Chicago Cubs: First Place Elimination

Chicago Cubs must win 7 more games (83 total) to avoid elimination from first place.

Here are the final standings in a scenario in which Chicago Cubs finish the season in first place with 83 total wins.

These teams can still finish at or ahead of 103 wins:

TeamWGLMax W
MIL 8328111

In this scenario Chicago Cubs finish tied at 83 wins with 1 team. Head-to-head:

  • Milwaukee: Chicago Cubs win the season series 9-4 and hold the head-to-head tiebreaker.

Final standings for this scenario

TeamWinsLossesPCTGB
CHC 83 79 0.512 0
MIL 83 79 0.512 0
CIN 82 80 0.506 1
PIT 80 82 0.494 3
STL 78 84 0.481 5

Current standings

TeamWinsLossesGLPCTGB
MilwaukeeMIL 83 51 28 0.619 0
Chicago CubsCHC 76 59 27 0.563 7.5
St LouisSTL 67 68 27 0.496 16.5
PittsburghPIT 65 70 27 0.481 18.5
CincinnatiCIN 64 71 27 0.474 19.5

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 Chicago Cubs, where the rivals those notes name are outlined.

TeamCurrent WinsCurrent LossesScenario WinsScenario LossesScenario Results
CIN 6 2 0 5 6-7
MIL 2 4 7 0 9-4
PIT 5 5 0 3 5-8
STL 6 7 0 0 6-7
CHC 2 6 5 0 7-6
MIL 1 6 6 0 7-6
PIT 6 7 0 0 6-7
STL 5 8 0 0 5-8
CHC 4 2 0 7 4-9
CIN 6 1 0 6 6-7
PIT 4 6 0 3 4-9
STL 8 2 0 3 8-5
CHC 5 5 3 0 8-5
CIN 7 6 0 0 7-6
MIL 6 4 3 0 9-4
STL 2 5 2 4 4-9
CHC 7 6 0 0 7-6
CIN 8 5 0 0 8-5
MIL 2 8 3 0 5-8
PIT 5 2 4 2 9-4
TeamCurrent WinsCurrent LossesScenario WinsScenario LossesScenario 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. Chicago Cubs' 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.

National League Central

Team MILCHCSTLPITCIN
MIL - 4 - 9 8 - 5 4 - 9 6 - 7
CHC 9 - 4 - 6 - 7 5 - 8 6 - 7
STL 5 - 8 7 - 6 - 9 - 4 8 - 5
PIT 9 - 4 8 - 5 4 - 9 - 7 - 6
CIN 7 - 6 7 - 6 5 - 8 6 - 7 -