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We're thrilled to announce the launch of Sports Reference Hub, a new, centralized dashboard to help you follow the teams and sports that you love most! With Hub, you'll no longer have to jump between tabs, navigate across sites, or dig around for information on your favorite teams. All of it will come to you, on your own customizable homepage.

What is Hub? Let's dive in!

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In late May, we extended out coverage of NFL transactions back to 1988. We've now extended that coverage back another three seasons, to 1985. This means that we have coverage of transactions during the particularly transaction-heavy 1987 strike season. Notable transactions in this period include the Eric Dickerson trade.

We would like to thank Pete Palmer for collecting this data for us.

Thanks to a donation from sports research titan David Neft, Pro Football Reference has added never-before-seen unofficial NFL player statistics for the 1920 through 1931 (and in some cases, 1932) seasons, covering the era before the NFL began officially tracking individual yardage and attempts.

Neft (the legend behind the Macmillan Baseball Encyclopedia) originally released some of this data, along with Richard Cohen, in Pro Football: The Early Years (An Encyclopedic History 1895-1959), a seminal work uncovering pro football's early history. Neft's season totals were included in this encyclopedia and updated in subsequent efforts. But he has shared with us the game-level details that undergird those season totals, which allows us to publish them for the first time. Notably, this even includes some improvements to the data from when it was last published. Read the rest of this entry

Pro Football Reference has added coverage of Pick-6s thrown by passers all the way back to 1940, adding another decade to our coverage. The all-time leaders remain Brett Favre and Matthew Stafford, with 32 each. The additional seasons of coverage add 11 to Sammy Baugh's tally, giving him 16 in his regular season career. Baugh's 4 in 1946 are the most in a single-season in the newly added data. We would like to thank T.J. Troup for his efforts in collecting this data.

Summer has come to a close, and so has our 2026 Sports Reference Internship program. This year, we had the privilege of welcoming six amazing interns across our Data, Engineering, and Marketing teams. Here's what they worked on over the summer and what they'll be up to in the fall!

Thomas McCabe, Engineering Intern, is a computer science student at Purdue University with a minor in history. He grew up in South Jersey and roots for the Philadelphia Eagles, Phillies, and Flyers.

This fall, he’ll begin his senior year at Purdue. His favorite project was helping to develop the backend and API functions for a new Sports Reference page.

Jack Rhoa, Engineering Intern, attends the University of Virginia, where he majors in computer science. A Maryland native whose favorite sport is baseball, Jack roots for the Virginia Cavaliers and the New York Yankees.

When he returns to school in Charlottesville this fall, Jack will help run theCourseForum, UVA's student-run, open-source course review site. His favorite project was building out the user-facing part of a new page for all Sports Reference sites, including implementing less intrusive human verification.

Jonah Botkin, Data Intern, graduated in May from the University of Michigan, where he studied information analysis. As a native Michigander, he roots for the Tigers, Lions, and Pistons, along with all of the Wolverines' teams.

His favorite project this summer was researching the American Basketball League’s history, which involved surfacing and cleaning box scores, locating arenas and attendance, identifying coaches, and finding buzzer-beaters. This fall, he will continue building the data skills he developed at Sports Reference as he pursues a career in sports media.

Pranav Uppalapati, Marketing Intern, is a rising senior at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was born in Massachusetts but grew up in Cary, NC. He mainly follows baseball, but roots for all Boston sports teams (with split loyalty to the Bruins and Hurricanes).

His favorite project was writing a promotional article on 19th-century baseball nicknames, which is now hosted on MLBTradeRumors.com. Pranav is excited to take several strange humanities courses in the fall as he works toward finishing his degree in business administration and film studies.

Joseph Cote, Marketing Intern, is a rising senior at Michigan State University, where he studies marketing. He grew up in Oak Park, Illinois (just outside of Chicago) and is a huge fan of the Bears and Bulls. He’s also a proud Spartan fan (go Green!) Outside of rooting for his teams, Joseph enjoys playing Spikeball and pickleball with friends and family.

This fall, Joseph will work with Michigan State Athletics as a promotions intern, where he’ll help create gameday experiences through pizza giveaways, ball and T-shirt tosses, and other fun activities on MSU's fields and courts. His favorite project this summer was building out email campaigns around the launch of Sports Reference Search, helping introduce users to the new product and showcase how it can make exploring SR pages easier.

