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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
Rays East 84 57 141 - - MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
White Sox CentralCntr 74 67 141 - - 11 21 21 21 21 MW MW
Astros West 73 69 142 - - 10 19 MW MW MW MW MW
Yankees East 80 61 141 4 - 18 18 18 MW MW MW MW
Red Sox East 77 65 142 - 14 14 14 18 MW MW MW
Guardians CentralCntr 72 70 142 - 8 18 18 18 18 19 MW
 
Blue Jays East 71 71 142 13½ 1 7 7 7 12 15 18 MW
Rangers West 70 72 142 3 2 7 16 18 18 18 18 MW
Orioles East 69 73 142 15½ 3 5 5 5 9 13 16 MW
Twins CentralCntr 67 74 141 7 5 14 14 14 14 14 MW
Mariners West 66 76 142 7 6 2 12 14 14 14 14 MW
Tigers CentralCntr 64 77 141 10 2 11 11 11 11 12 MW
Royals CentralCntr 63 79 142 11½ 9 X 9 9 9 9 9 MW
Athletics West 56 86 142 17 16 X 2 4 X X 4 MW
Angels West 53 88 141 19½ 18½ X X 2 X X 2 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