Immaculate Grid has diehard MLB fans chasing super-low ‘rarity scores’ to find lesser-known names

This may not be news to those of you who play Immaculate Grid — the MLB guessing game that has swept the nation of seamheads and is now owned by Baseball Reference— but the most fun thing to see on Twitter now is everyone sharing their “Rarity Scores.”

That’s the score you’re given at the end of the game, showing if you chose players who other users didn’t choose as much. So if the answer to one grid box is a Giant with 500-plus home runs, you’d get a lower score for picking say, Mel Ott over Barry Bonds. Got it?

My buddy and I have traded text messages about ours (he’s beat me every time, although I just bragged about nailing Karim Garcia playing for both the New York Mets and Yankees).

Check out these mega-low scores:

Immaculate Grid 102 9/9:
Rarity: 144
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Play at: https://t.co/0LsPJVv5rV@immaculategrid x @baseball_ref

Nailbiter on upper left – I think that same combo turned up last week and I needed it to go 9/9, put the phone down to think and forgot to try

— Jay Jaffe (@jay_jaffe) July 13, 2023

Rarity score 47 @immaculategrid pic.twitter.com/6t9pai4xjg

— Paul Nall (@PaulNall4) July 13, 2023

 

 

1 – how is this a rarity score of 106?
2 – Willie Davis never had 200 hits in a season? pic.twitter.com/prL2oRqjbG

— Split Season 1981 (@SplitSeason1981) July 11, 2023

This one was relatively easy today, rarity score of 51 pic.twitter.com/og2hOsDdrF

— Daniel Jones Appreciator (@joeippy2) July 13, 2023

For a rarity score of 14 pic.twitter.com/eTmu30Dlpr

— MIKE CAMERON (@_mcameron44) July 9, 2023

My best Rarity Score so far — 3. pic.twitter.com/mAauXse3oY

— Joseph Werner (@JoltinJoey) July 11, 2023

 

Have you ever beaten this low of a rarity score??? pic.twitter.com/EWZzPRHzib

— Joey Miller (@thejoeymiller) July 13, 2023

Rarity score 47 @immaculategrid pic.twitter.com/6t9pai4xjg

— Paul Nall (@PaulNall4) July 13, 2023