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