The points requirement for play offs and survival alters Season by season.
If you look at the 19/20 championship the point difference between 6th and 21st place was 21 points and relegation was 22.

I think you get the point I’m trying to make. If Derby get themselves into a final day shootout then in theory they won’t have struggled this under the circumstances and not written themselves off like a lot on here seem to be doing.

Derby motivate themselves by following the 2 league tables they put up on the walls (with and without the deductions and chasing a play off) and on the basis that the actual table and survival will take care of itself.
I hope City do the same to remind them of the scale of the task we really could have been in.