Pau vs Sale 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.
Pau 77.3%draw 2.5%20.2% Sale SharksSale Sharks 46.8%draw 2.5%50.7% PauPau 66.5%draw 2.5%31.0% Sale SharksEach 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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Build a shareable predictionHow the runs finished
Winning margin across 5,000 simulations of this fixture. Bars right of the centre are Pau 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 Sale Sharks and 32 Pau, half of them between 1 Pau and 20 Pau, with the middle run at 9 Pau.
Those are gaps rather than scorelines. How much scoring the match produces is drawn separately — between 32 and 75 points in eight runs out of ten — so one bar covers many scores. The middle run above is 25-16 on a tight afternoon and 36-27 on an open one.
Why Pau are favoured
How the model arrives at the chance of Pau 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 Pau, a bar to the left helps Sale Sharks.
Pau 1818, Sale Sharks 1504 — 314 points, favouring Pau
Pau are at home
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.
Head to head
Pau0–0–2Sale Sharks2 meetings, 2015 to 2016 · Sale Sharks by 16.5 on average
| Date | Match | Competition | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-01-15 | Pau 3–27 Sale Sharks | European Challenge Cup | Stade du Hameau |
| 2015-11-21 | Sale Sharks 29–20 Pau | European Challenge Cup | CorpAcq Stadium |
None of this feeds the forecast: both ratings already contain these results.