Thanks to the work of the SABR Biographical Research Committee (and specifically to the efforts of Justin McKinney) we have added a net of one new player to major league baseball in the 1870s.

In the May/June newsletter, SABR noted

We had listed Fred William Hotchkiss Crane as playing for the Elizabeth Resolutes in 1873 and the woebegone Brooklyn Atlantics in 1875. Justin McKinney determined that these were two different players. The Elizabeth newspapers said that this player was William Crane. He had played with Elizabeth in 1872 and was called into service when Frank Fleet missed the train. For the 1875 Brooklyn games, the New York Clipper specifically stated that this was not Fred. It was Thomas Crane who had previously played with the Silver Stars. In summary, Fred Crane loses his major league status with William Crane as the 1873 Elizabeth player and Thomas Crane as the 1875 Brooklyn player. The good news about all this is that Justin was able to find William Crane. There was a William Crane of appropriate age who lived in Elizabeth and died in 1897. His obituary said that he was “an enthusiastic baseball player.” It is pretty nice to get confirmation that he was a ballplayer when he only played one game in 1873. A family tree on Ancestry provided the details of his birth.

Accordingly, we no longer list Fred Crane as a major league player and we now have pages for William Crane (1873 Elizabeth Resolutes) and Thomas Crane (1875 Brooklyn Atlantics)

While College Basketball Reference has the most expansive women's college basketball statistical coverage that you will find anywhere, there was previously 34 team seasons for which we were unable to unearth rosters and/or statistical coverage. Thanks to the assistance of Scott Vallery and our Summer 2025 intern Anne Friedman, we have been able to cut that number in half by adding rosters and/or statistics for 17 of these team seasons. They are, as follows: Read the rest of this entry

Thanks to the sleuthing of Justin McKinney of the SABR Biographical Research Committee, a 'new' major league baseball player has been discovered. Previously, Joe Miller was listed as playing for (and managing) the Washington Nationals in 1872. This Miller later played with Keokuk and Chicago in 1875. McKinney's research determined that the Miller who played for the 1872 Washington club was actually William Miller, though. Furthermore, Joe Miller was not the manager. The manager was actually Bill Lennon, the team's catcher. The Bio Committee is still searching for more details on William Miller (like when and where he was born and died, his batting/throwing handedness, height/weight, etc).

Thank you to our friends at SABR for uncovering and sharing this discovery!

After many years of searching, we are pleased to announce that we have tracked down our white whale, of sorts: the 1980 Iona vs Holy Cross game in the First Round of the NCAA Tournament. For this game, we had never been able to track down full details on much of the box. Notably, we were missing FGA, Rebounds and Assists for most players. The box score looked like this:

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We have added a new feature to College Basketball Reference: a comprehensive list of every game-winning buzzer-beater in women's NCAA Tournament history. Details on methodology can be found here. Entering the 2025 Final Four, there have been 47 qualifying shots in the history of the women's tournament, with the last one being Ohio State's Jacy Sheldon in a 2023 Round of 32 game against North Carolina. Read the rest of this entry

As the 2025 season begins, we have made some updates to our Wins Above Replacement calculations on Baseball Reference. You may notice some small changes to figures as you browse the site. As always, you can find full details on how we calculate WAR here. Read the rest of this entry

Thanks to our friends at Retrosheet, Baseball Reference has added Play-by-Play for 2,493 AL/NL and Federal League games from 1913 through 1968. You'll notice no mention of 1969 through 2024, because we already have Play-by-Plays for all of those games (again, thanks to Retrosheet). Via our Play-by-Play coverage map here you can see that we have Play-by-Plays for over 99% of games in every season since 1957, over 95% of games in every season since 1953, and over 75% of games since 1914. The only season since 1912 with less than 75% coverage is 1913 (68.2%). The only other AL/NL seasons under 90% since 1912 are 1944 (75.8%, 1945 (83.4%), 1943 (84.2%), 1946 (87.6%), 1949 (89.2%), 1948 (89.4%) and 1941 (89.7%). Read the rest of this entry

We are thrilled to announce that College Basketball Reference has significantly expanded its coverage of the Women's NCAA  Basketball Tournament and now has box scores with player statistics for every game in the history of the event since it began in 1982. We believe this to be the most comprehensive database of women's March Madness information ever compiled for public consumption. Before this update, we had box scores for all of the games from 2003 to present, so this update represents a near doubling of our Women's NCAA Tournament data. Read the rest of this entry

We are pleased to announce that we have added statistics for the full three-season run of Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). WPS, which ran from 2009 to 2011, was a first tier women's league in the United States that featured many of the best players in the world. The three seasons can be accessed from the league page. Additionally, here are the pages for the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons. Some of the notable players to compete in this competition include Marta, Megan Rapinoe, Abby Wambach, Kristine Lilly, Hope Solo, Veronica Boquete and many others. In addition to season-level statistics, we also have match reports for all games in WPS history. We would like to thank Steve Holroyd for his assistance in compiling this data, which complements the WUSA statistics we added in the fall.

A couple of months back we made a huge update to our Women's College Basketball data, extending coverage of D-I all the way back to the first year of NCAA play in 1981-82. The data generally did not include minutes played, games started, offensive/defensive rebounds, turnovers or personal fouls. Additionally, coverage of blocks and steals was very limited from 1981-82 through 1986-87. Read the rest of this entry