How Many More Games Left In Baseball Season?
As the baseball season comes to an end, fans are wondering how many more games are left.
Major League Baseball has released the schedule for the final weeks of the 2019 season.
Check the standings
As the MLB season winds down, fans begin to check the standings to see if their team is in the running for a spot in the playoffs.
The MLB season is 176 days long, with each team playing 162 games.
In order to make the playoffs, a team must have one of the best records in their respective league.
The MLB playoffs are a best-of-seven series. The team with the best record in each league plays the team with the fourth-best record and the team with the second-best record plays the team with the third-best record in what are called the Division Series.
The two winners of those series then advance to play each other in the League Championship Series.
finally, The winner of each League Championship Series advances to play in the World Series.
Elimination number
Elimination number is a term used in baseball and softball to describe the number of losses a team must incur to be mathematically eliminated from postseason contention. The term generally is used during the month of September, when Major League Baseball (MLB) teams are vying for playoff spots. An elimination number can apply to a divisional race, a league’s wild card race, or both.
The simplest way to calculate an elimination number is to take the total number of losses that a team has and add it to the total number of losses of the second-place team. For example, if Team A has 90 losses and Team B has 89 losses, Team A’s elimination number would be 91 (90 + 1). If Team C has 88 losses, then Team A’s elimination number would be 89 (88 + 1).
In order to find an elimination number for a specific team in a divisional race, one must first calculate how many games that team is behind the leading team in the division. Take that number and add one to it. That is the team’s current Elimination Number. For example: if Team A is 5 games behind Team B in their division with 15 games left to play, their Elimination Number would currently be 20 ((5 games behind) + (15 remaining games) + 1).
An Elimination Number can also be found for teams vying for a spot in the playoffs via a Wild Card berth. In this case, instead of adding the total losses of the second place team, one must add together the total wins of all teams currently ahead of them in the standings. The same concept applies as above – if there are multiple teams tied for the lead in wins, the Elimination Number is calculated by taking the total wins of all teams tied for first and adding them together, then adding one.
For example: if there are two teams tied for first place with 90 wins apiece and two other teams tied for second place with 89 wins apiece, any team with fewer than 178 wins would be mathematically eliminated from contention for either a division title or a Wild Card berth. The Elimination Number for all four teams would be 179 ((89+89+1)+(90+90+1)).
Magic number
The “magic number” is a concept employed by baseball teams to determine how many wins or losses by the leading team(s) are required by the trailing team(s) to eliminate them from winning their division or conference. The “magic number” for a given team is determined by subtracting that team’s current win total from the current win total of the team(s) ahead of it in the standings, and then adding one. For example, if Team A has a record of 90-72 and is leading its division, and Team B has a record of 89-73, Team B’s magic number would be 4: 90-(89+1).
