Name: FiveThirtyEight NBA Draft 2015 Dataset
Creator: Kaggle
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

About this Dataset

FiveThirtyEight NBA Draft 2015 Dataset

Content

NBA Draft 2015

This folder contains data behind the story Projecting The Top 50 Players In The 2015 NBA Draft Class.

historical_projections.csv contains historical results of the NBA draft projection model, 2001-2015.

Header	Definition
`Player`	Player name
`Position`	The player's position going into the draft
`ID`	The player's identification code
`Draft Year`	The year the player was eligible for the NBA draft
`Projected SPM`	The model's projected statistical plus/minus over years 2-5 of the player's NBA career
`Superstar`	Probability of becoming a superstar player (1 per draft, SPM >= +3.3)
`Starter`	Probability of becoming a starting-caliber player (10 per draft, SPM >= +0.5)
`Role Player`	Probability of becoming a role player (25 per draft, SPM >= -1.4)
`Bust`	Probability of becoming a bust (everyone else, SPM < -1.4)

Context

This is a dataset from FiveThirtyEight hosted on their GitHub. Explore FiveThirtyEight data using Kaggle and all of the data sources available through the FiveThirtyEight organization page!

Update Frequency: This dataset is updated daily.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is maintained using GitHub's API and Kaggle's API.

This dataset is distributed under the Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.

Tables

Historical Projections

@kaggle.fivethirtyeight_fivethirtyeight_nba_draft_2015_dataset.historical_projections

84.65 kB
1,090 rows
9 columns

CREATE TABLE historical_projections (
  "player" VARCHAR,
  "position" VARCHAR,
  "id" VARCHAR,
  "draft_year" BIGINT,
  "projected_spm" DOUBLE,
  "superstar" DOUBLE,
  "starter" DOUBLE,
  "role_player" DOUBLE,
  "bust" DOUBLE
);