American company which operates several sports-related websites From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
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 |
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]
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]
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