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Romania v Samoa

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
Romania
–
Samoa

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
Samoa by 75+levelRomania by 75+

14.8% of runs finished in this bin — Samoa by 3 to 7.

53 points is around the 56th 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
Romania 40.1%Samoa 57.8%average 25–27

Your pick agrees with the model on the more likely winner, Samoa. 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 Romania are not favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Romania 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 Romania, a bar to the left helps Samoa.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap-23.8 pp

Romania 1265, Samoa 1512 — 247 points, favouring Samoa

Venue+10.4 pp

Romania are at home

Form and context+3.5 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.

Romania win40.1%
Samoa win57.8%
Draw2.1%
The fixture

Romania and Samoa 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.

4 meetings — Romania 3, Samoa 1. Last 2026: Samoa 37–38 Romania.

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.

Romania against Samoa, as a shareable card

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Romania 25–28 Samoa | RTP