Scorigami

SCORIGAMI: Kansas City Current 6, Chicago Stars FC 3 is the first 6-3 game in NWSL history

Final · October 8, 2023

NWSL got a brand-new final score on October 8, 2023. Kansas City Current beat Chicago Stars FC 6-3, and in every NWSL game since 2016, no game had ever ended that way before.

Where 6-3 sits among nearby NWSL scores. Deeper blue means a score has happened more often; the outlined cell is the new one.

The league's previous scorigami was 6-0, North Carolina Courage over Portland Thorns FC on September 12, 2019, 4 years and 1 month earlier. This is NWSL's 1st new final score of the 2023 season, and the grid now holds 80 percent of every realistic final score.

Its closest neighbors show how tight the score space had become: 7-3 had still never happened and 6-4 had still never happened. It lands on the high-scoring frontier of the grid, the sparse territory that only fills in on the rare night the points pile up.

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