What is the magic number to win Scottish Premiership?

What is the magic number to win Scottish Premiership?Image source, SNSImage caption, Celtic manager Martin O'Neill, Rangers manager Derek McInnes and Hearts head coach Wouter Vrancken are preparing for the 2026-27 seasonByAndy CampbellBBC ScotlandPublished1 minute agoAchieving your highest points tally in history and not finishing top of the table.That's what happened last season in the Scottish Premiership.Hearts finished with 80 points, a club record. However, it was two points short of Celtic, who made it five Premiership titles in a row by beating the Jambos at Parkhead in the final round of games.Celtic's final tally of 82 points was some way short of Martin O'Neill's average between the summers of 2000 and 2005 during his first spell in Glasgow.Back then, he averaged 97.4 points per season and, on two occasions during that spell, finishing with more than 90 points was not enough to make Celtic champions as Alex McLeish's Rangers pipped them on goals scored in 2003 and by a single point in 2005.So, is there an optimum number for aspiring Premiership champions to aim for that will virtually guarantee success? Let's see what the numbers say...Shankland named captain as Rangers near Makhanya signingPublished3 hours agoMcGregor wants Celtic to win league 'in more style'Published7 hours agoAre there already worrying signs for Vrancken's Hearts?Published19 hours agoChampions tend to finish in 90sTwenty of the past 26 Scottish top-flight titles have been won by Celtic, the other six going the way of Rangers.In the 2000s (starting with season 2000-01, when the top flight moved from 10 to 12 teams and with a split after three rounds of fixtures), the average points tally for the champions has been 91.65.That includes the incomplete 2019-20 season, which was shortened because of Covid and decided on points average.There are four outliers. In season 2001-02 (O'Neill's second of his first spell) and 2016-17, champ...