This seemed a far cry at the beginning of the season when the reigning RaboDirect PRO12 champions opened up their campaign with three straight defeats.
However the Ospreys have now lost just two of their last 17 RaboDirect PRO12 games.
Ospreys face difficult final games as they travel to Glasgow Warriors and Leinster, currently sitting third and second respectively, but Humphreys is adamant his side won't be giving up any time soon.
"If you'd asked us after the first three games of the season, would you be there or thereabouts fighting for the play-offs with a couple of games to go we'd have taken that," he said.
"We've got two really difficult games to go but we know what it takes to win in these places and we know it's going to take us playing at our very, very best to do that.
"Glasgow will be disappointed at the way they played last time, although the Scarlets played really well, so it's going to be a really tough game on Friday. If we get a win up there, all of a sudden we've dragged Glasgow back into it.
"The odds are stacked against us, going against a very strong team in Glasgow and a team who you could say will be out for revenge against us in Leinster. It's going to be extremely tough but that can bring the best out of us.
"If we get eight points from these games, we're there or thereabouts. If we don't make the play-offs, then we've still done extremely well, fighting hard in a season of adversity. We've had an unbelievable amount of injuries so to be thereabouts and win our last two games, and be in with a shout at the very end of the season, we can't do any more than that and we'd have taken that after three games.
"If we fall short it won't be for a lack of effort. These boys have got a lot of resolve and we're going to need it."
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