In the nearly 25 years since Sean Forman founded Baseball-Reference while finishing his PhD at the University of Iowa, the website has become the site of record for professional baseball. It has ...

In a milestone decision decades in the making, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday that it is now incorporating statistics of Negro Leagues that operated in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s into its ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — In the days before Baseball Reference featured every stat imaginable of the National Pastime, a Fort Wayne man pioneered keeping records of the sport through a company he ...

Major League Baseball viewership has gradually declined since its peak in 2007, according to Baseball Reference. Because of what MLB commissioner Rob Manfred calls “organic changes,” the game’s most ...

Some will be shocked waking up to the news Wednesday that Hall of Famer and Negro League star Josh Gibson is now the major leagues’ all-time batting leader — 77 years after his death in 1947. Gibson ...

Late baseball legends Babe Ruth and Hank Aaron have been outranked by players from later eras as a new study has calculated the sport's greatest players of all time. Researchers from the statistics ...

"I know, we're nerds. And some people are like, 'Shut up, nerd, .300 is good!' I get that; I'm not debating that. But there are other ways that we can analyze players − and make them better and try to ...

“Moneyball” popularized advanced statistics in baseball, including one oft-used stat known as OPS. What exactly does OPS measure? Of all American sports, baseball might have the most complicated ...

An interdisciplinary study co-authored by researchers from the statistics and history departments at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign introduces a novel statistical framework for comparing ...

Princess Kate reframed her iconic engagement ring in new video as it played an emotionally charged role in the film ...