Paulos v Tameifuna

Ben Tameifuna takes it, 6–1 on categories

Tameifuna wins on tries — the try scorer of the two. Paulos’s case rests on tackles, but it isn’t enough to swing it. Top 14 career: Paulos 90 matches, Tameifuna 107 matches.

• Paulos averages 6.6 tackles a match to Tameifuna’s 3.5 (88% more).
• Tameifuna has 10 tries (one every 11.1 matches) to Paulos’ 7 tries (one every 12.5 matches).
• Tameifuna averages 0.9 defenders beaten a match to Paulos’ 0.3 — 3.1 times as many.
• Winners’ edge: Tameifuna’s teams won 63%, Paulos’s teams won 42% 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.