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{{short description|Company which operates several sports-related websites}}
{{Short description|American sports statistics company}}
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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).<ref name=FSJ_Stake>{{cite news |last=Kramer |first=Staci D. |date=February 17, 2009 |title=Fantasy Sports Ventures Takes Minority Stake In Sports Reference LLC |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fantasy-sports-ventures-takes-minority-stake-in-sports-reference-llc/ |access-date=September 24, 2021 |work=[[CBS News]] |agency=[[PaidContent.org]] |archive-date=September 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909005248/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fantasy-sports-ventures-takes-minority-stake-in-sports-reference-llc/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Fisher |first=Eric |date=February 16, 2009 |title=FSV buys stake in reference sites |url=http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/61558 |work=[[Sports Business Journal]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217165943/http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/61558 |archive-date=February 17, 2009}}</ref> 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.
'''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 [[college basketball|basketball]].<ref name=FSJ_Stake>{{cite news |last=Kramer |first=Staci D. |date=February 17, 2009 |title=Fantasy Sports Ventures Takes Minority Stake In Sports Reference LLC |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fantasy-sports-ventures-takes-minority-stake-in-sports-reference-llc/ |access-date=September 24, 2021 |work=[[CBS News]] |agency=[[PaidContent.org]] |archive-date=September 9, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170909005248/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fantasy-sports-ventures-takes-minority-stake-in-sports-reference-llc/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Fisher |first=Eric |date=February 16, 2009 |title=FSV buys stake in reference sites |url=http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/61558 |work=[[Sports Business Journal]] |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090217165943/http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/61558 |archive-date=February 17, 2009}}</ref> Sports Reference also operate the online sports trivia game [[Immaculate Grid]] and the statistics-based subscription service '''Stathead'''. From 2008 to 2020 the Web site included [[Olympic Games]] statistics from the first Games to the most recent.


==Description==
==History==
The site also includes sections on [[college football]] and [[college basketball]], and once included a section on the [[Olympic Games|Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Sports Reference Main Page |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/ |website=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=April 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201172906/http://www.sports-reference.com/ |archive-date=February 1, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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 {{nfly|1941}}.<ref name=FSJ_Stake /> 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 was founded in [[Philadelphia]] by Sean Forman in 2004 and incorporated as Sports Reference LLC in 2007.<ref name="church">{{cite news |last1=Wagner |first1=James |title=From a Church in Philadelphia, Sports Reference Informs the World |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/sports/sean-forman-sports-reference.html |access-date=February 14, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214011608/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/sports/sean-forman-sports-reference.html |archive-date=February 14, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=FSJ_Stake /><ref name="BusinessweekOverview">{{cite web|title=Company Overview of Sports Reference, LLC|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=53311244|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006233718/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=53311244|archive-date=October 6, 2015|access-date=November 8, 2013|publisher=[[Bloomberg Businessweek]]}}</ref> 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 [[college basketball|basketball]]. Sports Reference maintained a section on the [[Olympic Games|Olympics]] from 2008 to 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sports Reference Main Page |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/ |website=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=April 2, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100201172906/http://www.sports-reference.com/ |archive-date=February 1, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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 {{nfly|1941}}.<ref name=FSJ_Stake /> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/blog/2024/02/sports-reference-expands-womens-college-basketball-data/ |title=Sports Reference Expands Women's College Basketball Data |first=Mike |last=Lynch |work=Sports Reference Blog |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |date=February 15, 2024 |access-date=February 18, 2024}}</ref> Sports Reference purchased the baseball trivia game [[Immaculate Grid]] on July 11, 2023, and integrated it with its sites.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |last1=Kepner |first1=Tyler |author1-link=Tyler Kepner |title=The Hottest Thing in Baseball Is a Grid of Nine Blank Squares |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/sports/baseball/immaculate-grid.html |url-access=subscription |access-date=30 August 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=11 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230828055257/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/sports/baseball/immaculate-grid.html |archive-date=28 August 2023 |url-status=live |language=en}}</ref><ref name="slate">{{cite news |last1=Winkie |first1=Luke |title=The Trendy New Trivia Game That's Like Wordle for Straight Men |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/10/immaculate-grid-nfl-mlb-sports-trivia-game.html |access-date=11 November 2023 |work=[[Slate.com|Slate]] |date=1 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111114359/https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/10/immaculate-grid-nfl-mlb-sports-trivia-game.html |archive-date=11 November 2023 |url-status=live |language=en}}</ref>


