Scraping the Premier League Website

Data scraping data, also known as web scraping is the process of extracting data from a website programmatically. The destination of the extracted data can vary, in some cases to channel that data to another website but is commonly saved to a spreadsheet or local file saved on your computer. It’s one of the most efficient ways to get data from the web aside from directly querying a REST API.

We are going to be extracting Premier League data such as:

All-time Top Scorers
2020-21 – League Table
2020/21 Top Scorers

Importing Libraries 📚

We are going to be using the official Premier League website to extract the data we need. The libraries we are using are as follows:

Pandas: This will be used to generate our dataframes
Numpy: Numpy will be used to calculate our numeric data such as player statistics
Beautiful Soup: Is a parsing library we will use it for extract data for each player and put them into a table
Matplotlib & Seaborn: We will use these two libraries to plot charts of data we extract at the EDA stage
Datetime: We will use datetime to deal with date of birth and match date strings
RegEx (RE): Regex is a library used for extracting patterns of strings, we can use it for
Requests: This library will be used for sending HTTP/1.1 requests to the Premier League website
JSON: With requests there is no need to manually add query strings to our URLs, or to form-encode your PUT & POST data. We can just use the json method! We will be using JSON to read the JSON files from the API included in the HTTP requests

Planning 📅

Our objective is to take data from the existing tables where possible in the least amount of code. However, some of the data we want will be specifically curated depending on our requirements. It will also be nice to have as clean data as possible before it is written to the dataframe.

Method 1: HTML Table Scraping 👌

The easiest way to extract tabular data from a website is if we extract it from an existing html table, we can do that using requests.

Method 2: Beautiful Soup Scraping 🥣

Beautiful Soup is a great way to extract data from various sources by targeting specific HTML elements such as p and div tags. We can then create a dataframe and append each element to it programmatically using loops. However, this approach has certain limitations especially on the Premier League website which uses dynamic webpage loading. This means the HTML page has elements which are hidden on the client-side then generated as the user scrolls down. Examples of such behavour can be seen when we scrolling down the webpage to reveal more players on the player page.

The problem with this is that the HTML file does not contain the information of the hidden elements so if you tried to scrap the page you would only get the data of the visible elements. The only way you would be able to fully load the page would be to scroll down the page manually until all the elements have been revealed then scrape the page. This method can be rather tedious as if you did that with something like a Twitter feed you could be scrolling for hours! There are two solutions for this.

Option 1: We could use Selenium, a browser automation tool; to open a headless browser, scroll down the page then use that HTML for Beautiful Soup to parse and scrape.
Option 2: We can access the API by intercepting and reusing the JSON requests used to pull data into the search results when we scroll down the page.

Image.open('images/premier_league_players.png')

Method 3: Using an API and JSONs 🔥

We can use this method to directly interface with the API populating the webpage. The JSON file contains all the data we need to populate our dataframe but we can also use it inconjuntion with our Beautiful Soup scraping method to fill in missing data we find from each player. We can do this by left clicking on the webpage and scrolling down to ‘Inspect’ on Google Chrome, then going to the ‘Network’ section of the resulting sidebar called the ‘Elements Panel’. In the Network we can see every request the webpage makes to the server, we need to filter down our search to ‘XHR and Fetch’ so we will click the ‘XHR’ tab.

Scroll down on the ‘Players’ page once this is all setup and you will notice some files start to populate the Elements Panel. These are URL requests as this webpage is dynamic and generates content with Javascript as we scroll down but is actually paginated even though it looks like an infinitely scrolling page.

Using Datetime to keep track of time data was scraped

# Creating a datetime variable
now = datetime.now()
current_date = now.strftime("%d/%m/%y")
current_time = now.strftime("%H:%M:%S")

# Print
print("Current Date =", current_date)
print("Current Time =", current_time)

Current Date = 29/03/21
Current Time = 19:33:48

Method 1: HTML Table Scraping 👌

We can use requests.get() to load the website into the variable called Response before reading it using pd.read_html. We load this variable into another variable named at_goals then append response.text inside our built-in function: pd.read_html(). Our next step is to select the table number we need then remove the data or columns we don’t need.

All-time goal scorers Table

# Extracting basic tabular data for all-time goal scorers
response = requests.get('https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/goals') 
at_goals_r = pd.read_html(response.text)

at_goals_r

[    Rank                   Player               Club        Nationality  Stat  \
 0      1             Alan Shearer                  -            England   260   
 1      2             Wayne Rooney                  -            England   208   
 2      3              Andrew Cole                  -            England   187   
 3      4            Sergio Agüero    Manchester City          Argentina   181   
 4      5            Frank Lampard                  -            England   177   
 5      6            Thierry Henry                  -             France   175   
 6      7            Robbie Fowler                  -            England   163   
 7      8            Jermain Defoe                  -            England   162   
 8      9               Harry Kane  Tottenham Hotspur            England   160   
 9     10             Michael Owen                  -            England   150   
 10    11            Les Ferdinand                  -            England   149   
 11    12         Teddy Sheringham                  -            England   146   
 12    13         Robin van Persie                  -        Netherlands   144   
 13    14  Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink                  -        Netherlands   127   
 14    15             Robbie Keane                  -            Ireland   126   
 15    16           Nicolas Anelka                  -             France   125   
 16    17             Dwight Yorke                  -  Trinidad & Tobago   123   
 17    18           Steven Gerrard                  -            England   120   
 18    19              Jamie Vardy     Leicester City            England   115   
 19    20            Romelu Lukaku                  -            Belgium   113   
 
     Unnamed: 5  
 0          NaN  
 1          NaN  
 2          NaN  
 3          NaN  
 4          NaN  
 5          NaN  
 6          NaN  
 7          NaN  
 8          NaN  
 9          NaN  
 10         NaN  
 11         NaN  
 12         NaN  
 13         NaN  
 14         NaN  
 15         NaN  
 16         NaN  
 17         NaN  
 18         NaN  
 19         NaN  ]

# Loading the all-time list and using iloc to remove column: Unamed: 5 (the filter column)
at_goals = at_goals_r[0].iloc[:,:-1].style.hide_index() 
at_goals

Rank	Player	Club	Nationality	Stat
1	Alan Shearer	–	England	260
2	Wayne Rooney	–	England	208
3	Andrew Cole	–	England	187
4	Sergio Agüero	Manchester City	Argentina	181
5	Frank Lampard	–	England	177
6	Thierry Henry	–	France	175
7	Robbie Fowler	–	England	163
8	Jermain Defoe	–	England	162
9	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur	England	160
10	Michael Owen	–	England	150
11	Les Ferdinand	–	England	149
12	Teddy Sheringham	–	England	146
13	Robin van Persie	–	Netherlands	144
14	Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink	–	Netherlands	127
15	Robbie Keane	–	Ireland	126
16	Nicolas Anelka	–	France	125
17	Dwight Yorke	–	Trinidad & Tobago	123
18	Steven Gerrard	–	England	120
19	Jamie Vardy	Leicester City	England	115
20	Romelu Lukaku	–	Belgium	113

