Sean Forman

From Wiki Gonzalez

Sean Forman is a mathematics professor, a god among men, the mastermind and creator of the greatest site on the internet, and a Baseball Think Factory co-founder.

Sean wrote for Don Malcolm's Big Bad Baseball Annual, where he met Jim Furtado. The two decided to form Baseball Primer in 2001. In 2004, he decided to focus on Baseball-Reference.com (leaving Jim with what is now BTF) and has continued to add features to the site in order to maintain its reputation for high quality.

Before then, Sean was an old-time frequent poster to rec.sport.baseball. In the late 1990s, he did some sabermetrics-informed studies of minor league prospects via the Iowa Farm Report, which was published for BBBA's book and site.

Sean grew up in Iowa (hence the "IFR" moniker), where his father is a high school football coach. He currently lives in Philadelphia with his wife, but he is a longtime fan of the Boston Red Sox, for reasons he's not quite sure of. He has been known to attend games at Citizens Bank Park.

Having so much on his plate, Sean posts to Primer only occasionally, mostly to solicit feedback on Baseball-Reference.com improvements, or to angst with fellow Sox fans.

Sean could pass himself off as the younger brother of BTF contributor Chris Dial.

References

• Archive of Sean's BTF contributions (http://www.baseballthinkfactory.org/files/author/seanforman/)
• The stat junkie's perfect high (http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/04/20/baseballreference/) - landmark King Kaufman profile of Sean and Baseball-Reference.com (April 2001)
• Sean's baseball page (http://www.sju.edu/~sforman/baseball.html)
• Iowa Farm Report (http://web.archive.org/web/*/http%3a//www.backatcha.com/IFR/) (Internet Archive)