Updated Title Race:
Looking more like 79 will win it...shocking
Great shout back in January. Only one team can now get as many as 79 points.
Without checking, I'd have assumed that this was a total that we'd have achieved quite a few times while missing out on title. But no; gut instinct can be deceptive.
We ourselves won our last title with 79 points from 38 games in 89/90.
The following four seasons were all 42 game seasons, and we never reached 79 in any of those.
In the 20 completed seasons since the league went back to 38 games, we have only got as many as 79 points four times.
01/02: 80 points
05/06: 82 points
08/09: 86 points
13/14: 84 points
Shows what a massive task ahead for next season. ie even if next season was another one with a low(ish) points total for the champions, we'd not only have to improve by 20 odd points in comparison to this season, we'd also have to (as a minimum) achieve something that we have done less than 20% of the time in the last couple of decades.
And, of course, chances are that next season's winning total will be much higher than this one's.