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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
Guardians CentralCntr 17 6 23 - - 95 109 124 124 124 124 MW
Royals CentralCntr 14 10 24 3½ - 91 105 120 120 120 120 MW
Tigers CentralCntr 14 10 24 3½ - 91 105 120 120 120 120 MW
Twins CentralCntr 9 13 22 7½ 4 88 102 117 117 117 117 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 3 20 23 14 10½ 81 95 110 110 110 110 MW
 
Yankees East 16 8 24 - - 93 107 117 117 117 117 MW
Orioles East 15 8 23 ½ - 93 107 117 117 117 117 MW
Blue Jays East 13 11 24 3 1 90 104 114 114 114 114 MW
Red Sox East 13 11 24 3 1 90 104 114 114 114 114 MW
Rays East 12 13 25 4½ 2½ 88 102 112 112 112 112 MW
 
Mariners West 12 11 23 - - 90 104 117 117 117 117 MW
Rangers West 12 12 24 ½ 2 89 103 116 116 116 116 MW
Angels West 10 14 24 2½ 4 87 101 114 114 114 114 MW
Athletics West 9 15 24 3½ 5 86 100 113 113 113 113 MW
Astros West 7 17 24 5½ 7 84 98 111 111 111 111 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