head

Exeter Chiefs0–0–1Stade Francais Paris

1 meeting, 2026 to 2026 · Stade Francais Paris by 2.0 on average

DateMatchCompetitionVenue
2026-01-10Stade Francais Paris 27–25 Exeter ChiefsEuropean Challenge CupStade Jean Bouin

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

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