You knew it was only a matter of time until Immaculate Grid — the super-fun new daily MLB guessing game — got acquired.
And this new owner makes a lot of sense.
With IG dropping its second game on the day of the 2023 MLB All-Star Game, there was also a link to this news: Sports Reference LLC — which owns all the Reference sites like Basketball Reference, Pro Football Reference and, of course, Baseball Reference — announced it acquired the game.
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This unique opportunity and acquisition for Sports Reference is the company’s first venture into expanding its websites to have playable content. With over one million users a day, Baseball Reference hopes to drive new traffic to the game, and vice versa,” the announcement read.
“Moving forward,” it continued, “the Immaculate Grid game will now be integrated into Baseball-Reference.com, enticing players to dive down the rabbit hole of the site and learn more about players, teams, and statistics.”
Already, you can see a new feature with possible answers for each square of the grid, which is just great:
This is so helpful when, say, you want to know the 14 players who had 200 hits for the Yankees.