We almost certainly wouldn't need 74 or 75 points to make the play offs. In the last 6 seasons - since Covid, when the football league structure shifted - the team finishing 7th has received 70, 70, 70, 68, 70 and 66 points. Even in the 10 seasons before that, the mean average was only 71.8 points with one major outlier: 2015, when Wolves finished outside the play offs on 78 points.
Millwall currently occupy the final play off spot on 35 points (and a negative goal difference!). That's pretty much par for the course in the post Covid years and extrapolates to 73 points over the course of the season. However, in three of the past four seasons, the team finishing 6th had a worse points per game than the team in 6th at Christmas.
Long story short: if we can get to 72 points - taking 46 points from our last 24 matches - I'd be amazed if we didn't finish in the top 6. Our current 6- and 8-match form put us well on course to do that so really it's over to the players and coaching staff to keep the momentum. We've a far deeper squad than most of the sides between us and the very top of the division which helps too.