Sports Reference
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| Company type | Private |
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| Industry | sports technology, data, and content |
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| Founded | August 2004 |
| Founder | Sean Forman |
| Headquarters | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania , |
| Products |
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| 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.
Description
[change | change source]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]
Olympics
[change | change source]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]
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 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. Retrieved September 24, 2021.
- ↑ 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.
