Name: Basketball Players' Career Duration
Creator: Kaggle
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

About this Dataset

Basketball Players' Career Duration

The dataset comes from Coursera learning platform. This dataset is for learning purposes.

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America.

The data consists of performance statistics from each player's rookie year. There are 1,341 observations, and each observation in the data represents a different player in the NBA. The target variable is a Boolean value that indicates whether a given player will last in the league for five years.

Column Name	Column Description
`name`	Name of NBA player
`gp`	Number of games played
`min`	Number of minutes played per game
`pts`	Average number of points per game
`fgm`	Average number of field goals made per game
`fga`	Average number of field goal attempts per game
`fg`	Average percent of field goals made per game
`3p_made`	Average number of three-point field goals made per game
`3pa`	Average number of three-point field goal attempts per game
`3p`	Average percent of three-point field goals made per game
`ftm`	Average number of free throws made per game
`fta`	Average number of free throw attempts per game
`ft`	Average percent of free throws made per game
`oreb`	Average number of offensive rebounds per game
`dreb`	Average number of defensive rebounds per game
`reb`	Average number of rebounds per game
`ast`	Average number of assists per game
`stl`	Average number of steals per game
`blk`	Average number of blocks per game
`tov`	Average number of turnovers per game
`target_5yrs`	1 if career duration >= 5 yrs, 0 otherwise

Tables

Nba Players

@kaggle.yakhyojon_national_basketball_association_nba.nba_players

70.1 kB
1,340 rows
22 columns

CREATE TABLE nba_players (
  "unnamed_0" BIGINT  -- Unnamed: 0,
  "name" VARCHAR,
  "gp" BIGINT,
  "min" DOUBLE,
  "pts" DOUBLE,
  "fgm" DOUBLE,
  "fga" DOUBLE,
  "fg" DOUBLE,
  "n_3p_made" DOUBLE  -- 3p Made,
  "n_3pa" DOUBLE  -- 3pa,
  "n_3p" DOUBLE  -- 3p,
  "ftm" DOUBLE,
  "fta" DOUBLE,
  "ft" DOUBLE,
  "oreb" DOUBLE,
  "dreb" DOUBLE,
  "reb" DOUBLE,
  "ast" DOUBLE,
  "stl" DOUBLE,
  "blk" DOUBLE,
  "tov" DOUBLE,
  "target_5yrs" BIGINT
);