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Bristol Rugby v Cardiff Blues

Set a scoreline and see where it sits among the 5,000 simulated runs behind this fixture. Ratings as at 2026-10-19.

Your scoreline
Bristol Rugby
–
Cardiff Blues

The steppers skip 1, 2 and 4. Points come in fives, threes and twos with a conversion needing a try in front of it, so no match has ever finished on any of them.

Where that lands
Cardiff Blues by 75+levelBristol Rugby by 75+

18.2% of runs finished in this bin — Bristol Rugby by 3 to 7.

52 points is around the 56th percentile of the total — the middle run scored 49.

Those two figures are separate readings and are not multiplied together. The simulation draws the gap and the amount of scoring independently, so one bar of the histogram covers many scorelines and the payload holds nothing about which of them came up with which gap.

What the model says
Bristol Rugby 69.5%Cardiff Blues 28.0%average 29–22

Your pick agrees with the model on the more likely winner, Bristol Rugby. Nothing here scores any of it. The model’s gap is an average over both winners and yours is one afternoon, so the two are different kinds of number rather than one being right. How the model works.

Why Bristol Rugby are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Bristol 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 Bristol Rugby, a bar to the left helps Cardiff Blues.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap+9.0 pp

Bristol Rugby 1762, Cardiff Blues 1645 — 116 points, favouring Bristol Rugby

Venue+15.6 pp

Bristol Rugby are at home

Form and context-5.1 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.

Bristol Rugby win69.5%
Cardiff Blues win28.0%
Draw2.5%
The fixture

Bristol Rugby and Cardiff Blues have no fixture on the published schedule, so there is no ground, no kick-off forecast and no team sheet to put beside this. The prediction itself does not need any of them.

2 meetings — Bristol Rugby 0, Cardiff Blues 2. Last 2017: Cardiff Blues 37–21 Bristol Rugby.

None of this reaches the model. Weather is not a feature, team selection is not a feature and the record is already inside both ratings, so the probability above does not move because any of it changed.

Bristol Rugby against Cardiff Blues, as a shareable card

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Bristol Rugby 29–23 Cardiff Blues | RTP