Plessis v Brex

Daniel du Plessis takes it, 5–2 on categories

du Plessis wins on tries — the try scorer of the two. Ignacio Brex’s case rests on tackles, but it isn’t enough to swing it. Whole career: du Plessis 61 matches, Ignacio Brex 78 matches.

• Ignacio Brex averages 7.6 tackles a match to du Plessis’ 4.8 (59% more).
• Ignacio Brex averages 20.7 metres a match to du Plessis’ 16.2 (28% more).
• du Plessis has 17 clean breaks (one every 1.9 matches) to Ignacio Brex’s 13 clean breaks (one every 3.2 matches).
• Winners’ edge: du Plessis’s teams won 61%, Ignacio Brex’s teams won 47% of the matches they played.
• Not every stat was recorded for every match (metres, tackles, clean breaks…): those averages use only the games that logged them.

Built only from games in our stats database. A read of the numbers, not a tip.