Video games have taken the world by storm.
PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) is a battle royale survival game with the goal of being the last player standing. Up to 100 players are dropped onto an island empty-handed with a variety of game modes that can allow squads of up to 4 people. In the game, a player can find and use a variety of weapons, items, and vehicles. Players must also avoid the shrinking “circle”, which pushes players closer together on the map.
Battle Royale-style video games have taken the world by storm. 100 players are dropped onto an island empty-handed and must explore, scavenge, and eliminate other players until only one is left standing, all while the play zone continues to shrink. Data Science Essentials | November 2020 PlayerUnknown's BattleGrounds (PUBG) has enjoyed massive popularity. With over 50 million copies sold, it's the fifth best selling game of all time, and has millions of active monthly players. The team at PUBG has made official game data available for the public to explore and scavenge outside of "The Blue Circle." This competition is not an official or affiliated PUBG site - Kaggle collected data made possible through the PUBG Developer API.
We are given over 65,000 games worth of anonymized player data, split into training and testing sets, and asked to predict final placement from final in-game stats and initial player ratings.
groupId - Integer ID to identify a group within a match. If the same group of players plays in differentmatches, they will have a different groupId each time.
matchId - Integer ID to identify match. There are no matches that are in both the training and testing set.
assists - Number of enemy players this player damaged that were killed by teammates.
boosts - Number of boost items used.
damageDealt - Total damage dealt. Note: Self inflicted damage is subtracted.
DBNOs - Number of enemy players knocked.
headshotKills - Number of enemy players killed with headshots.
heals - Number of healing items used.
killPlace - Ranking in match of number of enemy players killed.
killPoints - Kills-based external ranking of player. (Think of this as an Elo ranking where only kills matter.)
kills - Number of enemy players killed.
killStreaks - Max number of enemy players killed in a short amount of time.
longestKill - Longest distance between player and player killed at time of death. This may be misleading, as downing a - player and driving away may lead to a large longestKill stat.
maxPlace - Worst placement we have data for in the match. This may not match with numGroups, as
sometimes the data skips over placements.
numGroups - Number of groups we have data for in the match.
revives - Number of times this player revived teammates.
rideDistance - Total distance traveled in vehicles measured in meters.
roadKills - Number of kills while in a vehicle.
swimDistance - Total distance traveled by swimming measured in meters.
teamKills - Number of times this player killed a teammate.
vehicleDestroys - Number of vehicles destroyed.
walkDistance - Total distance traveled on foot measured in meters.
weaponsAcquired - Number of weapons picked up.
winPoints - Win-based external ranking of player. (Think of this as an Elo ranking where only winning matters.)
winPlacePerc - The target of prediction. This is a percentile winning placement, where 1 corresponds to 1st place, and 0 corresponds to last place in the match. It is calculated off of maxPlace, not numGroups.