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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 36 95 - - 54 61 67 67 67 67 MW
Astros West 55 39 94 - - 51 58 63 63 63 63 MW
Blue Jays East 55 39 94 - - 51 56 60 60 61 64 MW
Yankees East 53 41 94 2 - 49 54 58 58 59 61 MW
Red Sox East 51 45 96 5 - 45 50 54 54 55 58 MW
Rays East 50 45 95 - 45 50 54 54 55 58 MW
 
Mariners West 49 45 94 6 ½ 45 52 57 57 57 58 MW
Rangers West 47 48 95 3 42 49 54 54 54 55 MW
Twins CentralCntr 46 48 94 12½ 42 49 55 55 55 55 MW
Angels West 46 48 94 9 42 49 54 54 54 54 MW
Royals CentralCntr 46 49 95 13 4 41 48 54 54 54 54 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 44 49 93 14 5 41 48 54 54 54 54 MW
Orioles East 43 50 93 11½ 6 40 45 49 49 50 53 MW
Athletics West 39 57 96 17 11½ 33 40 45 45 45 45 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 32 63 95 27 18 27 34 40 40 40 40 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