In 211,780 matches across all four tiers of English football since 1888, only 60 unique scorelines have ever occurred. This is every final score in the history of English professional football.
by rahul
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What is scorigami?
A scorigami is a final score that has never happened before
in the history of a competition. Coined by Jon Bois for American
football, it can be applied to any
sport. In football, the score space is unsurprisingly small: most
matches end somewhere in a 6×4 box.
Reading the grid
Each cell represents a unique scoreline. The x-axis is
the winning team's goals, the y-axis is the losing team's
goals. Draws sit on the diagonal. Darker = happened more often. Empty (black)
cells are scorelines that have never occurred:
potential future scorigami.
Only full-time scores are counted — extra time and penalty shootout
results are excluded.
The Premier League era begins with the 1992/93 season.
In the default view, scorelines are normalised: a 3-1 win is the same
cell regardless of which team won or where the match was played.
Switch to Home / Away view to unfold the grid.
"All-Time" covers all four tiers of English professional football
from 1888 to the present.
Data: James P. Curley (2016). engsoccerdata: English Soccer Data 1871-2016.
R package version 0.1.5.
American football
American football, more appropriately called handegg, is also played
between two teams of 11 players on a rectangular field. It works well
for Scorigami because there are a variety of, sometimes obscure, ways to
score points. This creates much more varied scoring than sports with
simple scoring systems and a propensity for low-scoring games.
