Caitlin Clark Data for WNBA Rookie Season (2024)

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Data sourced from Caitlin Clark’s player page on ESPN.
Author

Courteney Zboyan

Published

July 17, 2025

Motivation

The WNBA has significantly grown in popularity, especially due to the “Caitlin Clark” effect. Students will be able to analyze Caitlin Clark’s WNBA rookie season with descriptive statistics.

Data

The includes 40 data points (rows) from Caitlin Clark’s WNBA Rookie Season on the following:

caitlin_clark_rookie_season.csv
Variable Description
DATE When game was played
LOCATION Home game or away game
OPP Opponent team
RESULT Win or loss for the game
SCORE Points scored for both teams
MIN Total minutes she played in the game
PTS Total number of points she scored in that game
REB Total number of times she got the ball after either team missed a shot
AST Number of her passes that led directly to a made basket
STL Number of times she stole the ball from the other team
BLK Number of times she deflected a shot from the other team
TO Number of times she lost the ball to the other team
FG Number of made shots out of number of attempted shots
FG% Percentage of FG
3PT Number of made 3pt shots out of number of attempted 3pt shots
3P% Percentage of 3PT
FT Number of free throws made out of number of free throws attempted
FT% Percentage of FT
PF Number of fouls committed by her

Questions

  1. What does Caitlin’s regular season scoring distribution look like in terms of shape, center and spread?

  2. What is the typical variation in points in a game for Caitlin?

  3. How correlated are her minutes played to the points per game?

  4. Compare Caitlin Clark’s Rookie Season in 2024 to Paige Bueckers’ Rookie Season in 2025 as both were guards drafted #1 overall after a successful college career using descriptive statistics and then a two sample t-test.

References

https://www.espn.com/wnba/player/gamelog/_/id/4433403/type/wnba/year/2024