Scorigami

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Short description: Scoring combination not seen before in a sport

In sports, a scorigami (a portmanteau of score and origami) is a scoring combination that has never happened before in a sport or league's history.[1] The term was originated by sportswriter Jon Bois for American football scores in the National Football League (NFL) and is primarily used in this context.

History

The term was coined by SB Nation sportswriter Jon Bois in 2014 and most commonly refers to scores in American football, particularly in the National Football League (NFL). Bois charted all of the distinct scores in professional football since the inaugural season of the American Professional Football Association in 1920. Due to the unusual point values in football compared to other team sports, the distribution of the chart was irregular. Bois noted scorelines that could occur but had not yet done so, referring to the occurrence of a never before seen scoreline as "scorigami".[2] As an example, the Seattle Seahawks' 43–8 win over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII was scorigami, as no prior NFL game had ever finished 43–8.[3] Scorigamis typically have high scores, with the winner often scoring over 50 points, due to the historic tendency, especially in the NFL's earlier days, for games to be low scoring. However, there are some low scoring scorigamis, such as the Eagle's 25-11 win over the Buccaneers in 2023. [4] Scorigamis get harder to achieve each NFL season because once a score occurs just one time, the score can never be a scorigami again in any future NFL season.

A notable feature of the chart that Bois created was the highly unlikely possibility, not yet fulfilled, of a team ending a game with a single point due to the potential for the defense to score a conversion safety. This renders 1-point totals theoretically possible for the losing side against opposition scores either exactly 6, or 8 or more.[2]

Since the term's inception, a Twitter bot has tracked scorigamis in the NFL.[5] The most recent scorigami for an NFL game was when the Baltimore Ravens defeated the Miami Dolphins by a score of 56–19 on December 31, 2023, being the 1,084th distinct score and the ninth of the 2023 NFL season.[6] Bois and other media observers have noted the tendency of the Seattle Seahawks under head coach Pete Carroll to create scorigamis;[7] Bois dubbed Carroll "the wizard of modern Scorigami, without question".[2] From 2011 to 2018, the Seahawks had exactly one scorigami per season.[8][9] Carroll himself has acknowledged his team's frequent scorigamis, joking to reporters after another game with a unique score, "That's ridiculous. I don't know how that happens. I'm thrilled that that happened again, for no reason. It's just something we've been working on in the offseason."[10].

There were 9 NFL scorigamis in 2023, 3 of which involved the Miami Dolphins. In 3 of the 9 scorigamis, the winner scored over 50 points. [11]

There has been occasional uses of the term for other sports. In college football, several scorigamis have occurred in each season since 2000. College football scorigamis are harder to achieve than NFL scorigamis because there are a much larger number of CFB games, which results in more CFB scores that have already occurred in the past. Furthermore, the number of CFB scorigamis has slowly but surely decreased over time because like in the NFL, once a score occurs one time in college, it can never be a scorigami again in any future CFB season. There were 15 college football scorigamis in 2023, the last of which was Notre Dame's 40-8 Sun Bowl victory over Oregon State; this is a decline from many season in the oughts (such as 2002, 2004 and 2008) where there were over 20 scorigamis a season. [12] Although the 15 CFB scorigamis were more than the 9 NFL scorigamis the same year, this represented a much lower percentage of college football games, as there were 133 FBS teams in 2023 [13], but only 32 NFL teams.

