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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
Blue Jays East 89 64 153 - - MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Tigers CentralCntr 85 68 153 - - 6 9 MW MW MW MW MW
Mariners West 84 69 153 - - 4 8 8 8 MW MW MW
Yankees East 85 67 152 - 6 6 6 MW MW MW MW
Astros West 84 69 153 - - 5 8 8 9 MW MW MW
Red Sox East 83 70 153 6 - 3 3 3 8 9 MW MW
 
Guardians CentralCntr 81 71 152 3 6 7 7 8 8 MW
Rangers West 79 74 153 5 4 X 2 2 4 5 6 MW
Royals CentralCntr 76 77 153 9 7 X X X X 2 3 MW
Rays East 75 78 153 14 8 X X X X 1 1 MW
Orioles East 72 80 152 16½ 10½ X X X X X X MW
Athletics West 72 81 153 12 11 X X X X X X MW
Angels West 69 83 152 14½ 13½ X X X X X X MW
Twins CentralCntr 66 86 152 18½ 16½ X X X X X X MW
White Sox CentralCntr 57 96 153 28 26 X X X X X X 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