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Crusaders v Fijian Drua

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
Crusaders
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Fijian Drua

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
Fijian Drua by 75+levelCrusaders by 75+

9.7% of runs finished in this bin — Crusaders by 18 to 22.

56 points is around the 56th percentile of the total — the middle run scored 53.

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
Crusaders 87.4%Fijian Drua 10.1%average 37–18

Your pick agrees with the model on the more likely winner, Crusaders. 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 Crusaders are favoured

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

Even match50.0%
Rating gap+36.2 pp

Crusaders 1777, Fijian Drua 1225 — 551 points, favouring Crusaders

Venue+5.3 pp

Crusaders are at home

Form and context-4.1 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.

Crusaders win87.4%
Fijian Drua win10.1%
Draw2.5%
The fixture

Crusaders and Fijian Drua 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.

6 meetings — Crusaders 4, Fijian Drua 2. Last 2026: Crusaders 69–26 Fijian Drua.

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.

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Crusaders 38–18 Fijian Drua | RTP