The ScoreGenix Story
A 50-Year Journey
The genesis of the ScoreGenix dates back to 1971, when the father of one of the firm’s founding partners—an accomplished accounting executive with a career spanning respected Midwest firms including Arthur Andersen—embarked on an ambitious project. He was attempting to leverage his expertise in finance, accounting, and securities trading to develop a system capable of making investment decisions based entirely on mathematics and logic, without the need for human judgment.
His vision was to create an automated, algorithmic stock-picking model that avoided the emotional biases and inconsistencies of discretionary decisionmaking. The system was to be data-driven, systematic, and objective— functioning entirely on inputs, logic, and probabilities.
After years of testing and refinement, it became clear that the stock market, despite its promise, posed significant limitations. The data was often unreliable, distorted by inaccurate earnings reports, inflated forecasts, and subjective interpretations. Worse, market outcomes were frequently driven by unpredictable variables—political instability, economic events, war, or even mass psychology—that could not be quantified or modeled with precision.
The breakthrough came with the realization that professional sports offered something the stock market could not: clean, transparent, and verifiable data. Sports outcomes are defined by finite statistics—wins, losses, points scored, player performance—and those metrics are not subject to manipulation. Moreover, sports data is publicly available, updated in real time, and largely unaffected by broader economic or political conditions.
From this insight, the early concepts of what would eventually become the ScoreGenix system were born. Over the past two decades, the system has been refined and enhanced, used exclusively by family, close friends, and a small group of private clients.
