NBA Team Per Game Stats

Context

The NBA play style is always changing, and collecting the "Team Per Game" stats can be an insight into increasing team efficiency, pace of games, etc.

Content

The dataset contains the "Team Per Game" stats of NBA teams from 1980-2019 season.

The data recorded is that of a box score, containing: Points (PTS), Assists (AST), Steals (STL), etc.

There are 2 data sets:

1. main_df -> data is formatted as found, is not "clean" - still has asterisks in TEAM
2. playoff_labelled -> adds a "Playoff" column - indicating if the team made the playoffs for that year, and removes the asterisks in TEAM

Acknowledgements

Data source: Basketball Reference

Inspiration

Questions to explore:
-> has the pace of the game changed? Has it increased/decreased over time?
-> cluster the teams based on efficiency
-> how do the teams from different eras compare?