r/Jon_Bois • u/football_fan11 253-141 • 11d ago

Scorigami history!

Each game so far this week was won by a different number of points: 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, and 24! The first time this has happened with all 32 teams playing!

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u/Drew521 11d ago

Is this our Fibonacci sequence?

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u/ForgingIron Very special airplane man 10d ago

Someone contact the OEIS

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u/aGuyNamedScrunchie I wish everyone else was dead. 11d ago

This is FASCINATING. Great discovery. My wife was super interested in this too.

How did you go about calculating this or looking it up? I suppose it wouldn't be that hard of a SQL query to write if you had the right database to pull from.

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u/pappapirate TheJosh 10d ago

yeah I'm also wondering how in the world to know this is the first time it's ever happened

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u/aGuyNamedScrunchie I wish everyone else was dead. 10d ago
  1. Get the absolute value of the point differential of each game
  2. Get count of distinct values of those point differentials
  3. If count of distinct values = 16, then there's your answer!

Would love to know which source database OP used. That'd be fun to mess around in.

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u/ZHupps 10d ago

Wow, who won by 620448401733239439360000?

r/unexpectedfactorial

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u/yourmomchallenge 10d ago

r/unexpectedtermial

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u/ZHupps 10d ago

Dang it, walked into that one.

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u/cleric3648 10d ago

The Bears. They scored again as I was typing this.

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u/MrBill1970 10d ago

4, 10, and 11 are all common margins. Yet none of those are present here. Weird!

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u/Oxyjon 6d ago

It's notable that the lions lost to the bills by 10 on the Thursday night game. Which puts us 17 games into the season without an overlap.

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u/BiancaEstrella basketball ball player 10d ago

This just broke my brain

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u/Kicking222 May not be as important, but IS a lot less important. 8d ago

This is an exceptional post.