I think clearly & undoubtedly GT are the best team of this season as well. You look at the team you can clearly tell it has all the odds of winning any match. Their 3 bowlers, Rashid, Noor & Shami easily finish their 12 overs with minimum runs and Max wickets. Even Little and Hardik bowl decently making even remaining ones out of headache. Coming to batting, you see one after the another in form and star batsmen coming out of the dugout, it starts with Gill, Hardik, Miller, Tewatia, (Never thought will name him but) Vijay Shankar as well. I think it's a proper team which is all set to win another trophy again.
I disagree. GT are performing well for sure, but they got really lucky in several matches throughout this season which helped them end up on the right side of the result. They are pretty inconsistent this season when compared to last season.
This is why I am pretty confident that they will qualify for the playoffs, but will not retain the trophy. RCB, CSK, LSG and MI have better chances.