Desperes v Bouthier

Too close to call — 4–3 on categories

Bouthier wins on metres. Desperes’s case rests on points. Top 14 career: Desperes 69 matches, Bouthier 78 matches.

• Bouthier averages 58.6 metres a match to Desperes’ 22.6 — 2.6 times as many.
• Desperes averages 4.0 points a match to Bouthier’s 1.4 — 3 times as many.
• Bouthier has 11 tries (one every 6.7 matches) to Desperes’ 7 tries (one every 10 matches).
• Best single match: Desperes 2 tries, Bouthier 1.
• Winners’ edge: Desperes’s team won 57%, Bouthier’s teams won 45% 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.