23rd September 2016
We're continuing to add features to our newly redesigned sites, and we have a very exciting one to share with you today, especially for those of you who have your own website.
Previously, we've had tools that give you the option to embed tables like standings and leaderboards on your website. That option is still around, but we've improved on it. If you hover over "Share & More", the second option you'll see is "Embed This Table." Read the rest of this entry
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21st September 2016
We wanted to briefly share an enhancement made to the Pro Football Reference Play Index. We have added a "Career Game Number" field to the search form for the Player Game Finder. This new search field allows users to customize their searches for certain periods of a player's career. Please note that this tool can be used back to the 1970 NFL-AFL Merger, but can't be used for 1960-69, even though those seasons are covered by other Player Game Finder tools. Here are a few examples of how this new feature can be used:
We hope you enjoy this addition. Please let us know if you have any questions or feedback.
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20th September 2016
If you're an avid user of Pro Football Reference or Basketball Reference, you might be familiar with the Player Comparison tool in the Play Index. We're happy to announce that this popular tool has now been added to the Hockey Reference Play Index, as well.
With the Player Comparison Finder, you can choose anywhere from 2-6 players and compare single seasons, a selection of seasons, or their entire careers.
For instance, you can easily compare the rookie seasons of Alex Ovechkin and Mario Lemieux. Or you can compare their age-20 seasons. You can also compare spans of seasons. For instance, here's Wayne Gretzky's 1st 5 NHL seasons vs Lemieux's 1st 5 seasons.
You can also choose to compare entire careers. And, remember, you can select up to 6 players at a time:
Regular Season Comparison Table
|
|
Scoring |
|
|
Goals |
Per Game |
Point Shares |
Player |
GP |
G |
A |
PTS |
+/- |
PIM |
EV |
PP |
SH |
GW |
G |
A |
PTS |
OPS |
DPS |
PS |
Mike Bossy* |
752 |
573 |
553 |
1126 |
381 |
210 |
384 |
181 |
8 |
82 |
0.76 |
0.74 |
1.50 |
93.1 |
17.8 |
110.9 |
Wayne Gretzky* |
1567 |
917 |
2042 |
2959 |
505 |
611 |
633 |
210 |
74 |
94 |
0.59 |
1.30 |
1.89 |
231.5 |
27.8 |
259.3 |
Gordie Howe* |
1767 |
801 |
1049 |
1850 |
87 |
1685 |
172 |
78 |
11 |
27 |
0.45 |
0.59 |
1.05 |
186.6 |
30.5 |
217.1 |
Mario Lemieux* |
915 |
690 |
1033 |
1723 |
115 |
834 |
405 |
236 |
49 |
74 |
0.75 |
1.13 |
1.88 |
152.4 |
15.5 |
167.9 |
Eric Lindros* |
760 |
372 |
493 |
865 |
215 |
1398 |
254 |
111 |
7 |
46 |
0.49 |
0.65 |
1.14 |
81.7 |
20.0 |
101.6 |
Mark Messier* |
1756 |
694 |
1193 |
1887 |
210 |
1910 |
452 |
179 |
63 |
92 |
0.40 |
0.68 |
1.07 |
135.6 |
24.8 |
160.5 |
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22nd June 2016
The 2016 NBA Draft will take place Thursday night, June 23. Here's some draft info you should check out before, during & after the draft:
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1st June 2016
As you may have noticed, Cleveland's Channing Frye has been on fire in the 2016 NBA Playoffs. Go ahead and check out his postseason shot-chart and date here.
He's a ridiculous 26-45 on 3-pointers, thus far. His Effective FG% is a sizzling 81.8%. That puts him on pace to break Birdman's record for eFG% in a single postseason. (Apparently, it's nice to be a back-up big playing with LeBron James).
Obviously, Frye is taking far different types of shots than Chris Andersen was, though. With our play-by-play statistics, which are available back to 2000-01, we are able to see shooting performance on specific shot types, as well. And thus far, Frye is shooting jump shots more effectively than we've seen in any of the last 16 postseasons. Here's the best eFG%s on jumpers in single playoffs since 2001 (minimum 50 jump shots attempted).
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27th April 2016
With the NFL Draft rapidly approaching (thus bringing an close to the endless months of draft prognostications), now might be a good time to point out all the draft resources we have available at Pro Football Reference. You can check out:
Hopefully these are of some assistance to you as you're tuned into the draft wondering if your team is going to pick the next Peyton Manning or.. not.
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14th April 2016
The 2015-16 Golden State Warriors have earned a seat at the table in the discussion of the greatest teams in NBA history. They've set a new standard with 73 regular-season wins. Let's examine some of their other accomplishments this season:
- 6th-best SRS in NBA history: SRS stands for Simple Rating System and is a rating method that takes into account margin of victory and strength of schedule.
- 6th-best average margin of victory in NBA history: The Warriors outscored their opponents by 10.76 PPG, which was the best by any NBA team since the 1996-97 Bulls outscored their opposition by 10.80 PPG. However, the Warriors outscored their opponents by 10.0 PPG in the 1st three quarters of games alone, which is something none of the teams ahead of them on the list managed.
- Most road wins in NBA history: The Dubs went 34-7 on the road, surpassing the 33 road wins by the 1995-96 Bulls.
