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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 76 53 129 - - 32 33 33 MW MW MW MW
White Sox CentralCntr 67 62 129 - - 23 30 30 30 30 31 MW
Astros West 65 65 130 - - 20 27 32 32 32 32 MW
Yankees East 73 56 129 3 - 29 30 30 33 MW MW MW
Red Sox East 70 59 129 6 - 26 27 27 30 33 MW MW
Rangers West 64 66 130 1 - 19 26 31 31 31 31 MW
 
Guardians CentralCntr 64 66 130 - 19 26 26 26 26 27 MW
Blue Jays East 64 67 131 13 ½ 18 18 18 22 25 26 MW
Twins CentralCntr 63 67 130 1 18 25 25 25 25 26 MW
Orioles East 63 67 130 13½ 1 18 18 18 22 25 26 MW
Mariners West 62 68 130 3 2 17 24 29 29 29 29 MW
Tigers CentralCntr 61 68 129 6 17 24 24 24 24 25 MW
Royals CentralCntr 57 74 131 11 11 18 18 18 18 19 MW
Angels West 52 78 130 13 12 7 14 19 19 19 19 MW
Athletics West 50 80 130 15 14 5 12 17 17 17 17 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