The fun of pre-season involves speculation over how the upcoming league table will finish and Mansfield Town are very much a side at the centre of plenty of debate.
After finishing tenth last season, fans and professionals alike have been discussing whether Stags can continue to move up the League One table and challenge for a place in the play-offs.
Some earlier Supercomputers predicted a low finish for Nigel Clough’s side and the latest odds suggest they have a 4/1 chance of being relegated. However, Opta’s simulations ahead of the weekend have placed Stags in a very favourable spot.
Opta simulated its Supercomputer 10,000 times and across those simulations, every single League Team won the title at least 12 times and finished bottom at least 26 times. Naturally, projections will change thousands of times throughout the season but based on what it knows at the moment, here’s how the Supercomputer has ordered the final 2026/27 League One table.
“It is worth remembering that these projections reflect only what the Opta supercomputer knows today,” Opta says. “In effect, if every game in League One was played today, this is how it sees the league finishing.”
