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Re: Tennis Scorigami

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Post by jedberg »

Skimming briefly, it looks like a lot of the missing score are some combo of 6-0 and then 0-6. Which makes sense. It's highly unlikely for a set to to be that unbalanced, and then be so unbalanced the other way.

Re: Tennis Scorigami

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Post by yzydserd »

TL;DR

In the Women’s 3-set match, where there are 735 possibilities, these scores have never eventuated:

6-0 0-6 7-5, 6-0 0-6 6-0, 0-6 6-0 7-5

Meanwhile, in the 5-set format of Men’s matches, only 8.5% of the more than 100k result possibilities have occurred.

Then add on a huge UI.

Re: Tennis Scorigami

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Post by npinsker »

I can see the appeal of football Scorigami -- there's a story, an interesting one, behind some of the scores. Some seem impossible, but are barely doable. Some were only feasible in a different time, when the game was played differently. Many have to do with obscure rule clauses. It all makes for a great way to appreciate football from a different angle.

Here I'm not really invested in any of the numbers... the website is beautiful though.

Re: Tennis Scorigami

#6

Post by gus_massa »

npinsker wrote: post #5

I can see the appeal of football Scorigami -- there's a story, an interesting one, behind some of the scores. Some seem impossible, but are barely doable. Some were only feasible in a different time, when the game was played differently. Many have to do with obscure rule clauses. It all makes for a great way to appreciate football from a different angle. Here I'm not really invested in any of the numbers... the websi…

(I didn't know it) Footbal Scorigami https://nflscorigami.com/

Re: Tennis Scorigami

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Post by Someone »

jedberg wrote: post #3

Skimming briefly, it looks like a lot of the missing score are some combo of 6-0 and then 0-6. Which makes sense. It's highly unlikely for a set to to be that unbalanced, and then be so unbalanced the other way.

Adding some math: assume player 1 has a probability of p of winning a game, and therefore, player 2 having a probability of 1-p.

Then, the probability of player 1 winning a set 6-0 is p⁶; the probability of player 2 doing that is (1-p)⁶.

Let’s assume a fairly evenly matched game, where p=0.6. Then, those probabilities are about 4.7% and 0.4%. Combined, that’s about 1 in 5,000, or 1:2500 to get either of 6:0;0:6 or 0:6;6:0.

Doesn’t sound too bad but in real life, that number will be a lot lower because of the server advantage in tennis. Especially in men’s tennis, the server has a big advantage, making even single set 6-0 scores highly unlikely.

Re: Tennis Scorigami

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Post by i_am_jl »

gus_massa wrote: post #6
npinsker wrote: post #5

I can see the appeal of football Scorigami -- there's a story, an interesting one, behind some of the scores. Some seem impossible, but are barely doable. Some were only feasible in a different time, when the game was played differently. Many have to do with obscure rule clauses. It all makes for a great way to appreciate football from a different angle. Here I'm not really invested in any of the numbers... the websi…

(I didn't know it) Footbal Scorigami https://nflscorigami.com/

The lore behind the idea of Scorigami:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l5C8cGMueY

Re: Tennis Scorigami

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Post by pimlottc »

I’m trying to read the box scores and they keep updating. I thought we all decided that automatic carousels were a bad idea years ago.

Yes, I see now that you can stop this my manually advancing the carousel but it’s not at all obvious. Particularly since it’s no longer visible on mobile when you’ve scrolled down to the scores.

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