In the realm of sports data science, the FIFA World Cup stands as one of the most complex events to quantify. With nearly a century of history, varying tournament formats, and geopolitical shifts, creating a structured dataset is a formidable challenge.
Logs of goals, penalty kicks, bookings, and substitutions. fjelstul world cup database csv
In data science, "tidy" data follows a specific structure: In the realm of sports data science, the
Matches, squads, goals, penalty kicks, bookings (yellow/red cards), and substitutions. varying tournament formats
matches = pd.read_csv("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jfjelstul/worldcup/master/data-csv/matches.csv")