All-time assists Table

# Extracting basic tabular data for all-time assists
response = requests.get('https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/goal_assist') 
at_ast_r = pd.read_html(response.text)

# Loads the all-time list
at_ast = at_ast_r[0].iloc[:,:-1].style.hide_index() 
at_ast

Rank	Player	Club	Nationality	Stat
1	Ryan Giggs	–	Wales	162
2	Cesc Fàbregas	–	Spain	111
3	Wayne Rooney	–	England	103
4	Frank Lampard	–	England	102
5	Dennis Bergkamp	–	Netherlands	94
6	David Silva	–	Spain	93
7	Steven Gerrard	–	England	92
8	James Milner	Liverpool	England	85
9	David Beckham	–	England	80
10	Kevin De Bruyne	Manchester City	Belgium	77
11	Teddy Sheringham	–	England	76
12	Thierry Henry	–	France	74
13	Andrew Cole	–	England	73
14	Ashley Young	–	England	69
15	Darren Anderton	–	England	68
16	Gareth Barry	–	England	64
16	Matthew Le Tissier	–	England	64
16	Alan Shearer	–	England	64
19	Christian Eriksen	–	Denmark	62
19	Nolberto Solano	–	Peru	62

2020-21 League Table

# Extracting basic tabular data for all-time assists
response = requests.get('https://www.premierleague.com/tables') 
pl_table_r = pd.read_html(response.text)

# Loads the all-time list
pl_table = pl_table_r[0].iloc[:,:-3]

# Remove excess rows containing any string: 'recent'
pl_table = pl_table[~pl_table['Club'].str.contains('Recent')]

# Cleaning up the 'Club' column by removing abbreviations
pl_table['Club'] = pl_table['Club'].str.slice(0, -5)

# Renaming and cleaning up the 'Position  Pos' column
pl_table.rename(columns={'Position  Pos':'Position'}, inplace=True)
pl_table['Position'] = pl_table['Position'].str.extract('(\d+)').astype(int)

# Final table
pl_table.style.hide_index()

Position	Club	Played Pl	Won W	Drawn D	Lost L	GF	GA	GD	Points Pts
1	Manchester City	30	22	5	3	64	21	+43	71
2	Manchester United	29	16	9	4	56	32	+24	57
3	Leicester City	29	17	5	7	53	32	+21	56
4	Chelsea	29	14	9	6	44	25	+19	51
5	West Ham United	29	14	7	8	45	35	+10	49
6	Tottenham Hotspur	29	14	6	9	49	30	+19	48
7	Liverpool	29	13	7	9	48	36	+12	46
8	Everton	28	14	4	10	40	37	+3	46
9	Arsenal	29	12	6	11	40	32	+8	42
10	Aston Villa	28	12	5	11	39	30	+9	41
11	Leeds United	29	12	3	14	45	47	-2	39
12	Crystal Palace	29	10	7	12	31	47	-16	37
13	Wolverhampton Wanderers	29	9	8	12	28	38	-10	35
14	Southampton	29	9	6	14	36	51	-15	33
15	Burnley	29	8	9	12	22	37	-15	33
16	Brighton and Hove Albion	29	7	11	11	32	36	-4	32
17	Newcastle United	29	7	7	15	28	48	-20	28
18	Fulham	30	5	11	14	23	38	-15	26
19	West Bromwich Albion	29	3	9	17	20	57	-37	18
20	Sheffield United	29	4	2	23	16	50	-34	14

# Column names
pl_table.columns

Index(['Position', 'Club', 'Played  Pl', 'Won  W', 'Drawn  D', 'Lost  L', 'GF',
       'GA', 'GD', 'Points  Pts'],
      dtype='object')

We can see the benefits of using this method if you want a quick and easy extraction of tabular data but what if the data we need is not from a single structured table? For that we will need to build a table ourselves, next we will be looking at using Beautiful Soup and RE.

Method 2: Beautiful Soup Scraping 🥣

Initially, I used a Chrome Extension called ‘Link Grabber’ to extract the URL’s from the player page since I was having trouble scraping with the API and automating scrolling. I manually scrolled down the page and loaded the whole page before running it, then I filtered the links to just ‘/overview’ to get links for players only. I found just over 844 player links and saved them to an .csv file. We want to intercept and use HTTP requests with query parameters as it will be more efficient in the long run. It will also be easier to repeat the extraction if the data needs to be updated at a future date. Unfortunately, scraping with Beautiful Soup alone will not work. We would need a library like Selenium to automate the browser and that currently is outside the scope of this tutorial.

Potential Issues

Some players don’t have countries so they will have to be named NaN or None in order to keep the shape of the df
Need to find a way to get more links from the page due to infinite scroll (asynchronous loading)
If we scrape data with various positions it creates NaN columns as data on each player position is different
We need to choose a season to get all data from instead of grabbing all data for more precice data
Some players are no longer in the league so current club name will be missing
Data is missing before 2007 as Opta was not collecting match statistics at that time
Missing weights can cause our script to stop due to NaN errors

Method 3: Method 3: Using an API and JSONs 🔥

First, we need to get the ‘Request URL’ of the page we are getting data from. We can find this information as discussed earlier from the ‘Network’ tab in the Elements Panel. Remember this will only be revealed to us once we have triggered a URL Request scrolling down the page. Once we have opened the ‘Network’ tab, there will be a filter tab inside it called ‘XHR’ which basically means HTTP Request to a web server. This tab will show us every request made by the current webpage to the server. We need to click on one of these files that pop-up on the list, the ‘Header’ section will show us every parameter required to make a successful request to the server.

At the top of the ‘Header’ page we will see a ‘Request URL: https://footballapi.pulselive.com/football/stats/ranked/players/goals. If the requirements are not satisfied the request will result in a ‘403 ERROR: The request could not be satisfied’, this can be seen if you try to enter the URL directly into your browser. We need to include headers and query parameters to successfully send a request to the server, we can start by copying the parameters from the Header and modifying them to our specifications. In this case instead of calling each page individually we can populate the page size (number of search results) to what we need.

Plan of action:

Our plan of action here is to parse the JSON file we obtain from the URL Request then scrape the data from each player to obtain the playerId. This is important as the playerId is also used to navigate to their individual stats webpages, for example: https://www.premierleague.com/players/13286/Tammy-Abraham/overview

We can navigate to each players’ page by extracting the playerId from each result and appending it to each URL we scrape. The beauty is we can combine a hybrid method of scraping with Beautiful Soup and parsing the JSON file for data missing from our scraping attempts.

