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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
Tigers CentralCntr 53 32 85 - - 61 68 76 76 76 76 MW
Astros West 50 34 84 - - 59 66 72 72 72 72 MW
Yankees East 48 35 83 - - 58 64 70 70 70 72 MW
Rays East 47 37 84 - 56 62 68 68 68 70 MW
Blue Jays East 45 38 83 3 - 55 61 67 67 67 70 MW
Mariners West 43 40 83 - 53 60 66 66 66 68 MW
 
Angels West 41 42 83 2 51 58 64 64 64 66 MW
Rangers West 41 43 84 9 50 57 63 63 63 65 MW
Red Sox East 41 44 85 8 3 49 55 61 61 61 64 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 40 42 82 11½ 51 58 66 66 66 66 MW
Twins CentralCntr 40 44 84 12½ 49 56 64 64 64 64 MW
Royals CentralCntr 39 45 84 13½ 48 55 63 63 63 63 MW
Orioles East 36 47 83 12 7 46 52 58 58 58 61 MW
Athletics West 34 52 86 17 10½ 41 48 54 54 54 56 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 28 56 84 24½ 15½ 37 44 52 52 52 52 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