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In case you hadn't made your way over to Hockey-Reference yet today, here's a reminder that H-R is up-to-date with stats and information through the current 2009-10 season, and will be automatically updated with the previous day's results every morning from now until the end of the playoffs in June.

Mobile-friendly versions of all of the Sports Reference sites are getting closer to becoming a reality. If you are interested in helping us shape how they turn out, and you have a few minutes to fill out this survey, we would appreciate the input. Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

Sports Reference is now accepting applications for the position of User Affairs Coordinator. Follow the link for a job description and more information.

In the last year, mobile traffic on the Sports Reference sites has increased by about 250%. We frequently receive requests from users to create iPhone apps and/or mobile-friendly versions of our sites, so we are forming a small focus group to help us study the issue. If you are interested in helping out, please head over to the Baseball-Reference.com blog and fill out the form. Thanks in advance to those who volunteer.

Sean Forman has completed the Baseball-Reference.com redesign. If you're a seamhead, please head over there and check things out, and if you have comments or questions about the new look you can post them in the BR blog.

Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports: A Starting Point for Analyzing Basketball Statistics

Justin is too modest to toot his own horn, but this paper which he co-authored with Kevin Pelton, Dean Oliver, and Dan Rosenbaum is currently the most downloaded paper at JQAS. It gives a good starting point for the statistical analysis of basketball. It appears BE Press will let you download it in exchange for some contact info.