Here is the code I used below:

# API URL
url = "https://footballapi.pulselive.com/football/stats/ranked/players/goals"

# Headers required for making a GET request. It is a good practice to provide headers with each request.
headers = {
    "content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8",
    "DNT": "1",
    "Origin": "https://www.premierleague.com",
    "Referer": "https://www.premierleague.com/players",
    "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/75.0.3770.100 Safari/537.36"
}

# Query parameters required to make get request
queryParams = {
    "age": 0,
    "pageSize": 20,
    "compSeasons": 363,
    "comps": 1,
    "compCodeForActivePlayer": "EN_PR",
    "positions": "FORWARD",
    "altIds": "true"
}

# Sending the request with url, headers, and query params
response = requests.get(url = url, headers = headers, params = queryParams)

# Empty containers to store player id's and other info
player_ids_test = []
info_test = []
counter = 0

# if response status code is 200 OK, then
if response.status_code == 200:
    # load the json data
    data_test = json.loads(response.text)
    # print the required data
    for player in data_test["stats"]["content"]:
        counter +=1
        print(counter, {player["owner"]["name"]["display"]:player["owner"]["info"]["positionInfo"]}) #int(player["id"])
        player_ids_test.append(int(player["owner"]["id"]))
        info_test.append(player["owner"]["info"]["positionInfo"])

1 {'Harry Kane': 'Centre Striker'}
2 {'Mohamed Salah': 'Left/Centre/Right Winger'}
3 {'Patrick Bamford': 'Centre Striker'}
4 {'Dominic Calvert-Lewin': 'Left/Centre Second Striker'}
5 {'Son Heung-Min': 'Left/Centre/Right Winger'}
6 {'Jamie Vardy': 'Centre Striker'}
7 {'Alexandre Lacazette': 'Centre Striker'}
8 {'Ollie Watkins': 'Left/Centre/Right Second Striker'}
9 {'Callum Wilson': 'Centre Striker'}
10 {'Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang': 'Centre Striker'}
11 {'Riyad Mahrez': 'Left/Right Winger'}
12 {'Marcus Rashford': 'Left/Centre Second Striker'}
13 {'Raheem Sterling': 'Forward'}
14 {'Wilfried Zaha': 'Left/Centre/Right Winger'}
15 {'Danny Ings': 'Centre Striker'}
16 {'Neal Maupay': 'Centre Striker'}
17 {'Che Adams': 'Centre Striker'}
18 {'Gabriel Jesus': 'Left/Centre/Right Second Striker'}
19 {'Sadio Mané': 'Left/Right Winger'}
20 {'Tammy Abraham': 'Centre Striker'}

JSON data

These are the contents of the JSON data on each player, we can delve into the data more deeply if we take the JSON file from the players’ page instead of the search results page. For example we have access to hundreds of data points in the form of statistical events such as touches on the ball, passing accuracy, duels won and so on.

player

{'owner': {'playerId': 136935.0,
  'info': {'position': 'F',
   'shirtNum': 18.0,
   'positionInfo': 'Centre Striker',
   'loan': True},
  'nationalTeam': {'isoCode': 'GB-ENG',
   'country': 'England',
   'demonym': 'English'},
  'currentTeam': {'name': 'Chelsea',
   'club': {'name': 'Chelsea', 'abbr': 'CHE', 'id': 4.0},
   'teamType': 'FIRST',
   'shortName': 'Chelsea',
   'id': 4.0,
   'altIds': {'opta': 't8'}},
  'active': True,
  'birth': {'date': {'millis': 875750400000.0, 'label': '2 October 1997'},
   'country': {'isoCode': 'GB-ENG',
    'country': 'England',
    'demonym': 'English'},
   'place': 'London'},
  'age': '23 years 178 days',
  'name': {'display': 'Tammy Abraham', 'first': 'Tammy', 'last': 'Abraham'},
  'id': 13286.0,
  'altIds': {'opta': 'p173879'}},
 'rank': 20.0,
 'name': 'goals',
 'value': 6.0,
 'description': 'Todo: goals',
 'additionalInfo': {}}

Now we have generated a list of our playerId’s, we opted to filter the all-time top 20 strikers currently still in the Premier League based on total goals scored. Check out the id’s extracted below.

player_ids_test

Building our dataframe

Now for the fun part! We will create a function to automatically append extracted data to a dataframe, it will also print the results of the player being added. We also added functionality of warning if a player has missing data and ignoring errors, this data can be automatically be appended if needed from the JSON data. We will manually assign data outside tables to columns specifically such as Club, Position, Date of Birth, Height, Weight, and Nationality. The file will automatically be saved to a .csv.

def get_data(player_num):
    url = "https://www.premierleague.com/players/{}/player".format(player_num)
    soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url + "/overview").content, "html.parser")
    data = {}
    data["Name"] = soup.select_one(".playerDetails .name").text
    tmp = soup.select_one(".playerbadgeContainer .visuallyHidden")
    null = 'WARNING!!! ------- Missing Data for ' + data["Name"]
    
    while data:  
        try: 
            if tmp:   
                print(soup.select_one(".playerDetails .name").text)
                data["Club"] = tmp.text
                data["Position"] = soup.select_one('.label:-soup-contains("Position") + .info').text
                data["Date of Birth"] = soup.select_one('.label:-soup-contains("Date of Birth") + .info').text.strip()
                data["Height"] = soup.select_one('.label:-soup-contains("Height") + .info').text.strip()
                data["Weight"] = soup.select_one('.label:-soup-contains("Weight") + .info').text.strip()
                data["Nationality"] = soup.select_one('.label:-soup-contains("Nationality") + .info').text.strip()
                
        except:
            #print("Checking Counter:",counter)
            data["Nationality"] = data_test['stats']['content'][counter]['owner']['birth']['country']['isoCode']
            print(null)
            pass

        soup = BeautifulSoup(requests.get(url + "/stats").content, "html.parser")

        for s in soup.select(".topStat"):
            v = s.text.split()
            if len(v) == 2:
                data[v[0]] = v[1]

        for s in soup.select(".normalStat"):
            v = list(map(str.strip, s.text.rsplit(maxsplit=1)))
            if len(v) == 2:
                data[v[0]] = v[1]

        return data

player_nums = player_ids_test
counter = -1

list_of_data = []
for num in player_nums:
    counter +=1
    print(counter, num)
    list_of_data.append(get_data(num))

pps = pd.DataFrame(list_of_data)
pps['Role'] = pd.DataFrame(info_test, columns=['Role'])
pps.to_csv('pl_player_stats_test.csv', index=False)

