#Baseball reference full#
#Baseball reference series#

As of July 2015, the Baseball Reference Bullpen contains over 77,200 articles. BullpenД«aseball-Reference has its own baseball encyclopedia, a wiki called 'Baseball Reference Bullpen', which can be edited by anyone and is modeled after Wikipedia. Another one of their Frivolities is the page devoted to KeithвЂ…Hernandez's mustache, which is the only 'fictional' page on Baseball-Reference. In addition, there are a number of what the website calls 'Frivolities', e.g., The Oracle of Baseball, which links any two players by common teammates in the way the pop culture favorite ' OracleвЂ…ofвЂ…Bacon' website does. It also offers sabremetrician Jay Jaffe's acronymned 'JAWS' system for ranking players of different eras against each other by weighting their primes. To compare ballplayers to one-another it offers 'BlackвЂ…ink' and 'GrayвЂ…Ink' Tests, which tally a player's dominance and overall productivity against his peers.

#Baseball reference full#

pitcher career totals, individual statistical leaders for each season and all-time, managers' career records, the full results of all MLB player drafts, NegroвЂ…leagues statistics, a baseball encyclopedia (the Bullpen), and box scores and game logs from every MLB game back to 1914, among other features. The site has season, career, and minorвЂ…league records (when available, back to 1888) for everyone who has played Major League Baseball, year-by-year team pages, all final league standings, all postseason numbers, voting results for all historic awards such as the CyвЂ…YoungвЂ…Award and MVP, head-to-head batter vs. ДЄt the end of April 2021, the site changed a number of identifying names, 'discontinuing the use of nicknames that are racially or ethnically influenced' and 'names based upon a player's disability', such as ChiefвЂ…Bender and DummyвЂ…Hoy, who are now listed as Charles Bender and Billy Hoy, respectively. In February 2009, Fantasy Sports Ventures took a minority stake in Sports Reference, LLC, the parent company of Baseball-Reference, for a 'low seven-figure sum'. In 2006, Forman left his job as a math professor at SaintвЂ…Joseph'sвЂ…University in order to focus on Baseball-Reference full-time. The company was incorporated as Sports Reference, LLC in 2007. In 2004, Forman founded SportsвЂ…Reference. It was originally built as a web interface to the LahmanвЂ…BaseballвЂ…Database, though it now employs a variety of data sources. The website went online in April 2000, after first being launched in February 2000 as part of the website for the Big Bad Baseball Annual.

#Baseball reference series#

Forman's database was originally built from the TotalвЂ…Baseball series of baseball encyclopedias. While writing his dissertation, he had also been writing articles on and blogging about sabermetrics. dissertation in appliedвЂ…math and computationalвЂ…science at the UniversityвЂ…ofвЂ…Iowa. Founder Sean Forman began developing the website while working on his Ph.D.