Hamdaoui v Desperes

Too close to call — 3–3 on categories

Hamdaoui wins on tries — the try scorer of the two. Desperes’s case rests on points. Top 14 career: Hamdaoui 93 matches, Desperes 69 matches.

• Hamdaoui has 15 tries (one every 5.3 matches) to Desperes’ 7 tries (one every 10 matches).
• Desperes averages 4.0 points a match to Hamdaoui’s 1.0 — 4.3 times as many.
• Desperes averages 2.9 tackles a match to Hamdaoui’s 1.4 — 2.1 times as many.
• Winners’ edge: Desperes’s team won 57%, Hamdaoui’s teams won 49% 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.