Every final score posted during the 1916 Major League Baseball season, tabulated by winning-team runs and losing-team runs.
Baseball games end with a final score, like 8–6. The number across the top is how many runs the winning team scored; the number down the side is how many runs the losing team scored. Where a column and row meet, that square shows how many 1916 games ended with that score — click it to see them.
The 1916 season produced 1,252 games between 16 clubs, running from April 12, 1916 to October 12, 1916. Those games ended in 89 different final scores, 24 of which occurred exactly once all season. The most common result was 3–2, posted 112 times — 8.9% of the season's games. The season also produced 21 tie games, which sit on the board's diagonal.
Teams combined for 7.13 runs per game in 1916, 1.66 runs below the 1901-onward average of 8.79. That is the 5th-lowest scoring rate among the 125 seasons since 1901. Shutouts accounted for 236 games (18.8% of the total), and 441 of the 1,231 decided games were settled by a single run (35.8%).
The highest-scoring game of the season came on May 29, 1916, when the Detroit Tigers beat the St. Louis Browns 17–6 — 23 combined runs. The widest margin was 16 runs: the New York Yankees over the Cleveland Guardians 19–3 on June 18, 1916.
No final score appeared for the first time in major league history during 1916. Every score posted this season had already happened at least once in an earlier year.
This season belongs to the dead-ball era, when a single ball was often kept in play until it was too soft to drive. Low scores and shutouts dominate the board.