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.
| Record Rcrd | Games Behind | Divisional Winners | Wildcard | No Playoffs No POs |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 31 | 17 | 48 | - | - | 112 | 110 | 107 | 103 | 99 | 95 | 0 |
| Royals | CentralCntr | 27 | 22 | 49 | 4½ | - | DNCD | 112 | 111 | 107 | 103 | 99 | 0 |
| Twins | CentralCntr | 26 | 21 | 47 | 4½ | - | 114 | 112 | 112 | 107 | 103 | 100 | 0 |
| Guardians | CentralCntr | 25 | 21 | 46 | 5 | - | 116 | 113 | 112 | 108 | 104 | 101 | 0 |
| White Sox | CentralCntr | 14 | 34 | 48 | 17 | 12 | DNCD | DNCD | DNCD | DNCD | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Yankees | East | 27 | 19 | 46 | - | - | 116 | 114 | 109 | 106 | 103 | 99 | 0 |
| Red Sox | East | 24 | 25 | 49 | 4½ | 2½ | DNCD | DNCD | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Blue Jays | East | 22 | 24 | 46 | 5 | 3 | DNCD | DNCD | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Rays | East | 21 | 26 | 47 | 6½ | 4½ | DNCD | DNCD | DNCD | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Orioles | East | 15 | 31 | 46 | 12 | 10 | DNCD | DNCD | DNCD | DNCD | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Mariners | West | 27 | 19 | 46 | - | - | 116 | 114 | 111 | 107 | 103 | 99 | 0 |
| Astros | West | 25 | 22 | 47 | 2½ | ½ | DNCD | 114 | 112 | 109 | 105 | 101 | 0 |
| Rangers | West | 25 | 23 | 48 | 3 | 1 | DNCD | 113 | 113 | 109 | 105 | 101 | 0 |
| Athletics | West | 22 | 26 | 48 | 6 | 4 | DNCD | DNCD | DNCD | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Angels | West | 21 | 25 | 46 | 6 | 4 | DNCD | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |