30th August 2013
Japanese Baseball History - Baseball-Reference.com.
We are very pleased to announce that we have added complete NPB stats back to the start of professional baseball in Japan in 1936. This work was compiled from existing sources by Ted Turocy (creator of the Chadwick Baseball Bureau). These stats are updated daily, so you can track Wladimir Balentien's chase of Sadaharu Oh.
This data was also incorporated into our MLB players pages. So if you go to Ichiro's page, you will now see a "Show NPB/Minors" link above his batting stats and clicking on that will show you his NPB stats along with his mlb stats.
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27th August 2013
With the season kicking off in two days, here's our table of every college football game on the 2013 slate:
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27th August 2013
Looking for a table of every game from the upcoming NFL season? Check out our 2013 NFL Regular-Season schedule page!
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26th August 2013
The
Play Index is the name we use to refer to PFR's collection of top-notch research tools. Read below for more information on some of the applications we have made available to you, and also check out our
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Game Play Finder
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Search through player season stats spanning from 1920 to today for single seasons or combined seasons that match your criteria. Answer questions like…
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Search through player game logs spanning from 1960 to today for games that match your criteria. You can find…
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23rd August 2013
Thanks to the tireless research of Neil Paine we now have team offensive schemes & defensive alignments on team pages going back as far as 1957. I've also added team and opponent offense and defense as options on the team game finder tool, if for instance you want to find how teams performed against the 3-4 defense in 2012. Think we have a team's scheme wrong? Help us fix it!
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21st August 2013
The Baseball-Reference Bullpen: Baseball's collaborative encyclopedia
Here's a reminder for everyone to check out the B-R Bullpen Wiki, the collaborative baseball encyclopedia that anyone can edit. We have 65,285 69,775 articles -- and counting -- thanks to users just like you, and we hope to add many more as we collect and organize as much baseball knowledge as possible. To get you started, here are some links on the project:
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Give it a try, explore a little, and maybe even take a shot at editing a page. There's a lot of baseball knowledge out there just waiting to be added to these pages!
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20th August 2013
I am sad to announce that after six years, five websites, and hundreds of thousands of lines of code, my tenure at Sports Reference will come to an end this week. More information can be found on my new blog, Statitudes. Thanks to all of the users who have supported the sites that I ran.
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20th August 2013
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14th August 2013
We've added a new feature to the play finder that you may have already seen around the site: you can now filter search results by particular players. For instance, when looking at 2012 passing on third or fourth down if you click the "View player »" link next to Matthew Stafford, you can view the same results filtered down to just Stafford. You can refine this further by clicking the link next to a particular receiver, so if you want just Stafford's third and fourth down passes to Calvin Johnson, we have you covered. This filter is available for passers, receivers, and rushers, so you can also use it to find something like all Adrian Peterson rushes of 10+ yards in 2012. Links to year-by-year breakdowns are also available under "Rush Plays" and "Pass Plays" on each player's player page passing, rushing, or receiving table.
In other play finder news, we've added play data from the 1999 season to our database if you want to go back and relive the glory days of the greatest show on turf.
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13th August 2013
With San Francisco currently in the basement of the NL West, a Giants fan wrote to us this week wondering how many times a World Series win was followed with a last-place finish. I ran the query in our database:
WS Winner |
Following Season |
Last Place? |
2012 San Francisco Giants |
5th place out of 5 teams |
* |
2011 St. Louis Cardinals |
2nd place out of 6 teams |
|
2010 San Francisco Giants |
2nd place out of 5 teams |
|
2009 New York Yankees |
2nd place out of 5 teams |
|
2008 Philadelphia Phillies |
1st place out of 5 teams |
|
2007 Boston Red Sox |
2nd place out of 5 teams |
|
2006 St. Louis Cardinals |
3rd place out of 6 teams |
|
2005 Chicago White Sox |
3rd place out of 5 teams |
|
2004 Boston Red Sox |
2nd place out of 5 teams |
|
2003 Florida Marlins |
3rd place out of 5 teams |
|
2002 Anaheim Angels |
3rd place out of 4 teams |
|
2001 Arizona Diamondbacks |
1st place out of 5 teams |
|
2000 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 5 teams |
|
1999 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 5 teams |
|
1998 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 5 teams |
|
1997 Florida Marlins |
5th place out of 5 teams |
* |
1996 New York Yankees |
2nd place out of 5 teams |
|
1995 Atlanta Braves |
1st place out of 5 teams |
|
1993 Toronto Blue Jays |
3rd place out of 5 teams |
|
1992 Toronto Blue Jays |
1st place out of 7 teams |
|
WS Winner |
Following Season |
Last Place? |
1991 Minnesota Twins |
2nd place out of 7 teams |
|
1990 Cincinnati Reds |
5th place out of 6 teams |
|
1989 Oakland Athletics |
1st place out of 7 teams |
|
1988 Los Angeles Dodgers |
