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Gloucester Rugby vs Ospreys

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
Gloucester Rugby at home31-20 average
Gloucester Rugby 74.7%draw 2.5%22.8% Ospreys
Ospreys at home25-26 average
Ospreys 48.6%draw 2.5%48.9% Gloucester Rugby
Neutral ground29-22 average
Gloucester Rugby 64.1%draw 2.5%33.4% Ospreys

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 Gloucester 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 6 Ospreys and 34 Gloucester Rugby, half of them between level and 20 Gloucester Rugby, with the middle run at 9 Gloucester Rugby.

Those are gaps rather than scorelines. How much scoring the match produces is drawn separately — between 31 and 74 points in eight runs out of ten — so one bar covers many scores. The middle run above is 24-15 on a tight afternoon and 35-26 on an open one.

Why Gloucester Rugby are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Gloucester 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 Gloucester Rugby, a bar to the left helps Ospreys.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap+8.9 pp

Gloucester Rugby 1684, Ospreys 1567 — 117 points, favouring Gloucester Rugby

Venue+15.3 pp

Gloucester Rugby are at home

Form and context+0.5 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.

Gloucester Rugby win74.7%
Ospreys win22.8%
Draw2.5%

Head to head

Gloucester Rugby1–0–0Ospreys

1 meeting, 2024 to 2024 · Gloucester Rugby by 10.0 on average

DateMatchCompetitionVenue
2024-04-12Gloucester Rugby 23–13 OspreysEuropean Challenge CupKingsholm

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

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