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Team Season Finders Added to Baseball Reference

19th December 2017

We are thrilled to announce the addition of two incredible new tools to the Baseball Reference Play Index:

The Team Batting Season Finder and the Team Season Pitching Finder.

These new tools will allow Play Index subscribers to create customized leaderboards for all team pitching/batting stats in Major League history.  In addition to standard team stats, we've also opened up searches for value stats, advanced stats, win probability stats, ratio stats, baserunning stats, situational stats, and stats in various pitch counts.

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No-Hitters and Perfect Games Added to Baseball Reference

21st November 2017

We're happy to announce that we've added a page that should answer one of our most frequently asked questions.

No, we haven't penned a detailed description of why we hate your favorite team (yet).

Rather, we've added a page with every no-hitter and perfect game in MLB history. You'll find the list is sortable, contains a leaderboard and also has a separate table for the 11 combined no-nos (where the no-hitter was a combined effort).

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Posted in Announcement, Baseball-Reference.com, Data, Features, History | 3 Comments »

We Don’t Have an App, But Here’s How to Get One Anyway

20th November 2017

On Twitter, I've noticed one question come up over and over again:

https://twitter.com/4rest4rest4rest/status/897972938195976192

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Posted in Features, General, How-To Videos | 2 Comments »

Every Hat Trick in NHL History Added to Hockey Reference

5th September 2017

We're happy to announce that you can now find every Hat Trick in NHL history on Hockey Reference. We have integrated these additions across many sections of the site.

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Posted in Announcement, Data, Features, History, Hockey-Reference.com, Leaders | 5 Comments »

Yearly Top 100 Players Added to Pro Football Reference

25th August 2017

We have added a new section to the Awards page at Pro Football Reference. We're happy to announce we have added the NFL Network's yearly list of the Top 100 NFL Players, as voted by their fellow players every offseason. These rankings go back to 2011, and feature the statistics each of the players went on to post that season. These rankings can also be found in the Awards section of player pages. We hope you enjoy this addition and please let us know if you have any questions.

Posted in Announcement, Awards, Data, Features, Pro-Football-Reference.com | 4 Comments »

Major Improvements to NBA Finals Box Scores

24th August 2017

At Basketball-Reference, we have every box score in NBA history, including the playoffs. However, for many years, we don't have all statistical categories filled in in these box scores. We have recently taken a major step towards remedying this issue with our playoff box scores. We now have nearly complete box scores and series cumulative boxes for every NBA Finals series in NBA history.

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New Search Criteria Added to Basketball Reference Player Season Finder

1st August 2017

We have added a few new search options to the Basketball Reference Player Season Finder

These additions can be found in the "Search Award/Honor" dropdown on the search form. Previously, you could run searches for major award winners and All-NBA or All-Rookie players. We've now added the ability to search for All-Defensive Players. Additionally, rather than searching for just First or Second team players separately, you can can now search for both First and Second team in the same search. Here are a few examples of new searches you can run:

---Worst Defensive BPM by a First-Team All Defense Player

---Fewest Win Shares by an All-Rookie player (1st or 2nd team)

---Youngest players to make an All-NBA team

We hope you enjoy these additions. Please let us know if you have any questions

Posted in Announcement, Awards, Basketball-Reference.com, Data, Features, History, Play Index, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Player Twitter Accounts Added to Hockey Reference

6th July 2017

We have added a new frivolity to Hockey Reference: player twitter accounts. In addition to the list in the frivolities section, the handles can also be seen on player pages. If you see any missing that you think we should list, please let us know.

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WNBA Players Added to Sports Reference Linker

22nd June 2017

We recently added WNBA players to our Linker Tool, which allows for bloggers to use our bookmarklet to instantly link their blogs to our player pages and then have their posts show up in the newsfeed section of the player's page. We hope to have the newsfeeds up and running on the WNBA player pages in the near future.

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2017 MLB Draft Results Added

16th June 2017

We have posted the results of the recently completed 2017 MLB Draft.

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