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Leicester Tigers vs Pau

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
Leicester Tigers at home27-23 average
Leicester Tigers 57.1%draw 2.5%40.4% Pau
Pau at home29-22 average
Pau 63.9%draw 2.5%33.6% Leicester Tigers
Neutral ground24-27 average
Leicester Tigers 45.2%draw 2.5%52.3% Pau

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 Leicester Tigers 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 14 Pau and 22 Leicester Tigers, half of them between 6 Pau and 11 Leicester Tigers, with the middle run at 2 Leicester Tigers.

Those are gaps rather than scorelines. How much scoring the match produces is drawn separately — between 31 and 71 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 31-29 on an open one.

Why Leicester Tigers are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Leicester Tigers 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 Leicester Tigers, a bar to the left helps Pau.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap-2.9 pp

Leicester Tigers 1800, Pau 1818 — 18 points, favouring Pau

Venue+17.8 pp

Leicester Tigers 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.

Leicester Tigers win57.1%
Pau win40.4%
Draw2.5%

Head to head

Leicester Tigers1–0–2Pau

3 meetings, 2019 to 2026 · Pau by 3.3 on average

DateMatchCompetitionVenue
2026-10-18Pau 41–17 Leicester TigersEuropean Champions CupStade du Hameau
2020-01-18Pau 24–17 Leicester TigersEuropean Challenge CupStade du Hameau
2019-11-16Leicester Tigers 41–20 PauEuropean Challenge CupMattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium

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

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