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Championship supercomputer predicts Leicester City to achieve MAMMOTH points tally

Leicester City's Jamie Vardy during the Sky Bet Championship match between Leicester City and Sunderland at The King Power Stadium on October 24, 2023 in Leicester, England. (Photo by Stephen White - CameraSport via Getty Images).

A Championship supercomputer has predicted the final standings in England's second tier, and Leicester City are expected to make an immediate return to the Premier League in style. 

Leicester City currently lead the way in the Championship with 39 points from a possible 42, a staggering return for any team, but especially impressive for one coming off a difficult campaign in the top tier. Fellow relegated-rival Leeds United are their next opponents on Friday 3 November, with Enzo Maresca's side looking to stamp their authority on the division with yet another win.

The data cruncher, provided by BonusCodeBets, has predicted the final standings by simulating the entire Championship season 1,000 times. An average points tally is then collated, giving the predicted final table. 

Marseca has impressed while in charge at Leicester (Image credit: Getty Images)

That final table, inevitably, has Leicester City comfortably at the top. Not only are the Foxes expected to win the league at a canter, they're also expected to shatter the current points record of 106, held by the 2005/06 Reading team, by accumulating 112 points. That tally would be a record for a side in the second tier, since its inception 131 years ago. 

With just one loss on their record already, Leicester are only expected to lose one more game between now and the end of the campaign, too. 

Sunderland are predicted to join Leicester in achieving automatic promotion, leaving Hull City, Ipswich Town, Leeds United and Coventry City to battle it out in the play-offs. Coventry are currently 20th in the table, but the supercomputer believes Mark Robins will turn things around between now and the end of the season.

Sheffield Wednesday, QPR and Rotherham United, meanwhile, are all backed for the drop, with the Championship's current bottom three expected to be relegated to League One.

Sheffield Wednesday are expected to drop straight back down (Image credit: Getty Images)

Final Championship 2023/24 table 

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