Oakland Athletics: First Place Elimination
Oakland must win 15 more games (68 total) to avoid elimination from first place.
Here are the final standings in a scenario in which Oakland finishes the season in first place with 68 total wins.
These teams can still finish at or ahead of 81 wins:
| Team | W | GL | Max W |
|---|---|---|---|
| HOU | 67 | 28 | 95 |
| TEX | 66 | 28 | 94 |
| SEA | 64 | 28 | 92 |
In this scenario Oakland finishes tied at 68 wins with 1 team. Head-to-head:
- Seattle: Oakland wins the season series 9-4 and holds the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Final standings for this scenario
| Team | Wins | Losses | PCT | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ATH | 68 | 94 | 0.420 | 0 |
| SEA | 68 | 94 | 0.420 | 0 |
| HOU | 67 | 95 | 0.414 | 1 |
| TEX | 67 | 95 | 0.414 | 1 |
| LAA | 66 | 96 | 0.407 | 2 |
Current standings
| Team | Wins | Losses | GL | PCT | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HoustonHOU | 67 | 67 | 28 | 0.500 | 0 |
| TexasTEX | 66 | 68 | 28 | 0.493 | 1 |
| SeattleSEA | 64 | 70 | 28 | 0.478 | 3 |
| OaklandATH | 53 | 81 | 28 | 0.396 | 14 |
| LA AngelsLAA | 52 | 82 | 28 | 0.388 | 15 |
How the remaining games play out
Each page shows one team's remaining series in this scenario. Green: they win the season series. Red: they lose it. Gray: the series ends tied. The tiebreak verdicts are in the blocks above, and this opens on Oakland, where the rivals those notes name are outlined.
| Team | Current Wins | Current Losses | Scenario Wins | Scenario Losses | Scenario Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOU | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 9-4 |
| LAA | 6 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 6-7 |
| SEA | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 9-4 |
| TEX | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9-4 |
| ATH | 4 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 4-9 |
| LAA | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7-6 |
| SEA | 2 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2-11 |
| TEX | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 9-4 |
| ATH | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 7-6 |
| HOU | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6-7 |
| SEA | 2 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 9-4 |
| TEX | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8-5 |
| ATH | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4-9 |
| HOU | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11-2 |
| LAA | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4-9 |
| TEX | 3 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 5-8 |
| ATH | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 4-9 |
| HOU | 4 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 4-9 |
| LAA | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5-8 |
| SEA | 7 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 8-5 |
| Team | Current Wins | Current Losses | Scenario Wins | Scenario Losses | Scenario Results |
Full head-to-head summary for this scenario
Final season series between every pair in this scenario, colored for the row team: green won the series, red lost it, gray tied it. Who wins a tied series is a tiebreaker question, answered in the head-to-head notes above. Oakland's row and column are highlighted, and cells in that row are outlined where a note names the pair: solid where the series settled the tie, dashed where it did not.
American League West
| Team | HOU | TEX | SEA | ATH | LAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HOU | - | 9 - 4 | 2 - 11 | 4 - 9 | 7 - 6 |
| TEX | 4 - 9 | - | 8 - 5 | 4 - 9 | 5 - 8 |
| SEA | 11 - 2 | 5 - 8 | - | 4 - 9 | 4 - 9 |
| ATH | 9 - 4 | 9 - 4 | 9 - 4 | - | 6 - 7 |
| LAA | 6 - 7 | 8 - 5 | 9 - 4 | 7 - 6 | - |