Reading FC set for play-off finish by latest Supercomputer

The Royals finished 17th last season under Ruben Selles amid a backdrop of off-field upheaval.

Despite Dai Yongge still owning the club, optimism has returned to Berkshire with news of a potential buyout from American businessman Rob Couhig and a strong pre-season in which three Championship teams were beaten in warm-up friendly fixtures.

Bolton Wanderers are set to dominate League One this season to beat Birmingham City to the title and return to the Championship.

Ian Evatt’s side are predicted to win the division by seven points ahead of Birmingham who are expected to be the highest scorers as they finish second.

Wrexham meanwhile are tipped to secure a spot in the playoffs and promotion to keep their Hollywood-worthy script on track by moving up to the Championship.

At the other end of the table, Cambridge United, Shrewsbury, Charlton Athletic and Burton Albion are all forecast to tumble into League Two while Crawley Town secure survival by finishing two points ahead of the relegation zone.

This is despite Nathan Jones' Addicks turning around poor form last season to move toward mid-table and Crawley selling over half of their promotion-winning team.

The Best Plinko Casino SuperComputer is a probability model, not determined by human predictions or bias. What happens is the SuperComputer estimates the outcome of each fixture based on a team’s current strength (based on factors such as league position and form) and betting market odds.

1

Bolton

46

27

11

8

71

45

26

92

2

Birmingham City

46

26

7

13

77

55

22

85

3

Huddersfield

46

23

15

8

68

46

22

84

4

Peterborough Utd

46

21

14

11

63

50

13

77

5

Wrexham

46

22

10

14

59

50

9

76

6

Reading

46

20

12

14

57

53

4

72

7

Lincoln City

46

20

11

15

60

55

5

71

8

Barnsley

46

21

7

18

55

47

8

70

9

Wigan Athletic

46

19

11

16

66

58

8

68

10

Rotherham Utd

46

19

11

16

57

52

5

68

11

Stockport

46

20

7

19

63

52

11

67

12

Wycombe

46

20

7

19

67

61

6

67

13

Exeter City

46

18

13

15

64

59

5

67

14

Blackpool

46

18

10

18

52

54

-2

64

15

Leyton Orient

46

17

12

17

60

63

-3

63

16

Mansfield Town

46

14

15

17

62

66

-4

57

17

Stevenage

46

15

9

22

55

65

-10

54

18

Bristol Rovers

46

14

12

20

56

70

-14

54

19

Northampton

46

16

6

24

52

70

-18

54

20

Crawley Town

46

13

10

23

54

71

-17

49

21

Cambridge Utd

46

11

14

21

52

66

-14

47

22

Shrewsbury

46

8

18

20

50

68

-18

42

23

Charlton Ath

46

9

11

26

52

68

-16

38

24

Burton Albion

46

7

15

24

46

74

-28

36

 

The final table is the result of a prediction model simulating each game of the season and predicting the exact score it thinks every game will be.

A level of randomness is also added into the predictions to ensure that upsets happen rather than the best teams in the league winning every game.

The machine then simulates the remaining games in a season 1,000 times and constructs an average league table from the 1,000 simulations, to rule out anomalous results.