Desperes v Jaminet

Melvyn Jaminet takes it, 5–2 on categories

Jaminet wins on tries — the try scorer of the two. Desperes’s case rests on tackles, but it isn’t enough to swing it. Top 14 career: Desperes 69 matches, Jaminet 73 matches.

• Jaminet has 19 tries (one every 3.8 matches) to Desperes’ 7 tries (one every 10 matches).
• Jaminet averages 67.1 metres a match to Desperes’ 22.6 — 3 times as many.
• Desperes averages 2.9 tackles a match to Jaminet’s 1.3 — 2.3 times as many.
• Best single match: Jaminet 3 tries, Desperes 2.
• Winners’ edge: Desperes’s team won 57%, Jaminet’s teams won 47% 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.