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American League Winning Magic Numbers

How close is your team to clinching a certain playoff spot? A Winning Magic Number is the number of games a team must win to guarantee winning a given playoff spot. Note that this definition is slightly different than the one traditionally used with MLB. Click a team name to proceed to the team playoff picture page.

American League Winning 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 61 41 102 - - 58 54 54 53 50 48 0
Orioles East 61 41 102 - - 59 58 58 53 50 48 0
Astros West 53 49 102 - - DNCD DNCD 58 58 58 56 0
Yankees East 60 44 104 2 - 58 58 58 54 51 49 0
Twins CentralCntr 56 45 101 - DNCD 59 59 58 55 53 0
Royals CentralCntr 56 47 103 - DNCD 59 59 58 55 53 0
 
Red Sox East 54 47 101 1 DNCD 61 61 59 57 54 0
Mariners West 53 51 104 1 DNCD DNCD 58 58 58 56 0
Rays East 52 51 103 4 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 56 0
Rangers West 51 52 103 5 DNCD DNCD 59 59 58 56 0
Tigers CentralCntr 51 53 104 11 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 56 0
Blue Jays East 46 56 102 15 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 0
Angels West 45 58 103 11 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 0
Athletics West 42 63 105 12½ 15 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 0
White Sox CentralCntr 27 78 105 35½ 30 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 0
  • Notes
  • ^ means the team will finish better than this spot
  • X means the team cannot win this spot
  • numeric numeric indicates the number of games that must be won to guarantee winning this spot
  • "DNCD" indicates the team Does Not Control its Destiny for this spot and thus, even after winning all remaining games, needs help from other teams to win
  • *  denotes first round bye in the playoffs
  • **  denotes first round home field advantage in the playoffs