66,118 comparisons among 40 agents.
| Description | NHL games 1917-18 to 2022-23 incl. playoffs (66,118 games, 40 teams); agent_a = home, homefield blank for 291 neutral-site games; shootout goal counted in score; pre-2005 ties kept as draws |
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| Reference | FiveThirtyEight. NHL Elo game file (nhl_elo.csv) [Data set]. Internet Archive capture of 2025-03-06. |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
| Source data | https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/nhl-forecasts |
| Comparisons | 66,118 |
|---|---|
| Agents | 40 |
agent_aagent_bdatehomefieldovertimeplayoffscore_ascore_bseasonwinner
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_nhl_1917_2023", source = "comp")
# Python
pip install irw
import irw
df = irw.fetch("fivethirtyeight_nhl_1917_2023", source="comp")
@dataset{fivethirtyeight_nhl_elo_2025,
author = {FiveThirtyEight},
title = {NHL Elo game file (nhl_elo.csv)},
year = {2025},
url = {https://github.com/fivethirtyeight/data/tree/master/nhl-forecasts},
note = {Internet Archive capture of 2025-03-06}
}
| IRW version | v584 |
|---|---|
| Redivis dataset | irw_competitions v6.2 |
| Redivis dataset DOI | 10.57761/1w3w-5w94 |
| Manifest pin for this IRW version | v6.2 |
| Metadata source | irw_meta v44.0 |