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language: en
license: cc-by-4.0
pretty_name: ProScout Players (Synthetic Football Scouting Dataset)
size_categories: 1K<n<10K
task_categories:
- information-retrieval
- recommendation
- text-classification
- tabular
tags:
- football
- soccer
- scouting
- synthetic-data
- education
---
# ProScout Players — Synthetic Football Scouting Dataset (1,112 rows)
A **clean, fully synthetic** dataset of realistic football player profiles built for **text → top‑3 player recommendations** (ProScout). It’s classroom‑safe (no PII, no scraping), diverse across positions/nations, and structured for retrieval demos.
> **Core use case:** a scout types a brief (e.g., “22–25 left‑footed inverted winger with pace+dribbling in European competition”), the system ranks candidates, and returns the **top 3** with bios and attributes.
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## 1) Dataset Summary
- **Rows:** 1,112 players
- **Source:** programmatically generated (no real players)
- **Format:** CSV (tabular)
- **Primary consumer:** ProScout (text query → recommendation)
### Columns
- `name` — realistic football-style first + last name
- `Nation` — country string (e.g., Spain, Brazil)
- `position` — one of: `GK, RB, LB, CB, CDM, CM, CAM, RW, LW, ST`
- `dominant_foot` — `Right | Left | Two-footed`
- `age` — integer 17–39
- `Goals and Assists` — string, e.g. `"12G 7A"`
- `height_cm` — integer 165–200
- `weight_kg` — integer 60–95
- `play_style` — e.g., *Pressing forward, Box‑to‑box, Inverted winger, Regista, Ball‑playing defender, Sweeper keeper…*
- `key_strengths` — **3 strengths** (comma‑separated) chosen from: pace, dribbling, finishing, vision, passing, strength, stamina, tackling, positioning, heading, first touch, off the ball, composure, work rate, aggression, long shots, crossing, set pieces, 1v1 defending, interceptions
- `league_context` — `Domestic league | European competition | International`
- `bio` — 2 short sentences auto‑generated from the row fields
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## 2) Intended Uses
- **IR / Retrieval:** rank players against a natural‑language brief
- **Recommendation:** shortlist top‑3 candidates for a role
- **Pedagogy:** demos of vector search, re‑ranking, rule‑based filters
- **Prototyping:** LLM prompts and RAG over structured attributes
Not intended for real‑world transfer decisions or media reporting about real players.
---
## 3) Example Usage
### Load with pandas
```python
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_csv("proscout_players_1112.csv")
df.head()
```
### Simple rules + ranking sketch
```python
query = {
"position": "LW",
"foot": "Left",
"must_strengths": {"Pace","Dribbling","Crossing"},
"age_min": 22, "age_max": 25,
"league": "European competition"
}
def score(row):
s = 0
s += 10 if row["position"] == query["position"] else 0
s += 6 if query["foot"].lower() in row["dominant_foot"].lower() else 0
strengths = {x.strip().lower() for x in row["key_strengths"].split(",")}
s += 3 * len({k.lower() for k in query["must_strengths"]} & strengths)
s += 4 if query["league"].lower() in row["league_context"].lower() else 0
s += 2 if query["age_min"] <= row["age"] <= query["age_max"] else 0
return s
df["score"] = df.apply(score, axis=1)
top3 = df.sort_values("score", ascending=False).head(3)
print(top3[["name","Nation","position","dominant_foot","age","key_strengths","league_context","bio","score"]])
```
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## 4) Generation Process (Synthetic)
- Names sampled from common football‑style first/last names.
- Positions, feet, play styles, contexts sampled from curated vocabularies.
- Ages, heights, weights sampled within realistic pro ranges.
- Goals/assists and key strengths randomized but **constrained** to plausible values.
- Bios programmatically assembled from each row’s attributes.
No external scraping. No real player matching.
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## 5) Quality, Limitations & Ethics
- **Quality:** realistic enough for demos; not statistically calibrated to any specific league.
- **Bias:** distributions are synthetic; do **not** infer real‑world prevalence from them.
- **Limitations:** no time dimension, team assignment, injury history, wages, or contracts.
- **Ethics:** purely synthetic; safe for teaching and prototyping. Avoid portraying rows as real people.
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## 6) Licensing & Citation
- **License:** CC‑BY‑4.0 (data and docs).
- **How to cite:**
> ProScout Players (2025). Synthetic football scouting dataset (1,112 rows). CC‑BY‑4.0.
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## 7) Maintainers
- Course project: *ProScout* — European scouting recommender (text → top‑3).
- Contact: add your names / emails or course channel here.
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