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Gloucester Rugby v Sale Sharks

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
Gloucester Rugby
Sale Sharks

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
Sale Sharks by 75+levelGloucester Rugby by 75+

15.8% of runs finished in this bin — Gloucester Rugby by 3 to 7.

49 points is around the 54th percentile of the total — the middle run scored 47.

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
Gloucester Rugby 58.3%Sale Sharks 39.2%average 2623

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 Gloucester Rugby are favoured

Starting from an even match and adding what the model reads, in percentage points of win probability. Positive favours Gloucester Rugby, negative favours Sale Sharks.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap-4.8 pp

Gloucester Rugby 1520, Sale Sharks 1558 — 38 points, favouring Sale Sharks

Venue+12.0 pp

Gloucester Rugby are at home

Form and context+1.1 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.

Gloucester Rugby win58.3%
The fixture

Gloucester Rugby and Sale Sharks 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 Gloucester Rugby 10, Sale Sharks 13. Last 2026: Gloucester Rugby 21–15 Sale Sharks.

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.

Gloucester Rugby against Sale Sharks, as a shareable card

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Gloucester Rugby 26–23 Sale Sharks | RTP