Welcome to The Athletic’s Premier League predictions challenge, where the real title race could not be tighter ahead of the final day.Each week since the season began in August, four of us — a guest subscriber on rotation, a six-year-old, an algorithm and me — have been predicting the Premier League results with varying degrees of success.And when I signed up to do this, I was rather hoping that by this stage I would be preparing my victory speech, thanking the subscribers and six-year-old Wilfred for taking part and declaring that, at least when it comes to predicting football matches, humans know better than computers.Well, the last part appears to be true. But some humans appear to know better than others. And sadly for me — I don’t want to say “embarrassingly”, but we’re all thinking it — I find myself languishing in third place while Wilfred and the subscribers thrash it out for the title.When I said the title race couldn’t be tighter, I wasn’t joking.Going into the final round of fixtures, Wilfred and subscribers are locked on 253 points — with Wilfred in first place on the basis of having predicted more correct scorelines.We’re awarding three points for a correct scoreline and one point for a correct result. We’re also awarding a bonus point for any “unique” correct prediction of a result, so last weekend, for example, the algorithm picked up four points for a 1-1 draw between Wolves and Fulham.Wilfred’s two bonus points last weekend — after predicting draws between Brentford and Crystal Palace on Saturday and Bournemouth and Manchester City on Tuesday — have taken him level with the subscribers.My faint hopes of forcing my way into a three-way showdown on the final day were raised by a bonus point for Aston Villa’s victory over Liverpool but then dashed by Sunday’s games. I got Chelsea 2-1 Tottenham spot-on on Tuesday, but the algorithm denied me a bonus point.In fact, the algorithm finally seems to have caught up with season-long trends in results and is now threatening to catch up with me. It has top-scored in each of the last two weeks, with 30 points to my 14, Wilfred’s 11 and the subscribers’ nine.Maybe it’s that time of the season: nerves afflicting the human players, particularly the title challengers, while the algorithm coldly updates, immune to whims and subjectivity.So, as we head into the final day, will our guest subscriber, roared on by a vast community of readers, finish the job? Or are most of you, as the comments section suggests, rooting for Wilfred by this stage?It falls to Neel, a 35-year-old Arsenal supporter from New Delhi, to try to finish the job for the subscribers.And that works quite nicely, given that it’s Crystal Palace vs Arsenal on Sunday — and that Wilfred is a Palace fan, albeit one sufficiently cynical, at the age of six, to have successfully predicted a 3-0 defeat for his team a couple of weeks ago.