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Dragons v Lions

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
Dragons
–
Lions

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
Lions by 75+levelDragons by 75+

18.1% of runs finished in this bin — within 2 points either way.

48 points is around the 55th percentile of the total — the middle run scored 46.

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
Dragons 44.9%Lions 52.6%average 23–25

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 Dragons are not favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Dragons 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 Dragons, a bar to the left helps Lions.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap-28.3 pp

Dragons 1330, Lions 1664 — 334 points, favouring Lions

Venue+16.9 pp

Dragons are at home

Form and context+6.3 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.

Dragons win44.9%
Lions win52.6%
Draw2.5%
The fixture

Dragons and Lions 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.

8 meetings — Dragons 0, Lions 7, 1 drawn. Last 2026: Lions 42–26 Dragons.

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.

Dragons against Lions, as a shareable card

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Dragons 23–25 Lions | RTP