MLB home-game demand calendar (2026 season)
Daily per-metro panel of MLB home games (30 teams, 28 North-American team metros incl. Toronto, plus neutral-site host metros such as Mexico City, 2026 regular season + published 2026 postseason): game counts by kind (regular/postseason), division-game / primetime counts, neutral-site games attributed to the host metro, Friday/Saturday weekend and marquee-playoff flags, trailing-7d event density, a documented 0-100 local event-demand score, per-date cross-metro demand ranks and tiers. Join on date + metro to orders, bookings or foot traffic. Game dates/teams/venues are facts from ESPN's public team-schedule API (no login, key or clickwrap) -> commercial_use=yes with attribution.
- Rows
- 2,422
- Columns
- 19
- Source cadence
- Weekly
- Last refreshed
- Oct 1, 2026
- Theme
- economy
| Column | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| date | date | Game date in the venue metro's local timezone, ISO. |
| metro | string | Metro area of the home team's arena (neutral-site games use the host metro). |
| metro_state_prov | string | State/province of the metro. |
| country_code | string | ISO alpha-3 country code (USA/CAN/MEX). |
| leagues | string | League with a home game (always MLB). |
| home_teams | string | Comma-joined home-team abbreviations. |
| n_home_games | integer | Home games in the metro on this date. |
| n_regular | integer | Regular-season home games. |
| n_postseason | integer | Postseason home games. |
| n_div_game | integer | Home games against a same-division opponent (derived from the 2026 division table; False for TBD postseason entrants). |
| n_primetime | integer | Home games with first pitch at/after 19:00 ET (national night window). |
| n_neutral_site | integer | Home games played at a neutral venue, attributed to the host metro. |
| is_weekend | boolean | True for Friday/Saturday game dates. |
| marquee_event | boolean | True if any postseason home game. |
| games_trailing_7d | integer | Home games in the metro over [date-6d, date]. |
| event_demand_score | integer | 0-100 local demand score = min(100, 30*n_home_games + 25*n_postseason + 10*is_weekend + 5*n_div_game + min(15, 3*games_trailing_7d)). |
| demand_rank | integer | Per-date cross-metro rank (1 = highest score). |
| demand_tier | integer | Fixed-cut tier: 4 if score>=75, 3 if >=50, 2 if >=25, else 1. |
| row_hash | string | md5(date|metro|n_home_games|leagues|home_teams|score)[:16]. |
First 10 sample rows — a preview, not the complete dataset.
| date | metro | metro_state_prov | country_code | leagues | home_teams | n_home_games | n_regular | n_postseason | n_div_game | n_primetime | n_neutral_site | is_weekend | marquee_event | games_trailing_7d | event_demand_score | demand_rank | demand_tier | row_hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-25 | San Francisco | CA | USA | MLB | SF | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 1 | 2 | a592cd215b0f1692 |
| 2026-03-26 | Baltimore | MD | USA | MLB | BAL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 3 | 2 | 62bd7a6788284262 |
| 2026-03-26 | Chicago | IL | USA | MLB | CHC | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 4 | 2 | da75428df2836ccc |
| 2026-03-26 | Cincinnati | OH | USA | MLB | CIN | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 5 | 2 | 67bd2e25b25f269d |
| 2026-03-26 | Houston | TX | USA | MLB | HOU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 38 | 1 | 2 | 1c0e00156b652b9d |
| 2026-03-26 | Los Angeles | CA | USA | MLB | LAD | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 38 | 2 | 2 | 67947d70eb7ee401 |
| 2026-03-26 | Milwaukee | WI | USA | MLB | MIL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 6 | 2 | 3d62412896267630 |
| 2026-03-26 | New York | NY | USA | MLB | NYM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 7 | 2 | aa02711c4e8c31aa |
| 2026-03-26 | Philadelphia | PA | USA | MLB | PHI | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 8 | 2 | ca16fb371af9bd8a |
| 2026-03-26 | San Diego | CA | USA | MLB | SD | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 73772d404fd68c62 |
Profiled Oct 2, 2026 from snapshot 20261001T232537Z-d51eefc9a3d0
Measured- Completeness
- 100%
- Rows
- 2,422
- Columns
- 19
- Columns with gaps
- 0
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| datedate | 0% | 222 | Mar 25, 2026 → Oct 10, 2026 | — |
| metrovarchar | 0% | 33 | — |
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| metro_state_provvarchar | 0% | 23 | — |
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| country_codevarchar | 0% | 3 | — |
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| leaguesvarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
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| home_teamsvarchar | 0% | 33 | — |
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| n_home_gamesbigint | 0% | 3 | 1 → 3median 1 | 1 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_regularbigint | 0% | 4 | 0 → 3median 1 | 1 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_postseasonbigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| n_div_gamebigint | 0% | 3 | 0 → 2median 0 | 13 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_primetimebigint | 0% | 3 | 0 → 2median 0 | 4 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_neutral_sitebigint | 0% | 2 | 0 → 1median 0 | |
| is_weekendboolean | 0% | 2 | — |
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| marquee_eventboolean | 0% | 2 | — |
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| games_trailing_7dbigint | 0% | 13 | 1 → 13median 4 | 18 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| event_demand_scorebigint | 0% | 39 | 33 → 100median 45 | 20 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| demand_rankbigint | 0% | 17 | 1 → 15median 7 | |
| demand_tierbigint | 0% | 3 | 2 → 4median 2 | |
| row_hashvarchar | 0% | 2,104 | — |
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/mlb_home_game_intel/na_mlb_home_games_daily" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/mlb_home_game_intel/na_mlb_home_games_daily").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
print(row)API endpoint: https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/mlb_home_game_intel/na_mlb_home_games_daily
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title = {{MLB home-game demand calendar (2026 season)}},
author = {{MLB home-game demand calendar (ESPN)}},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Datazimuts},
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