This is according to statistics and remember, numbers never lie.
Most points won (66)
Now that the new high-points total of 66 points has been achieved (record applicable to the period since the PSL became a 16-team league in 2002) and safely tucked into the back pocket, Chiefs just need one more win from their remaining two games to rewrite the archives.
Within reach – most League wins in a season
Another victory will take Amakhosi to 21 wins and give them the crown of reaching the most wins in a single season since the PSL became a 30-game season 13 years ago.
Within reach – highest points percentage in a season
That extra win will also hand them the highest points percentage tally (at 76,67%) that has ever been achieved by any team since the first ball of the modern day PSL was kicked on Friday, August 9, 1996.
For now, the highest points percentage tally at the end of the season is 73.5% held by Mamelodi Sundowns and attained in 1998/99 and 1999/2000 when the Brazilians pocketed 75 of the 102 points that were available to play for when there were still 18 teams in the Premiership.
Chiefs can actually still stretch the most wins in a single season to 22 (record applicable to the period since the PSL became a 16-team league in 2002) if they win both their remaining games and that would push the highest points percentage ever reached in the domestic game to an incredible 80% - records normally associated with Spanish giants Barcelona and Real Madrid.
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If Chiefs win both their remaining games they will actually fall just three points short of equalling the all-time high of 75 points set by Sundowns in 1998/99 and 1999/2000 when there was still an extra four games played in the League with a lot more weaker teams competing.
However, if that amazing 80% points percentage is reached by winning 22 and drawing six, Stuart Baxter’s side will have dropped just 18 points from the 90 that were available to play for this season.
Within reach – highest percentage of wins in a season
Amakhosi are also on their way to setting a new percentage of wins record having already equalled the 66.67% high for a 16-team league reached by Sundowns last season when they won 20 out of 30.
The PSL all-time high stands at 67.65% which is shared by Manning Rangers (1996/97), Sundowns (1998/99 and 1999/00). In those three seasons both teams won 23 out of the 34 games that were played in each of those campaigns.
Within reach – fewest games lost in a League season
Chiefs have lost just twice to date and if they avoid defeat in the two remaining games then they will equal their own record set in the 2004/05 season when they failed to take points from just two fixtures.
Within reach – biggest winning points margin
Chiefs could also add another feather to their hat by winning the League with the highest points difference between the champions and the runners-up.
The highest points difference between first and second in the PSL era is 11 points realised by Sundowns in 1999/00 when they won the League with 75 points while that season’s runners-up Pirates could only manage 64. Back then there were 18 teams in the top-flight.
At present AmaKhosi are 18 points ahead of second-placed Orlando Pirates – who need binoculars to catch sight of them at the moment – and that gap can still stretch to a maximum of 24 or shrink down to at least nine depending on what happens in the remaining fixtures.
For a 16 team-league the Brazilians also wear the cap in this category – they were 10 points ahead of HP Silver Stars (now Platinum Stars) when they won the League in 2006/07.
Longest unbeaten League run (19)
Fastest to 50 points
Most clean sheets (18)
Chiefs have already taken home the longest unbeaten League run ever in a single PSL season which stretched to 19 games, became the fastest team to reach 50 points doing so after 21 games and kept the most clean sheets ever at 18 to date.
So why shouldn’t this be the best Chiefs ever when they have the numbers supporting them?
The only blemish is that they haven’t been convincing up front but you cannot hold that against them too much when they have also been very tight at the back.