Heerden v Willis

Jack Willis takes it, 5–2 on categories

Willis wins on tries — the try scorer of the two. van Heerden’s case rests on missed tackles, but it isn’t enough to swing it. Whole career: van Heerden 97 matches, Willis 85 matches.

• Willis has 22 tries (one every 3.7 matches) to van Heerden’s 8 tries (one every 10 matches).
• Willis averages 26.7 metres a match to van Heerden’s 10.1 — 2.6 times as many.
• Willis averages 1.3 points a match to van Heerden’s 0.5 — 2.7 times as many.
• Best single match: Willis 2 tries, van Heerden 1.
• Winners’ edge: Willis’s teams won 68%, van Heerden’s teams won 55% 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.