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Baseball · The Scatter
Where does Carlos Lee sit on a chart of career hits vs. home runs?
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Name players whose career wild pitches add up to exactly 39 (played for the Philadelphia Phillies).
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What Boxscore is
Boxscore is an independent site of daily sports puzzles built on real career stats and real rosters. It’s for the fan who knows who led the league in rebounds in 1985, or which two shortstops were teammates for a single September, and wants a game that rewards it instead of guessing a face from a photo.
Every game has a free daily board that everyone plays on the same day, with a new one at midnight Pacific. Play it, compare your result with friends or the leaderboard, and come back tomorrow. Each game’s page has its rules, a worked example and tips, and there are 6 strategy guides for getting better at them.
What’s in Learn
36 articles, each worked out from the same rosters and stats the games use, with a section for every sport.
- Teammates (9): who played with whom: the most-connected players, the longest partnerships, the most stacked rosters, and the players hardest to reach in a chain.
- Careers (9): how careers rise and end: when players peak, one-club lifers against journeymen, late debuts, comebacks, and greats who never won a title.
- Stats and leaders (5): what the numbers say when you line them up: near-misses on milestones, single-season kings, statistical twins, and how a stat in one sport trades against another.
- Teams and franchises (6): the clubs themselves: the faces of every franchise, expansion sides starting from nothing, teams that folded, the rivals that trade players, and the ones that never do.
- Where players come from (7): how players arrive: draft classes, rookie classes, birth months and birthplaces, how much bigger they get each decade, two-sport athletes, and players who share a name.
Where the stats come from
Baseball comes from the Lahman Baseball Database, back to 1871, with MLB’s own stats for recent seasons. Basketball and hockey use the leagues’ official records, and the other sports are compiled from public datasets. Nothing is typed in by hand, and when a stat wasn’t recorded for a player’s whole career the games leave it out rather than show half a total. Player photos are freely licensed, each one on the photo credits page.
Who makes it
Boxscore is built and run by one person, with puzzle ideas and stat corrections from the people who play it: every finished game has a “Spot a wrong stat?” link. Read more on the about page, or get in touch.