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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 33 20 53 - - 77 88 97 97 97 97 MW
Yankees East 31 20 51 - - 77 88 99 99 99 99 MW
Mariners West 29 22 51 - - 75 85 97 97 97 97 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 29 22 51 3 - 75 86 95 95 95 95 MW
Twins CentralCntr 29 22 51 3 - 75 86 95 95 95 95 MW
Royals CentralCntr 28 25 53 5 - 72 83 92 92 92 92 MW
 
Astros West 27 25 52 ½ 72 82 94 94 94 94 MW
Red Sox East 27 27 54 70 81 92 92 92 92 MW
Angels West 25 26 51 4 2 71 81 93 93 93 93 MW
Rays East 25 26 51 6 2 71 82 93 93 93 93 MW
Blue Jays East 25 26 51 6 2 71 82 93 93 93 93 MW
Rangers West 25 28 53 5 3 69 79 91 91 91 91 MW
Athletics West 22 31 53 8 6 66 76 88 88 88 88 MW
Orioles East 17 34 51 14 10 63 74 85 85 85 85 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 17 35 52 15½ 10½ 62 73 82 82 82 82 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