Stunning predicted Premier League table forecasts shocks for Aston Villa, Liverpool, Brighton and Tottenham

Now that all 20 teams have been informed of their schedules for the upcoming campaign and clubs are beginning to make moves in the transfer market, fans can get well and truly excited for what’s in store.

Supporters in the West Midlands will be particularly keen to get the new season started as Aston Villa will be playing in the Champions League and Wolverhampton Wanderers are expected to march on under Gary O’Neil.

It’s set to be an ultra competitive campaign as Arsenal and Liverpool aim to close the gap to title winners Manchester City and the likes of Manchester United, Chelsea and Newcastle United hope to regain Champions League status.

The teams promoted from the Championship are determined, too, with Leicester City, Ipswich Town and Southampton eager to re-establish themselves in the English top tier.

With so much up in the air, most of the transfer window to come and over a month remaining until the start of the season, it’s tricky to predict how things may go but data experts have been creating simulations nonetheless.

The supercomputer used is a probability model, not determined by human predictions or bias. What happens is the supercomputer estimates the outcome of each remaining fixture based on a team’s current strength (based on factors such as league position and form). 

The machine then simulates the remaining games in a season 1,000 times and constructs an average league table from the 1,000 simulations, to rule out anomalous results. 

With that in mind, here’s where Aston Villa and the other 19 Premier League clubs are expected to finish, as well as their predicted points totals.