This is a list of established organizations that are involved in sports research, as well as a number of sites that have downloadable data sets. I put this together sometime in 2012, and it probably deserves to be updated. If you think there;s something that should be added to this list, send me an email and let me know.
Research Groups
Research Organization Websites
- SABR - Society for American Baseball Research
- PFRA - Pro Football Researchers Association
- APBR - Association for Professional Basketball Research
- Society for International Hockey Research
- Canadian Football Research Society
- International Society for Olympic Historians
- International Boxing Research Organization
- The Society for Sports Uniforms Research
- Intercollegiate Football Researchers Association
Message Boards
These are a great place to ask questions and get in touch with researchers
- Hockey Databank – Yahoo message group
- Baseball Databank – Yahoo message group
- Baseball Transactions
- Baseball Necrology
- RetroSQL
- RetroList
Research Tools
Data Sources
- Baseball
- Lahman Database – Access , SQL and CSV versions
- Retrosheet – play by play files, game logs, schedules
- Transactions Database
- Japanese Baseball Data – Jim Albright
- Football
- The Football Project – Play-by-play data
- Hockey
- Hockey Databank – Yahoo Group
- Doug Reynolds Hockey Database
- Transaction data
- College Football
Reference Sources
Data from these sites is browsable, but not downloadable.
- Baseball Card Database – Baseball-Almanac.com
- American Soccer History Archives
- Negro Leagues Baseball