In one of the largest engineering efforts we’ve undertaken as a company, we’ve invested a significant amount of time developing a standard method for building and launching data tables across all of the Reference sites. The vast majority of the data across all seven Reference sites is presented in these tables, so this is a massive project that touches nearly every page you visit.

The updated tables are rolling out one-by-one in a process that will take several months. We anticipate the pace of table updates to begin slowly, but then accelerate as our process and framework progress.

Once a table has been updated, you will see an “Upgraded” link next to its title that directs you to this blog post.

Table Title ✨ Upgraded ✨

While this project is mostly focused on infrastructure, the standardization process will lead to several new features on many tables. This blog post will update as we publish tables, showing the new features available on each. We anticipate the first few tables to roll out slowly, but once the process is established the pace will pick up considerably.

For example, the first table we updated was the Player Standard Batting table on Baseball Reference League Register pages. This table alone added several new features not previously available on this table:

• Playoffs Tab: For the first time, we’re showing player season-level postseason statistics on Baseball Reference. This tab will also be coming to player and team pages. You will continue to see series-level postseason statistics for players and teams.
• New Stats: We’ve added three stats to our set of Standard Batting stats—WAR (Wins Above Replacement), Rbat+ (our version of wRC+), and rOBA (our version of wOBA). When we update player and team tables, these stats will also appear there.
• Black Ink: When looking at statistics for all players in a league, you can see at a glance who led the league in a variety of categories. We show Black Ink (bolding) for all stats with a leaderboard.
• Awards Column: The Awards column that you see on player pages is now coming to league and team pages. So far, we’ve added to the league page, so you can see at a glance which players were named All-Stars, won Gold Gloves, won MVP, etc. On the Playoffs tab, postseason awards are included (World Series MVP and LCS MVP).

As more tables are launched, we plan to use this blog post to share screencasts detailing the new table feature set. If you see anything that doesn’t look right, please let us know through our Feedback form.

Stathead Basketball has added something new, completing our set of college basketball discovery tools!

The Player Season Finder gives you the power to search through College Basketball Reference's extensive database of player statistics for both men's and women's Division 1 hoopers. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Sue Bird, Michael Jordan, Caitlin Clark and all your other favorites are in this new tool. You can use the Player Season Finder to answer questions like:

1. What men's player had the most seasons with 1,000 points?
2. What women's team had the most All-Americans in a season?
3. What women's player played the most minutes as a freshman?
4. What season had the most men's players averaging 10+ assists per game?

The College Player Season Finder completes the initial set of college basketball tools on Stathead. If you already subscribe to Stathead Basketball, all of these are included in your plan!

If you've never tried Stathead before, now is the perfect time. The new college tools are perfect for reflecting back on the most recent season, researching WNBA rookies' college careers, prepping for the NBA Draft and looking for comps for top-ranked prospects, and following the NBA Playoffs and WNBA season. It's only $9 per month and your first month is free to try it!

The main player stat tables on Basketball Reference (the first set of stats on a player's page) now feature information on awards the player won, and some award voting information for each season. The information included uses the following shorthand:

AS: All Star

NBA1, NBA2, NBA3 (or WNBA1, etc): All-NBA/WNBA First, Second or Third team

DEF1, DEF2: NBA/WNBA All-Defense First or Second team

MVP-1: MVP voting rank (1 means the player was the MVP, 2 means they were runner-up, 3 means third place, etc)

DPOY-1: Defensive Player of the Year voting rank

ROY-1: Rookie of the Year voting rank

MIP-1: Most Improved Player voting rank

CPOY-1: Clutch Player of the Year voting rank

6MOY-1 Sixth Man of the Year voting rank

LeBron James's and Breanna Stewart's pages are great places to see a sampling of this information.

We are pleased to announce that our partnership with Stats Perform Opta has expanded to include six new leagues of advanced data.  This data not only includes the current seasons, but also 3-4 historical seasons.

The new leagues are

• Germany's 2.Bundesliga
• France's Ligue 2
• Italy's Serie B
• Spain's La Segunda (La Liga 2)
• Belgium's Jupiler Pro League, and
• Argentina's Primera Division and Copa de la Liga

These pair with

• England's Championship
• United States and Canada's MLS
• Mexico's Liga MX
• Brazil's Serie A
• The Netherlands' Eredivisie
• Portugal's Primeira Liga
• Conmebol's Copa Libertadores
• UEFA's Europa Conference League

To form our Next 14 tier for scouting reports and the like.   This is all described on our scouting reports explainer.

