MLB · 2026 Season

Tiebreak Simulator

Decide any game on the real schedule and watch the standings, the seeds and every tiebreaker recompute instantly, right here in your browser.

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Standings

Overall

	Team	Record	Pct	GL
1	MIL	91-56	0.619	15
2	LAD	89-57	0.610	16
3	ATL	86-61	0.585	15
4	PHI	82-65	0.558	15
5	CHC	81-66	0.551	15
6	SD	78-68	0.534	16
7	ARI	78-69	0.531	15
8	PIT	74-73	0.503	15
9	MIA	72-75	0.490	15
10	STL	72-75	0.490	15
11	CIN	69-77	0.473	16
12	NYM	68-78	0.466	16
13	WSH	67-81	0.453	14
14	SF	62-85	0.422	15
15	COL	55-91	0.377	16

Division

#	Team	Div	Record	Pct	GL
1	ATL	East	30-16	0.652	6
2	MIL	Central	28-15	0.651	9
3	ARI	West	28-18	0.609	6
4	LAD	West	26-17	0.605	9
5	SD	West	22-17	0.564	13
6	PHI	East	24-19	0.558	9
7	NYM	East	24-21	0.533	7
8	PIT	Central	22-21	0.512	9
9	STL	Central	23-23	0.500	6
10	CHC	Central	22-24	0.478	6
11	MIA	East	22-27	0.449	3
12	SF	West	17-26	0.395	9
13	CIN	Central	17-29	0.370	6
14	COL	West	15-30	0.333	7
15	WSH	East	15-32	0.319	5

Intraleague

#	Team	Record	Pct	GL
1	ATL	62-40	0.608	12
2	MIL	62-40	0.608	12
3	LAD	58-40	0.592	16
4	CHC	60-42	0.588	12
5	PHI	57-45	0.559	12
6	ARI	57-48	0.543	9
7	MIA	50-49	0.505	15
8	SD	49-49	0.500	16
9	STL	51-51	0.500	12
10	SF	47-55	0.461	12
11	NYM	48-59	0.449	7
12	PIT	46-59	0.438	9
13	WSH	44-62	0.415	8
14	CIN	41-60	0.406	13
15	COL	37-70	0.346	7

Last-Half Intraleague

#	Team	Record	Pct	GL
1	ATL	24-12	0.667	12
2	SD	20-12	0.625	16
3	MIL	24-15	0.615	12
4	NYM	21-16	0.568	7
5	LAD	19-15	0.559	16
6	ARI	20-16	0.556	9
7	PHI	16-13	0.552	12
8	CHC	17-15	0.531	12
9	SF	14-13	0.519	12
10	CIN	18-21	0.462	13
11	STL	17-23	0.425	12
12	MIA	15-23	0.395	15
13	PIT	12-20	0.375	9
14	WSH	15-27	0.357	8
15	COL	11-22	0.333	7

Tiebreaking steps used to generate seedingsNational League1 tie

NL Wild Card race and remaining order (seeds 4-6 and below)

Two-club tie for the No. 9 seed (outside the playoff spots): Marlins, Cardinals

Marlins 72-75 (.490) · Cardinals 72-75 (.490)

Head-to-head — comparing Marlins, Cardinals

1.	Marlins	4-2 (.667)
2.	Cardinals	2-4 (.333)

MIA qualifies for the No. 9 seed (outside the playoff spots); STL takes the next spot.

Result: 1. Marlins 2. Cardinals

Build a scenario

Fill the rest of the seasonDecide every undecided game by one rule, then fine-tune by hand.

Decide all 230 undecided games at once. Real results stay; anything you've set by hand is overwritten.Include games already played

Example seasonsHypothetical seasons on this year's schedule, built to push the tiebreak procedure as deep as it goes.4

Extreme Tiebreaker Example: Guardians and Angels, tied for the last Wild Card, unresolvable
Cleveland and Los Angeles finish 86-76, tied for the No. 6 seed. Their season series is 3-3, their division and intraleague records match, and each went 22-22 in intraleague games after the All-Star break. Because the two clubs have the same number of post-break intraleague games (44), the expanding window compares like-sized records at every step -- and their results line up game for game all the way back through every one of their 70 first-half intraleague games. The procedure runs out of steps: commissioner's discretion decides who makes the playoffs.
Extreme Tiebreaker Example: Guardians and Angels, settled by their second intraleague game of the season
The same pair, tied 87-75 for the last Wild Card. Level through head-to-head, division, intraleague, the post-break record and "last half plus" 1 through 68 -- separated only at plus 69, their second intraleague game of the season, with the first game paying the difference back. As deep as a two-club tie can go in 2026 and still be broken.
Extreme Tiebreaker Example: Dodgers and Nationals for the No. 1 seed, unresolvable
Two division winners at 102-60, tied for the National League's top seed and the bye that comes with it. The Dodgers and Nationals are the National League's only cross-division pair with a six-game series and the same number of post-break intraleague games (50), so the same construction works: 3-3 head to head, matching division and intraleague records, 29-21 each after the break, and identical results back through all 64 first-half intraleague games. Nothing in the procedure separates them.
Extreme Tiebreaker Example: a three-club tie that hands two of them to an unresolvable two-club tie
Guardians, Angels and Red Sox all finish 87-75, tied for the No. 6 seed with two of the three going home. Every season series among them is 3-3, so the three-club cascade applies: division records match, intraleague records match, all three are exactly .500 in post-break intraleague games. At "last half plus one" (excluding games among the tied clubs) Boston falls short and Cleveland and Los Angeles share the top figure -- which, per the text, sends those two to the two-club procedure. That procedure then exhausts every step as well. No three-club tie in 2026 can survive past plus one without the clubs going undefeated against the rest of the league; this is the deepest a group tie can go, and its ending is still a coin nobody has said how to flip.

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Scenario constructorFind complete seasons in which a club finishes with a given win total and still misses, or still makes, a spot.

Find waysfinish with exactlywins and still

Win them in a row, starting with their next game, and lose every game after

Diamondbacks are 78-69 with 15 games undecided in this scenario, so they can finish with 78 to 93 wins. Games already decided here, real or set by hand, stay as they are; only the undecided ones are searched.

Magic numbersFor every club, the fewest more wins that clinch each spot on the games as set here.

For every club, the fewest more wins that leave no way to miss each spot, found by the scenario search on the games as set here.

Elimination numbersFor every club, the fewest more wins that keep a way into each spot alive.

For every club, the fewest more wins that keep a way into each spot alive, found by the scenario search on the games as set here.