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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
Rays East 36 21 57 - - 100 100 100 94 89 85 0
Guardians CentralCntr 34 27 61 - - DNCD 99 94 93 90 87 0
Mariners West 32 29 61 - - DNCD 101 97 96 92 89 0
Yankees East 36 23 59 1 - 100 100 100 94 89 85 0
White Sox CentralCntr 32 28 60 - DNCD 102 96 96 92 89 0
Rangers West 29 31 60 - DNCD 101 100 99 96 92 0
 
Blue Jays East 29 31 60 - DNCD DNCD DNCD 100 95 92 0
Athletics West 28 31 59 3 ½ DNCD DNCD 101 100 97 93 0
Orioles East 28 32 60 1 DNCD DNCD DNCD 102 97 93 0
Twins CentralCntr 28 33 61 6 DNCD DNCD 100 100 96 93 0
Astros West 27 34 61 5 DNCD DNCD DNCD 100 97 94 0
Red Sox East 25 33 58 11½ 3 DNCD DNCD DNCD 102 99 95 0
Royals CentralCntr 23 37 60 10½ 6 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 101 97 0
Angels West 23 38 61 9 DNCD DNCD 101 101 100 97 0
Tigers CentralCntr 23 38 61 11 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 99 96 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