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). Between 2008 and 2020, Sports Reference also had pages for Olympic Games.
Description
In addition to professional sports, the site also has sections on college football, college basketball and the Olympics. 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.
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.
Olympics
Sports Reference added a site for the Olympic Games in July 2008.
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. Since then, data for the 2016 Summer Olympics has been added. The site was not updated for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Sports Reference closed its Olympic site on May 14, 2020.