Company which operates several sports-related websites
Sports Reference
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Company type
| Private
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Industry
| sports technology, data, and content
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Predecessor
| |
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Founded
| August 2004
; 19 years ago
(
2004-08
)
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Founder
| Sean Forman
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Headquarters
| ,
US
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Products
| - Baseball Reference
- Basketball Reference
- Pro Football Reference
- Hockey Reference
- FBref
- SR/College Basketball
- SR/College Football
- Stathead
- Immaculate Grid
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Website
| www
.sports-reference
.com
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Sports Reference, LLC
is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com,
Baseball-Reference.com
for
baseball
, Basketball-Reference.com for
basketball
, Hockey-Reference.com for
ice hockey
,
Pro-Football-Reference.com
for
American football
, and
FBref.com
for
association football
(soccer).
[1]
[2]
They also operate a subscription based service for statistics, called Stathead. Between 2008 and 2020, Sports Reference also provided pages for the
Olympic Games
and its competitors.
Description
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edit
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The site also includes sections on
college football
and
college basketball
, and once included a section on the
Olympics
.
[3]
The sites attempt a comprehensive approach to sports data. For example, Baseball-Reference contains more than 100,000 box scores and Pro-Football-Reference contains data on every scoring play in the
National Football League
since
1941
.
[1]
The college basketball section includes data on
NCAA Division I
men's basketball, with incomplete data going back as far as 1892?predating the first NCAA divisional split (1956) and the NCAA itself (1906), and only a year after the sport was invented. Division I women's basketball data was added in 2023, initially with full data dating back to the 2009?10 season. On February 15, 2024, Sports Reference announced that it had expanded its Division I women's basketball data set to include player and team statistics dating back to the 1987?88 season.
[4]
The company, which is based in the
Mount Airy
neighborhood of
Philadelphia
, was founded as Sports Reference in 2004 and was incorporated as Sports Reference LLC in 2007.
[5]
[1]
[6]
On July 11, 2023, the company purchased the baseball trivia game
Immaculate Grid
and integrated it with Baseball-Reference.
[7]
[8]
Subsequently, the game was expanded to cover Sports Reference's other sites.
[9]
Olympics
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]
Sports Reference added a site for
Olympic Games
statistics and history in July 2008.
[10]
[11]
The company announced in December 2016 that the Olympics site was to be shut down in the near future due to a change in its data licensing agreement.
[12]
Since that time, data for the
2016 Summer Olympics
has been added,
[13]
but the site was not updated for the
2018 Winter Olympics
.
[14]
[12]
Sports Reference closed its Olympic site on May 14, 2020.
[15]
The providers of the Olympic data, known as
OlyMADmen
, launched a new site called
Olympedia
in May 2020.
[16]
[17]
[18]
[19]
According to
Slate
, editing of "Olympedia [was] restricted to about two dozen trusted academics and researchers who specialize in Olympic history."
[20]
The site is owned by the
International Olympic Committee
(IOC).
[21]
On December 29, 2023, OlyMADmen member
Bill Mallon
announced that they would no longer be able to update Olympedia because the IOC declined to renew the contract necessary to permit them to do so.
[22]
[23]
References
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a
b
c
Kramer, Staci D. (February 17, 2009).
"Fantasy Sports Ventures Takes Minority Stake In Sports Reference LLC"
.
CBS News
.
PaidContent.org
.
Archived
from the original on September 9, 2017
. Retrieved
September 24,
2021
.
- ^
Fisher, Eric (February 16, 2009).
"FSV buys stake in reference sites"
.
Sports Business Journal
. Archived from
the original
on February 17, 2009.
- ^
"Sports Reference Main Page"
.
Sports-Reference.com
.
Archived
from the original on February 1, 2010
. Retrieved
April 2,
2014
.
- ^
Lynch, Mike (February 15, 2024).
"Sports Reference Expands Women's College Basketball Data"
.
Sports Reference Blog
. Sports Reference LLC
. Retrieved
February 18,
2024
.
- ^
Wagner, James (February 13, 2019).
"From a Church in Philadelphia, Sports Reference Informs the World"
.
The New York Times
.