Gus Bailey, Data Intern, is a rising senior at Brown University studying applied math and economics. He grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and is an avid supporter of the Warriors, Valkyries, Giants, and Patriots, while also following soccer.

This fall, Gus will be starting his final year at Brown, working in data analytics with the women’s basketball team and pursuing a career in sports analytics. His favorite project this summer was building a database of NBA draft prospects and their biographical information using SQL queries combined with outside research.

We're very excited to announce that Baseball Reference now has coverage of the Women's Pro Baseball League! We'll have pitching and batting stats for both teams and players, updating daily, and pages for individual players and all teams. Additionally, we've reorganized our women's baseball coverage in one central place. There, you'll be able to find both WPBL coverage, as well as historic data coverage for all 12 seasons of the AAGPBL.

One of Sports Reference's core values is data democratization, and we're proud to make both current and historic stats available for all fans of the game! Head to the Women's Baseball section of Baseball Reference and begin exploring.

Last August we extended our NFL play-by-play coverage all the way back to 1978. It made our coverage easily the most comprehensive digitized PBP collection you could find anywhere in the public (and perhaps even private) domain. This year, thanks to our partnership with Aaron Schatz of FTN Fantasy and Jeremy Snyder of Quirky Research we are thrilled to add 1977 to the site. This means that once the 2026 NFL season kicks off in about a month we will have 50 seasons worth of NFL PBP! Read the rest of this entry

Big news! We're turning Sports-Reference.com into your home page for the players, teams, and sports you love. To start with, we've built a new search engine! On Sports-Reference.com, you can now search any player or team on any Reference site. Baseball, Men's and Women's Pro Basketball, Pro Football, Hockey, Soccer, College Football, and Men's and Women's College Basketball!

This brand new search engine also has a couple major upgrades. In addition to player names, you can now search for players by nickname. Terms like "GOAT," "Mamba," and "Lefty" will turn up corresponding players. Additionally, the search engine has a more forgiving "fuzzy search" capability, meaning that your spelling doesn't need to be perfect to get the results you need. Read the rest of this entry

The Sports Reference team has gained five new members across engineering, product, marketing, and operations.

Aidan Drake, Senior Test Engineer I, joined Sports Reference in August 2025. Aidan grew up in the Bay Area but now calls Seattle home. He closely follows the Mariners, is a fan of Tottenham Hotspur and loves to bike in his spare time.

Jack Labriola, Senior UX Researcher I, joined Sports Reference in March 2026. He comes to SR with a background in research across academia, banking, and financial software, and is now thrilled to spend his days thinking about sports. A New York native living in Atlanta (with a pit stop in Lubbock, TX in between), he roots for the Yankees, Nets, and Texas Tech.

Melody Chan, UX Designer I, joined Sports Reference with a mission to build intuitive, delightful experiences for sports fans. She currently lives in the Bay Area and grew up in Hong Kong. Outside of work, she loves experimenting with new baking recipes and traveling. She is a proud and supportive girlfriend of a Warriors fan. #DubNation

Chris Gehring, Senior Marketing Manager, joined Sports Reference in May of 2026. He previously worked in a variety of marketing roles at the Washington Wizards, RedPeg Marketing, and Troon Golf before a stint with Ceros, a creative software company. He's a proud Cleveland native and Louisville graduate that naturally now lives in Cincinnati. Follow him at @cdgehring.

Ella Chang, Executive Operations Coordinator, joined Sports Reference in June 2026 after interning with the marketing team in summer 2025. She lives outside of Philadelphia and is a proud Boston College alum. Ella cheers for Philly and BC sports teams (plus the Boston Fleet) and may be Edmundo Sosa’s number one fan.

Thanks to the work of Rick Stattler and the SABR Biographical Research Committee, a 'new' Major League baseball player has been discovered. John Henry Miller, known as Harry Miller, pitched on October 9, 1884 for Philadelphia of the National League. It was previously believed that this game was pitched by Cyclone Miller. It was a rough entry to the big leagues for Harry Miller, as he allowed 19 runs (10 earned) in the only major league game he'd ever pitch in.

Additionally, Justin McKinney discovered that the player previously listed as 'Spencer' on the 1872 Washington Nationals was actually Jacob Doyle. As Doyle was previously identified as playing in other games, this is not a new player to major league history, however.