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The Pittsburgh Pirates' nearest audiences span an unusually wide range of entity types — athletes, sports teams, regional food chains, and retail brands — with no single neighbor dominating and scores remaining elevated across the full top 10.
The shape is broad. Pittsburgh Penguins leads at 0.99, the highest score in the set, but the drop-off is gradual rather than steep: Andrew McCutchen follows at 0.95, then a cluster of Steelers-affiliated athletes — Troy Polamalu (0.91), Ben Roethlisberger (0.91), James Harrison (0.90), and Ryan Shazier (0.90). Six of the top 10 neighbors are Athletes (subcategory), and three are Sports Teams — the Penguins, Pittsburgh Steelers (0.86), and Cleveland Indians (0.85). The one non-sports entry in the top 10 is Sheetz (0.91), a regional restaurant brand, which sits higher than several of the athlete neighbors — a cross-kind result that stands out in an otherwise sports-dense cluster. Notably, the athlete neighbors are overwhelmingly NFL-affiliated rather than MLB, meaning the Pirates' audience overlaps more with football fandom than with baseball peers in the top 10; no other MLB team appears until the Indians at position 10.
The overall picture is a Pittsburgh-and-Ohio-region sports audience that travels across leagues and franchises, with a regional consumer brand embedded near the top of the similarity stack.
