fivethirtyeight_nfl_1920_2023

17,379 comparisons among 123 agents.

About this table

DescriptionNFL games 1920 to 2022 seasons incl. playoffs (17,379 games, 123 teams); agent_a = home, homefield blank for 102 neutral-site games; 319 ties
ReferenceFiveThirtyEight. NFL Elo game file (nfl_elo.csv) [Data set]. Internet Archive capture of 2025-03-06.
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/nfl-elo

Size and shape

Comparisons17,379
Agents123

Columns

agent_aagent_bdatehomefieldplayoffscore_ascore_bseasonwinner

Get the data

Download CSVno account neededBrowse on Redivisexplore and queryCroissant metadataHugging Face, Kaggle, OpenML

Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("fivethirtyeight_nfl_1920_2023", source = "comp")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("fivethirtyeight_nfl_1920_2023", source="comp")

How to cite

@dataset{fivethirtyeight2025nflelo,
  author = {FiveThirtyEight},
  title = {NFL Elo Game File},
  year = {2025},
  note = {nfl_elo.csv, Internet Archive capture of 2025-03-06},
  url = {https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/nfl-elo}
}

Version and provenance

IRW versionv584
Redivis datasetirw_competitions v6.2
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/1w3w-5w94
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv6.2
Metadata sourceirw_meta v44.0