pitcher career totals, individual statistical leaders for each season and all-time, managers' career records, the full results of all MLB player drafts, Negro 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 minor 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 Cy Young Award and MVP, head-to-head batter vs. Īt 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 Chief Bender and Dummy 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 Saint Joseph's University in order to focus on Baseball-Reference full-time. The company was incorporated as Sports Reference, LLC in 2007. In 2004, Forman founded Sports Reference. It was originally built as a web interface to the Lahman Baseball 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. Forman's database was originally built from the Total Baseball series of baseball encyclopedias.

While writing his dissertation, he had also been writing articles on and blogging about sabermetrics. dissertation in applied math and computational science at the University of Iowa. Founder Sean Forman began developing the website while working on his Ph.D.

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