Detroit Tigers: First Place Clinch

Detroit does not have a first-place clinch number.

Here are the final standings of a scenario in which Detroit wins all 29 of their remaining games (91 total), but does not clinch first place.

In this scenario Detroit finishes tied at 91 wins with 1 team. Head-to-head:

  • Cleveland: Detroit loses the season series 6-7, so Cleveland holds the head-to-head tiebreaker.

Whether they are still alive is shown by their FPE number.

Final standings for this scenario

TeamWinsLossesPCTGB
CLE 91 71 0.562 0
DET 91 71 0.562 0
KC 81 81 0.500 10
CWS 78 84 0.481 13
MIN 77 85 0.475 14

Current standings

TeamWinsLossesGLPCTGB
Chicago White SoxCWS 70 63 29 0.526 0
ClevelandCLE 68 66 28 0.507 2.5
MinnesotaMIN 64 70 28 0.478 6.5
DetroitDET 62 71 29 0.466 8
Kansas CityKC 60 75 27 0.444 11

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 Detroit, where the rivals those notes name are outlined.

TeamCurrent WinsCurrent LossesScenario WinsScenario LossesScenario Results
CWS 4 6 3 0 7-6
DET 7 2 0 4 7-6
KC 4 3 6 0 10-3
MIN 4 6 3 0 7-6
CLE 6 4 0 3 6-7
DET 6 3 0 4 6-7
KC 7 3 0 3 7-6
MIN 4 3 0 6 4-9
CLE 2 7 4 0 6-7
CWS 3 6 4 0 7-6
KC 6 7 0 0 6-7
MIN 2 5 6 0 8-5
CLE 3 4 0 6 3-10
CWS 3 7 3 0 6-7
DET 7 6 0 0 7-6
MIN 8 5 0 0 8-5
CLE 6 4 0 3 6-7
CWS 3 4 6 0 9-4
DET 5 2 0 6 5-8
KC 5 8 0 0 5-8
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. Detroit'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 Central

Team CWSCLEMINDETKC
CWS - 6 - 7 4 - 9 6 - 7 7 - 6
CLE 7 - 6 - 7 - 6 7 - 6 10 - 3
MIN 9 - 4 6 - 7 - 5 - 8 5 - 8
DET 7 - 6 6 - 7 8 - 5 - 6 - 7
KC 6 - 7 3 - 10 8 - 5 7 - 6 -