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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 80 59 139 - - 22 MW MW MW MW MW MW
Blue Jays East 79 59 138 - - 22 23 23 MW MW MW MW
Astros West 76 62 138 - - 19 20 23 23 24 MW MW
Red Sox East 77 62 139 - 19 20 20 23 MW MW MW
Yankees East 76 61 137 - 19 20 21 24 MW MW MW
Mariners West 73 65 138 3 - 16 18 21 21 22 24 MW
 
Rangers West 72 67 139 14 16 19 19 20 22 MW
Royals CentralCntr 70 67 137 9 14 15 15 18 20 22 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 68 68 136 10½ 4 13 15 15 17 19 21 MW
Rays East 68 69 137 10½ 12 13 13 15 18 20 MW
Angels West 64 73 137 11½ 8 10 13 13 14 16 MW
Athletics West 64 75 139 12½ 6 8 10 10 12 14 MW
Twins CentralCntr 62 75 137 17 10½ 6 7 7 10 12 14 MW
Orioles East 62 76 138 17 11 5 6 6 9 11 13 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 50 88 138 29½ 23 X X X X X X 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