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== {{anchor|Olympics}}Olympics ==
The company, which is based in the [[Mount Airy, Philadelphia|Mount Airy]] neighborhood of [[Philadelphia]], was founded as Sports Reference in 2004 and was incorporated as Sports Reference LLC in 2007.<ref name="church">{{cite news |last1=Wagner |first1=James |title=From a Church in Philadelphia, Sports Reference Informs the World |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/sports/sean-forman-sports-reference.html |access-date=February 14, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 13, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214011608/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/sports/sean-forman-sports-reference.html |archive-date=February 14, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=FSJ_Stake /><ref name="BusinessweekOverview">{{cite web|title=Company Overview of Sports Reference, LLC|url=http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=53311244|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006233718/http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapid=53311244|archive-date=October 6, 2015|access-date=November 8, 2013|publisher=[[Bloomberg Businessweek]]}}</ref>

On July 11, 2023, the company purchased the baseball trivia game [[Immaculate Grid]] and integrated it with Baseball-Reference.<ref name="athletic">{{cite news |last1=Rosecrans |first1=C. Trent |title=The nostalgic allure of 'Immaculate Grid' makes obsessives of MLB players, fans alike |url=https://theathletic.com/4684416/2023/07/13/immaculate-grid-trivia-game-mlb/ |access-date=30 August 2023 |work=[[The Athletic]] |date=13 July 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.li/ZRFcE |archive-date=13 July 2023 |url-status=live |language=en}}</ref><ref name="nyt">{{cite news |last1=Kepner |first1=Tyler |author1-link=Tyler Kepner |title=The Hottest Thing in Baseball Is a Grid of Nine Blank Squares |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/sports/baseball/immaculate-grid.html |access-date=30 August 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=11 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230828055257/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/11/sports/baseball/immaculate-grid.html |archive-date=28 August 2023 |url-status=live |language=en}}</ref> Subsequently, the game was expanded to cover Sports Reference's other sites.<ref name="slate">{{cite news |last1=Winkie |first1=Luke |title=The Trendy New Trivia Game That’s Like Wordle for Straight Men |url=https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/10/immaculate-grid-nfl-mlb-sports-trivia-game.html |access-date=11 November 2023 |work=[[Slate.com]] |date=1 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111114359/https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/10/immaculate-grid-nfl-mlb-sports-trivia-game.html |archive-date=11 November 2023 |url-status=live |language=en}}</ref>

{{anchor|Olympics}}<!--anchor to prevent broken links if section name changes-->

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== Olympics ==
[[File:SR-Olympics.png|thumb|Sports Reference Olympics logo]]
[[File:SR-Olympics.png|thumb|Sports Reference Olympics logo]]
Sports Reference added a site for [[Olympic Games]] statistics and history in July 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/blog/?p=5 |title=Olympics at Sports Reference Launches |website=Sports-Reference.com |date=July 9, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726042758/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/blog/?p=5 |archive-date=July 26, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/about/ |title=About SR/Olympics |website=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=July 20, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080729035411/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/about/ |archive-date=July 29, 2008}}</ref>
Sports Reference added a site for [[Olympic Games]] statistics and history in July 2008,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/blog/?p=5 |title=Olympics at Sports Reference Launches |website=Sports-Reference.com |date=July 9, 2008 |author=sean |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726042758/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/blog/?p=5 |archive-date=July 26, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/about/ |title=About This Site |website=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=July 20, 2018 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080729035411/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/about/ |archive-date=July 29, 2008}}</ref> including statistics from the first Games to the most recent.


