Sports Datasets for Data Modeling, Data-Vis, Predictions, Machine-Learning

🏈 Football Data Sets

NFLsavant.com: NFL Stats data compiled from publicly available NFL play-by-play data.
Detailed NFL Play-by-Play Data 2009-2018: Regular season plays from 2009-2016 containing information on: players, game situation, results, win probabilities and miscellaneous advanced metrics.
NFL Draft Outcomes: All players selected in the NFL Draft from 1985-2015 including outcome stats.

CFB Stats – detailed downloadable CFB stats in CSV file-format. Data includes: Kicking Statistics, Kickoff-return Statistics, Kickoff Statistics, Passing Statistics, Punt-return Statistics, rushing, scoring and punting data. Conferences: Sun Belt, SEC, PAC-12, Mountain-West, MAC, Independents, CUSA, Big-Ten, American Conference, Big 12, ACC, And FBS.

ATP World Tour tennis data ATP tournaments, match scores, match stats, rankings and players overview data extracted from the ATP World Tour website. Dataset is updated annually in October.

FIFA 2022 complete player dataset: Including FIFA 2015-2022 – CSV downloadable dataset with 19k+ players and 100+ attributes.
FIFA 19 complete player dataset: Attributes for each player featured in the 2019 edition of the Electronic Arts game FIFA19.
Fifa 18 Player Dataset: Attributes for players featured in the 2018 edition of the Electronic Arts game Fifa18.

Historical soccer results datasets – Historical soccer data sets reference, featuring game half-time and full-time scores, player stats from European and International soccer leagues. back to 1994. Downloadable in CSV format. Updated weekly.
football.db: Open source, free and public domain soccer database & schema for use in any (programming) language.
International football results from 1872 to 2018: 40,000 results of soccer matches from the very first official match in 1872 up until 2018.
German Bundesliga Data – Data for last 10 seasons of German Bundesliga including current season. The data is updated weekly and contains various statistical data such as final and half time result, corners.

World Cup Dataset: This data set shows all information about historical World Cups as well as all match data.

Michael Jordan Career Regular Season Statistics by Game(csv)
Shaquille O’Neal Career Regular Season Statistics by Game(csv)
WNBA 2014 player stats by game(csv)
NBA shot logs: Data on shots taken during the 2014-2015 season, which player took the shot, where on the floor was the shot taken from, who was the nearest defender, how far away was the nearest defender, time on the shot clock, and much more.
NBA Player of the Week Data: Player of the week data from 1984-5 to 2018-9 seasons, scraped from the Basketball real gm site.
NCAA Basketball: This dataset contains data about NCAA Basketball teams, teams, and games. It covers play-by-play and box scores from 2009 and final scores from 1996.

Ergast Formula One Dataset: An experimental web service which provides a historical record of motor racing data for non-commercial purposes.
Formula 1 Race Data: Results dataset covering formula seasons from 1950 to the 2017 F1 season. Data includes constructors, drivers, lap times, pit stops.
MotoGP Dataset – The Motogp.com statistics database

Historical MLB Scores & Odds Dataset 2010-2020. Historical odds & scores data from MLB seasons 2010-2020 inclusive – including run-lines, opening and closing moneylines and totals (over/under).
Lahman’s Baseball Database: A complete history of major league baseball stats from 1871 to 2018, including batting and pitching stats, standings, team stats, managerial records, post-season data, and more.

National Hockey League Player Offensive statistics Data Set (Csv) – yearly offensive statistics of every NHL player from the 1940 season to the 2018 season.

Cricheet.org structured ball-by-ball data for international and IPL cricket matches, 2015 to 2019 inclusive.
FiveThirtyEight – Data driven sports journalism and analysis with datasets regularly published to Github.
SPORTS-1M: 1M sports videos of average length-5.5mins labelled for 487 sports classes.
120 years of Olympic history: A historical data set on the Olympic Games, including all the Games from Athens 1896 to Rio 2016
Daily and Sports Activities Data Set: Motion sensor data of nineteen sports activities performed by 8 subjects in their own style for 5 minutes.
NHL Game Data: Game, team, player and play data including x,y coordinates measured for each game in the NHL in the past 6 years.