The Permutations Guide

A rundown of how the final two matchweeks could play out

There’s quite a big game happening in League Two on Thursday night, in case you hadn’t noticed. After conceding that bruising last-minute goal on Tuesday against Grimsby, United fans will have their eyes peeled on a game that has huge consequences for us, live on Sky: Salford, now our closest challenger for automatics, against Bromley, already promoted but chasing the league title.

With 2 games left, and 4 teams still in with a shout (Swindon fans would probably say only 3, but you never know), I thought it was worth running through some potential permutations so when you’re watching on Thursday night you can have a few different potential scenarios in your head based on the outcome.

With 4 teams each playing 2 games, and obviously 3 results possible in each game, the number of potential permutations is eye-watering, so I’ve just limited it to some of the more realistic/interesting ones. A lot of this has been done with the help of our AI overlords, so if there’s any errors definitely blame them not me.

For the sake of argument, when a team wins/loses I’m just adding/removing one goal to their goal difference. We’re all quite disparate anyway so unless there are huge swings it shouldn’t come into play to be significant.