About this site
The idea
LA sports teams and local restaurant chains have run "win and get a deal" promotions for years — Panda Express, McDonald's, Jack in the Box, and others have all tied a free or discounted item to a Dodgers win, a home game, or some other in-game trigger. The catch is that the promo terms are scattered across app push notifications, restaurant social accounts, and word of mouth, and the conditions are often specific enough (home game and a win, a particular stat threshold, a date window) that it's genuinely easy to miss whether a deal is live on any given day. Is it Panda day? exists to answer that one question directly: is today's game enough to unlock the deal, yes or no.
How the trigger checking works
Every deal on this site is defined as a small set of conditions against a specific team's previous game — things like "played at home," "won," "scored at least 6 runs," or "turned a double play." Each morning, the site pulls that team's most recent completed game and checks every condition against it. A deal only shows as active when every one of its conditions is met — for example, the Panda Express deal specifically needs a Dodgers home win, so a road win or a home loss both correctly show as inactive.
Where the data comes from
Dodgers and Angels results come from the official, public MLB Stats API — the same data source MLB.com itself is built on — including box score detail like strikeouts and double plays for the deals that key off those stats. Other leagues (NBA, NHL, MLS, NFL) use ESPN's public scoreboard API. If a team's league is out of season, or a game hasn't finished yet, that deal simply doesn't appear rather than guessing — nothing on this site is ever mocked or estimated.
Who curates the deals
The trigger conditions, promo codes, and redemption steps are entered by hand and kept current manually — there's no public API for "current fast food promotions." If a deal's terms look wrong or out of date, that's the part of the site most likely to need a fix, since restaurant promotions change without much notice.
What's next
The deal history page tracks the last two weeks of results so you can see how often a given deal actually unlocks. See the privacy policy for how the site handles data and advertising.