0 3960
Harry Kane
1 5178
Mohamed Salah
2 4291
Patrick Bamford
3 9576
Dominic Calvert-Lewin
4 4999
Son Heung-Min
5 8979
Jamie Vardy
6 6899
Alexandre Lacazette
7 8658
Ollie Watkins
8 8454
Callum Wilson
9 5110
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang
10 8983
Riyad Mahrez
11 13565
Marcus Rashford
12 4316
Raheem Sterling
13 4539
Wilfried Zaha
WARNING!!! ------- Missing Data for Wilfried Zaha
14 8245
Danny Ings
15 16256
Neal Maupay
16 10905
Che Adams
17 19680
Gabriel Jesus
18 6519
Sadio Mané
19 13286
Tammy Abraham

# We can access different parts of the JSON file like this:
data_test['stats']['content'][0]['owner']['birth']['country']['isoCode']

'GB-ENG'

pps

	Name	Club	Position	Date of Birth	Height	Weight	Nationality	Appearances	Goals	Wins	Losses	Goals per match	Headed goals	Goals with right foot	Goals with left foot	Penalties scored	Freekicks scored	Shots	Shots on target	Shooting accuracy %	Hit woodwork	Big chances missed	Assists	Passes	Passes per match	Big Chances Created	Crosses	Yellow cards	Red cards	Fouls	Offsides	Tackles	Blocked shots	Interceptions	Clearances	Headed Clearance	Role
0	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur	Forward	28/07/1993 (27)	188cm	86kg	England	237	160	133	54	0.68	26	99	34	24	1	881	390	44%	26	94	33	5,063	21.36	48	202	27	0	231	166	156	211	68	175	137	Centre Striker
1	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	Forward	15/06/1992 (28)	175cm	71kg	Egypt	149	92	100	21	0.62	5	11	76	13	0	523	235	45%	12	69	32	4,238	28.44	49	220	4	0	77	78	73	129	25	18	9	Left/Centre/Right Winger
2	Patrick Bamford	Leeds United	Forward	05/09/1993 (27)	185cm	71kg	England	56	15	15	33	0.27	3	2	10	1	0	108	45	42%	4	19	6	571	10.2	5	11	3	0	48	21	28	21	15	33	23	Centre Striker
3	Dominic Calvert-Lewin	Everton	Forward	16/03/1997 (24)	187cm	71kg	England	139	38	54	54	0.27	16	17	5	0	0	250	106	42%	5	43	9	2,064	14.85	9	53	20	0	168	49	54	44	35	110	89	Left/Centre Second Striker
4	Son Heung-Min	Tottenham Hotspur	Forward	08/07/1992 (28)	183cm	78kg	South Korea	188	66	107	44	0.35	4	37	25	0	0	399	173	43%	16	37	38	4,434	23.59	44	334	4	2	74	107	131	105	68	45	20	Left/Centre/Right Winger
5	Jamie Vardy	Leicester City	Forward	11/01/1987 (34)	179cm	74kg	England	236	115	100	82	0.49	13	74	28	24	0	517	251	49%	19	93	36	3,234	13.7	58	269	21	3	195	217	138	92	63	113	75	Centre Striker
6	Alexandre Lacazette	Arsenal	Forward	28/05/1991 (29)	175cm	73kg	France	122	48	54	39	0.39	5	36	7	5	1	240	118	49%	5	40	18	2,423	19.86	16	63	14	0	156	67	102	47	40	57	42	Centre Striker
7	Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	Forward	30/12/1995 (25)	180cm	70kg	England	28	10	12	11	0.36	3	5	2	1	0	77	33	43%	7	11	3	613	21.89	6	18	1	0	33	24	24	19	7	14	11	Left/Centre/Right Second Striker
8	Callum Wilson	Newcastle United	Forward	27/02/1992 (29)	180cm	66kg	England	147	51	45	69	0.35	8	32	9	9	0	262	106	40%	7	49	17	1,970	13.4	24	88	15	0	206	109	50	54	24	59	39	Centre Striker
9	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Arsenal	Forward	18/06/1989 (31)	187cm	80kg	Gabon	109	63	50	35	0.58	4	50	9	9	1	267	122	46%	10	45	13	2,346	21.52	18	182	5	1	41	66	67	64	30	50	16	Centre Striker
10	Riyad Mahrez	Manchester City	Forward	21/02/1991 (30)	179cm	67kg	Algeria	222	66	115	61	0.3	4	10	51	8	3	474	203	43%	12	31	44	6,871	30.95	87	811	7	0	128	51	230	138	146	54	22	Left/Right Winger
11	Marcus Rashford	Manchester United	Forward	31/10/1997 (23)	180cm	70kg	England	171	53	92	31	0.31	4	42	7	6	1	363	161	44%	10	49	28	3,919	22.92	30	285	16	1	110	76	86	89	43	78	40	Left/Centre Second Striker
12	Raheem Sterling	Manchester City	Forward	08/12/1994 (26)	170cm	69kg	England	284	95	177	58	0.33	8	61	26	1	1	597	245	41%	22	84	49	9,155	32.24	67	532	30	1	322	103	275	172	138	56	22	Forward
13	Wilfried Zaha	Crystal Palace	Forward	NaN	NaN	NaN	CôTE D’IVOIRE	236	45	77	101	0.19	1	36	8	2	0	375	131	35%	9	36	26	5,026	21.3	39	561	37	1	305	89	307	119	128	33	8	Left/Centre/Right Winger
14	Danny Ings	Southampton	Forward	23/07/1992 (28)	178cm	73kg	England	133	51	40	55	0.38	7	29	14	7	0	304	124	41%	11	30	12	2,290	17.22	17	110	12	0	103	57	127	74	40	62	37	Centre Striker
15	Neal Maupay	Brighton and Hove Albion	Forward	14/08/1996 (24)	173cm	69kg	France	64	18	16	25	0.28	3	9	6	4	0	156	62	40%	1	18	5	1,184	18.5	8	21	4	0	61	27	33	49	12	13	5	Centre Striker
16	Che Adams	Southampton	Forward	13/07/1996 (24)	175cm	70kg	Scotland	58	11	21	26	0.19	0	10	1	0	0	81	33	41%	2	20	6	748	12.9	13	16	1	0	40	28	26	24	6	20	9	Centre Striker
17	Gabriel Jesus	Manchester City	Forward	03/04/1997 (23)	175cm	73kg	Brazil	123	48	95	14	0.39	9	24	15	2	0	262	131	50%	8	63	20	2,287	18.59	18	16	13	0	98	70	66	52	36	19	13	Left/Centre/Right Second Striker
18	Sadio Mané	Liverpool	Forward	10/04/1992 (28)	175cm	69kg	Senegal	220	91	131	42	0.41	11	55	25	0	0	510	215	42%	15	77	33	6,820	31	50	322	24	3	252	137	260	105	107	60	33	Left/Right Winger
19	Tammy Abraham	Chelsea	Forward	02/10/1997 (23)	190cm	80kg	England	87	26	34	33	0.3	3	20	1	0	0	163	68	42%	3	29	5	919	10.56	7	32	2	0	55	39	23	31	12	53	43	Centre Striker

