Name: English Premier League(2020-21)
Creator: Kaggle
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

About this Dataset

English Premier League(2020-21)

Context

This dataset is a collection of basic but crucial stats of the English Premier League 2020-21 season. The dataset has all the players that played in the EPL and their standard stats such as Goals, Assists, xG, xA, Passes Attempted, Pass Accuracy and more! Do upvote if you like it!

Content

Attribute	Description
Position	Each player has a certain position, in which he plays regularly. The position in this dataset are, FW - Forward, MF - Midfield, DF - Defensive, GK - Goalkeeper
Starts	The number of times the player was named in the starting 11 by the manager.
Mins	The number of minutes played by the player.
Goals	The number of Goals scored by the player.
Assists	The number of times the player has assisted other player in scoring the goal.
Passes_Attempted	The number of passes attempted by the player.
Perc_Passes_Completed	The number of passes that the player accurately passed to his teammate.
xG	Expected number of goals from the player in a match.
xA	Expected number of assists from the player in a match.
Yellow_Cards	The players get a yellow card from the referee for indiscipline, technical fouls, or other minor fouls.
Red Cards	The players get a red card for accumulating 2 yellow cards in a single game, or for a major foul.

Inspiration

There are several directions you can take with this dataset:

Find out which team has the most aggressive defenders (or players for that matter)
Which team had more players in the top 10 most assists chart
Who were the players with most attempted passes
Which players had the most accurate passes excluding the goal keeper and the defenders
Defenders with most goals!!
Which nation had the most aggressive players?
the possibilities are endless, create a notebook and explore them!

Tables

Epl 20–21

@kaggle.rajatrc1705_english_premier_league202021.epl_20_21

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532 rows
18 columns

CREATE TABLE epl_20_21 (
  "name" VARCHAR,
  "club" VARCHAR,
  "nationality" VARCHAR,
  "position" VARCHAR,
  "age" BIGINT,
  "matches" BIGINT,
  "starts" BIGINT,
  "mins" BIGINT,
  "goals" BIGINT,
  "assists" BIGINT,
  "passes_attempted" BIGINT,
  "perc_passes_completed" DOUBLE,
  "penalty_goals" BIGINT,
  "penalty_attempted" BIGINT,
  "xg" DOUBLE,
  "xa" DOUBLE,
  "yellow_cards" BIGINT,
  "red_cards" BIGINT
);