I love hyperbole more than eating food. That was not hyperbole — I’m not a big fan of eating food, but I have said many hyperbolic things over the years both in person and online. So when I say that the best producers of YouTube documentaries are far and away the fine folk at Secret Base and SB Nation, I mean it. Seriously. This time is for realsies.

Secret Base is formed of several prominent names (Seth Rosenthal, Will Buikema, Clara Morris, Joe Ali, etc.) whose dedication to humor, attention to detail, and chronicling history in various ways separates them from a crowded field of guys who sit in front of cameras talking about sports. None of their series are more popular, famous, innovative, and completely one-of-a-kind quite like the works of Jon Bois and Alex Rubenstein.

These are the minds behind “Scorigami.”

Jon and Alex’s documentaries can best be summed up thusly: Take a specific time and place in US history, zoom in on the context and math behind such a moment, and then the entire video takes place inside of a ’90s computer. It’s data journalism mixed with comedy, and wrapped in smooth jazz and newspaper clippings.

They’re a deep dive into the impossible, the tragic, and the preposterous side of life. Even a series on the surface about the rise of Mixed Martial Arts is just a Trojan Horse to dissect the influence of male toxicity during the Bush Presidency, and examine how the Iraq war reflected back on the culture being formed post 9/11. You’re not going to find works this hyper-realized anywhere else. Especially not ones made in a “Max Headroom” commercial.

I was lucky enough to go only two blocks from my apartment to a screening of “Scorigami Part 4” at the SVA Theatre. Everyone from Secret Base/Vox Media was there, cameras and all, and it was nearly a sold out show. Many people came to see what the future of football scoring would become — visualized as towering blocks of data on a grid. Trust me, it’s actually more appealing than it sounds.

Seeing a Jon Bois doc with a crowd was the best way to experience his unique blend of comedy and history since the laugh lines got a big reaction, which then made me laugh harder. Everybody was on the same wavelength, we all got the NFL in-jokes, and I appreciated the way it brought everyone together to celebrate the ridiculously stupid concept that “Scorigami” is.

“Scorigami” is just a term Jon came up with to describe all of the individual scores a football game can end with. Once two teams have landed on unique scores, it gets ticked off the board. And there’s now a cult fascination with seeing teams land on scores that have never been scored before, like 25-18, which has been done in college football many times, but never in an NFL game. “Scorigami” freaks await it with baited breath, almost like watching the games are just to see certain scores and rooting for teams to land on them regardless of the implications for the teams.

Part four of “Scorigami,” which ran approximately 88 minutes in length, is by far the most avant-garde. Instead of going back through NFL history to see how we arrived where we are, it instead forecasts forward millions of years to see just how astronomically infinitesimal it would be to get the final score of 10-1. It’s a trillion to one type of result, and a lot of the jokes stem from trying to visualize that so people can understand just how impossible it would be.

If you’ve never seen any videos from Secret Base, I’d advise you to go with a series like “Beef History” or something more traditional. And short. But if you’re a real freak like me, then dive into the above playlist of “Dorktown” vids, all done by Jon and Alex, that are among the best YouTube videos I’ve ever seen. I highly recommend the magic of these stories that sit perfectly on the intersections of sports and pop culture, statistics and history, and the highly improbable and the amazingly real.

There’s even a great series on Ross Perot and the fall of the Reform Party if you’re not into sports!