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EPL TRANSFERS ⚽

Data on English Premier League transfers and season-end position from the 1992-93 season through 2018-19. Season-end tables scraped from wikipedia. Transfer data from @ewenme’s awesome repo (<- that data is from Transfermarkt).

A brief visual analysis can be found in the Overall Analysis file.

An in depth analysis of the modern transfer market can be found in the Analysis file.

See epl_table_scraper.r for the results-table scraper code.

Data

Season-end tables can be found in the data/epl-results/ folder. Filenames follow the format year_EPL_results.csv; ex: 1992-93_EPLResults.csv.

• year: season (1992-93)
• Pos: standing end-of-year (1, 2, etc)
• Team: team name
• Pld: num games played
• W: num games won
• D: num games drawn
• L: num games lost
• GF: goals for (scored)
• GA: goals against
• GD: goal differential
• Pts: num pts from W/L/D
• Qualification or relegation: qualification for European cups, relegated

Transfer data can be found in the data/transfer-data folder.

• club_name: the club who made the transfer
• player_name: the player being transferred
• age: player age
• position: player position
• club_involved: the club the player is going to/from
• fee: fee in pounds (£). Could be k, m, or loan info
• transfer_movement: in or out
• fee_cleaned: the fee cleaned up a bit (Ex: fee= £61.02m, fee_cleaned = 61.02)
• league_name: league name (always Premier League here)
• year: year the deal was made
• season: season name (Ex: 2018/2019)