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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 65 46 111 - - 43 46 48 48 49 51 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 59 52 111 - - 37 43 45 45 45 45 MW
Astros West 58 55 113 - - 34 41 46 46 46 46 MW
Yankees East 63 49 112 - 40 43 45 45 47 49 MW
Red Sox East 60 51 111 5 - 38 41 43 43 45 47 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 57 56 113 3 - 33 39 41 41 41 42 MW
 
Twins CentralCntr 56 57 113 4 1 32 39 40 40 40 41 MW
Rangers West 55 57 112 32 39 44 44 44 44 MW
Mariners West 55 58 113 3 2 31 38 43 43 43 43 MW
Orioles East 54 58 112 11½ 31 34 36 36 38 40 MW
Tigers CentralCntr 54 58 112 31 38 39 39 39 40 MW
Blue Jays East 52 60 112 13½ 29 32 34 34 36 38 MW
Royals CentralCntr 46 67 113 14 11 22 29 29 29 29 31 MW
Athletics West 45 67 112 12½ 11½ 22 29 34 34 34 34 MW
Angels West 43 69 112 14½ 13½ 20 27 32 32 32 32 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