Head to head
Gamma Poly Z 16 vs Wilson Revolve Spin 16
Poly Z 16 leads on 4 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Revolve Spin 16 is 39 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.
Measured, side by side
Bars are percentile against all 791 strings, and the marked side is the one that measures better, which is not always the one you want. A firmer bed is worse for your elbow and better for your control, and no measurement knows which of those you came for.
Which one wins, by problem
Each string's standing on the site's rankings, out of every measured string in the database. This is where a comparison stops being arithmetic and starts being a decision.
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Poly Z 16276th
Revolve Spin 16308th
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Poly Z 16495th
Revolve Spin 16458th
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Poly Z 16300th
Revolve Spin 16342nd
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Poly Z 16681st
Revolve Spin 16699th
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Poly Z 16729th
Revolve Spin 16746th
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Poly Z 1674th
Revolve Spin 16242nd
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Poly Z 16670th
Revolve Spin 16680th
Swapping between them: what tension?
Bed stiffness is published at one reference tension, so the only honest conversion is to scale it. These are starting points from 52 lb, not prescriptions. The calculator takes your own tension.
Coming from Poly Z 16 at 52 lb
String Revolve Spin 16 at 54.1 lb 24.5 kg
Coming from Revolve Spin 16 at 52 lb
String Poly Z 16 at 50.0 lb 22.7 kg
Hybrid: what if you used both?
Estimated, not measured. No hybrid combination has been tested as a bed. These figures are the two strings' own lab measurements weighted by how much of the bed each one actually is. Treat them as a guide to which way a pairing moves, never as lab data.
Poly Z 16 mains / Revolve Spin 16 crosses
Revolve Spin 16 mains / Poly Z 16 crosses
Which goes dead first?
Estimated from tension loss, which is the only thing the database measures about ageing. This is when the bed stops playing the way you strung it, not when the string breaks.
Poly Z 16
~13 hours of play
Revolve Spin 16
~12 hours of play
Both strings in full
| String | Gauge | Price | Stiff lb/in | Loss % | Power % | Spin | Bite COF | Friction COF |
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| Gamma Poly Z 16 Polyester | 16 | find | 180 | 52 | 81 | 5.4 | 0.396 | 0.074 |
| Wilson Revolve Spin 16 Polyester | 16 | $13.95 | 173 | 55 | 36 | 5.0 | 0.457 | 0.092 |
Add a third string Poly Z 16 in full Revolve Spin 16 in full