The Irish Premiership gets underway again next Saturday and the debates are raging as to who will come out on top this season
It’s that time of the year when pundits are making their predictions as to who will come out on top of the pile this season.
Coleraine are the team many are plucking for to wrestle the Irish Premiership crown off Linfield given their recruitment following Henry Ross’ hefty investment at The Showgrounds.
It’s 51 years since the Bannsiders lifted their one and only top flight title to date, but according to Pundit Arena they will be waiting a while longer with another club predicted to come out on top and end their own title drought.
Combining the likes of ChatGPT, Gemini and Bing AI, a prediction was formulated by the supercomputer to predict the final league table standings for the 2025/26 Irish Premiership season.
Pundit Arena provided the supercomputer with a list of all 12 teams in the league and adding how many summer signings each team have made and how many players they have lost so far.
They also asked the supercomputer to predict the full league table including points, goal difference, matches won, matches lost, matches drawn and how many overall games they played.
To make the supercomputer prediction as accurate as possible, they also provided it with extensive information about each club in the Irish Premiership, including their recent form and how they performed last season, who their manager is, their financial position and the general feeling from fans about the upcoming season.
Based on all of these factors, the supercomputer predicted that Glentoran will win their first Gibson Cup since 2009, whilst Carrick Rangers will be the team relegated from the Irish Premiership come the end of the season.
The supercomputer also predicted that Coleraine will come close to the title, finishing as runners-up ahead of defending champions Linfield.
Whether AI’s prediction comes anywhere close to be true remains to be seen however.
Certainly the bookmakers have the reigning champions Linfield as their title favourites heading into the new campaign, which gets underway next Saturday, August 9.
One thing is for sure however, there’s certain to be plenty of twists and turns along the way.
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