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
Pro-Football-Reference.com is a website providing a variety of statistics for American football. It is one of the few sites that provides information on both active and retired players. The site provides statistics for teams dating back to 1920. ...
for
American football, and FBref.com for
association football (soccer).
They also operate a subscription based service for statistics, called Stathead. 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 football (french: Football universitaire) refers to gridiron football played by teams of student athletes. It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.
Unlike most ...
,
college basketball and the
Olympics
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...
. 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 .
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.
Olympics
Sports Reference added a site for
Olympic Games statistics and history in July 2008.
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.
Since that time, data for the
2016 Summer Olympics
The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...
has been added, but the site was not updated for the
2018 Winter Olympics
, nations = 93
, athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women)
, events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines)
, opening =
, closing =
, opened_by = President Moon Jae-in
, cauldron = Kim Yun-a
, stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium
, winte ...
.
Sports Reference closed its Olympic site on May 14, 2020.
The providers of the Olympic data, known as ''OlyMADmen'', launched a new site called ''Olympedia'' in May 2020. According to ''
Slate
Slate is a fine-grained, foliated, homogeneous metamorphic rock derived from an original shale-type sedimentary rock composed of clay or volcanic ash through low-grade regional metamorphism. It is the finest grained foliated metamorphic rock. ...
'', editing of "Olympedia is restricted to about two dozen trusted academics and researchers who specialize in Olympic history."
References
External links
* {{Official website, url=https://www.sports-reference.com/, name=Sports-Reference.com
American sport websites
Sports records and statistics
Companies based in Philadelphia
Privately held companies based in Pennsylvania
American companies established in 2004
2004 establishments in Pennsylvania
Data companies