Teen sensation Noah Caluori creates Gallagher PREM ratings history

England training squad member Noah Caluori has become the youngest player and first outside back to be given a 10 out of 10 performance rating in the Gallagher PREM.

The 19-year-old Saracens winger was given the perfect score by the league’s match data supplier, Oval Insights, after scoring five tries and making nine clean breaks in his first Premiership start in Sunday’s 65-14 win over Sale Sharks.

Oval Insights started their ‘value added’ rating system in the 2020/21 season, where players are marked up or down for every involvement in specific areas of play.

Caluori’s ‘perfect 10’ should not be underestimated. In the history of these data-driven match ratings, this is just the fifth such performance in the PREM, and the first since December 2022.

Previous recipients include Ben Earl, and fellow England internationals Alex Dombrandt and Jack van Poortvliet, as well as Gloucester prop Val Rapava-Ruskin.

To put it into context, Oval Insights boffins tell us that less than 0.1% of the performances rated in the last five seasons have been scored 10/10.

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Noah Caluori

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Ben Earl

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Tom Willis

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Caluori is one of only four players to have scored four tries or more in a Premiership match.

Another Saracens winger, Ryan Constable, set the record of six when he got a double hat-trick in a big win over Bedford in April 2000. And that was equalled 16 years later by Christian Wade as Wasps cut Worcester apart to win 54-35 at Sixways.

Cross-coder Lesley Vainikolo announced his arrival in rugby union with a nap hand of tries for Gloucester against Leeds on debut in September 2007.