Name: Predict Women's Basketball Since 1997
Creator: Kaggle
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

About this Dataset

Predict Women's Basketball Since 1997

The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is a professional basketball league in the United States. It is composed of twelve teams. The league was founded on April 22, 1996, as the women's counterpart to the National Basketball Association (NBA), and league play started in 1997. The regular season is played from May to September, with the All Star game being played midway through the season in July (except in Olympic years) and the WNBA Finals at the end of September until the beginning of October.
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About Files:

wnba_elo.csv contains game-by-game Elo ratings and forecasts since 1997.
wnba_elo_latest.csv contains game-by-game Elo ratings and forecasts for only the latest season.

Data Dictionary

Column	Definition
season	Year of season
date	Date of game
playoff	Whether game was in playoffs
neutral	Whether game was on a neutral site
status	post if the game already happened; pre if it hasn't happened yet; live if it is being played at the time of data export
home_team	Home team name
away_team	Away team name
home_team_abbr	Home team abbreviation. Multiple team names can fall under the same team_abbr because of name changes or moves. Interactive is grouped by team_abbr.
away_team_abbr	Away team abbreviation. Multiple team names can fall under the same team_abbr because of name changes or moves. Interactive is grouped by team_abbr.
home_team_pregame_rating	Home team's Elo rating before the game
away_team_pregame_rating	Away team's Elo rating before the game
home_team_winprob	Home team's probability of winning according to team ratings
away_team_winprob	Away team's probability of winning according to team ratings
home_team_score	Home team's score (will be blank for pre and live games)
away_team_score	Away team's score (will be blank for pre and live games)
home_team_postgame_rating	Home team's rating after the game (will be blank for pre and live games)
away_team_postgame_rating	Away team's rating after the game (will be blank for pre and live games)
commissioners_cup_final	Whether this game was the WNBA Commissioner's Cup Championship Game. All Championship Games shift teams' Elo ratings but are excluded from Monte Carlo simulations, as they do not count towards teams' regular season records.

Tables

Wnba Elo

@kaggle.whenamancodes_predict_womens_basketball_since_1997.wnba_elo

403.9 kB
5,841 rows
18 columns

CREATE TABLE wnba_elo (
  "season" BIGINT,
  "date" TIMESTAMP,
  "playoff" BIGINT,
  "neutral" BIGINT,
  "status" VARCHAR,
  "home_team" VARCHAR,
  "away_team" VARCHAR,
  "home_team_abbr" VARCHAR,
  "away_team_abbr" VARCHAR,
  "home_team_pregame_rating" DOUBLE,
  "away_team_pregame_rating" DOUBLE,
  "home_team_winprob" DOUBLE,
  "away_team_winprob" DOUBLE,
  "home_team_score" BIGINT,
  "away_team_score" BIGINT,
  "home_team_postgame_rating" DOUBLE,
  "away_team_postgame_rating" DOUBLE,
  "commissioners_cup_final" BIGINT
);

Wnba Elo Latest

@kaggle.whenamancodes_predict_womens_basketball_since_1997.wnba_elo_latest

29.36 kB
240 rows
18 columns

CREATE TABLE wnba_elo_latest (
  "season" BIGINT,
  "date" TIMESTAMP,
  "playoff" BIGINT,
  "neutral" BIGINT,
  "status" VARCHAR,
  "home_team" VARCHAR,
  "away_team" VARCHAR,
  "home_team_abbr" VARCHAR,
  "away_team_abbr" VARCHAR,
  "home_team_pregame_rating" DOUBLE,
  "away_team_pregame_rating" DOUBLE,
  "home_team_winprob" DOUBLE,
  "away_team_winprob" DOUBLE,
  "home_team_score" BIGINT,
  "away_team_score" BIGINT,
  "home_team_postgame_rating" DOUBLE,
  "away_team_postgame_rating" DOUBLE,
  "commissioners_cup_final" BIGINT
);