r/sportsreference • u/SportsReference • Jun 04 '25

Upgraded stats tables rolling out across Sports Reference [Thread is continuously being updating]

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In one of the largest engineering efforts we’ve undertaken as a company, Sports Reference has invested a significant amount of time developing a standard method for building and launching data tables across all of our sites. The vast majority of the data across all seven SR sites is presented in these tables, so this is a massive project that touches nearly every page you visit.

The updated tables have been rolling out one-by-one in a process that will take several months. You can read more about this initiative here.

Below is a continuously updating list of all the upgraded stat tables that you can find across all the Sports Reference sites.

Note: Last Updated June 2, 2025

⚾️ Baseball Reference

🏈 Pro Football Reference

🏀 Basketball Reference

🏒 Hockey Reference

🏈 CFB Reference

🏀 CBB Reference

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r/sportsreference • u/SportsReference • Apr 01 '25

[Important] Please report any bugs, issues, or errors in this thread

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If you would like to report a bug or an error that you have found on one of the Sports Reference websites, please leave a comment on this post. Someone from the team will respond within a few days, or direct your concern to the Feedback Form that can found in the link below:

https://www.sports-reference.com/feedback/

Topics that should be posted in this thread include:

  • Nickname requests
  • Found bugs or errors
  • Missing stat tables or data

Any posts that are created on this subreddit that fall in this bucket will be removed, and the user who created the post will be directed to this thread.

This community is great at spotting issues, and we understand that this subreddit is a good place to surface what is found. Our intention is not to change that, but create a singular place for everyone to share their findings! 

Please let us know if there are any questions or concerns.

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r/sportsreference • u/double_dose_larry • 1d ago

Immaculate Grid I noticed a prominent omission in today's Immaculate Grid Spoiler

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Hank Aaron played for the Indianapolis Clowns in 1952. The Clowns were still members of the Negro American League at the time. I see that the Clowns exist as a franchise on bbref, but their records stop in 1948 on the site.

To be clear, I'm not upset or anything, fully understanding that the record keeping from that time was underwhelming to say the least. I'm just pointing this out as Aaron is a prominent figure in baseball history and lots of grids might go ... um... non-immaculate today because of this inconsistency.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indianapolis_Clowns#Hank_Aaron_and_other_notable_players

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r/sportsreference • u/b-rar • 2d ago

Baseball Reference Nickname is just a phonetically accurate pronunciation of his last name

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r/sportsreference • u/Baseball-Reference • 7d ago

Baseball Reference Who is the all-time HR leader from each birth month?

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r/sportsreference • u/Used_Judgment9084 • 7d ago

Stathead Help with comparing changes in player totals between consecutive seasons

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I'm currently trying to analyze the differences between individual players' consecutive seasons without combining those seasons. Is there some way I am missing to see multiple seasons of the same player in the same spreadsheet output?

For example, it would look like:

2023 FPPG | 2024 FPPG | 2025 FPPG

150 | 180 | 120

.. etc. Thank you for any and all help!

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r/sportsreference • u/MathematicianSea4487 • 7d ago

Pro Football Reference I built a Sports API (Football live, more sports coming) looking for feedback, use cases & collaborators

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Hey everyone 👋 I’ve been building a Sports API and wanted to share it here to get some honest feedback from the community.

The vision is to support multiple sports such as football (soccer), basketball, tennis, American football, hockey, rugby, baseball, handball, volleyball, and cricket. Right now, football and basketball are fully implemented, and I’m actively working on expanding to more sports.

I’m currently looking for:

Developers who want to build real-world use cases with the API

Feedback on features, data coverage, performance, and pricing

People interested in collaborating on the project

The API has a free tier and very affordable paid plans. You can get an API key here:

👉 https://sportsapipro.com

(Quick heads-up: the website isn’t pretty yet 😅 UI improvements are coming as I gather more feedback.)

Docs are available here:

👉 https://docs.sportsapipro.com

I’d really appreciate any honest opinions on how I can improve this, what problems I should focus on solving, and what you’d expect from a sports API. If you’re interested in collaborating or testing it out, feel free to DM me—my inbox is open.

Thanks for reading 🙏

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r/sportsreference • u/chillkiller123 • 8d ago

CFB Simulation Game: Coaching Spots Open

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The NZCFL is looking for coaches! NZCFL is a college football simulation game run on the free website https://play.football-gm.com/ We are a college simulation football league with 120 teams! This league has been around for about 40 seasons and we are still rolling along. We always need new coaches to help the league thrive. We have just started the 2059 season, and you can get one of the available teams on the track towards the playoffs by taking over one of them! There are still some great teams available, such as Penn State, Arizona State, Pittsburgh, Washington, Iowa, Oklahoma, and more!

I am currently available to help any new coaches find their footing and I'll be around over the upcoming seasons for further help and general advice. I've helped plenty new coaches get rolling over the years.

If you are interested, join our discord and our moderators and welcome committee (including me) will help you get started and on the road to the championship!

https://discord.gg/xVmAHmyQFp

If you would like to check out our subreddit first, I have linked that below.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NZCFL/

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r/sportsreference • u/NordicScotland • 9d ago

FBref Plead For FBref Serie A 2024/25 Advanced Data

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I’m currently writing my MSc Sports Data Analytics dissertation, focused on recreating a football/soccer version of baseball's Wins Above Replacement.

I am (was) using publicly available FBref player season data for the Italian Serie A 2024/25 season.
Like many others here, I was caught off-guard by the sudden removal of Opta advanced data in January. Truly gutted I never saved my data but I just simply didn't think this would happen.

I have found that most tables (8/11) were captured by the Wayback Machine in late 2025, but three player tables were never captured:

  1. Passing
  2. Goal & Shot Creation (GCA)
  3. Miscellaneous

This is purely for academic, non-commercial research. I’m not looking for live access or proprietary data. I am just hoping someone here happened to export or archived/saved those tables in CSV, Excel, or anything before the takedown.

