In this column, you may remember that I’ve talked a bit about the magic number - a number of points a club has to hit in order to make the Liguilla. It’s the number of points a club has against the maximum possible points all others teams have; however many points a team has minus the maximum possible points the ninth placed team has is the team’s magic number.
The opposite of the magic number is the tragic number, the number of points a team has until it can no longer mathematically qualify for the Liguilla.