Travel log
Your saved trips, and your Passport: the places you’ve been and want to go, with a stamp for each game you’ve seen.
Saved trips
A saved trip keeps the settings that produced it, not just the route. "View" shows the route exactly as you saved it. "Re-run with fresh data" searches again with today's schedules, so it can come back different.
to save trips and see them here.
No saved trips yet. Plan a route, then use "Save this trip" under your results.
Passport
Your personal travel record. Mark the cities, teams and venues you've already been to, and the ones you still want to see. The map fills in the states, and the Canadian provinces along the border, that you've covered. Pick the goal New states or provinces and GameDetour leans toward places you haven't been; pick My bucket list and the places you want to go are added to Must include for you.
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Stamps
Want to go
Been there
Saved to this browser only — create an account to keep it for good.
Clears the form choices, favorite teams, want-to-go list and map states this browser remembers. Places you’ve marked as visited, your account and your saved trips stay.
Your account
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How it works
Questions people ask, in plain answers. Tap a question to open it.
The basics
What does GameDetour do?
What makes a trip possible
These are rules, not preferences. If a drive breaks one of them, that combination of games is dropped, however good it looks otherwise.
How are drive times worked out?
How early do I have to arrive?
What if a game ends late and the next drive is long?
What if a drive is longer than my daily limit?
Can I see a game on my last day?
Is there a limit on how far it will go?
What about a game with no announced time?
How the best route is picked
Once a set of games is possible, it competes with every other possible set.
Does the order of the games matter?
How does GameDetour choose between trips that work?
Games you must include come first. After that, games that match your Goal count the most, then your favorite teams’ games, then everything else. Of all the trips that work, the one with the highest total wins; with no Goal chosen, that simply means the most games.
Show the numbers
Each kind of game gets a weight: how many times more it counts than an ordinary game.
For all practical purposes, a requirement. If it can possibly fit, it gets fit, even if the route looks less tidy. A city or venue you add needs one game; once it has one, its other games count like any other.
Your Goal (a league or two, your favorite teams, or states you haven’t been to) makes matching games count five times as much as an ordinary one. It leans the trip toward them without removing the rest.
Counts double in every search, so it wins out over an ordinary game when GameDetour has to choose. A thumb on the scale, not a demand. It stacks with your Goal.
The baseline. Every real game you can make it to counts toward a better trip, and more of them is what GameDetour maximizes by default.
What does Goal do?
What does Must include do?
What does Trip style do?
Dates, places and leagues
Where do I start and end?
What does “Flexible dates” do?
Can I set exact times?
What is Quick start?
Which leagues are included?
Customize your trip
Can I limit how many games?
Can I limit how much I drive?
What does “First game near my starting location” do?
What do the game filters do?
Can the same team show up twice?
Your defaults, Passport and account
What are Your defaults?
How do favorite teams and avoid lists work?
What is the Passport?
Do I need an account?
Terms of Use
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Using GameDetour means agreeing to these terms
GameDetour is a free web app that helps you plan road trips around live sporting events. By using the site, you agree to these terms and to our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use it. You must be at least 13 years old.
Accounts
You can use most of the site without an account. An account needs only a username and a password. You are responsible for keeping your password safe and for what happens under your account. We do not store an email address, so we cannot recover a lost password or a lost account. You can delete your account yourself at any time.
What you may not do
- Use bots, scrapers or scripts to copy the site's data or to send searches faster than a person could.
- Try to break, overload, probe or get around the site's limits or security, including the admin area.
- Use someone else's account, or try to guess their password.
- Send spam, threats, or illegal content through the Contact page.
- Use the site for anything unlawful.
Schedules, drive times and routes can be wrong
Game dates, times and venues come from public sources and change often. Drive times and routes are estimates and do not know about traffic, weather, closures or construction. Always confirm a game with the team or league, and confirm tickets, hotels and directions with the provider, before you commit money or start driving. Drive safely and follow the law.
Team names and data sources
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Ads and affiliate links
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Ending or suspending access
We may limit, suspend or delete an account, or block access to the site, if someone breaks these terms or puts the site at risk. You can stop using GameDetour, and delete your account, whenever you like.
The service is provided as is
GameDetour is free and provided "as is" and "as available." We make no promises that it will always work, be accurate, be secure, or be free of errors, and we may change it or shut it down at any time.
Limit of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, GameDetour and its operator are not liable for any loss or damage from using, or being unable to use, the site. That includes missed games, wrong times, wasted travel, lost bookings, and lost saved trips. Our total liability to you for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us to use GameDetour, which is $0. Some places do not allow these limits, so they apply only as far as your local law permits.
Changes
We may change the site or these terms. When we change the terms, we will update this page and its date. Using GameDetour after a change means you accept the new terms.
Governing law and contact
These terms are governed by United States law and the law of the state where the operator is based, without regard to conflict-of-law rules. For questions about these terms, use the Contact page on gamedetour.com.
Contact
Found a wrong stadium, a missing game, or something that doesn't work? Tell us here. We read every message.
We save your message, the topic you pick, the line below if you fill it in, and the time you sent it. Nothing else about you is saved with it. We can't send email from this page, so if you'd like an answer, tell us how to reach you.
Live example · a real route
Your next trip, already on the map.
Pick where you’re starting and when you can go. GameDetour finds the pro and college games you can reach, in a route you could actually drive.
From the first mile to the last. No spreadsheet.
Every stop from the map above, in driving order — full matchups and game times for each one.
Your route
Drive times are estimates and don’t account for traffic.
As scheduled at the time of this search — a league between seasons, or a playoff picture not yet set, simply won’t have games here yet.
Pro and college leagues, checked at once — then put on the map.
Keep what you plan.
An account saves your trips and remembers your preferences. Nothing more. There’s no email, so keep your password safe.