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Aidan McCartney

The Championship predicted to finish with good news for Leeds United and West Brom

Leeds United and West Bromwich Albion are heading to the Premier League with Fulham, Brentford, Preston North End and Swansea City reaching the play-offs.

That is according to the latest prediction from Five Thirty Eight - the brainchild of world famous statistician Nate Silver.

Silver was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world after correctly predicting the outcomes of the 2008 and 2012 US elections, but his background is actually in sports stats.

The 41-year-old rose to fame for developing a system for forecasting performances and career development of Major League Baseball stars before he launched the blog Five Thirty Eight in 2008, using it to correctly call the subsequent two US elections.

His website has now produced a Championship model and, after the latest round of games, they have predicted how the table will finish.

FiveThirtyEight's predicted Championship

(promotion chances as percentage)

Leeds United - 67 per cent

West Brom - 47 per cent

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Fulham - 37 per cent

Brentford - 28 per cent

Preston - 27 per cent

Swansea City - 15 per cent

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Nottingham Forest - 15 per cent

Cardiff - 11 per cent

Bristol City - 10 per cent

Sheffield Wednesday - 8 per cent

Hull City - 6 per cent

QPR - 5 per cent

Birmingham - 5 per cent

Millwall - 4 per cent

Derby County - 4 per cent

Blackburn - 2 per cent

Huddersfield - 2 per cent

Reading - 2 per cent

Charlton Athletic - 1 per cent

Stoke City - 1 per cent

Wigan - 0 per cent

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Jonathan Woodgate reacts during the Championship match between Huddersfield Town and Middlesbrough at John Smith's Stadium on October 23, 2019 (George Wood/Getty Images)

Middlesbrough - 0 per cent

Luton - 0 per cent

Barnsley - 0 per cent

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