Hockey

The Hockey Database follows the same general design as the Lahman Baseball Database. In addition to the NHL, the Hockey DB covers the following early and alternative leagues: NHA, PCHA, WCHL and WHA. It contains individual and team statistics from 1909-10 through the 2011-12 season.

Original source: www.opensourcesports.com

Versions

  • Hockey (by Jan Motl)

    • Added foreign key constraints. Deleted duplicate field in HOF table (hofID="bucklfr01h", name="William Jennings"). Primary keys are still not set properly.

Dataset details

Associated task:
Classification
Domain:
Sport
Data types:
Size:
15.6 MB
Count of tables:
22
Count of rows:
96,403
Count of columns:
300
Missing values:
Yes
Compound keys:
Yes
Loops:
Yes
Type:
Real
Instance count:
7,579
Target table:
Master
Target column:
shootCatch
Target ID:
playerId
Target timestamp:
?

How to download the dataset

The datasets are publicly available directly from MariaDB database.

  1. Open your favourite MariaDB client (MySQL Workbench works, but see FAQ)
  2. Use following credentials:
    • hostname: db.relational-data.org
    • port: 3306
    • username: guest
    • password: relational
  3. Export "Hockey" database (or other version of the dataset, if available) in your favourite format (e.g. CSV or SQL dump).