# Filling missing data for Zaha manually
pps.loc[13, ('Height')] = '180cm' # Height
pps.loc[13, ('Weight')] = '66kg' # Height
pps.loc[13, ('Date of Birth')] = '10/11/1992 (28)' # DOB
pps.loc[13, ('Nationality')] = 'Ivory Coast' # Nation

Height and Weight has cm and kg

# Removing strings from integers
pps['Height'] = pps['Height'].str.extract('(\d+)').astype(int)
pps['Weight'] = pps['Weight'].str.extract('(\d+)').astype(int)
pps['Passes'] = pps['Passes'].str.replace(',', '').astype(int)
pps['Shooting accuracy %'] = pps['Shooting accuracy %'].str.replace('%', '').astype(int)

pps['Goals'] = pps['Goals'].astype(int)

# Add age
pps['Age'] = pps['Date of Birth'].apply(lambda st: st[st.find("(")+1:st.find(")")])

# Strip age from DOB
#pps['Date of Birth'] = pps['Date of Birth'].str[:10]
pps.drop(['Date of Birth'], axis=1, inplace=True)

# Move columns
col = pps.pop('Name')
pps.insert(0, col.name, col)
col = pps.pop('Role')
pps.insert(3, col.name, col)
col = pps.pop('Nationality')
pps.insert(4, col.name, col)
col = pps.pop('Age')
pps.insert(5, col.name, col)

# Show
pps

	Name	Club	Position	Role	Nationality	Age	Height	Weight	Appearances	Goals	Wins	Losses	Goals per match	Headed goals	Goals with right foot	Goals with left foot	Penalties scored	Freekicks scored	Shots	Shots on target	Shooting accuracy %	Hit woodwork	Big chances missed	Assists	Passes	Passes per match	Big Chances Created	Crosses	Yellow cards	Red cards	Fouls	Offsides	Tackles	Blocked shots	Interceptions	Clearances	Headed Clearance
0	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur	Forward	Centre Striker	England	27	188	86	237	160	133	54	0.68	26	99	34	24	1	881	390	44	26	94	33	5063	21.36	48	202	27	0	231	166	156	211	68	175	137
1	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Winger	Egypt	28	175	71	149	92	100	21	0.62	5	11	76	13	0	523	235	45	12	69	32	4238	28.44	49	220	4	0	77	78	73	129	25	18	9
2	Patrick Bamford	Leeds United	Forward	Centre Striker	England	27	185	71	56	15	15	33	0.27	3	2	10	1	0	108	45	42	4	19	6	571	10.2	5	11	3	0	48	21	28	21	15	33	23
3	Dominic Calvert-Lewin	Everton	Forward	Left/Centre Second Striker	England	24	187	71	139	38	54	54	0.27	16	17	5	0	0	250	106	42	5	43	9	2064	14.85	9	53	20	0	168	49	54	44	35	110	89
4	Son Heung-Min	Tottenham Hotspur	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Winger	South Korea	28	183	78	188	66	107	44	0.35	4	37	25	0	0	399	173	43	16	37	38	4434	23.59	44	334	4	2	74	107	131	105	68	45	20
5	Jamie Vardy	Leicester City	Forward	Centre Striker	England	34	179	74	236	115	100	82	0.49	13	74	28	24	0	517	251	49	19	93	36	3234	13.7	58	269	21	3	195	217	138	92	63	113	75
6	Alexandre Lacazette	Arsenal	Forward	Centre Striker	France	29	175	73	122	48	54	39	0.39	5	36	7	5	1	240	118	49	5	40	18	2423	19.86	16	63	14	0	156	67	102	47	40	57	42
7	Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Second Striker	England	25	180	70	28	10	12	11	0.36	3	5	2	1	0	77	33	43	7	11	3	613	21.89	6	18	1	0	33	24	24	19	7	14	11
8	Callum Wilson	Newcastle United	Forward	Centre Striker	England	29	180	66	147	51	45	69	0.35	8	32	9	9	0	262	106	40	7	49	17	1970	13.4	24	88	15	0	206	109	50	54	24	59	39
9	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Arsenal	Forward	Centre Striker	Gabon	31	187	80	109	63	50	35	0.58	4	50	9	9	1	267	122	46	10	45	13	2346	21.52	18	182	5	1	41	66	67	64	30	50	16
10	Riyad Mahrez	Manchester City	Forward	Left/Right Winger	Algeria	30	179	67	222	66	115	61	0.3	4	10	51	8	3	474	203	43	12	31	44	6871	30.95	87	811	7	0	128	51	230	138	146	54	22
11	Marcus Rashford	Manchester United	Forward	Left/Centre Second Striker	England	23	180	70	171	53	92	31	0.31	4	42	7	6	1	363	161	44	10	49	28	3919	22.92	30	285	16	1	110	76	86	89	43	78	40
12	Raheem Sterling	Manchester City	Forward	Forward	England	26	170	69	284	95	177	58	0.33	8	61	26	1	1	597	245	41	22	84	49	9155	32.24	67	532	30	1	322	103	275	172	138	56	22
13	Wilfried Zaha	Crystal Palace	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Winger	Ivory Coast	28	180	66	236	45	77	101	0.19	1	36	8	2	0	375	131	35	9	36	26	5026	21.3	39	561	37	1	305	89	307	119	128	33	8
14	Danny Ings	Southampton	Forward	Centre Striker	England	28	178	73	133	51	40	55	0.38	7	29	14	7	0	304	124	41	11	30	12	2290	17.22	17	110	12	0	103	57	127	74	40	62	37
15	Neal Maupay	Brighton and Hove Albion	Forward	Centre Striker	France	24	173	69	64	18	16	25	0.28	3	9	6	4	0	156	62	40	1	18	5	1184	18.5	8	21	4	0	61	27	33	49	12	13	5
16	Che Adams	Southampton	Forward	Centre Striker	Scotland	24	175	70	58	11	21	26	0.19	0	10	1	0	0	81	33	41	2	20	6	748	12.9	13	16	1	0	40	28	26	24	6	20	9
17	Gabriel Jesus	Manchester City	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Second Striker	Brazil	23	175	73	123	48	95	14	0.39	9	24	15	2	0	262	131	50	8	63	20	2287	18.59	18	16	13	0	98	70	66	52	36	19	13
18	Sadio Mané	Liverpool	Forward	Left/Right Winger	Senegal	28	175	69	220	91	131	42	0.41	11	55	25	0	0	510	215	42	15	77	33	6820	31	50	322	24	3	252	137	260	105	107	60	33
19	Tammy Abraham	Chelsea	Forward	Centre Striker	England	23	190	80	87	26	34	33	0.3	3	20	1	0	0	163	68	42	3	29	5	919	10.56	7	32	2	0	55	39	23	31	12	53	43

