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Aidan McCartney & George Smith

Final Championship table has been predicted and Leeds United fans will love it

The Championship season resumes on Saturday with Leeds United nine games away from a place in the Premier League.

It has been paused since mid-March due to the coronavirus outbreak but plans are now in place for a restart.

Saturday, June 20, has been outlined as the date football will return to the second tier with all remaining matches played behind closed doors.

FiveThirtyEight has now created to a data model to predict the rest of the season with Leeds United and West Bromwich Albion heading to the Premier League, according to the supercomputer.

Brentford, Fulham, Nottingham Forest and Millwall are all being tipped to make up the play-offs which look set to be played at the end of July.

While at the other end of the table, Charlton Athletic, Luton Town and Barnsley are all predicted to be relegated.

How it works:

Five Thirty Eight predict the outcome for the season using SPI ratings, which the website says are their best estimate of a team's overall strength. Each team is given an attacking rating that represents the number of goals it is expected to score against an average team, and a defensive rating to represent the amount of goals it would concede.

Those ratings produce an overall SPI rating, which represents the percentage of points it would be expected to take on average from a game. Those ratings are then compared to an opposition's rating to simulate the outcome of a match.

From that, it is possible to simulate the outcome of a whole season.

Predicted Championship table

1st: Leeds United

2nd: West Brom

3rd: Brentford

4th: Fulham

5th: Nottingham Forest

6th: Millwall

7th: Preston North End

8th: Cardiff City

9th: Bristol City

10th: Swansea City

11th: Blackburn Rovers

12th: QPR

13th: Derby County

14th: Reading

15th: Birmingham City

16th: Sheffield Wednesday

17th: Stoke City

18th: Huddersfield Town

19th: Wigan Athletic

20th: Middlesbrough

21st: Hull City

22nd: Charlton Athletic

23rd: Luton Town

24th: Barnsley

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