Match predictor

Cheetahs v Zebre

Set a scoreline and see where it sits among the 5,000 simulated runs behind this fixture. Ratings as at 2026-08-28.

Your scoreline
Cheetahs
Zebre

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
Zebre by 75+levelCheetahs by 75+

16.3% of runs finished in this bin — Zebre by 3 to 7.

50 points is around the 54th percentile of the total — the middle run scored 48.

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
Cheetahs 50.2%Zebre 47.3%average 2327

Your pick disagrees 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 Cheetahs are favoured

Starting from an even match and adding what the model reads, in percentage points of win probability. Positive favours Cheetahs, negative favours Zebre.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap-5.7 pp

Cheetahs 1260, Zebre 1309 — 49 points, favouring Zebre

Venue+11.8 pp

Cheetahs are at home

Form and context-5.9 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.

Cheetahs win50.2%
The fixture

Cheetahs and Zebre 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.

7 meetings Cheetahs 6, Zebre 1. Last 2025: Cheetahs 22–18 Zebre.

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.

Cheetahs against Zebre, as a shareable card

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