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A dataset containing injury details, time missed due to injury, player biographical information and most recent player transaction details.
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A data frame with 6541 rows and 28 variables:
full name of player
Basketball Reference player ID as seen in url e.g. https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/b/bryanko01.html
date of birth
height, in inches
weight, in pounds
all positions played during career according to Basketball Reference
most frequently played group position during study period according to Basketball Reference (G, F or C)
boolean indicating if player is active according to Basketball Reference
end year of rookie season e.g. 2020 for 2019-2020 season
end year of final season e.g. 2020 for 2019-2020 season
number of seasons player actually participated in. Not just the number of years between their first and last season
full team name e.g. Brooklyn Nets
location part of full team name e.g. Brooklyn
second part of full team name e.g. Nets
season in which injury occurred e.g. 2019-2020
start year of Season e.g. 2019 for 2019-2020
end year of Season e.g. 2020 for 2019-2020
boolen indicating if team made the playoffs that season
date injury was reported
date of player's first return game after injury
number of games missed due to injury
number of days between DateInjured and DateReturned
number of days between last game prior to injury and DateReturned
body part mentioned in InjuryDescription
free text notes describing projected duration and type of injury
date of most recent transaction involving player prior to injury (ignoring suspensions)
description of the transaction on LastTransactionDate
type of the transaction on LastTransactionDate e.g. Signing, Trade, etc.
Scraped from https://www.basketball-reference.com/ and https://stats.nba.com/ using nbastatsR and sportsreferenceR.
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