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Scarlets vs Vannes

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
Scarlets at home29-21 average
Scarlets 71.3%draw 2.5%26.2% Vannes
Vannes at home26-23 average
Vannes 59.6%draw 2.5%37.9% Scarlets
Neutral ground26-24 average
Scarlets 55.6%draw 2.5%41.9% Vannes

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 Scarlets 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 11 Vannes and 28 Scarlets, half of them between 1 Vannes and 16 Scarlets, with the middle run at 6 Scarlets.

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 22-16 on a tight afternoon and 33-27 on an open one.

Why Scarlets are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Scarlets 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 Scarlets, a bar to the left helps Vannes.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap-1.9 pp

Scarlets 1273, Vannes 1280 — 7 points, favouring Vannes

Venue+18.2 pp

Scarlets are at home

Form and context+5.0 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.

Scarlets win71.3%
Vannes win26.2%
Draw2.5%

Head to head

Scarlets1–0–0Vannes

1 meeting, 2025 to 2025 · Scarlets by 10.0 on average

DateMatchCompetitionVenue
2025-01-18Scarlets 38–28 VannesEuropean Challenge CupParc y Scarlets

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

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