BOSTON--Five weeks left in the season, right about the time playoff races are really heating up, right?

Well, not this year. With 32 games left to be played, the Red Sox have a 99.1 percent chance of advancing to the playoffs, according to coolstandings.com. The New York Yankees have a 99 percent chance, according to the website.

It's not just the AL East. The Tigers are rated an 86.7 percent chance, the Rangers 72 percent, although the Angels might change that number this weekend, as they arrive in Arlington for a three-game series only two games behind.

National League? The Phillies are 99.9 percent assured of going, the Braves 99.2 percent, the Brewers 98.9 percent and the Diamondbacks 75,4 percent.

There is no wild-card race in either league. In the AL, Tampa Bay has a 1.3 percent probability, the highest of any team outside the Yanks and Red Sox, while the Braves are rated as having a 99.2 percent chance of representing the NL. The Angels are 8 games behind the Yankees and the Rays 8 1/2 games behind in the AL wild-card race, while the Giants are 9 1/2 games behind the Braves.

The only suspense, if you want to call it that, for the Sox is whether they finish ahead of the Yankees in the division race. In both 2005 and 2008, the Sox played the Yankees on the final weekend of the season with the division title in the balance. In '05, the Yanks celebrated winning the division on Saturday, the Sox celebrated winning the wild card the next day at Fenway. In '08, the Sox threw David Pauley against Alfredo Aceves. The Yanks won the division that year, too.