A supercomputer is predicting a thrilling end to the League One season - with three teams finishing tied on the same number of points at the top.

As it stands, it appears to be a three horse race for the top two spots in the league, and the glory of automatic promotion.

Sheffield Wednesday are currently top on 84 points, followed by Plymouth on 83 points and Ipswich Town on 82. Crucially, the Owls have played a game more than both their rivals.

Fourth-placed Barnsley still have hopes of breaking into the top two, sitting on 78 points - and with a home clash with Town to come on Tuesday, April 25.

Now, analysts at FiveThirtyEight have updated their predictions for the third tier, using results and performances so far this season to simulate the remaining games.

And incredibly they are predicting that Town, Wednesday and Plymouth will all finish locked together on the same number of points, 94.

That means the League One title - and the automatic promotion spots - would be decided by goal difference.

And the boffins believe Town will win the league courtesy of a huge +53 goal difference. Their goal difference is currently a league-leading +47.

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After that, it's the Owls who are tipped to take second, also on goal difference (+43 to Plymouth's +30).

That would leave the Pilgrims as perhaps the unluckiest loser in EFL history, and plunged into the lottery of the play-offs against Barnsley (89 points), Bolton (80) and Peterborough (78).

Derby County, who at one point were the form team in League One, are tipped to miss out on the top six by two points. 

The simulation gives Town an 80% chance of being promoted and a 39% chance of winning League One - both the best marks in the third tier.

At the start of the season, FiveThirtyEight predicted Derby to win the league with Wednesday second and Town third.

They have form for getting things right, correctly predicting last season that Fulham and Bournemouth would be the top two in the Championship, and that Peterborough would be relegated.

Their complex formula, honed over years of analysis, is based on an SPI (soccer power index) rating, which also calculates the offensive and defensive qualities of every team.