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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
Guardians CentralCntr 80 75 155 - - X MW MW X MW MW MW
White Sox CentralCntr 79 76 155 1 - X 7 7 X 7 MW MW
Tigers CentralCntr 73 82 155 7 6 X X X X X 1 MW
Twins CentralCntr 72 83 155 8 7 X X X X X 1 MW
Royals CentralCntr 67 88 155 13 12 X X X X X X MW
 
Rays East 94 60 154 - - MW X X MW ^ ^ ^
Yankees East 89 65 154 5 - 4 X X MW MW ^ ^
Red Sox East 84 71 155 10½ - X X X 2 MW MW MW
Blue Jays East 76 79 155 18½ 3 X X X X X 5 MW
Orioles East 75 80 155 19½ 4 X X X X X 4 MW
 
Rangers West 78 77 155 - - X 6 MW X MW MW MW
Astros West 77 78 155 1 2 X 5 7 X 7 7 MW
Mariners West 72 83 155 6 7 X X 2 X X 2 MW
Athletics West 61 94 155 17 18 X X X X X X MW
Angels West 60 95 155 18 19 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