"Supercomputer" predicts promotion via play-offs for Chesterfield
Chesterfield will get promoted through the play-offs next season, according to a new computerised prediction.
The Parimatch UK Online Sports Betting Site “Supercomputer” is a probability model not determined by human predictions or bias.
It has got Steve McClaren’s Rotherham United to go back up from League Two as champions along with Salford and relegated Port Vale.
Rotherham finally appointed a new Head Coach in Alex Bruce – son of veteran manager Steve Bruce – yesterday.
Chesterfield are projected to get 80 points next season – one more than last term – and to be in the play-offs with Barnet, Swindon and relegated Exeter before getting the job done at Wembley.
The computer has Accrington Stanley down to finish bottom and, bravely, has resurgent Bristol Rovers and promoted York City down for mid-table finishers.
Here is the final projected league table published by the Parimatch UK Online Sports Betting Site.
- Rotherham United 86pts
- Salford 84pts
- Port Vale 80pts
- Chesterfield 80pts
- Exeter City 78pts
- Barnet 76pts
- Swindon Town 74pts
- Northampton Town 69pts
- Grimsby Town 68pts
- Oldham Athletic 66pts
- Fleetwood Town 64pts
- Crewe Alexandra 62pts
- Walsall 61pts
- Bristol Rovers 59pts
- York City 57pts
- Colchester United 55pts
- Gillingham 53pts
- Cheltenham Town 52pts
- Shrewsbury Town 49pts
- Rochdale 47pts
- Tranmere Rovers 45pts
- Newport County 41pts
- Crawley Town 38pts
- Accrington Stanley 33pt
The supercomputer estimates the outcome of each fixture in a season based on the strength of the teams involved calculated on a number of factors including player quality, manager quality, historical trends, form during the 2025/26 season, betting market fluctuations and other variables.
Its operators say 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.
The supercomputer then simulates every possible match in a season 10,000 times and constructs an average league table from the 10,000 simulations.