2025 Magic Number Thread

[SomewhereInTime]

 

[Samurai Bucky]

[folly412]

 

[greenlawler]

I would agree that the divisional magic number should be what is displayed here now.. But maybe the right one.

 

[Yaz19]

 

[MadScientist]

11 hours ago, greenlawler said:

I would agree that the divisional magic number should be what is displayed here now.. But maybe the right one.

 

6? There are 6 games left and the Brewers have a 3 game lead over Philly for best overall record so the magic number is 3 for best record. 

[adambr2]

The magic number with Philly is 3. They have the tiebreaker with Philly. At 3 Brewer wins+Philly losses, the Brewers clinch the #1 seed.

edit: sorry, just saw @MadScientistexplained this above! Yes, 3 is the magic number.

[Ron Robinsons Beard]

12 hours ago, greenlawler said:

I would agree that the divisional magic number should be what is displayed here now.. But maybe the right one.

 

[adambr2]

2 hours ago, Ron Robinsons Beard said:

He meant 3, and then 3 more wins from the NLCS. Well played.

[biedergb]

So the real magic number is 7.

[nate82]

2 minutes ago, biedergb said:

So the real magic number is 7.

No it is 3 games.  If the Brewers win 3 games regardless what the Phillies do they are the #1 seed.  The best the Phillies can get to is 98 wins. The Brewers are at 95 wins right now.  So 3 wins would tie the Phillies and the Brewers have the tiebreaker.

https://www.playoffstatus.com/mlb/nationalwinmagicnumbers.html

[formerlybis]

If people are trying to be clever to include the postseason in calculating a magic number, it's confusing, likely wrong, and not even useful. Magic numbers are for figuring out the needed combined wins and losses vs. an opponent when you're not playing head-to-head (which you obviously are in the postseason) to secure a playoff spot or particular seed. A best of 5 series simply needs 3 wins, not a magic number of 3 (you technically would need a magic number of 6, i.e. 3 wins for you and 3 losses for them - but literally no one in the history of mankind would ever think of it that way).

The Detroit Red Wings fans use octopi because you used to need 8 wins in the playoffs to win the Stanley Cup (I think you might need 2 octopi now). We want 11 wins after Sunday... not a magic number of 22.

[biedergb]

8 hours ago, nate82 said:

No it is 3 games.  If the Brewers win 3 games regardless what the Phillies do they are the #1 seed.  The best the Phillies can get to is 98 wins. The Brewers are at 95 wins right now.  So 3 wins would tie the Phillies and the Brewers have the tiebreaker.

https://www.playoffstatus.com/mlb/nationalwinmagicnumbers.html

Sorry I was going with the other theme- 3 wins and 4 Wins gets to the WS. Should have put it in blue. 

I was trying to be cute. 

[CheezWizHed]

I'm not sure it was mentioned but in clinching the division, we also clinched the first-round bye.  So we got that going for us.

 

[bm1090]

[Sixtolezcano]

One, for total HFA!

 

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[LouisEly]

 

[Yaz19]

 

[Brian]

On 9/21/2025 at 8:09 PM, Samurai Bucky said:

Zero

 

[RedStickBrew]

[RedStickBrew]

 

[formerlybis]

and now the Phillies are exposed…
 

[HarryDoyle]

1 hour ago, formerlybis said:

and now the Phillies are exposed…
 

When the Phillies flounder around for a month straight then we can talk about them being exposed.

[CheezWizHed]

Playoff reset! Magic Number at: