Taufa v Abadie

Esteban Abadie takes it, 5–2 on categories

Abadie wins on metres. Taufa’s case rests on tries, but it isn’t enough to swing it. Top 14 career: Taufa 33 matches, Abadie 102 matches.

• Taufa has 4 tries (one every 7.1 matches) to Abadie’s 7 tries (one every 14.3 matches).
• Abadie averages 14.1 metres a match to Taufa’s 2.2 — 6.4 times as many.
• Abadie averages 8.5 tackles a match to Taufa’s 3 — 2.8 times as many.
• Winners’ edge: Taufa’s team won 55%, Abadie’s teams won 46% of the matches they played.
• Longevity: Abadie has 102 matches across 6 seasons, Taufa 33 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.