How the MLB Teams bracket works
Rank MLB teams without dragging anything into rows. You get one matchup at a time — New York Yankees or Los Angeles Dodgers? Boston Red Sox or Chicago Cubs? — and after 31 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. A straight list invites you to hedge. A matchup does not, and that is what makes the final 32-deep order worth screenshotting.
This bracket runs 5 rounds at the default 32-slot size (Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship), with every one of the 32 contenders in the field. Seeding is random, which means a replay is a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. You can also play it at 8 or 16 slots for a shorter or longer run.
31 picks, 5 rounds
- Round of 3216 matchups
- Sweet 168 matchups
- Elite 84 matchups
- Final Four2 matchups
- Championship1 matchup
Roughly 2-4 minutes start to finish.
All 32 entrants
All 32 entrants are listed below, including New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox and Chicago Cubs.
New York Yankees
AL East
Los Angeles Dodgers
NL West
Boston Red Sox
AL East
Chicago Cubs
NL Central
St. Louis Cardinals
NL Central
Atlanta Braves
NL East
San Francisco Giants
NL West
Houston Astros
AL West
Philadelphia Phillies
NL East
New York Mets
NL East
Chicago White Sox
AL Central
Texas Rangers
AL West
Minnesota Twins
AL Central
Detroit Tigers
AL Central
Cincinnati Reds
NL Central
San Diego Padres
NL West
Los Angeles Angels
AL West
Baltimore Orioles
AL East
Seattle Mariners
AL West
Milwaukee Brewers
NL Central
Tampa Bay Rays
AL East
Toronto Blue Jays
AL East
Pittsburgh Pirates
NL Central
Washington Nationals
NL East
Oakland Athletics
AL West
Cleveland Guardians
AL Central
Kansas City Royals
AL Central
Colorado Rockies
NL West
Arizona Diamondbacks
NL West
Miami Marlins
NL East
Big Red Machine (1970s)
Historic Dynasty
1927 Yankees
Historic Dynasty
Would rather group them than rank them? Open all 32 in the tier list maker and sort them into S, A, B, C, D and F tiers instead — same entrants, no matchups.
How everyone else ranked them
Aggregated from 1 completed MLB Teams brackets. Win rate is the share of head-to-head matchups each entrant has won across every play.
- 1
New York Yankees
5W - 0L · won 1 bracket
100%
win rate
- 2
1927 Yankees
4W - 1L
80%
win rate
- 3
Philadelphia Phillies
3W - 1L
75%
win rate
- 4
Tampa Bay Rays
3W - 1L
75%
win rate
- 5
Chicago Cubs
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 6
San Francisco Giants
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 7
San Diego Padres
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 8
Oakland Athletics
2W - 1L
67%
win rate
- 9
Houston Astros
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
- 10
New York Mets
1W - 1L
50%
win rate
Getting a ranking you actually agree with
- 1Decide your criteria before you start — peak, longevity or trophies — and hold to it all the way through.
- 2The default run puts all 32 contenders in the draw. Short on time? Drop to 16 slots — a quicker run over a random 16 of them.
- 3If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
MLB Teams bracket FAQ
How many contenders are in the MLB Teams bracket?
The pool holds 32 contenders. A default run puts all of them in the draw and takes 31 picks across 5 rounds: Round of 32, Sweet 16, Elite 8, Final Four, Championship. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 32 slots.
Which contenders are included?
New York Yankees, Los Angeles Dodgers, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, St. Louis Cardinals, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants, Houston Astros, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox and Texas Rangers, plus 20 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the rank MLB teams take?
About 2-4 minutes — 31 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to a 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up and nothing is stored until you reach the final.
Is this a mlb teams tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other contender grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 31 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two contenders that never met. If you would rather place the contenders into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 32 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community mlb teams ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the MLB Teams community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 32 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which contenders are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own contenders, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 32 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.