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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
Yankees East 25 12 37 - - 87 99 108 108 108 108 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 19 19 38 - - 81 93 103 103 103 103 MW
Athletics West 18 18 36 - - 82 94 107 107 107 107 MW
Rays East 24 12 36 ½ - 88 99 108 108 108 108 MW
Mariners West 18 20 38 1 - 80 92 105 105 105 105 MW
Tigers CentralCntr 18 20 38 1 - 79 92 102 102 102 102 MW
 
Rangers West 17 19 36 1 - 80 93 106 106 106 106 MW
Orioles East 17 20 37 8 ½ 79 91 100 100 100 100 MW
Royals CentralCntr 17 20 37 ½ 79 92 102 102 102 102 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 17 20 37 ½ 79 92 102 102 102 102 MW
Twins CentralCntr 16 21 37 78 91 101 101 101 101 MW
Blue Jays East 16 21 37 9 78 90 99 99 99 99 MW
Red Sox East 16 21 37 9 79 90 99 99 99 99 MW
Angels West 15 23 38 4 3 77 89 102 102 102 102 MW
Astros West 15 23 38 4 3 76 89 102 102 102 102 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