Concussions in the National Football League (2012–2014) — nfl_concussions_tbl

This dataset, nfl_concussions_tbl_df, is a tibble containing detailed information on concussion injuries that occurred in the National Football League (NFL) from 2012 to 2014. The dataset includes hundreds of recorded concussion cases, capturing information such as player identity, team, game, date of injury, position, whether the injury occurred during pre-season, and multiple injury-related details including weeks injured, games missed, and reported injury type.

Usage

data(nfl_concussions_tbl_df)

Format

A tibble with 392 observations and 18 variables:

ID: Unique identifier for each concussion record (character)
Player: Name of the player who sustained the concussion (character)
Team: Team of the injured player (character)
Game: Game in which the injury occurred (character)
Date: Date of the concussion incident (character)
Opposing Team: Opponent team during the game (character)
Position: Player's position (character)
Pre-Season Injury?: Indicates if the injury occurred during pre-season (character)
Winning Team?: Indicates if the player’s team won the game (character)
Week of Injury: Week number of the season when the injury occurred (numeric)
Season: NFL season year associated with the injury (character)
Weeks Injured: Number of weeks the player was injured (numeric)
Games Missed: Number of games missed due to the concussion (numeric)
Unknown Injury?: Indicates if the injury type was unknown (character)
Reported Injury Type: Reported type of concussion injury (character)
Total Snaps: Total snaps played before injury (numeric)
Play Time After Injury: Playtime after injury occurred (character)
Average Playtime Before Injury: Average playtime before injury (character)

Source

Data taken from Kaggle: https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/rishidamarla/concussions-in-the-nfl-20122014

Details

The dataset name has been kept as nfl_concussions_tbl_df to avoid confusion with other datasets in the R ecosystem. This naming convention helps distinguish this dataset as part of the NeuroDataSets package and assists users in identifying its specific characteristics. The suffix tbl_df indicates that the dataset is a tibble (a modern data frame). The original content has not been modified in any way. Variable names and values are provided exactly as they appear in the source.