Sports Reference Company type Private Industry sports technology, data, and content Predecessor Founded August 2004; 20 years ago (2004-08 ) Founder Sean Forman Headquarters , Products Baseball Reference Basketball Reference Pro Football Reference Hockey Reference FBref SR/College Basketball SR/College Football Stathead Website Sports-Reference.com
Sports Reference, LLC is an American company which runs sports - based websites . These sites provided statistics for many different sports. They include 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] Between 2008 and 2020, Sports Reference also had pages for Olympic Games .
In addition to professional sports, the site also has sections on college football , college basketball and the Olympics.[ 3] The sites tries to give its users all the sports data they can. For example, Baseball-Reference has more than 100,000 box scores . Pro-Football-Reference has information on every scoring play in the National Football League since 1941.[ 1]
The company is based in the Mount Airy area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania . It was founded as Sports Reference in 2004. The company was incorporated as Sports Reference LLC in 2007.[ 4] [ 1] [ 5]
Sports Reference added a site for the Olympic Games in July 2008.[ 6] [ 7]
The company said in December 2016 that the Olympics site was to be shut down. It was being closed because of a change in its licensing agreement.[ 8] Since then, data for the 2016 Summer Olympics has been added.[ 9] The site was not updated for the 2018 Winter Olympics .[ 10] [ 8] Sports Reference closed its Olympic site on May 14, 2020.[ 11]
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↑ 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 .
↑ 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 November 8, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2013 .
↑ "Olympics at Sports Reference Launches" . Sports-Reference.com . July 9, 2008. Archived from the original on July 26, 2008.
↑ "About SR/Olympics" . Sports-Reference.com . Archived from the original on July 29, 2008. Retrieved July 20, 2018 .
↑ 8.0 8.1 "We'll Be Closing Soon" . Sports-Reference.com . 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 June 30, 2017. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .