Plymouth Argyle fans may love new supercomputer table prediction | OneFootball

A positive prediction is being made for Plymouth Argyle for the rest of the 2025-26 season, following a dismal start to their return to League One.

Plymouth Argyle have endured a torrid start to the 2025-26 season but the Opta Supercomputer is predicting that things won't turn out so bad for them.

Following relegation from the Championship at the end of the 2024-25 season, Plymouth Argyle may have been expecting a gentler time of things in League One this season.

This hasn't been the case. A terrible start consisting of four consecutive defeats dropped them straight into the relegation places in their new division, and although they've had brief upswings since then, they've remained in the relegation places for much of the season so far.

But the prognosis for the rest of their season might not be as negative, and now the Opta Supercomputer has some good news for Argyle fans who are concerned that their club could be heading for a second successive relegation.

Opta Supercomputer predicts that Plymouth Argyle should avoid relegation

The Opta Supercomputer keeps close tabs on the performances of teams throughout the three divisions of the EFL all season, and its current prediction should bring some cheer to Plymouth Argyle fans ahead of Christmas.

The latest assessment of the supercomputer predicts that the Pilgrims will finish in 20th place in League One this season, narrowly avoiding the drop.

And fans looking for another reason to celebrate will take further encouragement from the fact that their bitterest rivals Exeter City are expected to be one of the four clubs that are relegated at the end of this season, alongside Burton Albion, Doncaster Rovers.

The supercomputer predicts that Plymouth will finish the season on 55 points, one ahead of Burton Albion. But Plymouth supporters should still tread carefully, since they're still given a 33.28% chance of being relegated come the end of this season.

Plymouth Argyle will be glad to say goodbye to 2025

This calendar year has been a dismal one for Plymouth Argyle. They were relegated in 23rd place in the Championship, with only Cardiff City below them, and were rocked early in the summer transfer window when head coach Miron Muslic left the club to take up the corresponding position with the fallen German giants Schalke 04, who are currently playing in the German second tier, the 2. Bundesliga.

Former Watford boss Tom Cleverley was brought into replace him, but Cleverley has endured a tough start to his period at Home Park. Argyle have had two runs of four successive defeats already this season, both of which dropped the Pilgrims into the League One relegation places, and there have already been calls for the former Manchester United player to be relieved of his duties with the club.

But that pressure has started to lift a little. Three wins from five games lifted them from the very foot of the table, and so tightly compressed is the middle of this table that Plymouth head into their last League game before the Christmas break just four points off a place in the top half of the table.

Wins against Wycombe Wanderers and Rotherham United lifted a little of the immediate pressure on Cleverley, and it's entirely possible that Plymouth could be out of the relegation places by the end of this calendar year.

But the congested nature of League One works both ways. Should the Pilgrims get above that dotted line, they'll need to stay there too. Things have been looking rather better of late than they were earlier this season for Plymouth Argyle, but the Pilgrims are far from out of the woods just yet.