Thank you for your support.  It allows use to expand our stats in more directions and continue to serve you better.

This summer, Sports Reference has added Becky Ligon (Test Engineer) and Kyle Brown (Community Marketing Coordinator), bringing the full-time staff size to 33. Welcome Becky and Kyle! Here's some more about our new teammates:

Becky Ligon, Test Engineer, joined Sports Reference in the middle of 2023. Becky previously worked as a technical business analyst and performance/automated test engineer in the wholesale industry. She is a Virginia native and loves playing volleyball and watching soccer, hockey, and college football.

Kyle Brown, Community Marketing Coordinator, joined Sports Reference in the middle of 2023. He has worked at sports media companies such as Bleacher Report and The Athletic. He calls the Bay Area home, but currently lives in Southern California. He is a fan of the San Francisco Giants and 49ers, Warriors, Oregon Ducks, and literally anything that Steph Curry does.

We are proud to announce that Immaculate Grid now includes hockey! Alongside baseball, football and basketball, you can now test your hockey knowledge daily. New grids launch at 9am ET.

Integrating into Hockey-Reference.com and Stathead, Immaculate Grid Hockey will include the same great features: hyperlinked player pages, possible answers for each cell, most popular answers, accuracy, rarity score, and player scores.

Play now at immaculategrid.com/hockey.

You can now play Immaculate Grid Basketball, along with your other favorites like baseball and football! In an effort to bring you all of the sports you love, we're proud to introduce the newest sport to the Immaculate Grid suite of games. New basketball grids will launch every day at 9am ET.

WNBA Grid update: The Sports Reference team is taking some additional time before launching a women's basketball grid. Our goal is to to make sure we do it right. Due to the relatively small number of teams and the short history of the league, there are some unique challenges to overcome ahead of a launch. If you have feedback or ideas, please share them with us here.

Reminder: Starting July 26th, new baseball grids will launch at 9am ET rather than the original time of 12am ET. Learn more about the change here.

We have expanded our newly acquired trivia game, Immaculate Grid, to include professional football! You can now play the viral sports trivia game for both baseball and football with more sports coming soon. New football grids will launch daily at 9am ET.

Integrating into Pro-Football-Reference.com and Stathead, Immaculate Grid Football will include the same features as baseball grids: hyperlinked player pages, possible answers for each cell, most popular answers, accuracy, rarity score, and player scores.

Test your football knowledge now at immaculategrid.com/football.

Programming Note - New Grid Launch Timing Starting Wednesday, July 26th, 2023.

Starting 7/26/23, new Immaculate Grid games for existing sports will launch at 9am ET. In order to provide the most reliable and supported experience for our users as we expand to multiple sports, this time change will allow the Sports Reference team more flexibility to respond to issues and feedback in a timely manner. It also allows us to stop pulling all nighters :)

Questions about any of the above? Contact us at here.

Exciting news from your friends at Stathead! We've rolled out a new set of filters to the Season Finders on all of our sports. These filters allow you to explore the history of the draft in some exciting new ways! Read the rest of this entry

We've added Plus/Minus as a statistical filter to the Basketball Game, Streak, and Span Finders. Our Plus/Minus coverage dates back to 1996-97 in the NBA and 2018 in the WNBA.

In the Game Finder, you can now find:

• Luc Mbah a Moute recorded a +57 on November 22, 2017. It's the highest single-game NBA Plus/Minus total in our NBA database.
• Kaela Davis' +27 on May 20, 2018 was the best single-game Plus/Minus in our WNBA database.

In the Streak Finder, you can now find:

• Nikola Jokić's streak of 4 games with a Plus/Minus of at least 20 was the longest streak in the NBA this season.
• A'ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart both had streaks of four games with a Plus/Minus of at least 20, the longest such streaks in our WNBA database.

In the Span Finder, you can now find:

• Nikola Jokić has the best 5-game span Plus/Minus totals of both the regular season (+116) and playoffs (+79) this season.
• In 2019, Elena Delle Donne had a ten-game span with a Plus/Minus of +176, the best span in our WNBA database.

We hope you enjoy combining Plus/Minus searches with all of the other filter options in our Game, Streak, and Season Finders!

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