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Leicester Tigers vs Sharks

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 home28-23 average
Leicester Tigers 65.1%draw 2.5%32.4% Sharks
Sharks at home28-23 average
Sharks 62.5%draw 2.5%35.0% Leicester Tigers
Neutral ground25-26 average
Leicester Tigers 50.2%draw 2.5%47.3% Sharks

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 15 Sharks and 21 Leicester Tigers, half of them between 4 Sharks and 11 Leicester Tigers, with the middle run at 4 Leicester Tigers.

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 22-18 on a tight afternoon and 32-28 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 Sharks.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap+3.6 pp

Leicester Tigers 1800, Sharks 1746 — 54 points, favouring Leicester Tigers

Venue+17.0 pp

Leicester Tigers are at home

Form and context-5.5 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.

Leicester Tigers win65.1%
Sharks win32.4%
Draw2.5%

Head to head

Leicester Tigers1–0–0Sharks

1 meeting, 2024 to 2024 · Leicester Tigers by 39.0 on average

DateMatchCompetitionVenue
2024-12-14Leicester Tigers 56–17 SharksEuropean Champions CupMattioli Woods Welford Road Stadium

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

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