LaLiga 2019-2020 Season Player Stats

This Dataset contains information about 556 players in LaLiga during the 2019-2020 season. This dataset is from Prabhat on Kaggle and it can be used for Learning about Seaborn and basic statistical interpretations.

Motivation

This dataset is from Prabhat on Kaggle and it describes the different stats among players in LaLiga during the 2019-2020 season. With this dataset people can practice their Seaborn skills and interpretation skills with soccer data.

Data

Each row represents a player from LaLiga during the 2019-2020 Season. There are 556 rows. There are about 30 missing jersey numbers for different players. This may be due to changing teams and having multiple numbers.

laliga_player_stats_english.csv

Variable	Description
Team	Football club the player represents
Position	Playing position (e.g., Goalkeeper, Defender)
Shirt number	Squad shirt number
Name	Name of the player
Minutes played	Total minutes played
Games played	Number of games played
Percentage of games played	Percentage of total games the player appeared in
Full games played	Games in which the player played the full 90 minutes
Percentage of full games played	Percentage of full 90-minute games played
Games started	Number of games started
Percentage of games started	Percentage of games started out of total games
Games where substituted	Number of games in which the player was substituted
Percentage of games where substituted	Percentage of games in which the player was substituted
Yellow Cards	Number of yellow cards received
Red Cards	Number of red cards received
Second Yellows	Number of second yellow cards (leading to red)
Goals scored	Total goals scored
Penalties scored	Penalty goals scored
Own goals	Goals scored against own team
Goals conceded while player on pitch	Goals conceded while the player was on the field
Tackles	Total tackles attempted
Interceptions	Interceptions made by the player
Recoveries	Ball recoveries made
Clearances	Number of clearances made
Successful tackles	Number of successful tackles
Unssuccessful tackles	Number of unsuccessful tackles
Last man	Last-man tackles made
Successful duels	Ground and aerial duels won
Duels lost	Ground and aerial duels lost
Successful aerial challenges	Aerial duels won
Unsuccessful aerial challenges	Aerial duels lost
Offsides	Times caught offside
Fouls suffered	Times fouled by opponents
Fouls committed	Fouls committed by the player
Penalties won	Penalties won by the player
Penalties given away	Penalties conceded by the player
Handballs committed	Handball offenses committed
Fouls committed per card	Ratio of fouls per card received
Shots	Total shots taken
Shots on target	Shots that were on target
Assists	Total assists made
Successful dribbles	Successful take-ons or dribbles
Unsuccessful dribbles	Failed dribbles
Goals scored.1	Duplicate of “Goals scored”
From inside the area	Goals scored from inside the penalty area
From outside the area	Goals scored from outside the penalty area
Goals with left foot	Goals scored with the left foot
Goals with right foot	Goals scored with the right foot
Penalties scored.1	Duplicate of “Penalties scored”
Goals scored with header	Goals scored using the head
Goals from set piece	Goals scored from set plays
Crosses	Crosses attempted
Corners	Corner kicks taken
Tackles.1	Possibly duplicated or special category of tackles
Duels	Total number of duels
Man-to-man duels	Man-marking or direct player duels
Aerial duels	Aerial challenges attempted
Passes	Total passes attempted
Short passes	Short-distance passes attempted
Long passes	Long-distance passes attempted
Through balls	Total through balls played
Goals scored per attempt	Scoring efficiency (goals per shot)

Questions

1. Interpreting Histograms, Bargraphs, Scatterplots, Countplots, and Violinplots

2. Using Seaborn in Python

3. Examining correlations and distributions

References

https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/thegreatcoder/laliga-player-stats?resource=download