A supercomputer powered by Bettingexpert, BETSiE, has predicted how the 2023/24 Scottish Premiership will pan out.
The supercomputer simulated Scotland's top flight season 100,000 times. The supercomputer takes into account all match results from last season (across all competitions) the pre-season results, and the current season as it progresses, projecting the season based on both pre-season expectations and xG earned both for and against during the season.
As per BETSiE's projections, Celtic are projected to win the league with an estimated total of 81.1 points with Rangers finishing second with an estimated total of 77 points.
Celtic and Rangers are tipped to be tight title race which could go down to the final weeks of the season. Hearts, meanwhile, are projected to finish third with 53.1 points.
Aberdeen and Kilmarnock are tipped to finish 4th with 44.4 points and 5th on 42.3 points respectively.
Meanwhile, St Johnstone and Dundee FC have been doomed to relegation with Dundee FC tipped to finish bottom of the league.
Meanwhile, Callum McGregor spoke of Celtic being at a “crossroads” following their shock Viaplay Cup exit to Kilmarnock on Sunday.
The Hoops captain did not like what he witnessed from last season’s treble winners at Rugby Park, where Marley Watkins’ second-half goal sparked an unlikely post-mortem into Celtic’s last-16 demise.
McGregor said: “We didn’t have enough quality. I think that was evident to see. We started hitting long passes, which is not us. I don’t mean good passes in terms of trying to play in behind, it was just sort of launching the ball and hoping for the best.
“That’s disappointing, that we don’t stick to the principles that we know work for us.
“It’s a massive reminder that in cup football if you don’t turn up on the day you have absolutely no right to think that you can just come and win games of football.
“Probably because our cup record has been so good that is what everyone thinks, that you just roll up and it happens. It never happens like that.
“Firstly we have to look internally, us as players. Did we do enough? The answer is no. We have to learn from it and make sure it doesn’t snowball into two results, three results, four results.
“We have to find the answers quickly and find a way to settle this new group of players. I think that is maybe what you get with a new group which is just at its infancy.
“I probably remember back to two years ago at this point, or slightly later, into September, when we lost at Livingston and it was much the same.
“Now we are at a crossroads in this group as well. We have lost a lot of key players, a lot of big players for us, so we have to find a new team.
“We have to find a settled team and then go back to the principles that make us a good team.
“You will get bad results and it’s how you handle that, how you stand up and be counted in the coming days and weeks.
“Again, it’s just reinforcing the work we are doing on the training ground. Trying to settle everybody as quickly as we can, settle into the pattern and the rhythm that we want to play.
“It’s just repetition in training and trying to find that balance really, really quickly.
“With this result we all have to realise that we have to go pretty quickly. It was similar at this point two years ago when we put ourselves under pressure.
“Now you have to react, you have to find something within yourself and within the team and within the group that sparks us into life. Because that’s what we need to do now.”
