Championship Season 25-26

[KentExile]

The Opta Supercomputer Strikes Back

https://theanalyst.com/articles/championship-predictions-opta-supercomputer-2025-26

 

 

Edited Monday at 14:51 by KentExile

[GHR]

1 hour ago, KentExile said:

The Opta Supercomputer Strikes Back

https://theanalyst.com/articles/championship-predictions-opta-supercomputer-2025-26

 

 

'Middlesborough' ffs

[philipl]

13 hours ago, GHR said:

'Middlesborough' ffs

Looks terrifically scientific until I noticed Sheffield Wednesday in 14th...

Rovers 10th with a marginally better probability of going up than going down.

[KentExile]

2 hours ago, philipl said:

Looks terrifically scientific until I noticed Sheffield Wednesday in 14th...

Rovers 10th with a marginally better probability of going up than going down.

Pretty sure It's mostly based on form, weighted by recency and division

"Supercomputer" is just another word for "Excel spreadsheet"

Edited Tuesday at 07:38 by KentExile

[Admiral Nelsen]

3 hours ago, KentExile said:

Pretty sure It's mostly based on form, weighted by recency and division

"Supercomputer" is just another word for "Excel spreadsheet"

 

Apparently it uses a mixture of match betting odds and Opta's 'Power Rankings', both of which themselves are basically products of historical results. 

So yeah, it's basically predicting this season by using last season's form. 

[philipl]

Sheff Utd flog Ahmedozdic for 15.6m to Feyernoord

[Admiral Nelsen]

30 minutes ago, philipl said:

Sheff Utd flog Ahmedozdic for 15.6m to Feyernoord

 

Some teams are going to be really hard to judge, even for Championship standards. Sheff U will be one given the loans they lost (plus Ahmedozdic) without spending much yet. Norwich could finish almost anywhere with their player turnover. 

[wilsdenrover]

6 hours ago, philipl said:

Sheff Utd flog Ahmedozdic for 15.6m to Feyernoord

Let’s hope Feyernoord renege on the instalments too.

Edited yesterday at 15:03 by wilsdenrover

[DeeCee]

Thank you to the poster who highlighted the Brum fly on the wall series, I didn't know about it 🙏

Just binge watched the first 3 episodes, very good. 👍

[philipl]

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y2g678k6xo

BBC Championship preview and prediction.

I will save you the effort, we are forecast to come 23rd sandwiched in relegation between Hull City and Sheffield Wednesday with PNE surviving in 21st.

 

[wilsdenrover]

13 minutes ago, philipl said:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y2g678k6xo

BBC Championship preview and prediction.

I will save you the effort, we are forecast to come 23rd sandwiched in relegation between Hull City and Sheffield Wednesday with PNE surviving in 21st.

 

Forecast by the same ‘experts’ who had Luton in their top two for last season.

 

 

[StHelensRover]

17 minutes ago, philipl said:

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/articles/c5y2g678k6xo

BBC Championship preview and prediction.

I will save you the effort, we are forecast to come 23rd sandwiched in relegation between Hull City and Sheffield Wednesday with PNE surviving in 21st.

 

"Expectations? An easier one to answer when the transfer window has closed. Rovers have lost more than 1,200 Championship appearances, combined with the summer departures, with arrivals totalling so far well under 150 appearances combined."

Worrying stat IMO

"Expectation is probably higher than this time last year when many feared relegation."
They might want to ask a Rovers fan about that

Edited 2 hours ago by StHelensRover

[superniko]

I actually have relatively high expectations for the season. Perhaps due to the last 5 or so games under VI where we seemed to get our act together a bit (we always do when the pressure is off!)

The signings are very much unknown, but if you throw enough shit then some will stick I guess. Have we adequately replaced Batth, Brittain, Dolan, Beck and to some extent Weimann? Time will tell. But we do appear to be targeting tall, athletic types, which we've sorely missed for years, hopefully an end to the rubber dinghy boys.

We appear strong in CM, but I expect Travis or Tronstad to leave still. If (and it's a big if), we can get Carter and Wharton up to speed then at CB we have 4 capable Championship players, more than enough for this division.

Where I'm 50/50 is Full Back. Will Miller slot in as good as Brittain, will we miss Beck on the left - Nobody can really answer this until we see a few games, but in reality I'd be happy enough if we were a club who reinvested funds (we don't). So the £3.5m for Brittain goes into the hole and we ask what the point of it all is.

Where I'm worried now is sticking the ball in the back of the net.

Kargbo, DeNeve, Cantwell, Hedges, Gueye, Ohashi and maybe Henriksson look to be our attacking threats - have we enough goals in this team?

 

Anyway, I can't believe the season has rolled around already.

I might be bucking the trend, but I'm hopefully for another play-off push, and I'd be disappointed with a bottom half finish in all honesty.

No reason at all we shouldn't be competing/surpassing the likes of Boro, Charlton, Derby, Hull, Millwall, Norwich, Oxford, Pompey, PNE, QPR, Wednesday, Stoke, Swansea, Watford, West Brom, Wrexham.

Ipswich, Saints, Leicester, Sheff Utd, Coventry look to be the teams to beat, and maybe Birmingham.