USA Today's Devin Clancy interviews Baseball-Reference.com's Sean Forman:

Q: You can't possibly have been the only person to have this idea -- why has your site become such a popular resource over other sites with baseball stats?
A: I do believe that I was the first or second to have a baseball encyclopedia online. Total Baseball had a site briefly, but it was very hard to use. I have always been very, very focused on the user experience. I've made the pages as small as possible, so they load as fast as they can. Very little on any page is not actual data. I try to test the usability of the site with non-experts. I read extensively about usability. I always try to empathize with what a user will want to do on the site and what their goals will be in using the site.

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