Basketball Players' Career Duration
Basketball players performance in NBA
@kaggle.yakhyojon_national_basketball_association_nba
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 |