Men's college-basketball home-game demand calendar (2026-27)
Daily per-metro panel of NCAA Division I men's basketball home games (362 teams, ~290 US metros, 2026-27 season): game counts by kind (regular/tournament/postseason), conference-game / ranked-matchup / primetime counts, neutral-site games attributed to the host metro, Friday/Saturday weekend and marquee 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 scoreboard API (no login, key or clickwrap) -> commercial_use=yes with attribution.
- Rows
- 5,225
- Columns
- 21
- 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; BHS/MEX/VIR/ITA for non-US neutral venues). |
| leagues | string | League with a home game (always NCAAM). |
| home_teams | string | Comma-joined designated 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 (seasonType 3) home games. |
| n_tournament | integer | Exempt-tournament home games (TRNMNT type; conference/NCAA tournament games when published). |
| n_conf_game | integer | In-conference home games (ESPN flag). |
| n_ranked_matchup | integer | Home games with either team in ESPN's curated top 25. |
| n_primetime | integer | Home games tipping off 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 score >= 80 or any tournament/ postseason 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 + 30*n_postseason + 20*n_tournament + 20*is_weekend + 15*n_primetime + 10*n_conf_game + 10*n_ranked_matchup + 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_tournament | n_conf_game | n_ranked_matchup | n_primetime | n_neutral_site | is_weekend | marquee_event | games_trailing_7d | event_demand_score | demand_rank | demand_tier | row_hash |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-01 | Albuquerque | NM | USA | NCAAM | UNM | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 4 | 2 | 1674494ef77acd19 |
| 2026-11-01 | Austin | TX | USA | NCAAM | TEX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 5 | 2 | 69694f506df54316 |
| 2026-11-01 | Boulder | CO | USA | NCAAM | COLO | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 6 | 2 | be65aa1132bcfdf7 |
| 2026-11-01 | Cape Girardeau | MO | USA | NCAAM | SEMO | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 7 | 2 | 4539a3ef8d611a07 |
| 2026-11-01 | Cedar City | UT | USA | NCAAM | SUU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 8 | 2 | 51f5b30d09830e59 |
| 2026-11-01 | Champaign | IL | USA | NCAAM | ILL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 9 | 2 | 6ab4713dea97ee02 |
| 2026-11-01 | Chicago | IL | USA | NCAAM | DEP,LUC | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 2 | 66 | 2 | 3 | 12e1c6741de46bf7 |
| 2026-11-01 | Clarksville | TN | USA | NCAAM | APSU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 10 | 2 | a4e2db6449fb1e33 |
| 2026-11-01 | Corvallis | OR | USA | NCAAM | ORST | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 11 | 2 | 2117f82981208fc9 |
| 2026-11-01 | Dallas, TX | TX | USA | NCAAM | SMU | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | false | false | 1 | 33 | 12 | 2 | f7f1f2533b5fc76d |
Profiled Oct 1, 2026 from snapshot 20261001T214340Z-d4e0a8807b82
Measured- Completeness
- 100%
- Rows
- 5,225
- Columns
- 21
- Columns with gaps
- 0
| Column | Missing | Distinct | Range | Distribution |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| datedate | 0% | 122 | Nov 1, 2026 → Mar 7, 2027 | — |
| metrovarchar | 0% | 331 | — |
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| metro_state_provvarchar | 0% | 61 | — |
|
| country_codevarchar | 0% | 5 | — |
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| leaguesvarchar | 0% | 1 | — |
|
| home_teamsvarchar | 0% | 585 | — |
|
| n_home_gamesbigint | 0% | 9 | 1 → 10median 1 | 34 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_regularbigint | 0% | 9 | 0 → 7median 1 | 74 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_postseasonbigint | 0% | 1 | 0 → 0median 0 | |
| n_tournamentbigint | 0% | 6 | 0 → 10median 0 | 28 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_conf_gamebigint | 0% | 9 | 0 → 7median 1 | 39 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_ranked_matchupbigint | 0% | 1 | 0 → 0median 0 | |
| n_primetimebigint | 0% | 4 | 0 → 3median 0 | 26 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| n_neutral_sitebigint | 0% | 7 | 0 → 10median 0 | 53 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| is_weekendboolean | 0% | 2 | — |
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| marquee_eventboolean | 0% | 2 | — |
|
| games_trailing_7dbigint | 0% | 21 | 1 → 23median 2 | 43 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| event_demand_scorebigint | 0% | 52 | 33 → 100median 52 | |
| demand_rankbigint | 0% | 96 | 1 → 97median 22 | 50 outside 1st–99th percentile |
| demand_tierbigint | 0% | 3 | 2 → 4median 3 | |
| row_hashvarchar | 0% | 5,665 | — |
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curl "https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ncaam_home_game_intel/ncaam_home_game_demand_daily" | jq '{title, rows, columns_count, license}'import requests
ds = requests.get("https://datazimuts.com/v1/datasets/ncaam_home_game_intel/ncaam_home_game_demand_daily").json()
print(ds["title"], ds["rows"], "rows")
# Sample rows for an LLM context window
for row in ds.get("sample_rows", [])[:5]:
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year = {2026},
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