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Archive for December, 2011

2012 Pro Bowl Rosters

28th December 2011

2012 Pro Bowl Rosters are out and player pages are marked accordingly for this year's Pro Bowl players.

Posted in Announcement, Pro-Football-Reference.com | 16 Comments »

Sports Reference Mobile Sites: Baseball, Football, Basketball, and Hockey

24th December 2011

Our four mobile sites can help you out whenever you are away from home and looking up stats at the parents' house or when you're out with friends or just too lazy to reach the computer.

Almost all of the stats available on the full sites are available through the mobile site, but in a format optimized for your smartphone or tablet. And you can easily switch back to the full site if you prefer. You can even add them to your phone's home screen just like an app (instructions are on the site's home pages).

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Menu Bar Dropdowns Now Touch-screen Friendly

23rd December 2011

One of the frustrations for smartphone and tablet users using our sites is that our menus for selecting splits and gamelogs required you to hover over the button to get the drop down. Well on touch screens there is no hovering, so those menus were pretty much useless.

I've modified the scripts for this, so that on non-touch screens (laptops, etc) it works the same as before. On touchscreens, however, the buttons are now clickable and clicking on them brings up the menu and clicking again removes the menu, so if you really want Wade Boggs 1986 splits or Archie Manning's 1971 TD's thrown you can now get them.

Posted in Announcement, Baseball-Reference.com, Pro-Football-Reference.com | 1 Comment »

Update to Site Appearance and new Menu Bars

23rd December 2011

We've added some improvements to the appearance of the site. Most of it is just polish like rounded corners. (We're now web 2.0 approved!). But we've also added a major set of dropdowns to the site navigation index which is just below the logo. Holding your mouse over an option now brings up a menu of choices. The site has hundreds of tools, so there may be a few things you weren't aware of lurking on the site.

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Blessed Kwan-zaa From Sports Reference

23rd December 2011

Blessed Kwanzaa from Sports Reference

Posted in Baseball-Reference.com, Basketball-Reference.com, Olympics at S-R, Pro-Football-Reference.com | 6 Comments »

Happy Holidays from Sports Reference

23rd December 2011

Happy Holidays from Sports Reference

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Happy Hannah-kah from Sports Reference

23rd December 2011

Happy Hannah-kah from Sports Reference

Happy Hanukkah from the crew at Sports Reference.

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Merry Christmas from Sports Reference

23rd December 2011

Merry Christmas from Sports Reference

Merry Christmas from the Sports Reference Crew.

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Hall of Fame Candidates Updated

22nd December 2011

2012 Pro Football Hall of Fame Candidates are now up with all of the semifinalists for enshrinement this year.

Posted in Announcement, Hall of Fame, Pro-Football-Reference.com | 5 Comments »

HOF candidates updated in Play Index Searches

20th December 2011

HOF Candidates added to Play Index Searches

We've updated the HOF ballot options on the Play Index season finders for the 2012 ballot.

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