Rangers clinch home field throughout playoffs with one win or a loss by Cleveland and boston

Don't they need 2 wins? They have a 1.5 game lead with 3 to play.

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Rangers clinch home field throughout playoffs with one win or a loss by Cleveland and boston

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Home field in the first round can be clinched with one win or one loss by Cle. The magic number for homefield throughout the playoffs is 2.

Rangers own tiebreaker against Boston and cleveland, one win clinches home field

BTHOB said:

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Don't they need 2 wins? They have a 1.5 game lead with 3 to play.

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Boston lost last night to make it a 2 game lead.

Everyone, barring make up games, has 3 left to play. No more half games, except for that tie and any unmade up games.

That post is from yesterday morning, hence their correction of the previous poster who said home field throughout with a win. Now it's one win or a loss each by Cle and Bos.

I know its a joke, but still wrong terminology. Magic # is a specific opponent's # of losses + Rangers wins... Cleveland can lose 3 times in the ALDS and it doesn't impact our magic # to win the WS.

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I know its a joke, but still wrong terminology. Magic # is a specific opponent's # of losses + Rangers wins...

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Sort of.

If you'll indulge the mathematical theory behind "Magic #", its probably more accurate to state Magic # is a comparison to a current 2nd place record, rather than to a specific team, as your comparison team changes throughout the season without affecting your magic number--a team simply ties or overtakes 2nd place and they'll step in as the comparing team and the magic # keeps going.

Think of it this way: This thread wasn't counting the magic # versus the Astros, or the magic # versus the Mariners. It was counting a singular number against the entire division, using whatever the 2nd place record was on a particular day.

So, if we accept that's really what the Magic # is doing, then in a sense, we can say the Rangers Magic # is 22 to win the World Series.

The Rangers need 11 wins and 11 aggregate losses by the "comparing teams". A loss by a comparing team meaning a loss in a series with the Rangers. That means the Magic # will decrease by 2s and 2s only. A win and a loss will always be paired.

In other words, the Rangers need 11 wins. And that's why we can just count wins.

I think its best understood if you were to look at the playoffs like you would standings, where:

Rangers 0-0
Rangers' Opponent 0-0.


When the two bolded, italicized numbers total 22, the Rangers will be in the World Series.

TXAggie2011 said:

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I think its best understood if you were to look at the playoffs like you would standings, where:

Rangers 0-0
Rangers' Opponent 0-0.


When the two bolded, italicized numbers total 22, the Rangers will be in the World Series.

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Actually when the two bolded, italicized numbers total 22, the Rangers will have won the World Series.

Yes. Added in an extra series there.

Shouldn't make it harder than it needs to be.