What is your favorite kind of baseball play? I imagine a lot of people would go with a classic like the dinger. Or perhaps you prefer the swinging strikeout? I imagine Red Sox fans who were in Fenway for Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS may be partial to the stolen base. No matter what it is, I'm very jealous of you, because your favorite play has an easily understood definition and mine does not: Read the rest of this entry

Jonah Gardner joined the Sports Reference crew (working out of Philly) a few weeks ago as our Social Media Coordinator bringing SR's head count to seven full-time staff. Jonah brings experience working in social media for The Human Solution in Austin and also for several musical acts and record labels. He's an Atlanta Braves fan, backs Everton FC (the Braves of the EPL), and is a big NBA fan (see his Kevin Garnett Trade Voltron). Jonah will be leading our change on social media for Sports Reference and you'll see us on much more active on twitter and joining additional platforms in the near future.

It's been a long six months, but this weekend the NFL is back in our lives. However, while the Hall of Fame Game is always a fun spectacle to start the preseason, we're just as excited for the Hall of Fame Induction. In order to celebrate this year's inductees, we combed through our database to find some interesting or unique accomplishments. This post is by no means comprehensive, but here are the charts, graphs, and tables that begin to scratch the surface of the greatness of the Hall of Fame Class of 2015. Read the rest of this entry

Last year we rolled out many new play-by-play based statistics and features to player pages on Hockey-Reference. A Team Advanced Stats Finder was created to allow users to sort through team-level statistics. We're now thrilled to announce a player stat companion to this: The Player Advanced Stats Finder.

This tool works like the others in our Play Index, allowing users to create custom queries back to 2007-08 by using the below search form:

As you can see, the tool allows for single-season search, combined season search or total season search. Additionally, there are several filters and criteria that can be applied to your search, as well as several different "sort by" options for your report. To give you a better idea of what the tool is capable, let's fire it up and show you some sample searches:

• Peter Holland led all players with 18 short-handed takeaways in 2014-15
• Joe Thornton leads all players with 218 giveaways in 5-on-5 tied situations since 2007-08
• Among players with 300 games played since 2007-08, Pavel Datsyuk leads the way with a 59.1% even strength Corsi For %
• Among players with 40 games in a season since 2007-08, Justin Williams in 2012-13 owns the best Relative Corsi per 60 minutes in 5-on-5 close situations
• Zenon Konopka has the most seasons since 2007-08 with 100+ faceoff wins and a faceoff % over 60%
• Alex Ovechkin led all forwards with 4.3 minutes per game on the ice in power play situations
• And it's no surprise that Ovi dominates a leaderboard combining hits and shots

Of course, these are just a few quick examples. Some other statistics in a variety of situations that are now searchable/sortable are Fenwick, PDO, blocks, offensive/defensive zone start % and many more. We encourage you to play around with this new tool and let us know what you think!

And if you're confused about what any of these statistics mean, don't forget to check out our updated glossary!

The 2015 MLB Trade Deadline was July 31st, 4pm ET.

Here we've collected all of the team trades in the run-up to the non-waiver trade deadline.

You can also find trades between any two teams in our Franchise-to-Franchise Trade Histories.

July 31:

Tigers trade Yoenis Cespedes to the Mets for Michael Fulmer and Luis Cessa.

Orioles trade Tommy Hunter to the Cubs for Junior Lake.

Mariners trade J.A. Happ to the Pirates for Adrian Sampson.

Marlins trade Dan Haren and cash to the Cubs for Ivan Pineyro and Elliot Soto.

Phillies trade Ben Revere and cash to the Blue Jays for Jimmy Cordero and Alberto Tirado.

Rays trade Kevin Jepsen to the Twins for Chih-Wei Hu and Alexis Tapia.

Mariners trade Mark Lowe to the Blue Jays for Jake Brentz, Nick Wells and Rob Rasmussen.

Brewers trade Gerardo Parra to the Orioles for Zach Davies.

Brewers trade Jonathan Broxton and cash to the Cardinals for Malik Collymore.

July 30:

Pirates trade Justin Sellers to the White Sox for player to be named later or cash.

Mariners trade Dustin Ackley to the Yankees for Ramon Flores and Jose Ramirez.

Astros trade Josh Hader, Adrian Houser, Brett Phillips and Domingo Santana to the Brewers for Mike Fiers, Carlos Gomez and cash.

As part of 3-team trade Braves send Jose Peraza, Bronson Arroyo, Luis Avilan, Jim Johnson and Alex Wood to the Dodgers. Dodgers send Paco Rodriguez, Zachary Bird and Hector Olivera to the Braves. Dodgers send Victor Araujo and Jeff Brigham and Kevin Guzman to the Marlins. Marlins send Mat Latos, Mike Morse to the Dodgers. Marlins send 2016 competitive balance round A pick to the Braves.

Tigers trade David Price to the Blue Jays for Daniel Norris, Matt Boyd and Jairo Labourt.

Tigers trade Joakim Soria to the Pirates for JaCoby Jones.

Indians trade Brandon Moss to the Cardinals for Rob Kaminsky.

Reds trade Mike Leake to the Giants for Keury Mella and Adam Duvall .

July 29:

Phillies trade Cole Hamels, Jake Diekman and cash to the Rangers for Matt Harrison, Jorge Alfaro, Alec Asher, Jerad Eickhoff, Jake Thompson and Nick Williams.

Royals trade Joe Blanton to the Pirates for cash.

Pirates trade Jayson Aquino to the Indians for cash.

July 28:

Phillies trade Jonathan Papelbon and cash to the Nationals for Nick Pivetta.

A's trade Ben Zobrist and cash to the Royals for Aaron Brooks and Sean Manaea.

Rays trade David DeJesus and to the Angels for Eduar Lopez.

Indians trade David Murphy to the Angels for Eric Stamets.

Rockies trade Troy Tulowitzki and LaTroy Hawkins to the Blue Jays for Jose Reyes, Miguel Castro, Jeff Hoffman, and Jesus Tinoco.

July 27:

Red Sox trade Shane Victorino and cash to the Angels for Josh Rutledge.

A's trade Tyler Clippard and $1MM to the Mets for Casey Meisner.

July 26:

Reds trade Johnny Cueto to the Royals for John Lamb, and Cody Reed.

July 24:

Braves trade Juan Uribe and Kelly Johnson to the Mets for John Gant and Rob Whalen.

July 23:

Brewers trade Aramis Ramirez to the Pirates for Yhonathan Barrios.

A's trade Scott Kazmir to the Astros for Daniel Mengden and Jacob Nottingham.