Baseball-Reference

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Baseball-Reference

URL	http://baseball-reference.com
Type of site	Baseball
Owner	Sports Reference LLC
Created by	Sean Forman
Launched	February 1, 2000
Current status	Active

Baseball-Reference.com is a website providing statistics for every player in Major League Baseball history. The site is often used by major media organizations and baseball broadcasters as a source for statistics.

The website came online in April 2000 after first being launched in February 2000 as part of the website for the Big Bad Baseball Annual. It was originally built as a web interface to the Lahman Baseball Database, although it now employs a variety of data sources. It has year-by-year team pages, a baseball encyclopedia (the Bullpen, powered by MediaWiki software^[1]), box scores and game logs from every MLB game back to 1957, and minor league player stats back to 1992. The Oracle of Baseball can link any two players by common teammates. The Oracle of Baseball is based on the Oracle of Bacon website.

Developer Sean Forman was a math professor at Saint Joseph's University before taking on this project full-time.^[2]

In February 2009, Fantasy Sports Ventures took a minority stake in Sports Reference, the parent company of Baseball-Reference, for a "low seven-figure sum."^[3]

[edit] See also

• http://basketball-reference.com
• http://pro-football-reference.com
• http://sports-reference.com/olympics
• http://hockey-reference.com

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Main website
• "The man behind the numbers: Former math professor creates statistics uber-site," Sports Illustrated (February 6, 2007)
• Yahoo! Picks interview with Sean Forman

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