Dataset Description

This dataset contains a single CSV file with lifetime statistics for NBA players. The data includes various box score stats and personal information for each player's career.

  Data Fields

The CSV file contains the following columns:

FULL_NAME: The player's full name AST: Total career assists BLK: Total career blocks DREB: Total career defensive rebounds FG3A: Total 3-point field goal attempts FG3M: Total 3-point field goals made FG3_PCT: 3-point field… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/Hatman/NBA-Player-Career-Stats.

Description

This dataset contains end-of-season box-score aggregates for NBA players over the 2012–13 through 2023–24 seasons, split into training and test sets for both regular season and playoffs. Each CSV has one row per player per season with columns for points, rebounds, steals, turnovers, 3-pt attempts, FG attempts, plus identifiers.

Brief overview of Files

1. end-of-season box-score aggregates (2012–13 – 2023–24) split into train/test;

2. the Jupyter notebook (Analysis.ipynb); All the code can be executed in there

3. the trained model binary (nba_model.pkl); Serialized Random Forest model artifact

4. Evaluation plots (LAL vs. whole‐league) for regular & playoff predictions are given as png outputs and uploaded in here

5. FAIR4ML metadata (fair4ml_metadata.jsonld);
   see README.md and abbreviations.txt for file details.”

6. For further information you can go to the github site (Link below)

File Details

Notebook

Analysis.ipynb: Involves the graphica output of the trained and tested data.

Trained/ Test csv Data

Others

abbrevations.txt: Involves the fundemental abbrevations of the columns in csv data

Additional Notes

Raw csv files are taken from Kaggle (Source: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/shivamkumar121215/nba-stats-dataset-for-last-10-years/data)

Some preprocessing has to be done before uploading into dbrepo

Plots have also been uploaded as an output for visual purposes.

A more detailed version can be found on github (Link: https://github.com/bubaltali/nba-prediction-analysis/)

Context

I needed an easy, interesting dataset for a presentation a few days before NBA final this year. So I thought NBA players' stats might catch my audiences attention. Here is the dataset. I've also shared a kernel including a few interactive visualizations of the data. Let me know what you think.

Content

NBA 2018/2019 Season Players' Statistics Data. I obtained data from NBA.com and converted to CSV format.

Acknowledgements

We wouldn't be here without the help of others. If you owe any attributions or thanks, include them here along with any citations of past research.

Inspiration

Your data will be in front of the world's largest data science community. What questions do you want to see answered?

NBA Games Data

This data is an updated version of the original NBA Games by Nathan Lauga.

Data source Code Updated to: 2025-02-13

The dataset retains the original format and includes the following files:

games.csv – Summary of NBA games, including scores and team details. games_details.csv – Detailed player statistics for each game. players.csv – Player information. ranking.csv – Daily NBA team rankings. teams.csv – List of all NBA teams.

NBA Regular Season Data 1950-2021

This data is obtained from basketball-reference.com using a self-written webcrawler. It contains detailed game data and player specific stats for each game of the respective season.

Content

Data for each season is arranged in two csv-files. The first file season_XXXX_basic.csv contains basic data for each game of the season, such as the date, time, scores and attendance. The second file season_XXXX_detailed.csv contains additional statistics for each player participating in a specific game, such as the minutes played, field goals made and field goals attempted. A lot of data is missing for older seasons, since it wasn't recorded and is not listed on basketball-reference.com.

Inspiration

It would be interesting to see what statistics changed over the course of time when the game evolved and teams focused more on 3PT shots for example.

The database contains several datasets and files with NBA statistical data spanning four seasons (2015-2016 to 2018-2019). These datasets were procured from the Basketball Reference database (https://www.basketball-reference.com/), a publicly accessible source of NBA data.

The main file, `dat.cleaned.csv`, includes the Win/Loss records for all thirty NBA teams, along with box scores and advanced statistics. The data captured over the four seasons correspond to about 4,920 regular-season games. A distinguishing feature of this dataset is the repeated measurements per player within a team across the seasons. However, it's important to note that these repeated measurements are not independent, necessitating the use of hierarchical modelling to properly handle the data.

Two sets of additional text files (`per_2017.txt`, `per_2018.txt`, `rpm_2017.txt`, `rpm_2018.txt`) provide specific metrics for player performance. The 'PER' files contain the Athlete Efficiency Rating (PER) for the years 2017 and 2018. The 'RPM' files contain the ESPN-developed score called Real Plus-Minus (RPM) for the same years.

However, potential biases or limitations within the datasets should be acknowledged. For instance, the Basketball Reference website might not include data from some matches or may exclude certain variables, potentially affecting the quality and accuracy of the dataset.