Fifa 18 More Complete Player Dataset

Context

This dataset is an extension of that found here. It contains several extra fields and is pre-cleaned to a much greater extent. After talking with the creator of the original dataset, he and I agreed that merging our work would require making breaking changes to the original, and that this should be published as a new dataset.

Content

• 185 fields for every player in FIFA 18.
• Player info such as age, club, league, nationality, salary and physical attributes
• All playing attributes, such as finishing and dribbling
• Special attributes like skill moves and international reputation
• Traits and specialities
• Overall, potential, and ratings for each position

Differences

Here are the columns in this dataset that aren't in the original:

• birth_date
• eur_release_clause
• height_cm
• weight_kg
• body_type
• real_face
• league
• Headline attributes: pac, sho, pas, dri, def, and phy. These are what appear on Ultimate Team cards
• international_reputation
• skill_moves
• weak_foot
• work_rate_att
• work_rate_def
• preferred_foot
• all traits and specialities as dummy variables
• all position preferences as dummy variables

Acknowledgements

Credit goes to Aman Shrivastava for building the original dataset. And thanks of course to https://sofifa.com for not banning my IP when I scraped over 18000 pages to get this data.

Inspiration

What insights can this data give us, not only into FIFA 18 but into real-world football? The kernels on last year's dataset are a good place to find ideas.

Contributing

Contributions to the GitHub project are more than welcome. Do let me know if you think of ways to improve either the code or the dataset!