So, helping sponsor a site makes one a fool, according to jes...
There must be some way I can put this to good use...
Part of the attitude that makes him so beloved around here (and elsewhere, I'm sure).
I do notice that neither of you have offered any other response to davep's question, that neither of you have even suggested that sponsoring a page does anything OTHER than make you look like a fool.
Does it also give you some access to additional statistical secrets not otherwise available at the site?
Does it give you any role in shaping or changing the content of the site?
Does it give you access to any additional functions offered by baseball-reference.com, such as an ability to sort or organize the data in different ways?
Or does it merely show you were foolish enough to send them some money to have your name listed there to let the world know you sent them some money just to have your name listed there?
I will readily accept that there might be some advertising value to sponsoring a page... for those individuals or businesses which might benefit from the advertising, but I don't think most of the folks who post here would come remotely close to meeting that description.
So, I ask again, other than making a sponsor look a bit like a sap who simply wanted to give his money away, what is it that sponsoring a page does?