Simmonds v Spring

Max Spring takes it, 5–2 on categories

Spring wins on tries — the try scorer of the two. Simmonds’s case rests on tackles, but it isn’t enough to swing it. Top 14 career: Simmonds 61 matches, Spring 98 matches.

• Spring has 22 tries (one every 4.5 matches) to Simmonds’ 6 tries (one every 9.1 matches).
• Spring averages 61.6 metres a match to Simmonds’ 21.9 — 2.8 times as many.
• Simmonds averages 5.5 tackles a match to Spring’s 1.7 — 3.2 times as many.
• Best single match: Spring 3 tries, Simmonds 1.
• Winners’ edge: Simmonds’s team won 56%, Spring’s team won 48% of the matches they played.
• Longevity: Spring has 98 matches across 6 seasons, Simmonds 61 in 4 — the averages matter more than the totals here.
• 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.