We're into the second international break of the Premier League season, with seven games already played - so let's take a look at the latest supercomputer projections...
Let's start with some good news. According to the boffins at Opta, the Blues are overperforming so far this term.
Town, of course, have four points from seven games and sit 17th, one point and one place above the dreaded drop zone.
That's impressed the data crunchers at Opta, who have created an expected table based on xG (expected goals) - they've used that to predict the outcome of matches over 10,000 simulations and thus compile the table.
That projection says Town should be bottom of the table, but they are doing significantly better than that.
Other overachievers thus far include Leicester (19th expected, 15th actual), Arsenal (8th expected, 3rd actual), Brighton (9th expected, 6th actual), Newcastle (11th expected, 7th actual) and Brentford (14th expected, 11th actual).
In terms of those underperforming, one big name stands out. Manchester United should be tenth, but are actually 14th. Spurs (4th expected, 9th actual) are also in the same boat.
So, long may Town keep doing better than anticipated!
Ok, onto the not so good news.
Town have always been among the favourites to go down, and that remains the case.
In a projected final table compiled by Oddschecker, based on odds and the latest betting, Town finish in 18th spot, the final relegation place.
That projection has Southampton bottom, with Leicester 19th and Wolves just avoiding relegation.
Arsenal are tipped to take the title ahead of Manchester City in their table.
Interestingly though, there are some punters out there who have been impressed with the Blues as a potential dark horse - 10.9% of bets placed on Town are for them to finish in the top half of the table.
Indeed, only 6% of total relegation bets placed through Oddschecker have backed Ipswich to go down since the Premier League season started. That makes them just sixth on the list of most popular relegation bets.
One supercomputer, fired up by Grovesnor Sport, goes further than the rest by predicting the number of wins, draws and defeats for each team, along with goal differences and final points total.
That has Town finishing 19th, with five wins, seven draws and 26 defeats from their 38 games.
That would leave the Blues with 22 points and a predicted goal difference of minus 42.
They'd finish seven points clear of rock bottom Southampton in this scenario and five behind Wolves, who are the other side relegated. Leicester City survive by the skin of their teeth.
In the projection, Manchester United finish all the way down in ninth spot, which would be their worst-ever Premier League season.
The full predicted final table is:
- Arsenal - 94 pts
- Man City - 93
- Liverpool - 87
- Chelsea - 74
- Newcastle - 70
- Spurs - 64
- Aston Villa - 56
- Brentford - 55
- Man Utd - 55
- Fulham - 54
- Bournemouth - 54
- Brighton - 48
- Nottingham Forest - 48
- West Ham - 47
- Everton - 37
- Crystal Palace - 33
- Leicester 27
- Wolves - 27 (relegated on fewer wins than Leicester, same GD)
- Ipswich - 22
- Southampton - 15
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