pps.dtypes

Name                     object
Club                     object
Position                 object
Role                     object
Nationality              object
Age                      object
Height                    int32
Weight                    int32
Appearances              object
Goals                     int32
Wins                     object
Losses                   object
Goals per match          object
Headed goals             object
Goals with right foot    object
Goals with left foot     object
Penalties scored         object
Freekicks scored         object
Shots                    object
Shots on target          object
Shooting accuracy %       int32
Hit woodwork             object
Big chances missed       object
Assists                  object
Passes                    int32
Passes per match         object
Big Chances Created      object
Crosses                  object
Yellow cards             object
Red cards                object
Fouls                    object
Offsides                 object
Tackles                  object
Blocked shots            object
Interceptions            object
Clearances               object
Headed Clearance         object
dtype: object

Fix data types

# Int Columns
pps[['Age', 'Height', 'Weight', 'Appearances', 'Goals', 'Wins', 'Losses', 'Headed goals', 
       'Goals with right foot', 'Goals with left foot', 'Penalties scored', 
       'Freekicks scored', 'Shots', 'Shots on target', 'Shooting accuracy %', 
       'Hit woodwork', 'Big chances missed', 'Assists', 'Passes', 'Big Chances Created', 
       'Crosses', 'Yellow cards', 'Red cards', 'Fouls', 'Offsides', 'Tackles',
       'Blocked shots', 'Interceptions', 'Clearances', 'Headed Clearance']] = pps[['Age', 'Height', 'Weight', 'Appearances', 'Goals', 'Wins', 'Losses', 'Headed goals', 
       'Goals with right foot', 'Goals with left foot', 'Penalties scored', 
       'Freekicks scored', 'Shots', 'Shots on target', 'Shooting accuracy %', 
       'Hit woodwork', 'Big chances missed', 'Assists', 'Passes', 'Big Chances Created', 
       'Crosses', 'Yellow cards', 'Red cards', 'Fouls', 'Offsides', 'Tackles',
       'Blocked shots', 'Interceptions', 'Clearances', 'Headed Clearance']].astype(int)

# Float Columns
pps[['Goals per match', 'Passes per match']] = pps[['Goals per match', 'Passes per match']].astype(float).round(2)

Dates

# If we needed to fix the dates to datetime objects then we could use this code: date_time_str = *data_here* date_time_obj = datetime.strptime(date_time_str, ‘%d %B %Y’) print(‘Date:’, date_time_obj.date())

# All-time top strikers in the pl sorted by goals scored by current players in the premier league
top_scorer = pps[pps['Role'].str.contains("Striker")].sort_values(by=['Goals'], ascending=False).copy()

# Add rank
top_scorer["Rank"] = np.arange(len(top_scorer))+1
col = top_scorer.pop('Rank')
top_scorer.insert(0, col.name, col)

# Hide index
top_scorer_ndx = top_scorer.style.hide_index()

# Name index
top_scorer_n = top_scorer.set_index('Name')

# Show df
top_scorer #_ndx

	Rank	Name	Club	Position	Role	Nationality	Age	Height	Weight	Appearances	Goals	Wins	Losses	Goals per match	Headed goals	Goals with right foot	Goals with left foot	Penalties scored	Freekicks scored	Shots	Shots on target	Shooting accuracy %	Hit woodwork	Big chances missed	Assists	Passes	Passes per match	Big Chances Created	Crosses	Yellow cards	Red cards	Fouls	Offsides	Tackles	Blocked shots	Interceptions	Clearances	Headed Clearance
0	1	Harry Kane	Tottenham Hotspur	Forward	Centre Striker	England	27	188	86	237	160	133	54	0.68	26	99	34	24	1	881	390	44	26	94	33	5063	21.36	48	202	27	0	231	166	156	211	68	175	137
5	2	Jamie Vardy	Leicester City	Forward	Centre Striker	England	34	179	74	236	115	100	82	0.49	13	74	28	24	0	517	251	49	19	93	36	3234	13.70	58	269	21	3	195	217	138	92	63	113	75
9	3	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Arsenal	Forward	Centre Striker	Gabon	31	187	80	109	63	50	35	0.58	4	50	9	9	1	267	122	46	10	45	13	2346	21.52	18	182	5	1	41	66	67	64	30	50	16
11	4	Marcus Rashford	Manchester United	Forward	Left/Centre Second Striker	England	23	180	70	171	53	92	31	0.31	4	42	7	6	1	363	161	44	10	49	28	3919	22.92	30	285	16	1	110	76	86	89	43	78	40
8	5	Callum Wilson	Newcastle United	Forward	Centre Striker	England	29	180	66	147	51	45	69	0.35	8	32	9	9	0	262	106	40	7	49	17	1970	13.40	24	88	15	0	206	109	50	54	24	59	39
14	6	Danny Ings	Southampton	Forward	Centre Striker	England	28	178	73	133	51	40	55	0.38	7	29	14	7	0	304	124	41	11	30	12	2290	17.22	17	110	12	0	103	57	127	74	40	62	37
6	7	Alexandre Lacazette	Arsenal	Forward	Centre Striker	France	29	175	73	122	48	54	39	0.39	5	36	7	5	1	240	118	49	5	40	18	2423	19.86	16	63	14	0	156	67	102	47	40	57	42
17	8	Gabriel Jesus	Manchester City	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Second Striker	Brazil	23	175	73	123	48	95	14	0.39	9	24	15	2	0	262	131	50	8	63	20	2287	18.59	18	16	13	0	98	70	66	52	36	19	13
3	9	Dominic Calvert-Lewin	Everton	Forward	Left/Centre Second Striker	England	24	187	71	139	38	54	54	0.27	16	17	5	0	0	250	106	42	5	43	9	2064	14.85	9	53	20	0	168	49	54	44	35	110	89
19	10	Tammy Abraham	Chelsea	Forward	Centre Striker	England	23	190	80	87	26	34	33	0.30	3	20	1	0	0	163	68	42	3	29	5	919	10.56	7	32	2	0	55	39	23	31	12	53	43
15	11	Neal Maupay	Brighton and Hove Albion	Forward	Centre Striker	France	24	173	69	64	18	16	25	0.28	3	9	6	4	0	156	62	40	1	18	5	1184	18.50	8	21	4	0	61	27	33	49	12	13	5
2	12	Patrick Bamford	Leeds United	Forward	Centre Striker	England	27	185	71	56	15	15	33	0.27	3	2	10	1	0	108	45	42	4	19	6	571	10.20	5	11	3	0	48	21	28	21	15	33	23
16	13	Che Adams	Southampton	Forward	Centre Striker	Scotland	24	175	70	58	11	21	26	0.19	0	10	1	0	0	81	33	41	2	20	6	748	12.90	13	16	1	0	40	28	26	24	6	20	9
7	14	Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Second Striker	England	25	180	70	28	10	12	11	0.36	3	5	2	1	0	77	33	43	7	11	3	613	21.89	6	18	1	0	33	24	24	19	7	14	11

