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Blues v Highlanders

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
Blues
–
Highlanders

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
Highlanders by 75+levelBlues by 75+

12.1% of runs finished in this bin — Blues by 8 to 12.

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

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
Blues 71.9%Highlanders 25.6%average 33–21

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 Blues are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Blues 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 Blues, a bar to the left helps Highlanders.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap+18.1 pp

Blues 1548, Highlanders 1314 — 234 points, favouring Blues

Venue+11.6 pp

Blues 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.

Blues win71.9%
Highlanders win25.6%
Draw2.5%
The fixture

Blues and Highlanders 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.

23 meetings — Blues 14, Highlanders 9. Last 2026: Blues 47–40 Highlanders.

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.

Blues against Highlanders, as a shareable card

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