c. Story of the Week: from James Wagner of the New York Times, on one of my favorite companies. Its a story about the family of sports reference sites run by Sean Forman out of a Philadelphia church, of all places. Cool story. Hard to believe he has only 11 employees.d. Pro Football Reference is a godsend. If you cover this sport, you absolutely cannot do without it. Thank you, Sean Forman. And thank you for inventing it in 2000, Doug Drinen (which I didnt know till reading it in Wagners story).
Date: Feb 18, 2019
Category: Headlines
Source: Google
Inside the career that earned Mike Piazza a spot in Cooperstown
More recent research suggests that Piazza was very good at some of the less easily measured aspects of catching. In an award-winning presentation at the 2006 Society for American Baseball Research conference, Sean Forman (of Baseball-Reference.com fame) showed that Piazza was actually one of the gam
Date: Jul 23, 2016
Category: Sports
Source: Google
The seven worst things about the blown call in Wednesday's Indians-A's game
antify the difference the blown call made. To do so, I went straight to the source: Baseball-Reference.com founder Sean Forman, whose site includes WPA data in each box score. When Rosales came to the plate the As had just a 3 percent chance of winning the game, the Indians a 97 percent chance. Aft
Date: May 09, 2013
Source: Google
Even beer vendor does his part in Boston's soaking of Yankees
Then again, in the rich century-plus history of games between these ancient foes, this was a first, although the great stat heads of our times -- Si Siwoff at Elias, Sean Forman at Baseball-reference.com, Bill James of Manhattan, Kansas, and Mark Simon in ESPN's laboratories in Bristol -- would be h