This project is a rugby scorigami bot.

Coined by Jon Bois, scorigami is a scoring combination that has never happened before in a sport or league's history. The term usually refers to american football scores and NFL scores in particular. This project introduces the concept to the great ancestor of american football - Rugby union. You can learn more about scorigami here and there.

The bot fetches the latest score from an online sports database using its API, checks if the score is a scorigami and tweets accordingly in its twitter account.

Everything you need is here.

Currently the bot tracks MLR and Six Nations scores. However, the code itself is not limited to a specific league. Given the data, it can support every rugby union competition.

The data dates back to each league's inaugural season.

• MLR

  April 2017.

• Six Nations

  December 1882.

While recent data is available at TheSportsDB, finding and converting data from past centuries, in a very fitting fashion for a sport that has only turned pro in 1995, was tricky.

• MLR

  All the data was available at TheSportsDB.

• Six Nations

  Only a few seasons of data were available at TheSportsDB. The rest is from Wikipedia.

The Six Nations data dates all the way back to December 1882. It starts from the days of the Home Nations to the Five Nations, then to the Six Nations, and hopefully sooner rather than later a Seven Nation Army. Not only the name, the format and the participants have changed since the early days, but also the scoring code of rugby has changed several times, meaning some of the scores in the database are impossible to reprise under today's rules.

• twitter4j

• Java

• Twitter
• TheSportsDB