Company:Sports Reference

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Short description: Company which operates several sports-related websites
Sports Reference
TypePrivate
Industrysports technology, data, and content
Predecessor
  • Pro-Football-Reference
  • Baseball-Reference
  • Basketball-Reference
FoundedAugust 2004; 19 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
Website{{{1}}}

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

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 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), 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.

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.[4][1][5]

On July 11, 2023, the company purchased the baseball trivia game Immaculate Grid and integrated it with Baseball-Reference.[6][7] Subsequently, the game was expanded to cover Sports Reference's other sites.[8]

Olympics

Sports Reference Olympics logo

Sports Reference added a site for Olympic Games statistics and history in July 2008.[9][10]

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.[11] Since that time, data for the 2016 Summer Olympics has been 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 is restricted to about two dozen trusted academics and researchers who specialize in Olympic history."[19] The site is owned by the International Olympic Committee.[20]

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. ↑ "Sports Reference Main Page". https://www.sports-reference.com/. 
  4. ↑ 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. 
  5. ↑ "Company Overview of Sports Reference, LLC". Bloomberg Businessweek. http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=53311244. 
  6. ↑ Rosecrans, C. Trent (13 July 2023). "The nostalgic allure of 'Immaculate Grid' makes obsessives of MLB players, fans alike" (in en). The Athletic. https://theathletic.com/4684416/2023/07/13/immaculate-grid-trivia-game-mlb/. 
  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. 

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