It's quite the same for me, that year there were effectively 4 'races', the top 3, one for Europe involving 4th-8th, midtable from 9th to 16th and then a 4 team relegation battle and those groups were largely visible by game 17 with the only changes being that we dropped off, Man City had a ridiculous run of form and Chelsea pulled out of midtable into the European places.
This season is very different in the middle section. There's still a top 3 and the relegation battle is now a bottom 3 who all look doomed already but after that there's only 11 points between 4th and 17th and only 7 points if cast off Leeds and Forest at the bottom as a little sub group. In that way the league is more like 15/16 where you had a very congested midtable (this season is even worse than that one was).
However regardless of that I just don't think Arsenal in particular will go on the sort of run needed to get to 90points. Man City are flying (just like us) but defeats to us and Newcastle and sketchy wins against Leeds and Fulham make me think there's enough defensive frailty there to see them drop points unexpectedly. I think both will get 80-85 points and I think we can manage similar, especially if we can get the couple of reinforcements we really need.
