Saturday 21 March 2020

2019/20 Final Table

With the English football season suspended it may be some time until the baubles for the 2019-20 season are handed out but as the discussions continue about how the season will end (the FA sadly rejected my suggestion of doing it alphabetically and just giving the title to Arsenal) but the Euro Club Index football rankings have stepped in and may have decided things with a scientific prediction of English teams final positions based on the statistics from the season so far.
Using calculations based on 100,000 simulations of the remaining fixtures of the season, the model has Liverpool, as expected, 100% certain to be crowned champions with Manchester City runners up and then comes Leicester, Chelsea and as Manchester City are banned from European Football next season, Manchester United take the additional UEFA Champions League place by finishing 5th.
In 6th and 7th place and qualifying for the UEFA Cup are Wolves and Tottenham and Arsenal finishing 8th just miss out on European football as do Sheffield United finishing 9th.
Regarding relegation, the models are not kind to Norwich, Aston Villa and Bournemouth who will be playing in the Championship next season but replacing them, the promoted teams coming the other way will be Leeds, West Bromwich and they will be joined lining up against the big guns by Fulham who will qualify through the play off.

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