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Women's Pro Baseball League

Women's baseball league in the United States

23×
vs its own baseline
11×
year on year
+87.5%
per month, last 90 days
79
confidence / 100
Share of all English Wikipedia traffic · weekly 97 weeks to 2 Sep 2026 Normalised — sitewide swings removed

Why we think this is real

Six tests · all shown, pass or fail

The floor moved, not just the peak

Its quietest recent week still sits 498% above the old baseline. A news spike leaves the floor where it was.

5.98×

Not one event

Share of the last four months of extra attention that landed in its busiest seven days. High means a single story, not a trend.

29%

Not the calendar

How much of this topic's shape repeats every year. The annual cycle is estimated per topic and divided out before anything is measured.

25%

Human traffic

Bot and scraper traffic is flat across the week. Anything with implausibly low day-to-day variation, or with no weekday/weekend pattern at all, is dropped before it reaches this page.

1.41× weekend

Enough history to judge

Long enough to separate this year's move from last year's level.

674 days

Confirmed somewhere else

No second source yet. Common for consumer and culture topics, which do not show up in developer data.

0 of 4 sources

What it is

Wikipedia

The Women’s Pro Baseball League (WPBL) is an American professional women's baseball league. Co-founded by Justine Siegal and Keith Stein, the league began its first season on August 1, 2026 with four teams representing four cities across the United States: the Boston Hunters, New York Heights, Los Angeles Queens, and San Francisco Firebells. Robin Roberts Stadium in Springfield, Illinois, serves as a neutral venue for all games played during the inaugural season.

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