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Fijian Drua v New South Wales Waratahs

Set a scoreline and see where it sits among the 5,000 simulated runs behind this fixture. Ratings as at 2026-08-24.

Your scoreline
Fijian Drua
New South Wales Waratahs

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
New South Wales Waratahs by 75+levelFijian Drua by 75+

12.7% of runs finished in this bin — Fijian Drua 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
Fijian Drua 54.2%New South Wales Waratahs 43.3%average 2724

Your pick agrees with the model on the winner. Nothing here scores that. 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 Fijian Drua are favoured

Starting from an even match and adding what the model reads, in percentage points of win probability. Positive favours Fijian Drua, negative favours New South Wales Waratahs.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap-4.5 pp

Fijian Drua 1277, New South Wales Waratahs 1311 — 35 points, favouring New South Wales Waratahs

Venue+12.2 pp

Fijian Drua are at home

Form and context-3.5 pp

Recent results, head-to-head record and rest days, as the XGBoost heads weigh them. Deliberately capped, so it can nudge the rating but never overrule it.

Fijian Drua win54.2%
The fixture

Fijian Drua and New South Wales Waratahs 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 Fijian Drua 2, New South Wales Waratahs 6. Last 2026: Fijian Drua 35–50 New South Wales Waratahs.

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.

Fijian Drua against New South Wales Waratahs, as a shareable card

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