All-Time Premier League Player Statistics with Weekly Updates

English Premier League player statistics for all seasons, compiled from the official league website. The dataset is generated by a custom web scraper designed for weekly updates to reflect match results. The project involved two weeks of planning, development, and testing.

Use Cases

• Modeling player performance trends based on variables like age, nationality, and club mentioned in the description
• Analyzing the impact of player position on statistical categories like shot accuracy mentioned in the description
• Tracking weekly changes in player statistics as matches are played, as described in the update methodology

Strengths

• Data is sourced directly from the official Premier League website (premierleague.com)
• Update process is automated for weekly freshness, as described by the creator
• Project development involved a dedicated 14-day period for planning, coding, and testing

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• A known data quality issue exists where 'Goals per match' may display incorrect values for some players

Provenance

Source

https://www.premierleague.com/

Collection Method

Collected via a custom Python BeautifulSoup4 web scraper.

Time Range

All seasons (specific years not stated).

Freshness

Designed for weekly updates; last update date is unknown.

Geography

England (Premier League).