As each new English Premier League season commences, analytical models and bookmakers typically designate the newly promoted clubs—teams that have just transitioned up from the EFL Championship—as the primary favorites to suffer immediate relegation back down. Due to the massive financial and competitive gap between the second tier and the Premier League, squads lacking extensive top-flight experience or large squad depth struggle to accumulate the requisite thirty-eight to forty points needed for safety, making them perennial favorites on the drop-zone betting boards.