Fantasy Ranking Of NBA Players From 1982-2019

Context

So I created this dataset last year in an attempt to get a leg up on my friends in our little fantasy league. Plus it allowed me to practice web-scraping and my data wrangling skills.

Content

The data set contains all the basics stats from all player seasons from 1982-2019. The data was scraped off https://www.basketball-reference.com.
To the basic list of stats, I calculated a z-score to determine how the individual player season compared to the average player season in the 9 categories that we use in our fantasy league (points, rebounds, steals, blocks, assists, 3 pointers made, field goal percentage, free throw percentage and turnovers (which counts negatively)). I then calculated a total z-score which reflects how good the player season is from a fantasy perspective.

The top 10 player seasons I found were:

1. Larry Bird 1986
2. Stephen Curry 2016
3. Michael Jordan 1988
4. Larry Bird 1985
5. Michael Jordan 1990
6. Larry Bird 1988
7. Larry Bird 1987
8. Anthony Davis 2018
9. Michael Jordan 1989
10. Michael Jordan 1991

Interestingly enough Larry Bird and Michael Jordan dominates the leaderboard with 8 out the top 10 spots.

Hope you can find some inspiration in what I've concocted.
Please reach out if you have any questions or have suggestions for improvements.