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Gosen OG Sheep Micro Super 16L vs Tourna Irradiated 16

Irradiated 16 leads on 5 of 6 measurements. The widest gap is ball bite, where Irradiated 16 is 8 percentile points ahead. Every figure is a testing-machine result at a fixed reference tension.

Measured, side by side

Gosen

OG Sheep Micro Super 16L

Nylon · 16L ga

Tourna

Irradiated 16

Nylon · 16 ga

Stiffness lower = softer, kinder on the arm
16431st pct
16329th pct
Tension loss lower = stays where you strung it
2123rd pct
2431st pct
Energy return higher = livelier, more free power
9381st pct
9384th pct
Spin potential higher = more spin off the string bed
2.76th pct
3.09th pct
Ball bite higher = grabs the ball harder
0.39822nd pct
0.41231st pct
String friction lower = strings slide and snap back
0.14592nd pct
0.13790th pct

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.

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 OG Sheep Micro Super 16L at 52 lb

String Irradiated 16 at 51.8 lb 23.5 kg

Coming from Irradiated 16 at 52 lb

String OG Sheep Micro Super 16L at 52.2 lb 23.7 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.

OG Sheep Micro Super 16L mains / Irradiated 16 crosses

Stiffness31st pct · 1 measured
Tension loss26th pct · 1 measured
Energy return82nd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential7th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite24th pct · 1 measured
String friction92nd pct · 1 measured

Irradiated 16 mains / OG Sheep Micro Super 16L crosses

Stiffness30th pct · 1 measured
Tension loss29th pct · 1 measured
Energy return82nd pct · 1 measured
Spin potential8th pct · 1 measured
Ball bite29th pct · 1 measured
String friction91st pct · 1 measured

Open this in the hybrid builder

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.

OG Sheep Micro Super 16L

~33 hours of play

Irradiated 16

~31 hours of play

Both strings in full

Every published measurement
StringGaugePriceStiff lb/inLoss %Power %SpinBite COFFriction COF
Gosen OG Sheep Micro Super 16L Nylon16Lfind16421932.70.3980.145
Tourna Irradiated 16 Nylon16find16324933.00.4120.137

Add a third string OG Sheep Micro Super 16L in full Irradiated 16 in full