WNBA Historical Play-by-Play Data – 2021

Each season dataset comes up with 2 types of files: 1) Individual CSV files for all games played in the regular season and the playoffs. 2) A season-to-date CSV file where all CSV game files are combined. Having this file, you can analyze the whole season stats in one sheet. In brief, our database-friendly (each play presented in a row) log includes every in-game movement such as: “Active players on the court”, “event time (remaining/elapsing)”, “play length & id”, “activity type (substitution/shot/free throw/turnover/foul committed & drawn/rebound/assist/jump ball etc.)”, “shot location” and “shot coordinates”.

To give you an idea: Inside the combined CSV file of 2018 season, there are 220 individual games and 85,732 rows; which makes ~390 rows per game. The size of the 2018 complete dataset is 57.3 MB and becomes 5.3 MB when zipped.

A standard WNBA basketball court is 50 feet wide, 94 feet long.
We provide shot locations in two ways:
1) X-Axis, Y-Axis values.
2) X-Axis and Y-Axis values are converted to X, Y coordinates in terms of feet which reflect a standard WNBA basketball court dimension.

Each game log has been named with details such as; “game date”, “game id”, “road team initials” and “home team initials” Example: [2016-05-14]-1021600003-PHO@MIN