Supercomputer 2.0 predicts Celtic to leave Rangers in their dust and Aberdeen to suffer the season from hell

Everyone loves a prediction, eh?

But it's not just pundits opining these days as the machines have views of their own. In the age of AI many followers of the Scottish Premiership will feel like saying aye right as BetVictor's shiny new Supercomputer predicts doom. And that will be the case of Aberdeen as their calculations reckon Barry Robson and his major revamp will fall flat and result in barely scraping into the top six. The Northern Lights are shining and despite guaranteed European group stage football it feels unlikely there will be a major slide who are looking up not down.

The formula isn't expecting Celtic – champions in 11 of the past 12 seasons – to come unstuck with their average lead standing at 10 points up until the split. Rangers are left trailing their wake with Hibs sitting in four. How Lee Johnson would love that after their, whisper it, embarrassing, 2-1 defeat to a side from Andorra in Europe. They have Hearts finishing fourth again and Motherwell repeating their heroics of last season under Stuart Kettlewell. Dundee are tipped to finish bottom pre-split with Ross County facing playoff deja vu with another 11th-placed finish. There are bottom-placed finishes for St Johnstone, Livingston, St Mirren and Kilmarnock.

The key predictions

And here is how Bet Victor's supercomputer works. He states: "The supercomputer adopts the Monte Carlo method, at its heart is a Python-based match simulator that uses two Poisson distributions – one for the home team and one for the away team – to anticipate the number of goals each team could score in a match.

"A Poisson distribution is a powerful mathematical concept that predicts the probability of a given number of events (in this case, goals) happening in a