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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
Guardians CentralCntr 32 23 55 - - 74 85 94 94 94 94 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 26 26 52 - 71 82 91 91 91 91 MW
Twins CentralCntr 26 27 53 5 - 70 81 90 90 90 90 MW
Royals CentralCntr 22 31 53 9 4 66 77 86 86 86 86 MW
Tigers CentralCntr 21 33 54 10½ 64 75 84 84 84 84 MW
 
Rays East 34 16 50 - - 81 91 100 100 100 100 MW
Yankees East 31 22 53 - 75 85 94 94 94 94 MW
Blue Jays East 25 28 53 10½ 1 69 79 88 88 88 88 MW
Orioles East 23 30 53 12½ 3 67 77 86 86 86 86 MW
Red Sox East 22 30 52 13 67 77 86 86 86 86 MW
 
Athletics West 27 26 53 - - 71 82 95 95 95 95 MW
Mariners West 25 29 54 68 79 92 92 92 92 MW
Rangers West 24 28 52 69 80 93 93 93 93 MW
Astros West 23 31 54 66 77 90 90 90 90 MW
Angels West 20 34 54 63 74 87 87 87 87 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