The projected finish

By expected-goals difference By deserved points By rating Projected finish

Every fixture still to play (320 of them) is given the chances of a home win, a draw and an away win from the two teams' ratings now. The rest of the season is then played out 10,000 times at random with those chances and the final table counted each time. Projected points are the average; the range is the 10th to the 90th of the plays, so eight plays in ten finish inside it. The range covers the randomness of the matches still to play and the ratings' own error: in each of 100 draws of the ratings, every team's two ratings are moved by their own random factors with a spread of 0.24, the amount at which the range held eight final points in ten across the seasons 2019/20 to 2022/23 (how good are the forecasts). The range narrows as the season goes on.

TeamPts nowProjectedRangeLikely posPos rangeTitleTop 4EuropeRelegated
1Man City 1881.764–99 1st1st–6th 46%85%95%0%
2Arsenal 1578.163–93 1st1st–6th 30%83%94%0%
3Liverpool 963.947–80 3rd2nd–13th 5%42%67%1%
4Chelsea 1061.341–79 4th2nd–15th 5%35%63%6%
5Brighton 1360.444–77 4th2nd–14th 3%31%56%3%
6Man Utd 659.443–77 3rd2nd–14th 3%29%53%4%
7Brentford 1056.339–74 5th3rd–16th 3%21%45%6%
8Leeds 953.138–68 9th4th–16th 0%12%33%7%
9Newcastle 850.430–68 10th4th–19th 1%12%30%15%
10Aston Villa 550.032–67 10th5th–18th 1%10%27%13%
11Everton 1049.334–66 15th5th–18th 1%8%23%11%
12Bournemouth 349.231–66 7th5th–18th 0%8%27%14%
13Nottingham Forest 548.230–65 13th5th–18th 0%8%23%15%
14Crystal Palace 747.732–64 15th5th–18th 1%7%19%15%
15Fulham 243.629–59 16th7th–19th 0%3%11%21%
16Tottenham 343.128–58 17th8th–19th 0%2%9%22%
17Coventry 642.326–59 20th7th–20th 0%2%11%28%
18Ipswich 942.326–58 20th8th–20th 0%2%9%28%
19Sunderland 439.325–53 17th9th–20th 0%1%5%32%
20Hull 933.120–47 20th13th–20th 0%0%1%57%

Europe is the top seven, the league's usual number of places in the three European competitions before cup winners move them. Ties in a play are broken by goal difference and goals scored.

The chance of each position

One row per team, one cell per finishing position from first at the left to last at the right; the darker the cell, the likelier the position. Hover or tap for the figure.

Team1234567891011121314151617181920
Man City4622
Arsenal3028
Liverpool
Chelsea
Brighton
Man Utd
Brentford
Leeds
Newcastle
Aston Villa
Everton
Bournemouth
Nottingham Forest
Crystal Palace
Fulham
Tottenham
Coventry
Ipswich
Sunderland
Hull25

The projection is fitted on the seasons 2018/19 to 2025/26 and this season's matches so far: how often sides of such ratings won, drew and lost, with this league's scoring level and home advantage.