Scorigamis are much harder to achieve in any sport other than football because 1. The much larger number of past games in basketball and baseball results in more historic past scores that have already been achieved 2. Basketball and baseball scores do not go by 3s and 7s like football scores usually do, and baseball and basketball do not have unusual ways of scoring like safeties and two point conversions. On September 9, 2020, Major League Baseball (MLB) had its first scorigami in 21 years, a 29–9 victory by the Atlanta Braves over the Miami Marlins—the previous scorigami for an MLB game had been a 24–12 win by the Cincinnati Reds over the Colorado Rockies on May 19, 1999.[14]

The concept has also been extended to weather, with first-time occurrences of combinations of daily maximum and minimum temperatures at a location being termed "weathergami".[15][16]

References

  1. ↑ Rogers, Joshua (September 6, 2021). "What Does Scorigami Mean in the NFL and Where Does It Come From?" (in en-GB). HITC. United Kingdom. https://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2021/09/06/what-does-scorigami-mean/. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Bois, Jon (December 7, 2016). "Chart Party: Scorigami, or the Story of Every NFL Final Score that has Ever Happened" (in en). SB Nation. https://www.sbnation.com/2016/12/7/13856392/chart-party-scorigami. 
  3. ↑ Whitney, Ched (January 31, 2019). "Will Super Bowl Scorigami Happen Again?" (in en). Gaming Today. https://www.gamingtoday.com/news/will-super-bowl-scorigami-happen-again/. 
  4. ↑ https://www.wthr.com/article/sports/nfl/philadelphia-eagles-win-over-tampa-bay-buccaneers-ended-with-score-thats-never-happened-in-nfl-history-scorigami/531-2e8a8694-5216-4c42-be8c-05cf4ce56433
  5. ↑ Day, Lewin (January 22, 2020). "Scorigami Bot Charts NFL History In The Making" (in en-US). Hackaday. https://hackaday.com/2020/01/22/scorigami-bot-charts-nfl-history-in-the-making/. 
  6. ↑ Scorigami [@NFL_Scorigami] (December 31, 2023). "MIA 19 - 56 BAL Final That's Scorigami!! It's the 1084th unique final score in NFL history." (in en). https://twitter.com/NFL_Scorigami/status/1741568387736604788. 
  7. ↑ Alexander, Mookie (October 2, 2022). "Seahawks Rediscover the Art of Scorigami" (in en). Field Gulls. https://www.fieldgulls.com/2022/10/2/23384033/seahawks-rediscover-the-art-of-scorigami-nfl-stats-jon-bois. 
  8. ↑ Musgrove, Kole (December 3, 2018). "Seahawks Continue Bizarre 'Scorigami' Streak Under Pete Carroll" (in en-US). USA Today. https://seahawkswire.usatoday.com/2018/12/03/seahawks-continue-bizarre-scorigami-streak-under-pete-carroll/. 
  9. ↑ Alexander, Mookie (January 18, 2020). "The "Scorigami" Streak is Over for the Seahawks" (in en). Field Gulls. https://www.fieldgulls.com/2020/1/18/21072023/scorigami-streak-seattle-seahawks-nfl. 
  10. ↑ "Seattle Seahawks Head Coach Pete Carroll Jokes about Scorigami: 'It's Something We've Been Working on in the Offseason'" (in en). National Football League. https://www.nfl.com/videos/seattle-seahawks-head-coach-pete-carroll-jokes-about-scorigami-it-s-somet-287701. 
  11. ↑ https://primetimesportstalk.com/2023-nfl-scorigami-tracker/
  12. ↑ http://ec2-18-222-199-223.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com:8080/stats/scorigami
  13. ↑ https://fansided.com/2023/05/27/college-football-teams-fbs-level/
  14. ↑ Werle, Andy (September 10, 2020). "For 1st Time Since '99, a Score Not Seen Before" (in en). Major League Baseball. https://www.mlb.com/news/marlins-braves-first-mlb-game-with-29-9-score. 
  15. ↑ Kahl, Jonathan D. W. (16 October 2023). "Weathergami". Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society 104 (10): E1790–E1798. doi:10.1175/BAMS-D-23-0035.1. https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/104/10/BAMS-D-23-0035.1.xml. Retrieved 28 November 2023. 
  16. ↑ Ingraham, Christopher (9 November 2023). ""Weathergami" charts paint new portrait of Minnesota climate". Minnesota Reformer. https://minnesotareformer.com/2023/11/09/weathergami-charts-paint-new-portrait-of-minnesota-climate/. 

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