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American League Winning Magic Numbers

How close is your team to clinching a certain playoff spot? A Winning Magic Number is the number of games a team must win to guarantee winning a given playoff spot. Note that this definition is slightly different than the one traditionally used with MLB. Click a team name to proceed to the team playoff picture page.

American League Winning 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 52 36 88 - - 69 69 69 64 60 57 0
White Sox CentralCntr 47 42 89 - - DNCD 72 69 69 65 62 0
Mariners West 47 44 91 - - DNCD 71 67 66 64 62 0
Yankees East 50 40 90 3 - 71 71 71 66 62 59 0
Guardians CentralCntr 47 44 91 1 - DNCD DNCD 69 69 65 62 0
Rangers West 45 45 90 - DNCD DNCD 69 68 66 64 0
 
Astros West 45 48 93 3 DNCD DNCD 69 68 66 64 0
Twins CentralCntr 44 47 91 4 DNCD DNCD 71 71 67 65 0
Blue Jays East 42 49 91 11½ DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 69 67 0
Orioles East 42 49 91 11½ DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 70 67 0
Athletics West 41 49 90 4 DNCD DNCD 71 71 70 67 0
Red Sox East 40 48 88 12 4 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 71 69 0
Tigers CentralCntr 40 50 90 5 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 71 69 0
Royals CentralCntr 37 54 91 11 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 0
Angels West 36 55 91 11 DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD DNCD 0
  • Notes
  • ^ means the team will finish better than this spot
  • X means the team cannot win this spot
  • numeric numeric indicates the number of games that must be won to guarantee winning this spot
  • "DNCD" indicates the team Does Not Control its Destiny for this spot and thus, even after winning all remaining games, needs help from other teams to win
  • *  denotes first round bye in the playoffs
  • **  denotes first round home field advantage in the playoffs