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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 80 58 138 - - 23 MW MW MW MW MW MW
Royals CentralCntr 70 67 137 3 14 15 15 18 20 22 MW
Guardians CentralCntr 68 67 135 10½ 4 14 16 16 18 20 22 MW
Twins CentralCntr 62 74 136 17 10½ 7 8 8 11 13 15 MW
White Sox CentralCntr 49 88 137 30½ 24 X X X X X 1 MW
 
Blue Jays East 79 58 137 - - 23 24 25 MW MW MW MW
Yankees East 76 61 137 3 - 20 21 21 24 MW MW MW
Red Sox East 76 62 138 - 19 20 21 23 MW MW MW
Rays East 67 69 136 11½ 12 13 13 16 18 20 MW
Orioles East 61 76 137 18 12 5 6 7 9 11 13 MW
 
Astros West 75 62 137 - - 19 20 24 24 24 25 MW
Mariners West 73 64 137 2 - 17 19 23 23 23 25 MW
Rangers West 71 67 138 14 16 19 19 20 22 MW
Angels West 64 72 136 10½ 9 11 15 15 15 17 MW
Athletics West 63 75 138 12½ 10½ 6 8 11 11 12 14 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