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.<ref name="down">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/down.html |title=We'll Be Closing Soon |website=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=November 13, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219000502/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/down.html |archive-date=December 19, 2016}}</ref> Since that time, data for the [[2016 Summer Olympics]] has been added,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2016/ |title=2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games |website=Sports-Reference |access-date=July 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720165957/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2016/ |archive-date=July 20, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> but the site was not updated for the [[2018 Winter Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/ |title=Winter Games Index |website=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=July 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080707092830/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/ |archive-date=July 7, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="down" /> Sports Reference closed its Olympic site on May 14, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Site is Closed |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics.html |website=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=May 15, 2020 |archive-date=October 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003122720/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/cliff-bricker-1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
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.<ref name="down">{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/down.html |title=Site Closing |date=December 16, 2016 |website=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=November 13, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219000502/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/down.html |archive-date=December 19, 2016}}</ref> Data for the [[2016 Summer Olympics]] were added,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2016/ |title=2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games |website=Sports-Reference |access-date=July 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720165957/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/2016/ |archive-date=July 20, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> but the site was not updated for the [[2018 Winter Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/ |title=Winter Games Index |website=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=July 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080707092830/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/ |archive-date=July 7, 2008 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="down" /> Sports Reference closed its Olympic site on May 14, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |title=Site is Closed |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics.html |website=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=May 15, 2020 |archive-date=October 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191003122720/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/cliff-bricker-1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>


The providers of the Olympic data, known as ''OlyMADmen'', launched a new site called ''Olympedia'' in May 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lohn |first=John |date=May 27, 2020 |title=Comprehensive Olympedia Database Available to Public; Loaded with Information |url=https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/comprehensive-olympedia-database-available-to-public-loaded-with-information/ |work=[[Swimming World]] |access-date=September 24, 2021 |quote=OlyMADmen, an international group of Olympics experts and historians, have made their exhaustive Olympics database available |archive-date=September 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924201336/https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/comprehensive-olympedia-database-available-to-public-loaded-with-information/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Perelman |first=Rich |date=May 27, 2020 |title=LANE ONE: Staggering, brilliant, astonishing portal to Olympic history opens with debut of Olympedia.org |url=https://www.thesportsexaminer.com/lane-one-staggering-brilliant-astonishing-portal-to-olympic-history-opens-with-debut-of-olympedia-com/ |work=The Sports Examiner |access-date=September 26, 2021 |archive-date=September 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926145622/https://www.thesportsexaminer.com/lane-one-staggering-brilliant-astonishing-portal-to-olympic-history-opens-with-debut-of-olympedia-com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Mallon |first=Bill |date=May 27, 2020 |title=Olympedia now open to the public |url=https://olympstats.com/2020/05/27/olympedia-now-open-to-the-public/ |website=OlympStats.com |access-date=May 27, 2020 |quote=the result many years of work by a group of Olympic historians and statisticians called the OlyMADmen |archive-date=June 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606103935/https://olympstats.com/2020/05/27/olympedia-now-open-to-the-public/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/static/about |title=About |website=Olympedia.org |quote=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. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614210347/https://www.olympedia.org/static/about |archive-date=June 14, 2020}}</ref> According to ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', editing of "Olympedia is restricted to about two dozen trusted academics and researchers who specialize in Olympic history."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrison |first=Stephen |date=July 26, 2021 |title=How to Use Wikipedia When You're Watching the Olympics |url=https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/tokyo-2020-olympic-games-wikipedia.html |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=July 29, 2021 |archive-date=July 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726164036/https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/tokyo-2020-olympic-games-wikipedia.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The site is owned by the [[International Olympic Committee]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bauernfeind |first1=John |title=IOC looks to acquisition of Olympedia as step toward modernizing Olympic recordkeeping |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2017/02/27/Olympics/Olympedia.aspx |access-date=29 May 2023 |work=www.sportsbusinessjournal.com |date=27 February 2017 |language=en |archive-date=May 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529021255/https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2017/02/27/Olympics/Olympedia.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref>
The providers of the Olympic data, known as ''OlyMADmen'', launched a new site called '''Olympedia'''<!--boldface per WP:R#PLA--> in May 2020.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lohn |first=John |date=May 27, 2020 |title=Comprehensive Olympedia Database Available to Public; Loaded with Information |url=https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/comprehensive-olympedia-database-available-to-public-loaded-with-information/ |work=[[Swimming World]] |access-date=September 24, 2021 |quote=OlyMADmen, an international group of Olympics experts and historians, have made their exhaustive Olympics database available |archive-date=September 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924201336/https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/comprehensive-olympedia-database-available-to-public-loaded-with-information/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Perelman |first=Rich |date=May 27, 2020 |title=LANE ONE: Staggering, brilliant, astonishing portal to Olympic history opens with debut of Olympedia.org |url=https://www.thesportsexaminer.com/lane-one-staggering-brilliant-astonishing-portal-to-olympic-history-opens-with-debut-of-olympedia-com/ |work=The Sports Examiner |access-date=September 26, 2021 |archive-date=September 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926145622/https://www.thesportsexaminer.com/lane-one-staggering-brilliant-astonishing-portal-to-olympic-history-opens-with-debut-of-olympedia-com/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Mallon |first=Bill |date=May 27, 2020 |title=Olympedia now open to the public |url=https://olympstats.com/2020/05/27/olympedia-now-open-to-the-public/ |website=OlympStats.com |access-date=May 27, 2020 |quote=the result many years of work by a group of Olympic historians and statisticians called the OlyMADmen |archive-date=June 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606103935/https://olympstats.com/2020/05/27/olympedia-now-open-to-the-public/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/static/about |title=About |website=Olympedia |quote=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. |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614210347/https://www.olympedia.org/static/about |archive-date=June 14, 2020}}</ref> According to ''[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]]'', editing of "Olympedia [was] restricted to about two dozen trusted academics and researchers who specialize in Olympic history."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Harrison |first=Stephen |date=July 26, 2021 |title=How to Use Wikipedia When You're Watching the Olympics |url=https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/tokyo-2020-olympic-games-wikipedia.html |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=July 29, 2021 |archive-date=July 26, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210726164036/https://slate.com/technology/2021/07/tokyo-2020-olympic-games-wikipedia.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The site is owned by the [[International Olympic Committee]] (IOC).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bauernfeind |first1=John |title=IOC looks to acquisition of Olympedia as step toward modernizing Olympic recordkeeping |url=https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2017/02/27/Olympics/Olympedia.aspx |access-date=29 May 2023 |work=Sports Business Journal |date=27 February 2017 |language=en |archive-date=May 29, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529021255/https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2017/02/27/Olympics/Olympedia.aspx |url-status=live }}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite tweet |number=1740775591106982323 |user=bambam1729 |title= In 2016 Olympedia was purchased by the IOC but we have had a contract with them to update it since that time. |first=Bill |last=Mallon |author-link=Bill Mallon |date=2023-12-29 |access-date=2024-04-04}}</ref><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.
|first=Bill |last=Mallon |author-link=Bill Mallon |date=2023-12-29 |access-date=2024-04-04}}</ref>