4th place out of 6 teams |
|
1987 Minnesota Twins |
2nd place out of 7 teams |
|
1986 New York Mets |
2nd place out of 6 teams |
|
1985 Kansas City Royals |
3rd place out of 7 teams |
|
1984 Detroit Tigers |
3rd place out of 7 teams |
|
1983 Baltimore Orioles |
5th place out of 7 teams |
|
1982 St. Louis Cardinals |
4th place out of 6 teams |
|
1981 Los Angeles Dodgers |
2nd place out of 6 teams |
|
1980 Philadelphia Phillies |
3rd place out of 6 teams |
|
1979 Pittsburgh Pirates |
3rd place out of 6 teams |
|
1978 New York Yankees |
4th place out of 7 teams |
|
1977 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 7 teams |
|
1976 Cincinnati Reds |
2nd place out of 6 teams |
|
1975 Cincinnati Reds |
1st place out of 6 teams |
|
1974 Oakland Athletics |
1st place out of 6 teams |
|
1973 Oakland Athletics |
1st place out of 6 teams |
|
1972 Oakland Athletics |
1st place out of 6 teams |
|
WS Winner |
Following Season |
Last Place? |
1971 Pittsburgh Pirates |
1st place out of 6 teams |
|
1970 Baltimore Orioles |
1st place out of 6 teams |
|
1969 New York Mets |
3rd place out of 6 teams |
|
1968 Detroit Tigers |
2nd place out of 6 teams |
|
1967 St. Louis Cardinals |
1st place out of 10 teams |
|
1966 Baltimore Orioles |
6th place out of 10 teams |
|
1965 Los Angeles Dodgers |
1st place out of 10 teams |
|
1964 St. Louis Cardinals |
7th place out of 10 teams |
|
1963 Los Angeles Dodgers |
6th place out of 10 teams |
|
1962 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 10 teams |
|
1961 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 10 teams |
|
1960 Pittsburgh Pirates |
6th place out of 8 teams |
|
1959 Los Angeles Dodgers |
4th place out of 8 teams |
|
1958 New York Yankees |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1957 Milwaukee Braves |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1956 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1954 New York Giants |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1953 New York Yankees |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1952 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
WS Winner |
Following Season |
Last Place? |
1951 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1950 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1949 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1948 Cleveland Indians |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1947 New York Yankees |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1946 St. Louis Cardinals |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1945 Detroit Tigers |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1944 St. Louis Cardinals |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1943 New York Yankees |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1942 St. Louis Cardinals |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1941 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1940 Cincinnati Reds |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1939 New York Yankees |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1938 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1937 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1936 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1935 Detroit Tigers |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1934 St. Louis Cardinals |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1933 New York Giants |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1932 New York Yankees |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
WS Winner |
Following Season |
Last Place? |
1931 St. Louis Cardinals |
6th place out of 8 teams |
|
1930 Philadelphia Athletics |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1929 Philadelphia Athletics |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1928 New York Yankees |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1927 New York Yankees |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1926 St. Louis Cardinals |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1925 Pittsburgh Pirates |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1924 Washington Senators |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1923 New York Yankees |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1922 New York Giants |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1921 New York Giants |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1920 Cleveland Indians |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1919 Cincinnati Reds |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1918 Boston Red Sox |
6th place out of 8 teams |
|
1917 Chicago White Sox |
6th place out of 8 teams |
|
1916 Boston Red Sox |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1915 Boston Red Sox |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1914 Boston Braves |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1913 Philadelphia Athletics |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1912 Boston Red Sox |
4th place out of 8 teams |
|
WS Winner |
Following Season |
Last Place? |
1911 Philadelphia Athletics |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1910 Philadelphia Athletics |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1909 Pittsburgh Pirates |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1908 Chicago Cubs |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1907 Chicago Cubs |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
1906 Chicago White Sox |
3rd place out of 8 teams |
|
1905 New York Giants |
2nd place out of 8 teams |
|
1903 Boston Americans |
1st place out of 8 teams |
|
As it turns out, if the Giants "hang on" to the bottom spot in the West, it will mark only the second time in the World Series era (1903-present) that a champion went on to finish last the following season. The only other team to do that were the 1998 Florida Marlins, who infamously jettisoned all of their talent a year after winning it all.
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