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Chiefs v Crusaders

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
Chiefs
–
Crusaders

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
Crusaders by 75+levelChiefs by 75+

14.7% of runs finished in this bin — Chiefs by 3 to 7.

52 points is around the 54th percentile of the total — the middle run scored 50.

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
Chiefs 61.6%Crusaders 35.9%average 29–23

That is the model’s own average scoreline. 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 Chiefs are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Chiefs 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 Chiefs, a bar to the left helps Crusaders.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap+4.3 pp

Chiefs 1840, Crusaders 1777 — 63 points, favouring Chiefs

Venue+15.1 pp

Chiefs 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.

Chiefs win61.6%
Crusaders win35.9%
Draw2.5%
The fixture

Chiefs and Crusaders 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.

29 meetings — Chiefs 13, Crusaders 16. Last 2026: Chiefs 49–12 Crusaders.

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.

Chiefs against Crusaders, as a shareable card

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