NBA-PLAYERS--2016-2019

Context This Dataset was created for an University project in Milan. The goal of the project was to create a Robust Model to predict the All Star Game score for each player. The score is calculated by dividing the players by conference and position held in the field (external or internal), the athletes are ranked in descending order depending on the number of votes taken for each category voter, so as to obtain three different rankings. From these for each player the rank is calculated (1st Position involves Rank = 1, 2nd Position Rank = 2 etc. . . ). With the values obtained then an average is calculated weighed, with weight 0.50 to that of the votes of the fans and 0.25 to the two remaining. Doing this work we have merged some datasets from kaggle (https://www.kaggle.com/noahgift/social-power-nba), basketball-reference.com and hoopshype.com. Obviously for our work we didn't use all of the variables and for a problem of indipendent observations we took only the last seasons' observation for each player. Other analysis could be performed using salary as a target but also a cluster analysis for players or a PCA. We wouldn't be here without the help of others. Thank you Riccardo,Alfredo and Daniel. Some variables: POS1= Main position (some players have a second position called POS2) G= Games played GS= Games started MP= Minutes played FG =Field Goals Per Game FGA=Field Goal Attempts Per Game FG.= Field Goal Percentage X3P= 3-Point Field Goals Per Game X3PA= 3-Point Field Goal Attempts Per Game X3P.= FG on 3-Pt FGAs. X2P =2-Point Field Goals Per Game X2PA =2-Point Field Goal Attempts Per Game X2P.= FG on 2-Pt FGAs. eFG. = Effective Field Goal Percentage FT=Free Throws Per Game FTA = Free Throw Attempts Per Game FT.= Free Throw Percentage ORB = Offensive Rebounds Per Game DRB = Defensive Rebounds Per Game TRB = Total Rebounds Per Game AST = Assists Per Game STL= Steals Per Game BLK = Blocks Per Game TOV = Turnovers Per Game PF = Personal Fouls Per Game PTS =Points Per Game MEAN_VIEWS= Daily views on wikipedia PLAY= If the player played in the all star game