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Ospreys v Sale Sharks

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
Ospreys
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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+levelOspreys by 75+

16.7% of runs finished in this bin — Ospreys by 3 to 7.

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

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
Ospreys 63.2%Sale Sharks 34.3%average 27–24

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 Ospreys are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Ospreys 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 Ospreys, a bar to the left helps Sale Sharks.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap+4.4 pp

Ospreys 1567, Sale Sharks 1504 — 63 points, favouring Ospreys

Venue+16.6 pp

Ospreys 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.

Ospreys win63.2%
Sale Sharks win34.3%
Draw2.5%
The fixture

Ospreys 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.

3 meetings — Ospreys 1, Sale Sharks 2. Last 2024: Ospreys 23–15 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.

Ospreys against Sale Sharks, as a shareable card

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