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# About this dataset

### Context

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.

Some ideas of possible analysis:
-   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.
    
### Content

-   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
    
Updates from previous FIFA 22 dataset are the following:

-   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)' and 'female_players (legacy)'
-   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)

### Acknowledgements

Data has been scraped from the publicly available website [sofifa.com](https://sofifa.com/).

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.

Limitations to scraping the website only relate to player comparisons and API.