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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 67 46 113 - - 43 46 46 48 49 MW MW
White Sox CentralCntr 59 53 112 - - 36 42 43 43 43 44 MW
Astros West 59 56 115 - - 33 39 45 45 45 45 MW
Yankees East 64 50 114 - 38 42 42 44 46 48 MW
Red Sox East 61 51 112 - 38 41 41 43 45 47 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 57 57 114 3 - 32 38 39 39 39 41 MW
 
Twins CentralCntr 56 58 114 4 1 31 37 38 38 38 40 MW
Rangers West 56 58 114 1 31 37 43 43 43 43 MW
Orioles East 55 58 113 12 31 34 34 36 38 40 MW
Tigers CentralCntr 55 58 113 31 37 38 38 38 40 MW
Mariners West 55 59 114 2 30 36 42 42 42 42 MW
Blue Jays East 53 61 114 14½ 4 28 31 31 33 35 37 MW
Royals CentralCntr 47 67 114 13 10 22 28 29 29 29 31 MW
Athletics West 45 68 113 13 11½ 21 27 33 33 33 33 MW
Angels West 43 70 113 15 13½ 19 25 31 31 31 31 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