Supercomputer predicts how League Two promotion race will unfold for Bradford City, Doncaster Rovers, Mansfield Town, Crewe Alexandra, Salford City and Leyton Orient
Bradford City and Doncaster Rovers have ambitions of being in the promotion mix come the end of the season.
After seven games, the Bantams are one point outside the top seven while Rovers are sixth and one point adrift of the automatic promotion places.
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The midweek action in the Championship, League One and League Two is set to be played on Tuesday and Wednesday. There has been no update from the governing bodies on what will happen regarding next weekend’s fixtures.
Ahead of the next round of games, data experts at FiveThirtyEight have predicted how the final League Two table will look.
Using their ratings for each team, they simulate seasons thousands of times to produce their prediction for each side’s final points tally and league position.
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Predicted League Two table
Team | Predicted Points |
Salford City | 87 |
Leyton Orient | 83 |
Mansfield Town | 77 |
Doncaster Rovers | 77 |
Northampton Town | 75 |
Stevenage | 69 |
Swindon Town | 69 |
Bradford City | 65 |
Sutton United | 64 |
Crewe Alexandra | 64 |
Barrow | 64 |
Tranmere Rovers | 64 |
Colchester United | 62 |
Grimsby Town | 62 |
Wimbledon | 59 |
Newport County | 59 |
Stockport County | 57 |
Gillingham | 55 |
Carlisle United | 54 |
Walsall | 53 |
Harrogate Town | 50 |
Crawley Town | 50 |
Rochdale | 49 |
Hartlepool United | 41 |