Okay, so, I got into this whole “Super Bowl Scorigami” thing. You know, tracking every single final score in NFL history to see if a Super Bowl has ever had a unique score that’s never happened before? It’s kinda nerdy, but, hey, I was curious. So I started digging around.
First, I just googled “Scorigami” to see what came up. Turns out there’s a whole bunch of people into this! There was one website that had already made a chart on this, but it was difficult to find my specific score. There was also another Reddit post talking about whether the last Super Bowl was a Scorigami or not. It was not. I checked to see what people were saying about it, and that got me even more interested. I thought, “I wanna do this myself!”
My Process
- I grabbed a huge list of NFL scores, all the way back to, like, the beginning of time. It was a mess of data, let me tell you.
- Then, I spent hours, and I mean HOURS, cleaning up this data. There were so many errors and weird formats! I got that done after about two days.
- I then fed all those scores into a spreadsheet. I made a simple table, with one team’s score on one axis and the other team’s score on the other axis. Each cell would note if a game had ever had that specific score before.
- I highlighted all the unique scores. There were a few of them, actually! It was pretty cool to see. It was difficult to get the formatting just right, but I figured it out.
After all that work, I finally had my own Scorigami chart. I double-checked, and yeah, no Super Bowl has ever ended with a score that had never occurred before. Bummer. But, you know what? It was a blast to figure it all out. It was not very easy, but I’m glad I did it. Now I’m, like, the Scorigami expert among my friends. Who knew?
I compared my chart with some of the charts I found online, and there were some slight differences. But, that’s fine. The important thing is that I made my own Scorigami chart using real data, and I’m happy with that. Maybe I’ll update it every year. We’ll see. I want to get more into data visualization now. I heard it’s a good skill to have. I guess I just like messing around with data now. By leveraging cloud computing, I can probably improve my data management skills.
It is funny looking back and thinking that I was just curious about the score of the Super Bowl one day. I ended up spending several days on this. I would never have thought that I would end up organizing data like this, but I’m happy that I did it.
