Scorinate

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1 Overview
- 1.1 Dice
- 1.2 Spreadsheets & Programs
2 Scorinator articles
3 See also

[edit] Overview

Scorinate is a term used primarily in the NationStates sporting community, and refers to the generation of match results using a spreadsheet, program, or other utility as official result (compare: simming). Such utilities are often called Scorinators. Examples of scorinators are Leagion, a Java program created by Rejistania, NSFootySim, a Java program created by Bedistan, and Xkoranate, created by Commerce Heights which has the ability to scorinate results for multiple sports and has generally been used for the Olympic Games.

[edit] Dice

The history of scorination started with the first World Cup when Ariddia used dice to generate match results. Dice were also used in the second tournament in Alasdair I Frosticus: 1-4 counted as rolled, 6 counted as nil, and all fives were rolled again, with the second die roll counted as rolled. However, suggesting the usage of dice to scorinate a tournament today is generally only advisable if intended as a joke.

[edit] Spreadsheets & Programs

Total n Utter Insanity introduced a spreadsheet for WC3. Until WC12, spreadsheets were the only accepted method of scorination, but in WC13, Rejistania created the first scorinator written in a programming language, mainly to compensate her missing knowledge of Excel and similar programs.

If scores are not as you want them to be, the first reaction normally is to "blame Margaret".