Tiberghien v Desperes

Too close to call — 4–3 on categories

Tiberghien wins on tries — the try scorer of the two. Desperes’s case rests on points. Top 14 career: Tiberghien 101 matches, Desperes 69 matches.

• Tiberghien has 19 tries (one every 5.3 matches) to Desperes’ 7 tries (one every 10 matches).
• Desperes averages 4.0 points a match to Tiberghien’s 1.1 — 3.7 times as many.
• Tiberghien averages 44.9 metres a match to Desperes’ 22.6 — 2 times as many.
• Longevity: Tiberghien has 101 matches across 6 seasons, Desperes 69 in 5 — 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.