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| Type | Private |
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| Industry | sports technology, data, and content |
| Predecessor |
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| Founded | August 2004 |
| Founder | Sean Forman |
| Headquarters | , |
| Products |
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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.
Description
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]
Olympics
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]
References
- ^ a b c Kramer, Staci D. (February 17, 2009). "Fantasy Sports Ventures Takes Minority Stake In Sports Reference LLC". CBS MoneyWatch. PaidContent. Archived from the original on November 8, 2013. Retrieved 2013.
- ^ "Sports Reference Main Page". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on February 1, 2010. Retrieved 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 2019.
- ^ "Company Overview of Sports Reference, LLC". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on November 8, 2013. Retrieved 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 2018.
- ^ a b "We'll Be Closing Soon". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on December 19, 2016. Retrieved 2017.
- ^ "2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games". Sports-Reference. Archived from the original on July 20, 2018. Retrieved 2018.
- ^ "Winter Games Index". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on July 7, 2008. Retrieved 2018.
- ^ "Site is Closed". Sports Reference. Retrieved 2020.
- ^ "Olympedia now open to the public". OlympStats. May 27, 2020. Retrieved 2020.
External links
- Sports-Reference.com
- Olympedia.org
- Baseball-Reference.com (also bbref.com)
- Basketball-Reference.com (also bkref.com)
- Hockey-Reference.com (also hkref.com))
- Pro-Football-Reference.com (also pfref.com)
- College Football at Sports-Reference.com (also cfbref.com)
- College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com (also cbbref.com)
- Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (also olyref.com)
- FBref.com - Football (Soccer) Statistics and History
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