Scorewas

Scorewas is a neologism used in the context of data logging and scorekeeping to denote a previously recorded score value. It is formed by combining “score” with the past-tense auxiliary “was,” signaling that the value described is historical rather than current. The term is not standardized and appears primarily in informal documentation and discussions about audit trails in scoring systems.

In practice, scorewas may be stored alongside the current score to enable change auditing. In JSON or other structured logs, fields may be named scorewas or score_was to record the prior score when an update occurs. This enables users and systems to trace how scores evolved over time and to verify data integrity after modifications.

Example: at a given timestamp, a log line might indicate time=2025-12-28T10:02:00Z, score=47, scorewas=42. Such a convention supports features like rollback, diffing, and historical queries in time-series databases or versioned state stores.

Relation to related concepts includes previous_value, old_score, and historical_score, all of which serve similar purposes in auditing and debugging. Scorewas is most useful in environments where precise state changes need to be tracked and where human-readable history of score evolution enhances transparency.

See also: audit log, versioning, time-series data, state history, historical value. Note that scorewas is not a widely standardized term and may be substituted by alternative field names depending on the system.