Data Description

This data contains the location and circumstances of every field goal attempted by Kobe Bryant took during his 20-year career. Your task is to predict whether the basket went in (shot_made_flag).

We have removed 5000 of the shot_made_flags (represented as missing values in the csv file). These are the test set shots for which you must submit a prediction. You are provided a sample submission file with the correct shot_ids needed for a valid prediction.

To avoid leakage, your method should only train on events that occurred prior to the shot for which you are predicting! Since this is a playground competition with public answers, it's up to you to abide by this rule.

The field names are self explanatory and contain the following attributes:

• action_type

• combined_shot_type

• game_event_id

• game_id

• lat

• loc_x

• loc_y

• lon

• minutes_remaining

• period

• playoffs

• season 

• seconds_remaining

• shot_distance

• shot_made_flag (this is what you are predicting)

• shot_type

• shot_zone_area

• shot_zone_basic

• shot_zone_range

• team_id

• team_name

• game_date

• matchup

• opponent

• shot_id