# All-time top wingers in the pl sorted by goals scored (excluding players no longer in the league)
top_wscorer = pps[pps['Role'].str.contains("Left")].sort_values(by=['Goals'], ascending=False).copy()

# Add rank
top_wscorer["Rank"] = np.arange(len(top_wscorer))+1
col = top_wscorer.pop('Rank')
top_wscorer.insert(0, col.name, col)

# Add age
col = top_wscorer.pop('Age')
top_wscorer.insert(5, col.name, col)

# Move role column
col = top_wscorer.pop('Role')
top_wscorer.insert(4, col.name, col)

# Hide index
top_wscorer = top_wscorer.style.hide_index()

# Show df
top_wscorer

Rank	Name	Club	Position	Role	Age	Nationality	Height	Weight	Appearances	Goals	Wins	Losses	Goals per match	Headed goals	Goals with right foot	Goals with left foot	Penalties scored	Freekicks scored	Shots	Shots on target	Shooting accuracy %	Hit woodwork	Big chances missed	Assists	Passes	Passes per match	Big Chances Created	Crosses	Yellow cards	Red cards	Fouls	Offsides	Tackles	Blocked shots	Interceptions	Clearances	Headed Clearance
1	Mohamed Salah	Liverpool	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Winger	28	Egypt	175	71	149	92	100	21	0.620000	5	11	76	13	0	523	235	45	12	69	32	4238	28.440000	49	220	4	0	77	78	73	129	25	18	9
2	Sadio Mané	Liverpool	Forward	Left/Right Winger	28	Senegal	175	69	220	91	131	42	0.410000	11	55	25	0	0	510	215	42	15	77	33	6820	31.000000	50	322	24	3	252	137	260	105	107	60	33
3	Son Heung-Min	Tottenham Hotspur	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Winger	28	South Korea	183	78	188	66	107	44	0.350000	4	37	25	0	0	399	173	43	16	37	38	4434	23.590000	44	334	4	2	74	107	131	105	68	45	20
4	Riyad Mahrez	Manchester City	Forward	Left/Right Winger	30	Algeria	179	67	222	66	115	61	0.300000	4	10	51	8	3	474	203	43	12	31	44	6871	30.950000	87	811	7	0	128	51	230	138	146	54	22
5	Marcus Rashford	Manchester United	Forward	Left/Centre Second Striker	23	England	180	70	171	53	92	31	0.310000	4	42	7	6	1	363	161	44	10	49	28	3919	22.920000	30	285	16	1	110	76	86	89	43	78	40
6	Gabriel Jesus	Manchester City	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Second Striker	23	Brazil	175	73	123	48	95	14	0.390000	9	24	15	2	0	262	131	50	8	63	20	2287	18.590000	18	16	13	0	98	70	66	52	36	19	13
7	Wilfried Zaha	Crystal Palace	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Winger	28	Ivory Coast	180	66	236	45	77	101	0.190000	1	36	8	2	0	375	131	35	9	36	26	5026	21.300000	39	561	37	1	305	89	307	119	128	33	8
8	Dominic Calvert-Lewin	Everton	Forward	Left/Centre Second Striker	24	England	187	71	139	38	54	54	0.270000	16	17	5	0	0	250	106	42	5	43	9	2064	14.850000	9	53	20	0	168	49	54	44	35	110	89
9	Ollie Watkins	Aston Villa	Forward	Left/Centre/Right Second Striker	25	England	180	70	28	10	12	11	0.360000	3	5	2	1	0	77	33	43	7	11	3	613	21.890000	6	18	1	0	33	24	24	19	7	14	11

print("Average Age:", top_scorer['Age'].mean())
print("Average Height:", round(top_scorer['Height'].mean() ,2), "cm")
print("Average Weight:", round(top_scorer['Weight'].mean() ,2), "kg")
print("Average Goals:", round(top_scorer['Goals'].mean() ,2))
print("Foot distribution:", round(top_scorer['Goals with right foot'].mean() ,2))

Average Age: 26.5
Average Height: 180.86 cm
Average Weight: 73.29 kg
Average Goals: 50.5
Foot distribution: 32.07

Headed goals %

round(top_scorer_n['Headed goals'] / top_scorer_n['Goals'] * 100, 2).sort_values(ascending=False)

Name
Dominic Calvert-Lewin        42.11
Ollie Watkins                30.00
Patrick Bamford              20.00
Gabriel Jesus                18.75
Neal Maupay                  16.67
Harry Kane                   16.25
Callum Wilson                15.69
Danny Ings                   13.73
Tammy Abraham                11.54
Jamie Vardy                  11.30
Alexandre Lacazette          10.42
Marcus Rashford               7.55
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang     6.35
Che Adams                     0.00
dtype: float64

Goals with right foot %

round(top_scorer_n['Goals with right foot'] / top_scorer_n['Goals'] * 100, 2).sort_values(ascending=False)

Name
Che Adams                    90.91
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang    79.37
Marcus Rashford              79.25
Tammy Abraham                76.92
Alexandre Lacazette          75.00
Jamie Vardy                  64.35
Callum Wilson                62.75
Harry Kane                   61.88
Danny Ings                   56.86
Gabriel Jesus                50.00
Neal Maupay                  50.00
Ollie Watkins                50.00
Dominic Calvert-Lewin        44.74
Patrick Bamford              13.33
dtype: float64

Goals with left foot %

round(top_scorer_n['Goals with left foot'] / top_scorer_n['Goals'] * 100, 2).sort_values(ascending=False)

