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Type | Private |
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Industry | sports technology, data, and content |
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Founded | August 2004 |
Founder | Sean Forman |
Headquarters | , |
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Website | Sports-Reference.com |
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] Between 2008 and 2020, Sports Reference also provided pages for Olympic Games and its competitors.
The site also includes sections on college football, college basketball and the Olympics.[2] 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 company, which is based in the Mount Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was founded as Sports Reference in 2004 and was incorporated as Sports Reference LLC in 2007.[3][1][4]
Sports Reference added a site for Olympic Games statistics and history in July 2008.[5][6]
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.[7] Since that time, data for the 2016 Summer Olympics was added,[8] but the site was not updated for the 2018 Winter Olympics.[9] The providers of the Olympic data were working with another publisher to create a new website.[7] Sports Reference closed its Olympic site on May 14, 2020.[10] The new website is now available at olympedia.org.[11]