Our Mission
Baseball Data without the Ads
Have you noticed that all of the major league baseball stat sites, including MLB's itself, are now riddled with ads? As you may have experienced, these ads get in the way of the content, even making pages jump around as the ads load. While this is infuriating, and hurts the usability of these otherwise fantastic sites, it is much, much worse than that...
Ads Affect the Environment - A LOT!
Did you know that online advertising has a significant environmental impact due to the energy consumption and carbon emissions associated with its production, distribution, and consumption? Well it's true!
The impact of online advertisements on global warming typically involves several interconnected factors:
- Energy Consumption: Running servers and data centers to host websites and serve ads consumes significant amounts of energy. This energy often comes from fossil fuel sources, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions.
- Data Transmission: Displaying ads involves transmitting data across the internet. While individual ad impressions may be small, the cumulative effect of billions of ad views globally results in substantial data transmission, which requires energy and contributes to carbon emissions.
- Device Manufacturing and Disposal: Increased online activity, including ad-driven consumption, leads to higher demand for electronic devices like smartphones and computers. The manufacturing and disposal of these devices have environmental impacts, including greenhouse gas emissions.
- Behavioral Impact: Online advertising can influence consumer behavior, promoting consumption patterns that may be energy-intensive or environmentally harmful.
So, did the world need another baseball stats website? Certainly not, if it serves up ads like all of the others. But after reading all of that, you might understand how creating a top notch baseball stats site with an ad-free experience was THE driving factor in the Baseball44 origin story.
ZERO Ads = Faster Loading
Aside from the most important environmental benefit, another key benefit of not serving up ads is that our pages load lighting fast! We don't serve up ads, images, code that tracks your behavior, or anything else that is unnecessary in providing you with accurate, up to date major league stats, standings, and scores.
Not only does this make for a more positive experience, but it also reduces the amount of data being sent over the internet, which saves the battery on your smartphone and uses up less data for those of you on a metered data plan.
Help Us and Our Ad-Free Mission!
We hope you love that this entire site is presented without ads in an uncluttered, clean, and beautiful format. To support our ad-free mission though, we need your help! Even though we do not accept ads, we do need revenue to keep our site running. There are two ways you can help: via our Adopt a Page Packages, and via our Fantasy All-Star Memberships.
Adopt a Page Packages
Our Adopt a Page packages give anyone -- people like you, not just rich corporations, the opportunity to sponsor any page on this site (for example, our Base Hit Package is just $1 per month!). Sponsor your favorite player, team, or game. Tell a story from your youth. Add a remembrance of a baseball bonding experience with a cerished loved one. And while doing so, know that you are not only helping us to provide accurate, up to date major league stats, standings, and scores, but you are helping us do that without contributing to the awful impact of online ads.
Fantasy All-Star Memberships
Coming soon, our Fantasy All-Star Members will have access to a wealth of projections, analysis, and tools that they cannot get anywhere else. Dare we say it -- these tools will help you win your league! Stay tuned...
Thank you!
For those who are able to support us via Adopt a Page or Fantasy All-Star programs, we thank you! But we also thank all of you for using this site and for spreading the word. Perhaps we can make a statement and some of the other baseball websites will find more creative ways to generate revenue, eschewing ad income altogether!