Playoff Qualifier is an annual sports series on Kalshi, with markets like “Will the Columbus Blue Jackets qualify for the playoffs in the 2026-27 NHL season?”. The Kalshi Eye archive lists 32 of its markets and has 13 days of daily Parquet files from October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026 (36 MB), with every order book change and trade.

Venue: Kalshi, series KXNHLPLAYOFF
Category: Sports, annual
Markets: 32 (0 settled, 32 open)
Files: 13 days, October 12, 2026 to October 24, 2026, 36 MB, 3,069,844 rows
Datasets: Order book (L2, incremental), Order book snapshots (top 10, 1 second), Top of book (every change), Top of book (1-minute bars), Trades

Open Playoff Qualifier in Markets to see every day and market, then export the days you need. Free sample files of each dataset are on the Kalshi data page.

Reading the files

Every KXNHLPLAYOFF trade on October 24, 2026, in DuckDB:

SELECT ts_recv, ticker, yes_price, size, taker_side
FROM 'kalshieye-data/trades/date=2026-10-24/series=KXNHLPLAYOFF/trades-KXNHLPLAYOFF-2026-10-24.parquet'
ORDER BY ts_recv;

To test a strategy on this series, see How to backtest Kalshi markets.

Related Kalshi series

Pro Basketball Playoff Qualifier (KXNBAPLAYOFF): 30 markets, 13 days of files
College Football Playoff Qualifiers (KXNCAAFPLAYOFF): 59 markets, 13 days of files
College Football Playoff Seed (KXNCAAFSEED): 600 markets, 13 days of files
NBA Playoff Seed (KXNBASEED): 210 markets, 13 days of files
Pro Baseball Playoff Leader (KXMLBLEADERPLAYOFF): 194 markets, 13 days of files
Pro Football Round Qualifier (KXNFLROUNDQUAL): 64 markets, 13 days of files

Figures through October 24, 2026. All Kalshi series with pages are listed on Kalshi series.