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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 89 59 148 - - 14 X X MW MW ^ ^
White Sox CentralCntr 76 72 148 - - 1 14 14 14 14 MW MW
Astros West 75 74 149 - - X 12 MW MW MW MW MW
Yankees East 85 63 148 4 - 11 11 X MW MW MW MW
Red Sox East 81 68 149 - 5 X X 10 MW MW MW
Guardians CentralCntr 75 74 149 - X 12 12 12 12 MW MW
 
Blue Jays East 74 75 149 15½ 1 X X X 3 7 12 MW
Rangers West 73 76 149 2 2 X 10 11 11 11 11 MW
Orioles East 72 77 149 17½ 3 X X X X 5 11 MW
Twins CentralCntr 70 78 148 6 X 7 7 X 7 10 MW
Mariners West 70 79 149 5 5 X 7 9 X 9 9 MW
Tigers CentralCntr 69 79 148 7 X 6 6 X 6 8 MW
Royals CentralCntr 66 83 149 10½ 9 X 3 3 X X 5 MW
Athletics West 60 89 149 15 15 X X X X X X MW
Angels West 56 92 148 18½ 18½ 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