Mercer v Willis

Too close to call — 4–3 on categories

Mercer wins on metres. Willis’s case rests on tries. Top 14 career: Mercer 72 matches, Willis 67 matches.

• Willis has 18 tries (one every 3.6 matches) to Mercer’s 7 tries (one every 10 matches).
• Mercer averages 59.4 metres a match to Willis’ 28.2 — 2.1 times as many.
• Willis averages 1.4 points a match to Mercer’s 0.5 — 2.7 times as many.
• Best single match: Willis 2 tries, Mercer 1.
• Winners’ edge: Willis’s team won 76%, Mercer’s teams won 54% 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.