CFL Scorigami

[shayman]

Scorigami is a fun concept created by Jon Bois - watch this entertaining video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l5C8cGMueY - in which you watch out for football scores that have never happened before.

Every integer score is possible in the CFL, thanks to the Rouge, but in the NFL the only way you can get 1 is in the extremely rare case of a defensive safety during a convert. You could win an NFL game 6-1. But not 5-1 or 4-1 or 3-1. And in the CFL you can win 1-0, which actually happened in 1966 - Montreal 1, Ottawa 0.

So anyways I made up a big chart of how many times every possible score has happened. Last night's Edmonton 24, Hamilton 10 has happened 12 times. Some scores (like 1-0) have happened only once, and some have NEVER happened. Since 1958, no CFL team has won 14-0, or 16-3, or 28-5, among others.

A Scorigami is the first occurrence of a score that's never happened before.

I will do my best to track this and let everybody know if/when one happens. And if I could ever figure out how to post an image here, I'll show you the chart.

[shayman]

Somewhat to my surprise, there have been two #CFL Scorigamis in the 2023 season so far.

Toronto 43 Edmonton 31
Winnipeg 50 BC 14.

Neither score had happened since the start of the modern CFL in 1958.

My source data (from cfldb.ca) generously includes some exhibition games, so there are a few scores from 1958 that have never been seen again, including Calgary 33 Sarnia 1, and in 1959, Chicago Cardinals 55 Argos 26.

Maybe I should weed those out.

[Mocha]

Since 1950, no CFL team has won 14-0, or 16-3, or 28-5, among others.


Fun idea for a thread!

I'm surprised there's never been games with those three scores, though I guess low scores from any one team are quite rare in the CFL.