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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
Tigers CentralCntr 54 33 87 - - 59 66 74 74 74 74 MW
Twins CentralCntr 41 45 86 12½ 4 47 54 62 62 62 62 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 40 44 84 12½ 4 48 55 63 63 63 63 MW
Royals CentralCntr 40 47 87 14 45 52 60 60 60 60 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 28 58 86 25½ 17 34 41 49 49 49 49 MW
 
Blue Jays East 48 38 86 - - 54 61 66 66 66 69 MW
Yankees East 48 38 86 - - 54 61 66 66 66 68 MW
Rays East 48 39 87 ½ - 53 60 65 65 65 67 MW
Red Sox East 43 45 88 6 3 47 54 59 59 59 62 MW
Orioles East 37 49 86 11 8 43 50 55 55 55 58 MW
 
Astros West 52 34 86 - - 58 65 70 70 70 71 MW
Mariners West 45 41 86 7 - 51 58 63 63 63 66 MW
Rangers West 43 44 87 48 55 60 60 60 63 MW
Angels West 42 43 85 49 56 61 61 61 64 MW
Athletics West 36 53 89 17½ 10½ 39 46 51 51 51 54 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