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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 63 46 109 - - 41 46 50 50 50 52 MW
Tigers CentralCntr 63 46 109 - - 41 47 52 52 52 52 MW
Astros West 61 47 108 - - 40 46 51 51 51 51 MW
Yankees East 58 49 107 4 - 38 43 47 47 47 49 MW
Red Sox East 58 51 109 5 - 36 41 45 45 45 47 MW
Mariners West 57 51 108 4 - 36 42 47 47 47 47 MW
 
Rangers West 56 52 108 5 1 35 41 46 46 46 46 MW
Rays East 54 54 108 3 33 38 42 42 42 44 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 53 54 107 9 33 39 44 44 44 44 MW
Angels West 53 55 108 8 4 32 38 43 43 43 43 MW
Royals CentralCntr 53 55 108 4 32 38 43 43 43 43 MW
Twins CentralCntr 51 56 107 11 31 37 42 42 42 42 MW
Orioles East 50 58 108 12½ 7 29 34 38 38 38 40 MW
Athletics West 47 63 110 15 11 24 30 35 35 35 35 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 39 69 108 23½ 18 18 24 29 29 29 29 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