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
| Team | Wins | Losses | PCT | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Team | Wins | Losses | GL | PCT | GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
| Team | Current Wins | Current Losses | Scenario Wins | Scenario Losses | Scenario 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 |
| 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. 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 | TB | NYY | BOS | BAL | TOR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | - |