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Sports Reference
Company typePrivate
Headquarters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
,
United States
Products
  • Baseball Reference
  • Basketball Reference
  • Pro Football Reference
  • Hockey Reference
  • FBref
  • SR/College Basketball
  • SR/College Football
  • Stathead
WebsiteSports-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

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

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]

In May 2020, the company that provided the data, OlyMADmen, launched a new site called Olympedia.[12][13] The Olympedia website is owned by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).[14] On December 29, 2023, OlyMADmen member Bill Mallon announced that they would no longer be able to update Olympedia, because the IOC did not renew the contract needed to allow them to do so.[15][16]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kramer, Staci D. (February 17, 2009). "Fantasy Sports Ventures Takes Minority Stake In Sports Reference LLC". CBS News. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fantasy-sports-ventures-takes-minority-stake-in-sports-reference-llc/. Retrieved September 24, 2021. 
  2. ↑ Fisher, Eric (February 16, 2009). "FSV buys stake in reference sites". Sports Business Journal. http://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/article/61558. 
  3. ↑ Sports Reference Main Page. Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved April 2, 2014.
  4. ↑ Wagner, James (February 13, 2019). "From a Church in Philadelphia, Sports Reference Informs the World". The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/sports/sean-forman-sports-reference.html. Retrieved February 14, 2019. 
  5. ↑ Company Overview of Sports Reference, LLCBloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
  6. ↑ Olympics at Sports Reference Launches. Sports-Reference.com (July 9, 2008).
  7. ↑ About SR/Olympics. Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 We'll Be Closing Soon. Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved November 13, 2017.
  9. ↑ 2016 Rio de Janeiro Summer Games. Sports-Reference. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  10. ↑ Winter Games Index. Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved July 20, 2018.
  11. ↑ Site is Closed. Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
  12. ↑ Perelman, Rich (May 27, 2020). "LANE ONE: Staggering, brilliant, astonishing portal to Olympic history opens with debut of Olympedia.org". The Sports Examiner. https://www.thesportsexaminer.com/lane-one-staggering-brilliant-astonishing-portal-to-olympic-history-opens-with-debut-of-olympedia-com/. Retrieved September 26, 2021. 
  13. ↑ Mallon, Bill. Olympedia now open to the public. OlympStats.com (May 27, 2020). Retrieved May 27, 2020.
  14. ↑ Bauernfeind, John (27 February 2017). "IOC looks to acquisition of Olympedia as step toward modernizing Olympic recordkeeping" (in en). Sports Business Journal. https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Journal/Issues/2017/02/27/Olympics/Olympedia.aspx. Retrieved 29 May 2023. 
  15. ↑ bambam1729. In 2016 Olympedia was purchased by the IOC but we have had a contract with them to update it since that time. (2023-12-29). Retrieved 2024-04-04.
  16. ↑ bambam1729. 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. (2023-12-29). Retrieved 2024-04-04.

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