Tampa Bay Rays: First Place Elimination

Tampa Bay must win 1 more game (82 total) to avoid elimination from first place.

Here are the final standings in a scenario in which Tampa Bay finishes the season in first place with 82 total wins.

Final standings for this scenario

TeamWinsLossesPCTGB
TB 82 80 0.506 0
BAL 81 81 0.500 1
BOS 81 81 0.500 1
NYY 80 82 0.494 2
TOR 76 86 0.469 6

Current standings

TeamWinsLossesGLPCTGB
Tampa BayTB 81 54 27 0.600 0
NY YankeesNYY 77 59 26 0.566 4.5
BostonBOS 74 62 26 0.544 7.5
BaltimoreBAL 67 69 26 0.493 14.5
TorontoTOR 67 70 25 0.489 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 Tampa Bay, where the rivals those notes name are outlined.

TeamCurrent WinsCurrent LossesScenario WinsScenario LossesScenario Results
BOS 4 5 3 1 7-6
NYY 2 8 3 0 5-8
TB 8 5 0 0 8-5
TOR 3 4 3 3 6-7
BAL 5 4 1 3 6-7
NYY 6 6 1 0 7-6
TB 5 5 3 0 8-5
TOR 4 9 0 0 4-9
BAL 8 2 0 3 8-5
BOS 6 6 0 1 6-7
TB 3 6 3 1 6-7
TOR 7 6 0 0 7-6
BAL 5 8 0 0 5-8
BOS 5 5 0 3 5-8
NYY 6 3 1 3 7-6
TOR 9 4 0 0 9-4
BAL 4 3 3 3 7-6
BOS 9 4 0 0 9-4
NYY 6 7 0 0 6-7
TB 4 9 0 0 4-9
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. Tampa Bay'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 East

Team TBNYYBOSBALTOR
TB - 7 - 6 5 - 8 5 - 8 9 - 4
NYY 6 - 7 - 6 - 7 8 - 5 7 - 6
BOS 8 - 5 7 - 6 - 6 - 7 4 - 9
BAL 8 - 5 5 - 8 7 - 6 - 6 - 7
TOR 4 - 9 6 - 7 9 - 4 7 - 6 -