Baseball-Reference.com

Baseball-Reference.com is a website that provides baseball statistics for individual Major League Baseball players and teams . The site is operated by Sports Reference, LLC, which also manages Pro-Football-Reference.com, Basketball Reference, and Hockey Reference, and has more than one million monthly users according to Street & Smith's Sports Business Journal .

history

Founder Sean Forman began developing the website as part of his PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science at the University of Iowa . During his dissertation, he was also writing blog articles about Sabermetrics . Forman's database was based on a number of baseball encyclopedias .

The website went live in April 2000, having previously existed as part of the Big Bad Baseball Annual website in February 2000 . It was originally planned as the web interface of the Lahman Baseball Database , but today it has a number of data sources.

Sports Reference, LLC was founded in 2007 . In 2006 Forman quit his post as a math professor at Saint Joseph's University to devote himself full-time to developing Baseball-Reference.com.

In February 2009 Fantasy Sports Ventures bought Sports Reference, LLC, the parent company of Baseball-Reference.com, for a "low seven-figure sum".

content

statistics

The page contains data on all seasons played by all MLB teams, including the distribution of votes for awards such as the Cy Young Award , statistical records (e.g. best batting average of the season), results of the annual MLB draft and manager statistics . It also contains figures on the Negro Leagues and its own wiki called Bullpen , as well as statistics from minor league players from 1888 onwards.

Bullpen

Baseball-Reference.com has its own wiki called Baseball Reference Bullpen , which can be edited by all users based on the Wikipedia principle . Baseball Reference Bullpen contains over 77,200 articles (as of July 2015).

Web links

https://www.baseball-reference.com/ Official website

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Fisher, Eric: FSV buys stake in reference sites . In: Sports Business Journal . February 16, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
↑ ^a ^b The Sublime Simplicity of Baseball-Reference.com . In: Rolling Stone , October 28, 2015.
^ Company Overview of Sports Reference, LLC . Bloomberg Business Week . Archived from the original on November 8, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2013.
^ About Sports Reference . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on March 30, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
↑ Main Page - BR Bullpen . In: Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on June 17, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2011.
↑ Main Page - BR Bullpen . In: Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved July 17, 2011.

[FSV-1] Fisher, Eric: FSV buys stake in reference sites . In: Sports Business Journal . February 16, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2011.

[rs-2] The Sublime Simplicity of Baseball-Reference.com . In: Rolling Stone , October 28, 2015.

[BusinessweekOverview-3] Company Overview of Sports Reference, LLC . Bloomberg Business Week . Archived from the original on November 8, 2013. Retrieved November 8, 2013.

[sportsref-4] About Sports Reference . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on March 30, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2011.

[main_page-5] Main Page - BR Bullpen . In: Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on June 17, 2009. Retrieved July 16, 2011.

[6] Main Page - BR Bullpen . In: Baseball-Reference.com . Sports Reference. Archived from the original on July 19, 2011. Retrieved July 17, 2011.