Kansas City Royals: First Place Elimination
Kansas City must win 14 more games (74 total) to avoid elimination from first place.
Here are the final standings in a scenario in which Kansas City finishes the season in first place with 74 total wins.
These teams can still finish at or ahead of 87 wins:
| Team | W | GL | Max W |
|---|---|---|---|
| CWS | 70 | 29 | 99 |
| CLE | 68 | 28 | 96 |
| MIN | 64 | 28 | 92 |
| DET | 62 | 29 | 91 |
In this scenario Kansas City finishes tied at 74 wins with 1 team. Head-to-head:
- Minnesota: Kansas City wins the season series 8-5 and holds the head-to-head tiebreaker.
Final standings for this scenario
| Team | Wins | Losses | PCT | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KC | 74 | 88 | 0.457 | 0 |
| MIN | 74 | 88 | 0.457 | 0 |
| DET | 73 | 89 | 0.451 | 1 |
| CLE | 72 | 90 | 0.444 | 2 |
| CWS | 72 | 90 | 0.444 | 2 |
Current standings
| Team | Wins | Losses | GL | PCT | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Kansas City, where the rivals those notes name are outlined.
| Team | Current Wins | Current Losses | Scenario Wins | Scenario Losses | Scenario Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CWS | 4 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 6-7 |
| DET | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9-4 |
| KC | 4 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4-9 |
| MIN | 4 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 4-9 |
| CLE | 6 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7-6 |
| DET | 6 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7-6 |
| KC | 7 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7-6 |
| MIN | 4 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4-9 |
| CLE | 2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4-9 |
| CWS | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 6-7 |
| KC | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 6-7 |
| MIN | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 8-5 |
| CLE | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 9-4 |
| CWS | 3 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 6-7 |
| DET | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 7-6 |
| MIN | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8-5 |
| CLE | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 9-4 |
| CWS | 3 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 9-4 |
| DET | 5 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 5-8 |
| KC | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 5-8 |
| 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. Kansas City'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 | CWS | CLE | MIN | DET | KC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CWS | - | 7 - 6 | 4 - 9 | 7 - 6 | 7 - 6 |
| CLE | 6 - 7 | - | 4 - 9 | 9 - 4 | 4 - 9 |
| MIN | 9 - 4 | 9 - 4 | - | 5 - 8 | 5 - 8 |
| DET | 6 - 7 | 4 - 9 | 8 - 5 | - | 6 - 7 |
| KC | 6 - 7 | 9 - 4 | 8 - 5 | 7 - 6 | - |