Relegation-threatened Everton are in pole position to secure Premier League safety this season, but there is still work for Sean Dyche and his players to do to uphold their top-flight status.
With two matches remaining, the Blues are sitting in 17th position on 32 points and have their destiny in their own hands. Leeds United (31 points) and Leicester City (30 points) are directly behind them and pushing while rock-bottom Southampton have already been relegated.
Everton will be doing everything they can to avoid joining them in the Championship next campaign as they prepare to take on Wolves and Bournemouth in their final matches. Nottingham Forest (34 points) have some breathing space, but are still not safe yet with four teams battling to hold on to two Premier League positions.
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According to the renowned FiveThirtyEight supercomputer, Everton are 26 per cent likely to be relegated as data from the same website tips them to finish on 35 points. That is three more than their current tally, which would be enough to clinch a 17th-place finish in the end.
In the predicted standings, Leeds (33 points) and Leicester (32 points) would drop into the Championship.
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Respectively, they are viewed as 64 per cent and 86 per cent shots to finish in the bottom three while Forest (36 points) are only expected to end up marginally above Everton - despite their current two-point advantage on Dyche and his players. Everton are now 74 per cent likely to survive.
How does the supercomputer work?
FiveThirtyEight uses SPI ratings - which have an attacking and defensive component - in order to determine which team is going to win any specific game. This is all built up to see how many points clubs will earn over the course of an entire Premier League campaign.
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