Sports Reference, LLC, is an American company which operates several sports-related websites, including Sports-Reference.com, Baseball-Reference.com for

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, Basketball-Reference.com for

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, Hockey-Reference.com for

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Pro-Football-Reference.com Pro-Football-Reference.com is a website providing a variety of statistics for American football. It is one of the few sites that provides information on both active and retired players. The site provides statistics for teams dating back to 1920 ...

for

American football American football (referred to simply as football in the United States and Canada), also known as gridiron, is a team sport played by two teams of eleven players on a rectangular field with goalposts at each end. The offense, the team wit ...

, and FBref.com for

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is t ...

(soccer). They also operate a subscription based service for statistics, called Stathead. Between 2008 and 2020, Sports Reference also provided pages for

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a multi ...

and its competitors.

Description

The site also includes sections on college football,

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and the

Olympics The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

. The sites attempt a comprehensive approach to sports data. For example, Baseball-Reference contains more than 100,000 box scores and Pro-Football-Reference contains data on every scoring play in the

National Football League The National Football League (NFL) is a professional American football league that consists of 32 teams, divided equally between the American Football Conference (AFC) and the National Football Conference (NFC). The NFL is one of the ma ...

since . The company, which is based in the Mount Airy neighborhood of

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, was founded as Sports Reference in 2004 and was incorporated as Sports Reference LLC in 2007.

Olympics

Sports Reference added a site for

statistics and history in July 2008. The company announced in December 2016 that the Olympics site was to be shut down in the near future due to a change in its data licensing agreement. Since that time, data for the 2016 Summer Olympics has been added, but the site was not updated for the

2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...

. Sports Reference closed its Olympic site on May 14, 2020. The providers of the Olympic data, known as ''OlyMADmen'', launched a new site called ''Olympedia'' in May 2020. According to ''

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'', editing of "Olympedia is restricted to about two dozen trusted academics and researchers who specialize in Olympic history."

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* {{Official website, url=https://www.sports-reference.com/, name=Sports-Reference.com American sport websites Sports records and statistics Companies based in Philadelphia Privately held companies based in Pennsylvania American companies established in 2004 2004 establishments in Pennsylvania Data companies