Welcome to the Pro Sports Transaction Archive. The objective of this site is simple: to document every transaction in the history of the four major North American professional sports: baseball, basketball, football, and hockey.
The project started in August of 2004 with the compilation of basketball transactions. The site first went public in July of 2005 with just basketball data. Reaction to the site was so favorable that work was begun on compiling transaction data for the other three major sports.
The status of the project is as such:
Basketball is the most complete (over 69,000 distinct entries). Obviously historical data from the earlier days of the game is not easy to come by, so by "complete" we don't mean to claim that there might not be transactions that took place that aren't listed. You will see on the draft pick pages that there is still some information— even from fairly recent years— that is suspect or uncertain. However we are confident that it is the most complete database of pro basketball transactions available.
Hockey is the next most complete (over 86,000 distinct entries). Most major trades, free agent signings, etc. are listed, and most currently active players have complete transaction histories.
Football (over 102,000 distinct entries) and baseball (over 112,000 distinct entries) are the third most complete. Most currently active players have complete transaction histories. Due to the sheer number of players involved in these two sports, there is still considerable work to be done before these sports are completely done.
Work continues daily to update the databases for each of the four sports. Please use the links below to let us know of any errors you may find or to just let us know what you think of the site. |