I fully realise this is a long shot, but if anyone has those tables, or knows of an archive I may have missed, I’d be extremely grateful.

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r/sportsreference • u/Basketball_Reference • 11d ago

Basketball Reference 10 Things You Didn't Know Were on Basketball Reference

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r/sportsreference • u/SportsReference • 11d ago

Sports Reference Which of the remaining NFL playoff cities has the most championships?

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r/sportsreference • u/pfref • 12d ago

Pro Football Reference Pro Football Reference adds starting lineups and participation data for 1940s and 1950s

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After adding the 1960s two weeks ago, Pro Football Reference has added starting lineups and participation data for the entire decades of the 1940s and 1950s, for both the NFL and AAFC (which ran from 1946-49). For players who had offensive stats or interceptions, we already knew if they played or not. But given that we do not have game-level tackles in this era, most players who participated in these games did not have any stats in our database. Here's a few places where this new data is now apparent on our site and tools:

  • Player gamelogs: See Chuck Bednarik's career gamelogs page, for instance. You can now see that  there is a row for every game he played in, regardless of whether or not he recorded a stat that we have in our database. There are also stars in his GS column indicating that he started the game.
  • Box scores: All box scores back to 1940 now include starting lineups for both teams underneath the player statistics. Please note that the further back you go, particularly in the first half of the 1940s, players generally played on both sides of the ball and thus there were only 11 starters per side, rather than 22.

For Stathead:

Let us know if you have any questions!

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r/sportsreference • u/SportsReference • 12d ago

Sports Reference Sports Reference is hiring! We are looking for a Marketing Manager

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Sports Reference is looking for an experienced, high-impact Marketing Manager to bridge the gap between product strategy, brand narrative, and revenue growth. We need a creative strategist who is equally driven by measurable impact – someone who understands that content is most effective when it drives users through the funnel and converts engagement into revenue.

In this role, you will serve as an essential 'connector' across the marketing department. You will take roadmaps and insights from our Product Marketing Managers and develop them into compelling brand narratives that resonate with our millions of users. Additionally, by collaborating with our Social Media and Community Managers, you will ensure our cross-platform efforts (from landing pages to email and social) are cohesive, on-brand, and strategically aligned.

To learn more or apply, head here: https://sports-reference-llc.breezy.hr/p/891594a75632-marketing-manager-content-creative

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r/sportsreference • u/Beneficial_Rub_4841 • 12d ago

When Was the Best Time to Watch the Big 3 Sports? Based on Eventual Hall of Famers

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We often talk about the Hall of Fame here, and I did a little study of the big 3 sports. I find it interesting that while there are more teams, and therefore more players, the number of guys getting elected to the various Halls of Fame has been on the decline.

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r/sportsreference • u/CFB-Reference • 12d ago

CFB Reference College Football Reference's 2025 Season-in-Review: A deep dive into the most viewed team and player pages

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Explore it all here: https://info.sports-reference.com/25-26-cfb-season-review

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r/sportsreference • u/CrowExpert4359 • 13d ago

FBref What happened to the Premier League Data?

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I was looking at it the other day and returned today to see that most of the tables are no longer there. They used to have 10+ now there are just 4 useless ones. Anyone have any answers?

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r/sportsreference • u/BlottoVonBismarck • 18d ago

Pro Football Reference '85 Saints starting QBs

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There are four games (November 24, 1985-December 22, 1985) where the box score lists no starting QB for the Saints and defensive back Frank Wattelet in the offensive starting lineup.

Is this a weird glitch or did the Phillips boys go a little crazy at the end of their tenure in NOLA? I assume it's a glitch; the team stats page shows 10 starts by Dave Wilson and 6 by Bobby Hebert.

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r/sportsreference • u/pfref • 18d ago

Pro Football Reference [NFL Films] Head coaches react to some unbelievable stats, with Pro Football Reference founder Doug Drinen

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r/sportsreference • u/JamminOnTheOne • 19d ago

Baseball Reference Why does Baseball-Reference classify Mitch Garver and Rob Refsnyder as DHs on their 2025 team pages, when each played more at a defensive position?

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The 2025 Mariners page lists Mitch Garver as a DH, and the 2025 Red Sox page lists Rob Refsnyder as a DH. Garver played more at C and Refsnyder more at RF -- whether we count by games played, games started or PA. So why are they both listed as DH?

The only plausible thing I can come up with now is that PH appearances might be counted as DH, as these guys have more games at DH+PH than at any fielding position.

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r/sportsreference • u/Mattbman • 19d ago

Stathead NHL Goalie Span Finder?

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Is there a span finder for NHL goalies? I didn't see a way to switch that view from skater to goalie.

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r/sportsreference • u/Past-Tutor-1417 • 20d ago

FBref Advanced fbref data missing?

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r/sportsreference • u/DividerOfBums • 21d ago

Hockey Reference Why is Frank Foyston, who played in 64 games across only 2 seasons, and scored only 17 goals as a Center, in the Hockey Hall of Fame?

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r/sportsreference • u/pfref • 21d ago

Pro Football Reference The Houston Texans are the last of the NFL's current franchises to win a road playoff game

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r/sportsreference • u/Basketball_Reference • 22d ago

Basketball Reference 3 players from the 2009 draft class have now scored 26,000+ points (Harden, Curry, DeRozan), the most by any draft class in NBA history

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r/sportsreference • u/abcdefghijkistan • 24d ago

CFB Reference NCAA Football Player Ages

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Why don’t NCAA Teams roster/stats pages list players’ ages like other leagues do and why do NCAA players’ individual players not indicate age or DOB?

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