Bloomberg Sports Unveils Predicted 2013-14 English Premier League Table

With the new English Premier League season drawing closer, Bloomberg Sports have leapt ahead of the competition to deliver a full-scale prediction on how the table will end up after 38 games.

With so many unknowns coming into the new campaign, punters are asking themselves the usual questions: who will win the title, who'll get relegated and who will make the top four?

Bloomberg's unique metric delivers statistical probability on these questions and more, using in-depth analysis and summer transactions to gauge all 20 teams effectively:

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BSports utilised its unparalleled data analytics technology to create its own European football projections, aimed at calculating the percentage probabilities for each team’s league finish in the top five European leagues.

The projections are based on analysing multiple data points associated with previous years of performance for each club, supplemented by Bloomberg algorithms that incorporate the additional value that a club gained from the transfer window.

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The findings reveal detailed statistical probabilities, and Bloomberg have incorporated these into a small project aimed at beating the bookies.

For example, there's a 6.6 percent chance that all three promoted teams will get relegated, a 93.9 percent chance that at least one promoted team does get relegated and 36.4 will be the average number of points needed to avoid relegation.

All projects will be updated over the course of the season, while BSports have also launched a "Match Analysis" tool to help you predict the outcome of every game this year.

Here's the predicted Premier League table before a ball has even been kicked:

The predicted table suggests the Premier League title chase is a three horse race, with Chelsea just pipping Manchester United and Manchester City in May 2014.

Arsenal land in 4th, while Spurs beat out Liverpool in a close race for 5th.

From 8th to 16th there's very little in it, although there's very little chance Newcastle United will finish that high, or indeed above Swansea City.

They have all three promoted teams going down at the first time of asking—probably down to the feeling they haven't done enough in the transfer market so far—and Crystal Palace are bottom with an average of 32.1 points.

Barring Newcastle, there is nothing that appears massively out of sync, and in fact stands a pretty decent preliminary table to start the season on.

You can read in-depth detail on the methodology used to create the outcome here and more about Bloomberg Sports here, but in the mean time, what do you think of the table produced?

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