Scoreboard approach to managing idle page close timeout duration in memory

A technology is described for determining an idle page close timeout for a row buffer. An example memory controller may comprise a scoreboard buffer and a predictive timeout engine. The scoreboard buffer may be configured to store a number of page hits and a number of page misses for a plurality of candidate timeout values for an idle page close timeout. The predictive timeout engine may be configured to increment the page hits and the page misses in the scoreboard buffer according to estimated page hit results and page miss results for the candidate timeout values, and identify a candidate timeout value from the scoreboard buffer estimated to maximize the number of page hits to the number of page misses.