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Scorigami - A sports term defined as a final score that has never happened before in a competition before. This was first applied to the NFL in 2016 by SB Nation (), as American football has a unique scoring system where one can add two (safety), three (field goal), six (touchdown, missed conversion), seven (touchdown, converted), eight (touchdown, two-point conversion), or even one (really rare play that has happened a few times in college football) point when a team scores. Scorigami has a cult following on Twitter, because somebody created a Twitter bot that takes live games and analyses the odds of a scorigami occurring.
Scorigamis in the NFL are rare now. In the AFL, thanks to higher scoring, a straightforward method of scoring (six for a goal and one for a behind), and your typical blowout, the scorigami happens about once per round. In 2019, seventeen scorigamis happened.
Round 1:
GWS 112-40 Essendon
Fremantle 141-59 North Melbourne
Round 3:
Essendon 130-112 Melbourne
Round 6:
Geelong 104-46 West Coast
Round 9:
GWS 138-45 Carlton
Round 10:
Richmond 73-50 Essendon
Round 11:
Essendon 74-33 Carlton
Round 14:
West Coast 106-71 Essendon
Round 16:
Richmond 150-58 Gold Coast
West Coast 122-31 Fremantle
Round 20:
Collingwood 120-51 Gold Coast
Round 21:
Hawthorn 85-29 GWS
Brisbane 144-53 Gold Coast
Western Bulldogs 137-33 Essendon
Geelong 69-14 North Melbourne
Round 22:
Western Bulldogs 126-65 GWS
Grand Final:
Richmond 114-25 GWS
Matter of Stats visualises the progress of scorigami here (http://www.matterofstats.com/data-visualisations-scores). A spike from the late seventies is obviously attributed to the rise in higher-scoring games, where scorigamis such as 204-141, 188-149 and 171-163 started to pop up. The extent of AFL scorigami is limited to between 1 and 239 of course, which brings me to this: Constructing a scorigami that spans all senior leagues since the inception of behinds.
With that, the scorigami grows. Because of the vast number of leagues, unsightly blank spots in the middle are filled in, creating a solid splatter. It's pretty much a given that, say, 99.9% of all possible combinations of scores between 0 and 130 can be filled in (of course, truly unbelievable scores like 1-0 or 1-1 are likely to stay blank unless sleuths uncover such a result from the early 1900's). What's interesting is finding out how far the scorigami map can reach.
You would expect a decently-filled region of high-scoring competitive games such as 150-145, 160-158, before it eventually fades out to roughly 192-180 (the most extensive we know of). This is the peak of competitive football, though ridiculous outliers such as 275-145 and 317-79 (both real) will exist, and from there it slopes down as the winning team scores more points (such as 225-109, 251-62, 289-31), and eventually flattening, at which winning teams score more than 50 goals and losing teams are lucky to kick two. Think of a positively-skewed distribution.
Here's a full list of the 6494 unique results the AFL has had so far:
And here's a starting contribution:
Nyora 255-117 Catani (2007 Ellinbank DFL Grand Final)
Scorigamis in the NFL are rare now. In the AFL, thanks to higher scoring, a straightforward method of scoring (six for a goal and one for a behind), and your typical blowout, the scorigami happens about once per round. In 2019, seventeen scorigamis happened.
Round 1:
GWS 112-40 Essendon
Fremantle 141-59 North Melbourne
Round 3:
Essendon 130-112 Melbourne
Round 6:
Geelong 104-46 West Coast
Round 9:
GWS 138-45 Carlton
Round 10:
Richmond 73-50 Essendon
Round 11:
Essendon 74-33 Carlton
Round 14:
West Coast 106-71 Essendon
Round 16:
Richmond 150-58 Gold Coast
West Coast 122-31 Fremantle
Round 20:
Collingwood 120-51 Gold Coast
Round 21:
Hawthorn 85-29 GWS
Brisbane 144-53 Gold Coast
Western Bulldogs 137-33 Essendon
Geelong 69-14 North Melbourne
Round 22:
Western Bulldogs 126-65 GWS
Grand Final:
Richmond 114-25 GWS
Matter of Stats visualises the progress of scorigami here (http://www.matterofstats.com/data-visualisations-scores). A spike from the late seventies is obviously attributed to the rise in higher-scoring games, where scorigamis such as 204-141, 188-149 and 171-163 started to pop up. The extent of AFL scorigami is limited to between 1 and 239 of course, which brings me to this: Constructing a scorigami that spans all senior leagues since the inception of behinds.
With that, the scorigami grows. Because of the vast number of leagues, unsightly blank spots in the middle are filled in, creating a solid splatter. It's pretty much a given that, say, 99.9% of all possible combinations of scores between 0 and 130 can be filled in (of course, truly unbelievable scores like 1-0 or 1-1 are likely to stay blank unless sleuths uncover such a result from the early 1900's). What's interesting is finding out how far the scorigami map can reach.
You would expect a decently-filled region of high-scoring competitive games such as 150-145, 160-158, before it eventually fades out to roughly 192-180 (the most extensive we know of). This is the peak of competitive football, though ridiculous outliers such as 275-145 and 317-79 (both real) will exist, and from there it slopes down as the winning team scores more points (such as 225-109, 251-62, 289-31), and eventually flattening, at which winning teams score more than 50 goals and losing teams are lucky to kick two. Think of a positively-skewed distribution.
Here's a full list of the 6494 unique results the AFL has had so far:
And here's a starting contribution:
Nyora 255-117 Catani (2007 Ellinbank DFL Grand Final)
