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| language: en |
| pretty_name: FIFA23 |
| tags: |
| - tabular |
| license: mit |
| task_categories: |
| - tabular-classification |
| - tabular-regression |
| size_categories: |
| - 10M<n<100M |
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| # About this dataset |
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| ### Context |
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| The datasets provided include the players data for the Career Mode from FIFA 15 to FIFA 23. The data allows multiple comparisons for the same players across the last 9 versions of the video game. |
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| Some ideas of possible analysis: |
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| - Historical comparison between Messi and Ronaldo (what skill attributes changed the most during time - compared to real-life stats); |
| - Ideal budget to create a competitive team (at the level of top n teams in Europe) and at which point the budget does not allow to buy significantly better players for the 11-men lineup. An extra is the same comparison with the Potential attribute for the lineup instead of the Overall attribute; |
| - Sample analysis of top n% players (e.g. top 5% of the player) to see if some important attributes as Agility or BallControl or Strength have been popular or not acroos the FIFA versions. |
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| ### Content |
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| - Every player, coach, and team available in FIFA 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, and also FIFA 23 |
| - All FIFA updates from 10th September 2015 until 13th January 2023 |
| - 110 attributes for players, 8 attributes for coaches, and 54 attributes for teams |
| - URL of the scraped players, coaches, and teams |
| - Player positions, with the role in the club and in the national team |
| - Player attributes with statistics as Attacking, Skills, Defense, Mentality, GK Skills, etc. |
| - Player personal data like Nationality, Club, DateOfBirth, Wage, Salary, etc. |
| - Team data regarding their coaches, their overall value, and tactics |
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| Updates from previous FIFA 22 dataset are the following: |
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| - Inclusion of FIFA 23 data |
| - Inclusion of all FIFA updates for each version from 15 to 23 |
| - Addition of coaches and teams data |
| - Data provided only with the 2nd yearly FIFA update - like done in the previous datasets - is still available in files called `male_players (legacy).csv` and `female_players (legacy).csv` |
| - Players data for each gender is now combined in a single file for all FIFA versions and updates |
| - Only CSV files uploaded (Excel files excluded) |
| - Other minor changes (e.g. field in players' data called 'sofifa_id' has been updated to 'player_id', since teams and coaches are now included too) |
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| ### Acknowledgements |
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| Data has been scraped from the publicly available website [sofifa.com](https://sofifa.com/). |
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| As described in [https://sofifa.com/robots.txt](https://sofifa.com/robots.txt), there is no limitation at the time of scraping for collecting data for FIFA players, coaches, and teams. |
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| Limitations to scraping the website only relate to player comparisons and API. |
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