Company:Sports Reference

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Sports Reference, LLC
TypePrivate
IndustrySports statistics
FoundedAugust 2004; 21 years ago (2004-08)
FounderSean Forman
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
,
US
Products
  • Baseball Reference
  • Basketball Reference
  • Pro Football Reference
  • Hockey Reference
  • FBref
  • SR/College Basketball
  • SR/College Football
  • Stathead
  • Immaculate Grid
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Sports Reference, LLC is an American sports statistics company that operates databases of several sports. They include Pro Football Reference for American football, Baseball Reference for baseball, Basketball Reference for basketball, Hockey Reference for ice hockey, FBref for association football (soccer), and pages for college football and basketball.[1][2] Sports Reference also operate the online sports trivia game Immaculate Grid and the statistics-based subscription service Stathead. From 2008 to 2020 the website included Olympic Games statistics from the first Games to the most recent.

History

The company was founded in Philadelphia by Sean Forman in 2004 and incorporated as Sports Reference LLC in 2007.[3][1][4] The company operates databases of sports statistics for several sports. They include Pro Football Reference for American football, Baseball Reference for baseball, Basketball Reference for basketball, Hockey Reference for ice hockey, FBref for association football (soccer), and pages for college football and basketball. Sports Reference maintained a section on the Olympics from 2008 to 2020.[5] The sites attempt a comprehensive approach to sports data. For example, Baseball Reference contains more than 100,000 box scores while Pro Football Reference contains data on every scoring play in the National Football League (NFL) since Template:Nfly.[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). Division I women's basketball stats were added in 2023.[6] Sports Reference purchased the baseball trivia game Immaculate Grid on July 11, 2023, and integrated it with its sites.[7][8]

Olympics

Sports Reference Olympics logo

Sports Reference added a site for Olympic Games statistics and history in July 2008,[9][10] including statistics from the first Games to the most recent.

The company announced in December 2016 that the Olympics site was to shut down in the near future due to a change in its data licensing agreement.[11] Data for the 2016 Summer Olympics were added,[12] but the site was not updated for the 2018 Winter Olympics.[13][11] Sports Reference closed its Olympic site on May 14, 2020.[14]

The providers of the Olympic data, known as OlyMADmen, launched a new site called Olympedia in May 2020.[15][16][17][18] According to Slate, editing of "Olympedia [was] restricted to about two dozen trusted academics and researchers who specialize in Olympic history."[19] The site is owned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).[20] 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.[21]<ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1740775660107297146 |user=bambam1729 |title=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.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kramer, Staci D. (February 17, 2009). "Fantasy Sports Ventures Takes Minority Stake In Sports Reference LLC". CBS News. PaidContent.org. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fantasy-sports-ventures-takes-minority-stake-in-sports-reference-llc/. 
  2. ↑ Fisher, Eric (February 16, 2009). "FSV buys stake in reference sites". Sports Business Journal. http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/61558. 
  3. ↑ Wagner, James (February 13, 2019). "From a Church in Philadelphia, Sports Reference Informs the World". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/sports/sean-forman-sports-reference.html. 
  4. ↑ "Company Overview of Sports Reference, LLC". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=53311244. 
  5. ↑ "Sports Reference Main Page". https://www.sports-reference.com/. 
  6. ↑ Lynch, Mike (February 15, 2024). "Sports Reference Expands Women's College Basketball Data". Sports Reference Blog. Sports Reference LLC. https://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2024/02/sports-reference-expands-womens-college-basketball-data/. 
  7. ↑ Kepner, Tyler (11 July 2023). "The Hottest Thing in Baseball Is a Grid of Nine Blank Squares" (in en). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/sports/baseball/immaculate-grid.html. 
  8. ↑ Winkie, Luke (1 October 2023). "The Trendy New Trivia Game That's Like Wordle for Straight Men" (in en). Slate. https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/10/immaculate-grid-nfl-mlb-sports-trivia-game.html. 
  9. ↑ sean (July 9, 2008). "Olympics at Sports Reference Launches". https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/blog/?p=5. 
  10. ↑ "About This Site". https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/about/. 
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Site Closing". December 16, 2016. https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/down.html. 
  12. ↑ "2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games". https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2016/. 
  13. ↑ "Winter Games Index". https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/. 
  14. ↑ "Site is Closed". https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics.html. 
  15. ↑ Lohn, John (May 27, 2020). "Comprehensive Olympedia Database Available to Public; Loaded with Information". Swimming World. https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/comprehensive-olympedia-database-available-to-public-loaded-with-information/. "OlyMADmen, an international group of Olympics experts and historians, have made their exhaustive Olympics database available" 
  16. ↑ Perelman, Rich (May 27, 2020). "LANE ONE: Staggering, brilliant, astonishing portal to Olympic history opens with debut of Olympedia.org". The Sports Examiner. https://www.thesportsexaminer.com/lane-one-staggering-brilliant-astonishing-portal-to-olympic-history-opens-with-debut-of-olympedia-com/. 
  17. ↑ Mallon, Bill (May 27, 2020). "Olympedia now open to the public". https://olympstats.com/2020/05/27/olympedia-now-open-to-the-public/. "the result many years of work by a group of Olympic historians and statisticians called the OlyMADmen" 
  18. ↑ "About". https://www.olympedia.org/static/about. "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." 
  19. ↑ Harrison, Stephen (July 26, 2021). "How to Use Wikipedia When You're Watching the Olympics". Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/tokyo-2020-olympic-games-wikipedia.html. 
  20. ↑ Bauernfeind, John (27 February 2017). "IOC looks to acquisition of Olympedia as step toward modernizing Olympic recordkeeping" (in en). Sports Business Journal. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2017/02/27/Olympics/Olympedia.aspx. 
  21. ↑ Mallon, Bill [@bambam1729] (2023-12-29). "In 2016 Olympedia was purchased by the IOC but we have had a contract with them to update it since that time.". https://twitter.com/bambam1729/status/1740775591106982323. 
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