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nba-database

Create and update your own database of National Basketball Association (NBA) player box score statistics

Preview

Creating

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Updating

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Querying

SELECT * FROM player_reg_season
	WHERE season_id LIKE '%2017'
	AND player_name = 'Stephen Curry'

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Requirements/Dependencies

Do the following in a command line:

pip install requests
pip install pandas

pip install nba_py

Instructions for Modifying Presets

The nba_db_presets.py file has two items that can be changed:

  1. Database start year
  2. Name of database file

I do not recommend you modify the start year because certain stats from before 1984 are missing and incomplete

# Create database starting with the year Micheal Jordan got drafted, the 1984-85 season
db_start_year = 1984

# Query up to the current year
now = datetime.datetime.now()
current_year = now.year

# Name of database file
database_name = 'nba.db'

Notes

@klane Special thanks to https://klane.github.io/databall1/data/wrangling/ for being a great starting point and reference

@seemethere And of course to https://github.com/seemethere/nba_py for creating the python API

By default, the script downloads raw player stat boxscores. Using these boxscores, additional advanced stats and team stats can be calculated on your own