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American League Losing Magic Numbers

How close is your team from being eliminated from winning a certain playoff spot? A Losing Magic Number is the number of games a team must lose to guarantee losing a given playoff spot. Click a team name to proceed to the team playoff picture page.

American League Losing Magic Numbers
Record Rcrd Games Behind Divisional Winners Wildcard No
Playoffs
No
POs
Team DivisionDiv W L GPi
Games Played
162 game season
DV WC 1*
First Round Bye
2*
First Round Bye
3**
First Round Home Field
Advantage
4**
First Round Home Field
Advantage
5 6 7
Tigers CentralCntr 59 38 97 - - 52 58 64 64 64 64 MW
Astros West 56 40 96 - - 50 56 61 61 61 61 MW
Blue Jays East 55 41 96 - - 49 54 58 58 59 61 MW
Yankees East 53 43 96 2 - 47 52 56 56 57 59 MW
Red Sox East 53 45 98 3 - 45 50 54 54 55 57 MW
Mariners West 51 45 96 5 - 45 51 56 56 56 57 MW
 
Rays East 50 47 97 43 48 52 52 52 55 MW
Rangers West 48 49 97 41 47 52 52 52 53 MW
Twins CentralCntr 47 49 96 11½ 4 41 47 53 53 53 53 MW
Angels West 47 49 96 9 4 41 47 52 52 52 53 MW
Royals CentralCntr 47 50 97 12 40 46 52 52 52 52 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 46 49 95 12 41 47 53 53 53 53 MW
Orioles East 43 52 95 11½ 38 43 47 47 48 50 MW
Athletics West 41 57 98 16 11 33 39 44 44 44 45 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 32 65 97 27 19½ 25 31 37 37 37 37 MW
  • Notes
  • ^ means the team will finish better than this spot
  • X means the team cannot win this spot
  • numeric indicates the number of games that must be lost to guarantee losing this spot
  • "MW" indicates the team Might Win the spot despite losing all of its remaining games
  • *  denotes first round bye in the playoffs
  • **  denotes first round home field advantage in the playoffs