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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 89 63 152 - - MW MW MW MW MW MW MW
Tigers CentralCntr 85 67 152 - - 7 10 MW MW MW MW MW
Astros West 84 69 153 - - 5 8 8 9 MW MW MW
Yankees East 85 67 152 4 - 6 6 6 MW MW MW MW
Mariners West 83 69 152 ½ - 4 9 9 9 MW MW MW
Red Sox East 83 69 152 6 - 4 4 4 9 MW MW MW
 
Guardians CentralCntr 80 71 151 3 6 7 7 8 9 MW
Rangers West 79 74 153 5 X 3 3 4 5 6 MW
Royals CentralCntr 76 76 152 9 7 X 1 1 1 3 4 MW
Rays East 74 78 152 15 9 X X X X 1 1 MW
Orioles East 72 80 152 17 11 X X X X X X MW
Athletics West 71 81 152 12½ 12 X X X X X X MW
Angels West 69 83 152 14½ 14 X X X X X X MW
Twins CentralCntr 66 86 152 19 17 X X X X X X MW
White Sox CentralCntr 57 96 153 28½ 26½ X X X X X X 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