Are Preston North End a sleeping giant? Probably not. But they do have history. Their survival chances in the top half of the Football League look significantly under threat this season. After scraping a point away at Hull on Saturday, they play Brentford at Deepdale in this midweek round of fixtures. The Model doesn’t respect history, and forecasts a 1-1 draw.
West Brom may have slipped up and gone goalless at the weekend, but they remain the most prolific team in the division by some margin. The Model’s forecast for their game against Derby county reflects this, predicting a comfortable 4-0 victory for the Baggies.
The rest of our Championship forecasts are in the the table below:
- The Forecast scoreline, with the % chance of that happening
- The % chance of a win by the Home team, P(H), or Away team, P(A) (with one hundred minus those two numbers giving the % chance of a draw
| Forecast | Win (%) | ||||
| Score | Pr (%) | P(H) | P(A) | ||
| Birmingham | Reading | 1-0 | 18 | 47 | 26 |
| Middlesbrough | Rotherham | 1-0 | 24 | 61 | 16 |
| Millwall | Wigan | 1-0 | 20 | 40 | 31 |
| Norwich | Aston Villa | 1-0 | 7 | 43 | 29 |
| QPR | Sheffield Wed | 0-0 | 18 | 37 | 34 |
| Sheff Utd | Stoke | 1-0 | 14 | 43 | 29 |
| Swansea | Blackburn | 1-0 | 25 | 42 | 29 |
| Bolton | Notts Forest | 0-1 | 18 | 30 | 41 |
| Bristol City | Hull | 1-0 | 22 | 52 | 22 |
| Leeds | Ipswich | 1-0 | 23 | 58 | 18 |
| Preston | Brentford | 1-1 | 12 | 37 | 34 |
| West Brom | Derby | 4-0 | 12 | 45 | 27 |