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Wales v New Zealand

Set a scoreline and see where it sits among the 5,000 simulated runs behind this fixture. Ratings as at 2026-10-18.

Your scoreline
Wales
–
New Zealand

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 Zealand by 75+levelWales by 75+

8.7% of runs finished in this bin — New Zealand by 18 to 22.

58 points is around the 54th percentile of the total — the middle run scored 56.

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
Wales 7.5%New Zealand 91.5%average 18–40

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 Wales are not favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Wales 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 Wales, a bar to the left helps New Zealand.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap-42.9 pp

Wales 1868, New Zealand 2476 — 608 points, favouring New Zealand

Venue+4.2 pp

Wales are at home

Form and context-3.8 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.

Wales win7.5%
New Zealand win91.5%
Draw1.0%
The fixture

Wales and New Zealand 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.

38 meetings — Wales 3, New Zealand 35. Last 2025: Wales 26–52 New Zealand.

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.

Wales against New Zealand, as a shareable card

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Wales 18–40 New Zealand | RTP