The idea behind this whole site, how the boards work, and a full rundown of every tool on it.
Simply put, a Scorigami is a score that has never happened in a particular sport's or league's history. The term “Scorigami” (coined by Jon Bois) was first used to describe American football scores that had never happened before, and this concept really caught my interest while watching football games. Due to football's scoring nature, scores often can become fairly wacky and strange, and seeing an eye-catching final score and checking if it had happened before was quite the experience.
Now while this term was originally intended for football games, the term has over time been expanded to refer to different unique score combinations for an array of different sports including baseball, which is what this website is all about!
For the longest time, baseball has been my favorite sport, and for as long as I can remember, I've been enamored with baseball stats (along with other sports stats as well). So this concept of Scorigami caught my eye, and while I didn't invent the concept of baseball Scorigami, I wanted to really delve into the details of such a concept for baseball.
This led to an interesting question, what is a baseball Scorigami? That actually isn't necessarily a clearly defined line, as baseball historians don't exactly agree on what constitutes the first “Major League Baseball” game. This website settles on the concept that the first Major League Baseball game took place on May 4th, 1871, with the first score being a “2–0” final. For the purposes of pure “Scorigami”, the website uses this as the starting point, and rarity descriptions use this timeline as the baseline.
However, due to the fact that there is disagreement about what constitutes “real” major league baseball games, the site was built to handle such concepts. For example, you may have noticed that on the main site, the default range is from 1901–2026, as the turn of the century is often considered “The Modern Era”.
Above everything, the goal of this site is to present unique baseball final score information in a way that is both digestible for casual fans, and heavily analytical stat geeks. On the site, you will find several different pages all designed in specific ways to present information to you, and allow you to query to your specific liking. Below is a list of the site's key features, and what each allows you to do. Whether you want to find out how many Mets vs Yankee games have ended “5–4”, or you wanted to find out how many games ended “12–9” in the year 1929, this site provides all of that and much more.
One of the key features of this site is the large scoreboards (or not so large depending on your filters) that display all the score combinations for a specific query. Across the top of the board are how many runs the winning team scored, and across the left side going downward is how many runs the losing team scored. Where the two axes meet is the final score cell, which will show the count (or will be empty) depending on the score. For example, if you want to find a “10–9” final score, you locate 10 at the top of the board, and 9 on the left side of the board, and you will find all your “10–9” scores where they meet.
You will also see a number in the cell, which represents the amount of times that final score happened (in accordance to your filters). This is also referred to as the count. When you click on this cell, it will provide you with more detailed information about the specific score.
On the board there will also be different shades of colors that visually contrast the very common final scores and the rarer scores. The grayed out area on the bottom left side of the scoreboard is impossible cells as the winning team can't have less runs than the losing team. And ties have a specific border design running diagonally across the board.
The board itself changes dynamically based on the filters you select, and the size can vary significantly depending on the sample size. It can range from a massively large board, to a very small few cell board. But the basic concept still remains.
Completed seasons come from Retrosheet's public game logs, and the season in progress comes from the MySportsFeeds API, updated every morning. The data is the final score of every Major League game, plus hits, errors and inning-by-inning scoring where they're available. Together that's 236,020 games across 156 Major League seasons, from 1871 through 2026.
For the season in progress, hits and errors can change after a game is over. The official scorer can revise a ruling days or weeks later (a hit becomes an error, or the other way around), and the site picks up a revision made within a few days of the game. A scoring change never alters the runs or the final score, so the board itself is never affected. Once Retrosheet publishes a finished season, usually over the winter, that season's hits and errors are brought in line with the final official record.
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