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Russia v Zimbabwe

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
Russia
–
Zimbabwe

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
Zimbabwe by 75+levelRussia by 75+

7.8% of runs finished in this bin — Russia by 8 to 12.

51 points is around the 52nd 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
Russia 53.1%Zimbabwe 44.3%average 30–21

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 Russia are favoured

How the model arrives at the chance of Russia 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 Russia, a bar to the left helps Zimbabwe.

Even match50.0%
Rating gap-15.5 pp

Russia 1137, Zimbabwe 1293 — 156 points, favouring Zimbabwe

Venue+10.8 pp

Russia 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.

Russia win53.1%
Zimbabwe win44.3%
Draw2.6%
The fixture

Russia and Zimbabwe 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 — Russia 3, Zimbabwe 0. Last 2016: Russia 19–15 Zimbabwe.

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.

Russia against Zimbabwe, as a shareable card

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Russia 30–21 Zimbabwe | RTP