Luton Town lost ground in the promotion race after being beaten at Reading at the weekend.placeholder image
Luton Town lost ground in the promotion race after being beaten at Reading at the weekend.

League One supercomputer gives latest promotion verdict as Luton Town, Barnsley, Stevenage and Bradford City drop points at the weekend

Luton lost ground on the play-off back after defeat to Reading at the weekend.

It leaves the Hatters five points adrift of sixth-placed Bolton ahead of the visit of Wycombe on Boxing Day,

The damage was limited after Bolton were beaten by Luton’s next opponents.

Huddersfield took advantage by closing the gap with victory at Rotherham.

Stockport beat Mansfield to pull further ahead while Leyton Orient kept their hopes going with victory.

So who is going down? Here a supercomputer – run by Compare.bet – has given this prediction for how the final table will look.

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Method

The model simulated the league season 100,000 times, taking into account all results from pre-season and the current campaign. It projects outcomes based on pre-season expectations, fixture difficulty, and underlying performance metrics such as xG for and against.

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