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license: cc
Dataset Overview
Intro
This dataset was downloaded from the good folks at fivethirtyeight. You can find the original (or in the future, updated) versions of this and several similar datasets at this GitHub link.
Data layout
Here are the columns in this dataset, which contains data on every NBA player, broken out by season, since the 1976 NBA-ABA merger:
| Column | Description |
|---|---|
player_name |
Player name |
player_id |
Basketball-Reference.com player ID |
season |
Season |
season_type |
Regular season (RS) or playoff (PO) |
team |
Basketball-Reference ID of team |
poss |
Possessions played |
mp |
Minutes played |
raptor_box_offense |
Points above average per 100 possessions added by player on offense, based only on box score estimate |
raptor_box_defense |
Points above average per 100 possessions added by player on defense, based only on box score estimate |
raptor_box_total |
Points above average per 100 possessions added by player, based only on box score estimate |
raptor_onoff_offense |
Points above average per 100 possessions added by player on offense, based only on plus-minus data |
raptor_onoff_defense |
Points above average per 100 possessions added by player on defense, based only on plus-minus data |
raptor_onoff_total |
Points above average per 100 possessions added by player, based only on plus-minus data |
raptor_offense |
Points above average per 100 possessions added by player on offense, using both box and on-off components |
raptor_defense |
Points above average per 100 possessions added by player on defense, using both box and on-off components |
raptor_total |
Points above average per 100 possessions added by player on both offense and defense, using both box and on-off components |
war_total |
Wins Above Replacement between regular season and playoffs |
war_reg_season |
Wins Above Replacement for regular season |
war_playoffs |
Wins Above Replacement for playoffs |
predator_offense |
Predictive points above average per 100 possessions added by player on offense |
predator_defense |
Predictive points above average per 100 possessions added by player on defense |
predator_total |
Predictive points above average per 100 possessions added by player on both offense and defense |
pace_impact |
Player impact on team possessions per 48 minutes |
More information
This dataset was put together for Hugging Face by this guy: Andrew Kroening
He was building some kind of a silly tool using this dataset. It's an NBA WAR Predictor tool, and you can find the Gradio interface here. The GitHub repo can be found here.