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We have added a new feature to College Basketball Reference: a comprehensive list of every game-winning buzzer-beater in women's NCAA Tournament history. Details on methodology can be found here. Entering the 2025 Final Four, there have been 47 qualifying shots in the history of the women's tournament, with the last one being Ohio State's Jacy Sheldon in a 2023 Round of 32 game against North Carolina. Read the rest of this entry

As the 2025 season begins, we have made some updates to our Wins Above Replacement calculations on Baseball Reference. You may notice some small changes to figures as you browse the site. As always, you can find full details on how we calculate WAR here. Read the rest of this entry

Thanks to our friends at Retrosheet, Baseball Reference has added Play-by-Play for 2,493 AL/NL and Federal League games from 1913 through 1968. You'll notice no mention of 1969 through 2024, because we already have Play-by-Plays for all of those games (again, thanks to Retrosheet). Via our Play-by-Play coverage map here you can see that we have Play-by-Plays for over 99% of games in every season since 1957, over 95% of games in every season since 1953, and over 75% of games since 1914. The only season since 1912 with less than 75% coverage is 1913 (68.2%). The only other AL/NL seasons under 90% since 1912 are 1944 (75.8%, 1945 (83.4%), 1943 (84.2%), 1946 (87.6%), 1949 (89.2%), 1948 (89.4%) and 1941 (89.7%). Read the rest of this entry

We are thrilled to announce that College Basketball Reference has significantly expanded its coverage of the Women's NCAA  Basketball Tournament and now has box scores with player statistics for every game in the history of the event since it began in 1982. We believe this to be the most comprehensive database of women's March Madness information ever compiled for public consumption. Before this update, we had box scores for all of the games from 2003 to present, so this update represents a near doubling of our Women's NCAA Tournament data. Read the rest of this entry

We are pleased to announce that we have added statistics for the full three-season run of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). WPS, which ran from 2009 to 2011, was a first tier women's league in the United States that featured many of the best players in the world. The three seasons can be accessed from the league page. Additionally, here are the pages for the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons. Some of the notable players to compete in this competition include Marta, Megan Rapinoe, Abby Wambach, Kristine Lilly, Hope Solo, Veronica Boquete and many others. In addition to season-level statistics, we also have match reports for all games in WPS history. We would like to thank Steve Holroyd for his assistance in compiling this data, which complements the WUSA statistics we added in the fall.

A couple of months back we made a huge update to our Women's College Basketball data, extending coverage of D-I all the way back to the first year of NCAA play in 1981-82. The data generally did not include minutes played, games started, offensive/defensive rebounds, turnovers or personal fouls. Additionally, coverage of blocks and steals was very limited from 1981-82 through 1986-87. Read the rest of this entry

Sports Reference has welcomed five new members to the company across our engineering, data, and product departments.

Tricia Reisman, Software Engineer I, joined Sports Reference in August of 2024. She was born and raised in Savannah, Georgia. Tricia is a fan of all Georgia sports - specifically the Braves. She enjoys playing golf and actually won a golf state championship in high school.

Emily Curtis, Scrum Master I, joined Sports Reference in October 2024. Originally from Oklahoma, Emily now resides in Seattle, WA and formerly worked in Baseball Analytics with the Seattle Mariners. Emily is primarily a baseball fan, and with family in the St. Louis area grew up following the Cardinals but is now a Mariners fan as well. In addition to sports, she is a big knitter and very involved in the fiber arts community.

Chris Marshall, Customer Success Coordinator, joined Sports Reference in November 2024. Chris is originally from Mississippi but currently lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is a fan of the Steelers, Twins, and Ole Miss sports, as well as an avid tennis enjoyer, both as a player and a viewer.

Kyle Mally, Senior DevOps Engineer I, joined Sports Reference in December 2024. Like many Cubs fans 2016 is the highlight of his sports fandom. He is also a basketball fan and enjoys walking his dog.

Freddy Contreras, Senior UX Designer I, joined Sports Reference at the start of 2025. He lives in Denver, Colorado and is entrenched in Kroenke Sports as he’s a fan of the Nuggets, Rapids, and Arsenal. Follow his passion for soccer on Instagram, YouTube, or TikTok at @Goalorado.

Our Marcel the Monkey projections for the 2025 MLB season are now live. The Marcels projection system was originally developed by Tom Tango as the "minimum level of competence that you should expect from any forecaster." You can read more about these projections here. The projections are also live on our player pages.

The men's statistical data on College Basketball Reference is generally limited to the era since 1947-48. That was the first season in which schools were required to send final stat sheets to NCAA headquarters so that official national leaderboards could be compiled. Before this, unofficial leaderboards were compiled in yearly record books, but the scans with stats for all teams are generally not as easy to locate. Nonetheless, many of the most important players in the history of college basketball played before 1947-48, so we have made an effort to cover as many of these players as possible. We are proud to announce that we have added data for over 2,500 player seasons (covering over 1,500 players) from 1911-12 through 1947-48 to our database. Read the rest of this entry

With the 2024 regular season concluded and All-Pro voting released, we're pleased to report that we've added 2024 Approximate Value (AV) numbers to the site for all NFL players. Note that these numbers are considered provisional at the moment, as there may be some slight adjustments based on replacement Pro Bowl selections.

Lamar Jackson leads 2024 players with 21 AV, with Josh Allen and Jayden Daniels just behind at 20. The top non-QBs in AV this season are Penei Sewell, Saquon Barkley, Tristan Wirfs and Zack Baun. You can see all of the top players in this Stathead.com Player Season Finder search.

Not sure what AV is? To learn more about PFR's attempt to put a single number on each player-season since 1960 (for the purposes of comparing players across position and era), check out our About page on the topic at PFR. Feel free to send us feedback via our site's form.