- 2nd-longest winning streak in NBA history: After winning their final four regular-season games in 2014-15, the Warriors ran off 24 straight wins to start 2015-16, coming up five games short of matching the 1971-72 Lakers' 33-game winning streak.
- Longest home winning streak in NBA history: The Warriors' 54-game home winning streak was enough to surpass the old record (44) by the mid-90s Bulls.
- 3rd-longest road winning streak in NBA history: Their 14-game road winning streak was good enough for a tie for the 3rd-longest in NBA history (just two games shy of the record).
- Best Effective FG% in NBA history: When accounting for the added value of the three-point shot, the Warriors surpassed the 2013-14 Heat as the best field goal shooting team in NBA history.
- Best True Shooting Percentage since at least 1983-84: The Warriors also bested the 2013-14 Heat for best True Shooting Percentage since 1983-84.
- Most 3-pointers made per game in NBA history: Last season the Rockets set this record by making 11.4 3-pointers per game. The Warriors made over 13 per game.
- 2nd-best 3-point FG% in NBA history: Incredibly, the same team that set the record for makes also managed to have the 2nd-best 3-point percentage in NBA history. It should be noted that the only team with a better 3-point field goal percentage, the 1996-97 Hornets, did so during a season in which the 3-point line was closer to the basket (22 feet all around).
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28th March 2016
Baseball season is here and to celebrate, you can use the Play Index for free through April 15! Just go to this page, sign up, and use this coupon code: analytics
The Play Index is our name for the various tools we've built that allow you to search the hundreds of thousands of players, seasons, teams, box scores, and even plate appearances collected in our database. Of all the research methods that we offer, none is more powerful than the Play Index. Have you ever wanted to know the answer to questions like:
What hitter had the most 40 HR seasons?
Which Mets pitcher had the most strikeouts in a road game?
What team had the most 2-out RBIs in a season?
What was the best WAR in a season by a pitcher with 15 Ws or under
And that's just scratching the surface. You can search full seasons since 1871 and individual games and streaks since 1913. You can also search for splits, individual events like inside the park HRs, pitcher vs batter matchups, and much more. The Play Index is the secret weapon of journalists, bloggers, front offices, fantasy experts, historians, and more.
It's normally just $36/year, but to celebrate the start of the 2016 MLB season, we're letting you try it out for free! Go to the sign-up page and enter the coupon code "analytics" to use the Play Index for free through April 15.
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4th March 2016
We recently added a point differential search option to the School Game Finder in the Play Index at College Football Reference. So you can now search for things like college football's biggest blowouts since 2000. You can also see that 2013 Florida State has the best cumulative season point differential since 2000. And that 2008 Florida has the most double-digit wins in a season since 2000. We hope you enjoy these new search capabilities.
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1st March 2016
Thanks to the efforts of our friends at Retrosheet, we have added box scores for the 1913 MLB season to Baseball Reference. Additionally, we have added play-by-play for games as far back as 1930. Before this update, our oldest play-by-plays went back to 1938. In addition to the boxes and PBPs themselves, this update allows for a variety of new information searchable in the play index, as well as new rows of information in team/player/league statistics tables.
Here's a quick breakdown of the data coverage for the Play-By-Plays we've added from 1930 to 1937:
- 1930 - 77% of games
- 1931 - 82% of games
- 1932 - 75% of games
- 1933 - 81% of games
- 1934 - 72% of games
- 1935 - 71% of games
- 1936 - 65% of games
- 1937 - 82% of games
And here are some examples of some of the new information/searches available on the site:
- We now have PBP for much of Babe Ruth's final six seasons. This means we now have (incomplete) data on how Ruth fared against pitchers from 1930-35.
- Additionally, incomplete splits have been generated for player seasons from 1930 to 1937. This means you can see things like Ruth's "struggles" in high-leverage situations in 1930. Or his dominance in such situations in 1932.
- Stat tables showing details for things like base-running, situational hitting and win probability are now available back to 1930.
- For pitching, tables detailing win probability, batting against and base-running against are also now available back to 1930.
- League-wide batting and pitching splits back to 1930 now have some previously empty rows filled in via analysis of the play-by-plays.
- Batting Game Finder and Pitching Game Finder searches (for both players and teams) can now be completed for the 1913 season. Here, for instance, is most HR by a player in a game in 1913. Users should be aware (and we've noted this on the site) that 154 of the 1,234 games in 1913 have RBI missing from one or both teams in the box scores. We'll also note that RBI was an unofficial stat before 1920.
- Split Finder searches also now go back to 1913 for basic splits like home/away and more complex, PBP-derived splits can be run back to 1930 (though splits are only 100% complete back to 1974). So, for instance, you can see that Babe Ruth had the most PBP-captured "Late & Close" HR in 1930.
- Batting and Pitching Event Finder searches have also been opened up back to 1930. You can now find things like all PBP-recorded walk-off HRs in 1930.
- Searches in the various player and team Streak Finders now go back to 1913.
- Team Inning Summary pages have been fleshed out (as much as PBP allows) back to 1930. Same with the Batting Order Position statistics.
We're very excited about these new additions and hope you enjoy them, as well. Please let us know if you have any comments, questions or concerns.
And thanks again to Retrosheet!
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