A supercomputer has produced updated Championship 2023/24 predictions after the first 11 games of the season - here's where it thinks Ipswich Town will finish now.
Football statisticians at BetVictor built the predictive supercomputer and then used it to simulate the upcoming campaign before a ball was kicked.
It forecasted matches based on a complex formula and ran the simulation 10,000 times, leaving the stats wizards with the average final standings and a table of probabilities for each team in terms of finishing position.
They've now updated their calculations to take into account form up to this international break and transfer business, producing a new final table.
And Town, having originally been forecast to finish in fifth place at the start of the campaign, are now being tipped to claim second spot and go up automatically.
They are, of course, currently second in the table, behind only Leicester City, and have an eight point gap to third-placed Preston North End.
The computer believes that's how the top two will stay, with the Foxes running away with the league and plundering a massive 105 points.
Town are backed to claim 89 points, six clear of Leeds United in third.
The computer believes that Middlesbrough, Sunderland and Coventry will fill out the rest of the play-off spots, while Sheffield Wednesday, QPR and Rotherham - Town's foes on Friday - will be relegated.
Other things to note:
- The computer has Southampton, among the pre-season promotion favourites, finishing eighth. It's dropped their chances of promotion from an initial 24.6% to just 0.6%.
- The computer believes Birmingham City, currently in sixth spot, are overperforming - it has them finishing 17th, with just a 3.4% of making the play-offs. Tom Brady will be disappointed.
- Swansea are a team on the rise, with the computer doubling their play-off chances to 20%.
- Middlesbrough, despite sitting 16th now after a bad start, are backed to make the top six again. The computer gives them a 60% chance of making the play-offs.
You can see the full final table here...
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