What is Immaculate Grid?
A free daily trivia game powered by Baseball Reference, with a new game every day. Guess 9 players who meet each category’s criteria and play for rarity or to complete a full grid.
See here for some of the most difficult grids in Immaculate Grid history:
Rookie of the Year Awards x Toronto Blue Jays
For a franchise that has been around since 1977, it’s surprising that the team has only seen two AL Rookie of the Year award winners. Alfredo Griffin won the award in 1979, and then no Blue Jay won until Eric Hinske beat out Rodrigo Lopez in 2002.
Rookie of the Year Awards x San Diego Padres
Fun fact: The Padres haven’t had a Rookie of the Year award winner for over three decades! Many will be shocked to find out Tony Gwynn isn’t the answer to this trivia question. With homegrown players like Fernando Tatis Jr, Dave Winfield, and Jake Peavy, the lone ROY winner was Benito Santiago in 1987.Butch Metzger was a co-winner in 1976.
200 Hits in a Season x Chicago White Sox
Unless you’re a savant on White Sox history and know their rosters prior to 1954, it might be difficult to come up with an answer here. Hint: there are 9 of them. The only player since 1955 to post 200 hits was Albert Belle in 1998.
20 Wins in a Season x Texas Rangers
In a franchise that employed the likes of Nolan Ryan, Hall of Famer, Bert Blyleven, and more recent aces like Yu Darvish – most fans would assume 20 game winners would be plentiful for a team that has been around since 1961. Wrong! There have only been three players to win 20 games for the Rangers: HoF Fergie Jenkins (1974), Kevin Brown (1992), and Rick Helling (1998).
Some of the more difficult team squares in Immaculate Grid are limited due to the quantity of options as well as few well-known names.
Arizona Diamondbacks x Minnesota Twins
While there are 51 players to choose from in this pairing, only one player accumulated a bWAR greater than 10.0 to appear for both teams: Orlando Hudson. A difficult guess unless you’re a true Twins fan and remember his sole season for the team in Target Field’s inaugural season (2010). Can you name any of the other 50 players?
Colorado Rockies x Seattle Mariners
Slightly more options to choose from than the scenario above with 64 players to appear for both franchises. However, there are a lot of one season warriors in these answers. The most notable is Jamie Moyer who only made 10 total starts for the Rockies in his last season before retiring at 49 years old. Other answers include: All-Star Mike Hampton who made his debut in Seattle and was traded to Houston in 1994, Jeff Cirillo who played the final 28 games of his career in Arizona, and Kevin Milwood who played for Seattle and Arizona in back-to-back seasons (2011 in COL and 2012 in ARI).
Immaculate Grid has launched a new game mode that allows users to continue guessing and complete their grids, even if they got an answer wrong.
This new “Extra Innings” format is guaranteed to be a fan favorite for all baseball fans.
How the new game mode works:
- Users play Immaculate Grid like normal
- After their usual nine guesses, they see their score, and also a prompt asking them if they want to keep guessing
- Clicking it returns them to the Grid, where they can keep guessing until they complete all nine squares
- Extra Innings guesses don’t count towards rarity. Your rarity score is still calculated using your first nine guesses
- You can play Extra Innings on all Grids in the archive. Go back and fill out those grids you didn’t get 9/9 on
- Extra Innings guesses are marked by style differences to differentiate them from normal guesses
Make sure your daily routine includes Immaculate Grid powered by Baseball Reference. This new “Extra Innings” feature lets you and your friends keep on playing even when you run out of guesses. Try it today!
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The food at Citi Field is superior to the food at Yankee Stadium.
Is this really true? You’d think Yankee Stadium would have good food.
I’m a Yankees fan and I admit their food is superior by a large margin. Colony Grill pizza at Yankee Stadium is good tho.
I can definitely say White Sox food isn’t bad, Cubs food is good, but I’m really easy to appease lol
I do prefer going to Sox Park only because it’s easier to get to, parking is easier. Wrigleyville is not easy to navigate.
Who cares? In my culture we don’t like food at all and in fact I’ve never eaten before
I have 160 completed grids (since they started keeping track I’ve completed a ton more overall) average rarity is 36 my top used players are Kip Wells (25x) Jason Bay (16x) Roberto Clemente (16x people never use him for 3000 hits or HOFer) and Alfonso Soriano (15x).
Edit: today left to right :
Zobrist 2%
Rich Hill 1%
Ryon Healy .1%
Kendrys Morales .6%
Adam Ottavino 3%
Chase Headley 2%
Jermaine Dye 2%
Jason Bay 1%
Pedro Alvarez .4%
Total Rarity 13.
How about everyone else? .
Impressive rarity scores! Here is what I did today:
Johnny Damon 28%
Joe Rudi 3%
Wayne Gross 0.8%
Larry Gura 2%
Jim Leyritz 0.2%
Celerino Sanchez 0.9%
George Brett 34%
Jim Rice 10%
Mike Schmidt 13%
Total Rarity 91.
I should have spent more thought on the bottom row, and I realized after I guessed Johnny Damon I should have put Vida Blue there.
I love seeing what other guys get because look at the name differences. I’m 99% guys who debuted after 1999 while you don’t have 1! Love the pulls. I’d never even heard of Wayne Gross but I just checked his baseball ref. Solid ballplayer!
My top 5 used players are Pedro Ciriaco (20x), Joe Blanton (20x), Ryan Doumit (18x), and Josh Harrison (16x). My average score is 8.7.
Today I did the following:
A’s/Royals: Joakim Soria (.7%)
A’s/Red Sox: Jonny Gomes (.7%)
A’s/1 game at 3B: Alberto Callaspo (.2%)
Yankees/Royals Chance Adams (.09%)
Yankees/Red Sox: Stephen Drew (.6%)
Yankees/1 game at 3B: Yangervis Solarte (.4%)
100 RBI/Royals: Kendrys Morales (1%)
100 RBI/Red Sox: Manny Ramirez (12%)
100 RBI/1 game at 3B: Chase Headley (.4%)
Ciriaco is a good one for a lot of catergories, because he played for the Pirates, Red Sox, Padres, Royals, and Braves. He played every position but catcher and pitcher for the Sox. He also played all non-P/C infield positions for the Braves, plus left field. Played shortstop and second base for the Padres, played 3B, SS, and LF for the Pirates.
Fellow Jermaine Dye user today.
Trevor Cahill (0.1%)
Ryan Lavarnway (0.04%)
Jack Hannahan (0.2%)
Anthony Swarzak (0.1%
Ryan Lamarre (0.03%)
Todd Frazier (0.8%)
Jermaine Dye (2%)
Adrian Gonzalez (0.9%)
Carlos Baerga (0.04%)
I thought that front office subscribers were spared all ad content.
@Captain Dunsel
They advertise for BR every single post on here when they link to a certain player’s BR page.
Indirectly. But that is not a sponsored ad.
Tatis is not a homegrown Padres player. He was stolen from the White Sox in one of the few trades Preller has made that has legitimately worked out for the Padres…….
Tatis Jr. never even played a single game in the White Sox’s minor league system.
Me and my cousin play a variation where every player used had to also play for the Cincinnati Reds.
Remember that ad they had last year for some company where you could invest in an athlete’s career? Emmanuel Clase was the player spotlighted. I hope nobody invested in his career. That would have been a huge mistake.
Finlete was the name of the company. I wonder how they’re doing now…
Big fan of IG, but I really dislike grids with a 200+ hits row/column. They have become more and more rare as the game has progressed. Perhaps I’m showing my age here, lol