injuries: Details of over 6000 unique injuries of NBA players from the...

Description Usage Format Source

Description

A dataset containing injury details, time missed due to injury, player biographical information and most recent player transaction details.

Usage

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Format

A data frame with 6541 rows and 28 variables:

PlayerName

full name of player

PlayerId

Basketball Reference player ID as seen in url e.g. https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bryanko01.html

PlayerDOB

date of birth

Height

height, in inches

Weight

weight, in pounds

Positions

all positions played during career according to Basketball Reference

GroupPosition

most frequently played group position during study period according to Basketball Reference (G, F or C)

IsActive

boolean indicating if player is active according to Basketball Reference

FirstSeason

end year of rookie season e.g. 2020 for 2019-2020 season

LastSeason

end year of final season e.g. 2020 for 2019-2020 season

SeasonsPlayed

number of seasons player actually participated in. Not just the number of years between their first and last season

TeamNameFull

full team name e.g. Brooklyn Nets

TeamLocation

location part of full team name e.g. Brooklyn

TeamName

second part of full team name e.g. Nets

Season

season in which injury occurred e.g. 2019-2020

SeasonStartYear

start year of Season e.g. 2019 for 2019-2020

SeasonEndYear

end year of Season e.g. 2020 for 2019-2020

TeamMadePlayoffs

boolen indicating if team made the playoffs that season

DateInjured

date injury was reported

DateReturned

date of player's first return game after injury

GamesMissed

number of games missed due to injury

DaysInjured

number of days between DateInjured and DateReturned

DaysBetweenGames

number of days between last game prior to injury and DateReturned

BodyPartInjured

body part mentioned in InjuryDescription

InjuryDescription

free text notes describing projected duration and type of injury

LastTransactionDate

date of most recent transaction involving player prior to injury (ignoring suspensions)

LastTransactionDescription

description of the transaction on LastTransactionDate

LastTransactionType

type of the transaction on LastTransactionDate e.g. Signing, Trade, etc.

Source

Scraped from https://www.basketball-reference.com/ and https://stats.nba.com/ using nbastatsR and sportsreferenceR.


tylerferguson/NBAinjuries documentation built on Sept. 12, 2020, 3:03 a.m.