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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 78 56 134 - - 26 27 28 MW MW MW MW
Tigers CentralCntr 78 57 135 - - 25 MW MW MW MW MW MW
Astros West 74 60 134 - - 22 24 28 28 28 28 MW
Red Sox East 75 60 135 - 22 23 24 27 MW MW MW
Yankees East 74 60 134 4 - 22 23 23 26 MW MW MW
Mariners West 72 62 134 2 - 20 23 26 26 26 28 MW
 
Royals CentralCntr 69 65 134 3 17 20 20 21 23 25 MW
Rangers West 68 67 135 15 18 21 21 22 23 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 66 66 132 10½ 5 16 19 19 20 23 24 MW
Rays East 64 69 133 13½ 13 14 14 17 19 21 MW
Athletics West 63 72 135 11½ 10 13 16 16 17 18 MW
Angels West 62 71 133 11½ 11 14 17 17 18 19 MW
Twins CentralCntr 60 73 133 17 11½ 9 11 11 13 16 17 MW
Orioles East 60 74 134 18 12 8 9 9 12 15 16 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 48 86 134 29½ 24 X X X 1 3 3 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