If you’re a big NFL fan, then you’re probably familiar with the term “scorigami,” meaning a final score that has never happened before.
Jon Bois of Secret Base invented the concept back in 2016 with a YouTube video, and fans quickly became fascinated with tracking in real time whether games with odd-looking scores were likely to become scorigami. The NFL Scorigami Twitter bot has 495,000 followers. Announcers have even started to mention it on broadcasts.
Folks on the internet have tried applying the concept to other sports, but it often doesn’t work quite as well. Tennis, however, has strong potential. Unlike many sports, in which the final score is simply a summation of the match and doesn’t tell you anything about how the story progressed, a tennis scoreline tells a narrative.
No bot existed to tell fans in real time whether a tennis match scoreline has happened before. So we created one.
@tenniscorigami is reporting the final score of each U.S. Open singles match, and whether we’ve seen that scoreline before in the roughly 50,000 Grand Slam matches since the start of the Open Era in 1968.