Archived
from the original on February 14, 2019
. Retrieved
February 14,
2019
.
- ^
"Company Overview of Sports Reference, LLC"
.
Bloomberg Businessweek
. Archived from
the original
on October 6, 2015
. Retrieved
November 8,
2013
.
- ^
Rosecrans, C. Trent (July 13, 2023).
"The nostalgic allure of 'Immaculate Grid' makes obsessives of MLB players, fans alike"
.
The Athletic
.
Archived
from the original on July 13, 2023
. Retrieved
August 30,
2023
.
- ^
Kepner, Tyler
(July 11, 2023).
"The Hottest Thing in Baseball Is a Grid of Nine Blank Squares"
.
The New York Times
.
Archived
from the original on August 28, 2023
. Retrieved
August 30,
2023
.
- ^
Winkie, Luke (October 1, 2023).
"The Trendy New Trivia Game That's Like Wordle for Straight Men"
.
Slate
.
Archived
from the original on November 11, 2023
. Retrieved
November 11,
2023
.
- ^
sean (July 9, 2008).
"Olympics at Sports Reference Launches"
.
Sports-Reference.com
. Archived from
the original
on July 26, 2008.
- ^
"About This Site"
.
Sports-Reference.com
. Archived from
the original
on July 29, 2008
. Retrieved
July 20,
2018
.
- ^
a
b
"Site Closing"
.
Sports-Reference.com
. December 16, 2016. Archived from
the original
on December 19, 2016
. Retrieved
November 13,
2017
.
- ^
"2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games"
.
Sports-Reference
. Archived from
the original
on July 20, 2018
. Retrieved
July 20,
2018
.
- ^
"Winter Games Index"
.
Sports-Reference.com
. Archived from
the original
on July 7, 2008
. Retrieved
July 20,
2018
.
- ^
"Site is Closed"
.
Sports-Reference.com
.
Archived
from the original on October 3, 2019
. Retrieved
May 15,
2020
.
- ^
Lohn, John (May 27, 2020).
"Comprehensive Olympedia Database Available to Public; Loaded with Information"
.
Swimming World
.
Archived
from the original on September 24, 2021
. Retrieved
September 24,
2021
.
OlyMADmen, an international group of Olympics experts and historians, have made their exhaustive Olympics database available
- ^
Perelman, Rich (May 27, 2020).
"LANE ONE: Staggering, brilliant, astonishing portal to Olympic history opens with debut of Olympedia.org"
.
The Sports Examiner
.
Archived
from the original on September 26, 2021
. Retrieved
September 26,
2021
.
- ^
Mallon, Bill (May 27, 2020).
"Olympedia now open to the public"
.
OlympStats.com
.
Archived
from the original on June 6, 2020
. Retrieved
May 27,
2020
.
the result many years of work by a group of Olympic historians and statisticians called the OlyMADmen
- ^
"About"
.
Olympedia
.
Archived
from the original on June 14, 2020.
The group that has compiled the database refers to itself as MADmen ? MAD being an acronym for several of the early members of the group, but also signifies their commitment to the project in another sense.
- ^
Harrison, Stephen (July 26, 2021).
"How to Use Wikipedia When You're Watching the Olympics"
.
Slate
.
Archived
from the original on July 26, 2021
. Retrieved
July 29,
2021
.
- ^
Bauernfeind, John (February 27, 2017).
"IOC looks to acquisition of Olympedia as step toward modernizing Olympic recordkeeping"
.
Sports Business Journal
.
Archived
from the original on May 29, 2023
. Retrieved
May 29,
2023
.
- ^
Mallon, Bill [@bambam1729]
(December 29, 2023).
"In 2016 Olympedia was purchased by the IOC but we have had a contract with them to update it since that time"
(
Tweet
)
. Retrieved
April 4,
2024
– via
Twitter
.
- ^
Mallon, Bill [@bambam1729]
(December 29, 2023).
"As of 1 Jan 2024 our contract with the IOC is not being renewed. The OlyMADMen will no longer update Olympedia after today, 29 Dec"
(
Tweet
)
. Retrieved
April 4,
2024
– via
Twitter
.
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