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Archive for June, 2018

2018 Division I FBS Schedule is Up

20th June 2018

College football is looming, so Sports-Reference has uploaded the 2018 regular season schedule for all 129 FBS teams, as well as Liberty who's entering as a transitional team before earning full membership next year. So from August 25th at noon when Wyoming and New Mexico State face off, all the way to the Army-Navy classic on December 8, we've got you covered.

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WNBA Season Advanced Stats Now Available on Basketball-Reference

19th June 2018

As the 2018 WNBA season continues on through the summer, we have now added an Advanced Stats section to the season stats pages. We already included advanced stats on players' individual pages, so you already knew Brittney Griner had a 10.2 block percentage during her 2015 Defensive Player of the Year performance, but now you can see her performance with the context of the rest of the league. You could also take a look at the gap in win shares between Nneka Ogwumike's 2016 MVP season and the rest of her peers. Of course, we'll continue to update 2018 advanced stats along with the classics as this season unfolds.

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Basketball-Reference Adds Historical Playoff Series Outcome Data

18th June 2018

While the NBA is in offseason mode, teams are still making moves to improve themselves, and the same goes for Basketball-Reference as well. With that in mind, we've added a page that details historical data for seven-game playoff series based on various game results. Just to give an example, if we had just watched the Cavs go down 2-3 to the Celtics in the Eastern Conference Playoffs, you'd look for the Team is Down column, find the 2-3 section, and locate their predicament where they'd lost the first two away games, won their first two home games and then lost the third away game, displayed as two red A's, two green H's and one more red A. Then, you'd find that prior to the Cavs pulling off the series win, teams in that situation were 2-40, with only the '07 Utah Jazz and the '08 San Antonio Spurs able to pull off the same feat. We have overall winning records for both the modern 2-2-1-1-1 format, as well as the classic 2-3-2 format.

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us through our feedback form.

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2018 NBA Free Agent Tracker is Live

15th June 2018

The 2017-18 NBA season may have ended rather predictably, but that doesn't mean the NBA offseason isn't just as filled with important activity. So, to keep you updated on all the latest transactions, we've brought back our Free Agent Tracker for 2018. Perhaps LeBron James or Kevin Durant will throw everyone for a swerve? More realistically, if you want to keep an eye on the destination of guys like Paul George, Clint Capela and J.J. Redick, we'll be keeping track of their eventual destinations and disclosed contract information here.

If you have any questions or suggestions, feel free to contact us through our feedback form.

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FBref.com Launches Today!

13th June 2018

After a long journey, we're thrilled to announce that FBref.com, our website dedicated to world football, is going live today!

That's the TL;DR version of this blog post. However, we want to take this opportunity to explain the process that brought us here, why we're launching now, and where we hope to take the site going forward. Read the rest of this entry

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Web Developer Job at Sports Reference | Sports-Reference.com

5th June 2018

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Massive Update to College Basketball Player Class Data

1st June 2018

We have made a huge update to our player class data on College Basketball Reference. Previously, we had this data more or less complete back to 1992-93, and fairly spotty for previous seasons. However, we realized that for players for whom we have four seasons of data who played during years with freshman eligibility that we could infer what their freshman, sophomore, junior and senior seasons were. Likewise, we could do the same for players with three years of data during the years freshmen were ineligible to play varsity. So we have now identified freshman, sophomore, junior and senior seasons for 13,842 additional players in our database.

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2018 MLB Draft Tools

1st June 2018

The 2018 MLB Draft will take place on June 4-6, where teams will spend the weekend selecting players who may end up being their franchise's future. Here are some tools you can use to prepare yourself for the event:

Baseball-Reference.com Draft section - Search through every pick in the history of the draft, with multiple ways to slice & dice.
2018 MLB Draft Preview - Draft order for the first 3 rounds & best players selected in those slots over the years.

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