==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
{{Commons}}
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* {{Official website}}
* {{Official website}}
* {{URL|https://www.basketball-reference.com/|Basketball Reference}}
* {{URL|https://www.hockey-reference.com/|Hockey Reference}}
* {{URL|https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/|College Basketball Reference}}
* {{URL|https://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/|College Football Reference}}


[[Category:American sport websites]]
[[Category:American sport websites]]

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Sports Reference, LLC
Company typePrivate
IndustrySports statistics
FoundedAugust 2004; 20 years ago (2004-08)
FounderSean Forman
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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US
Products
Websitewww.sports-reference.com Edit this at Wikidata

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 Web site included Olympic Games statistics from the first Games to the most recent.

History

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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 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). 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

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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][22]

References

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  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ Fisher, Eric (February 16, 2009). "FSV buys stake in reference sites". Sports Business Journal. Archived from the original on February 17, 2009.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ "Company Overview of Sports Reference, LLC". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on October 6, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  5. ^ "Sports Reference Main Page". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2010. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
  6. ^ Lynch, Mike (February 15, 2024). "Sports Reference Expands Women's College Basketball Data". Sports Reference Blog. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved February 18, 2024.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ sean (July 9, 2008). "Olympics at Sports Reference Launches". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on July 26, 2008.
  10. ^ "About This Site". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on July 29, 2008. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  11. ^ a b "Site Closing". Sports-Reference.com. December 16, 2016. Archived from the original on December 19, 2016. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  12. ^ "2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on July 20, 2018. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  13. ^ "Winter Games Index". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2008. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  14. ^ "Site is Closed". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on October 3, 2019. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  15. ^ 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
  16. ^ 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.
  17. ^ 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
  18. ^ "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.
  19. ^ 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.
  20. ^ 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.
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ 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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