The first pre-season supercomputer prediction for League One is in....and it's not looking great for Peterborough United
A pre-season League One supercomputer prediction doesn’t make great reading for Peterborough United.
Posh are tipped to finish one spot above the relegation places in 20th according to the Parimatch UK Online Sports Betting Site. Posh have finished in 18th place in each of the last two seasons.
Unsurprisingly Leicester City are tipped to win the title with Sheffield Wednesday finishing as runners-up. Last season’s play-off final losers Stockport County are predicted to win the play-offs this time around, after seeing off Luton, Bradford City and, surprisingly, newly-promoted MK Dons.
Posh are predicted to get 46 points (11 wins, 13 draws, 22 defeats) which would have been a relegation number last season.
Predicted table from Parimatch: 1 Leicester, 2 Sheffield Wednesday, 3 Stockport, 4 Luton, 5 Bradford City, 6 MK Dons, 7 Plymouth, 8 Oxford, 9 Doncaster, 10 Huddersfield, 11 Reading, 12 Stevenage, 13 Barnsley, 14 Wigan, 15 Blackpool, 16 Notts County, 17 Mansfield, 18 Wycombe, 19 Orient, 20 Posh, 21 Cambridge, 22 Burton, 23 Wimbledon, 24 Bromley.
This particular supercomputer is a probability model, not determined by human predictions or bias. It estimates the outcome of each fixture in a season based on the strength of the teams involved based on a number of factors including player quality, manager quality, historical trends, their form during the 2025/26 season, betting market fluctuations and other variables.
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 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.
The supercomputer then simulates every possible game in a season 10,000 times and constructs an average league table from the 10,000 simulations.
The final table is the result of these simulations then being compiled into what the supercomputer forecast at present given all the information that is available to it, but there is a range of possibilities within these predictions.