Data Scraping

Data Source

Basketball Reference

Difficulty

• No “well-prepared” datasets
• Multiple data sources within the website
• Need to scrape data from websites

Team Stats

2018-19 NBA Team Cumulative Season Games Finder

Game Stats

2018-19 NBA Schedule and Results

Secondary Info

• get_ws_data(year): obtain the win share data in specific year
• get_injury_data(year) : obtain the severe player injuries, sorted by “cash earned during injury”
• get_ws_injury_trans_data(year): obtain the winshare data considering player injuries and team transfer.