Name
Patrick Bamford              66.67
Neal Maupay                  33.33
Gabriel Jesus                31.25
Danny Ings                   27.45
Jamie Vardy                  24.35
Harry Kane                   21.25
Ollie Watkins                20.00
Callum Wilson                17.65
Alexandre Lacazette          14.58
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang    14.29
Marcus Rashford              13.21
Dominic Calvert-Lewin        13.16
Che Adams                     9.09
Tammy Abraham                 3.85
dtype: float64

Goal Efficiency %

round(top_scorer_n['Goals'] / top_scorer_n['Shots'] * 100, 2).sort_values(ascending=False)

Name
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang    23.60
Jamie Vardy                  22.24
Alexandre Lacazette          20.00
Callum Wilson                19.47
Gabriel Jesus                18.32
Harry Kane                   18.16
Danny Ings                   16.78
Tammy Abraham                15.95
Dominic Calvert-Lewin        15.20
Marcus Rashford              14.60
Patrick Bamford              13.89
Che Adams                    13.58
Ollie Watkins                12.99
Neal Maupay                  11.54
dtype: float64

top_scorer_dist = top_scorer
top_scorer_dist['Headed goals %'] = round(top_scorer['Headed goals'] / top_scorer['Goals'] * 100, 2).sort_values(ascending=False)
top_scorer_dist['Goals with right foot %'] = round(top_scorer['Goals with right foot'] / top_scorer['Goals'] * 100, 2).sort_values(ascending=False)
top_scorer_dist['Goals with left foot %'] = round(top_scorer['Goals with left foot'] / top_scorer['Goals'] * 100, 2).sort_values(ascending=False)
top_scorer_dist['Goal efficiency %'] = round(top_scorer['Goals'] / top_scorer['Shots'] * 100, 2).sort_values(ascending=False)

top_scorer_dist[['Headed goals %', 'Goals with right foot %', 'Goals with left foot %',]].median()

Headed goals %             14.710
Goals with right foot %    62.315
Goals with left foot %     18.825
dtype: float64

def highlight_max(s):
    '''
    highlight the maximum in a Series yellow.
    '''
    is_max = s == s.max()
    return ['background-color: yellow' if v else '' for v in is_max]

top_scorer_dist[['Name', 'Rank', 'Headed goals %', 'Goals with right foot %', 'Goals with left foot %', 'Goal efficiency %']].style.apply(highlight_max)

	Name	Rank	Headed goals %	Goals with right foot %	Goals with left foot %	Goal efficiency %
0	Harry Kane	1	16.250000	61.880000	21.250000	18.160000
5	Jamie Vardy	2	11.300000	64.350000	24.350000	22.240000
9	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	3	6.350000	79.370000	14.290000	23.600000
11	Marcus Rashford	4	7.550000	79.250000	13.210000	14.600000
8	Callum Wilson	5	15.690000	62.750000	17.650000	19.470000
14	Danny Ings	6	13.730000	56.860000	27.450000	16.780000
6	Alexandre Lacazette	7	10.420000	75.000000	14.580000	20.000000
17	Gabriel Jesus	8	18.750000	50.000000	31.250000	18.320000
3	Dominic Calvert-Lewin	9	42.110000	44.740000	13.160000	15.200000
19	Tammy Abraham	10	11.540000	76.920000	3.850000	15.950000
15	Neal Maupay	11	16.670000	50.000000	33.330000	11.540000
2	Patrick Bamford	12	20.000000	13.330000	66.670000	13.890000
16	Che Adams	13	0.000000	90.910000	9.090000	13.580000
7	Ollie Watkins	14	30.000000	50.000000	20.000000	12.990000

top_scorer_dist[['Name', 'Rank', 'Headed goals %', 'Goals with right foot %', 'Goals with left foot %', 'Goal efficiency %']].corr()

	Rank	Headed goals %	Goals with right foot %	Goals with left foot %	Goal efficiency %
Rank	1.000000	0.278093	-0.307265	0.200387	-0.758831
Headed goals %	0.278093	1.000000	-0.673554	0.198372	-0.292960
Goals with right foot %	-0.307265	-0.673554	1.000000	-0.850395	0.321372
Goals with left foot %	0.200387	0.198372	-0.850395	1.000000	-0.216355
Goal efficiency %	-0.758831	-0.292960	0.321372	-0.216355	1.000000

top_scorer_dist[['Name', 'Headed goals %', 'Goals with right foot %', 'Goals with left foot %']].set_index('Name').iloc[::-1].plot(kind='barh', figsize=(10,15))
plt.xlabel('Goal Distribution %', fontsize=13, fontweight='bold')
plt.ylabel('Name', fontsize=13, fontweight='bold')
plt.title('Goal Distribution', fontsize=17, fontweight='bold')
plt.show()

# Top scorer goal distrubution compared / free kicks and penalties not included
top_scorer_dist[['Name', 'Headed goals %', 'Goals with right foot %', 'Goals with left foot %']].set_index('Name').iloc[::-1]

	Headed goals %	Goals with right foot %	Goals with left foot %
Name
Ollie Watkins	30.00	50.00	20.00
Che Adams	0.00	90.91	9.09
Patrick Bamford	20.00	13.33	66.67
Neal Maupay	16.67	50.00	33.33
Tammy Abraham	11.54	76.92	3.85
Dominic Calvert-Lewin	42.11	44.74	13.16
Gabriel Jesus	18.75	50.00	31.25
Alexandre Lacazette	10.42	75.00	14.58
Danny Ings	13.73	56.86	27.45
Callum Wilson	15.69	62.75	17.65
Marcus Rashford	7.55	79.25	13.21
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	6.35	79.37	14.29
Jamie Vardy	11.30	64.35	24.35
Harry Kane	16.25	61.88	21.25

Conclusion 🙌

And that’s it! We have just successfully programmatically scraped data from the Premier League website using three different methods. Using HTML table using pd.read_HTML(), then using Beautiful Soup, and finally a REST API. Hopefully the emoji’s added some style to our substance 🔥🔥🔥. Congratulations!

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Scraping the Premier League Website

We are going to be extracting Premier League data such as:

Table of Contents 📋

Importing Libraries 📚

Planning 📅

Method 1: HTML Table Scraping 👌

Method 2: Beautiful Soup Scraping 🥣

Method 3: Using an API and JSONs 🔥

Using Datetime to keep track of time data was scraped

Method 1: HTML Table Scraping 👌

All-time goal scorers Table

All-time assists Table

2020-21 League Table

Method 2: Beautiful Soup Scraping 🥣

Potential Issues

Method 3: Method 3: Using an API and JSONs 🔥

Plan of action:

JSON data

Building our dataframe

Height and Weight has cm and kg

Fix data types

Dates

Headed goals %

Goals with right foot %

Goals with left foot %

Goal Efficiency %

Conclusion 🙌

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