Working on multiple data frames with data for NBA players during the season, how can I modify all the dataframes at the same time? - pandas

Question

I have a list of 16 dataframes that contain stats for each player in the NBA during the respective season. My end goal is to run unsupervised learning algorithms on the data frames. For example, I want to see if I can determine a player's position by their stats or if I can determine their total points during the season based on their stats.
What I would like to do is modify the list(df_list), unless there's a better solution, of these dataframes instead modifying each dataframe to:
Change the datatype of the MP(minutes played column from str to int.
Modify the dataframe where there are only players with 1000 or more MP and there are no duplicate players(Rk)
(for instance in a season, a player(Rk) can play for three teams in a season and have 200MP, 300MP, and 400MP mins with each team. He'll have a column for each team and a column called TOT which will render his MP as 900(200+300+400) for a total of four rows in the dataframe. I only need the TOT row
Use simple algebra with various and individual columns columns, for example: being able to total the MP column and the PTS column and then diving the sum of the PTS column by the MP column.
Or dividing the total of the PTS column by the len of the PTS column.
What I've done so far is this:
Import my libraries and create 16 dataframes using pd.read_html(url).
The first dataframes created using two lines of code:
url = "https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_1997_totals.html"
ninetysix = pd.read_html(url)[0]
HOWEVER, the next four data frames had to be created using a few additional line of code(I received an error code that said "html5lib not found, please install it" so I downloaded both html5lib and requests). I say that to say...this distinction in creating the DF may have to considered in a solution.
The code I used:
import requests
import uuid
url = 'https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_1998_totals.html'
cookies = {'euConsentId': str(uuid.uuid4())}
html = requests.get(url, cookies=cookies).content
ninetyseven = pd.read_html(html)[0]
These four data frames look like this:
I tried this but it didn't do anything:
df_list = [
eightyfour, eightyfive, eightysix, eightyseven,
eightyeight, eightynine, ninety, ninetyone,
ninetytwo, ninetyfour, ninetyfive,
ninetysix, ninetyseven, ninetyeight, owe_one, owe_two
]
for df in df_list:
df = df.loc[df['Tm'] == 'TOT']
df = df.copy()
df['MP'] = df['MP'].astype(int)
df['Rk'] = df['Rk'].astype(int)
df = list(df[df['MP'] >= 1000]['Rk'])
df = df[df['Rk'].isin(df)]
owe_two
============================UPDATE===================================
This code will solves a portion of problem # 2
url = 'https://www.basketball-reference.com/leagues/NBA_1997_totals.html'
dd = pd.read_html(url)[0]
dd = dd[dd['Rk'].ne('Rk')]
dd['MP'] = dd['MP'].astype(int)
players_1000_rk_list = list(dd[dd['MP'] >= 1000]['Rk'])
players_dd = dd[dd['Rk'].isin(players_1000_rk_list)]
But it doesn't remove the duplicates.
==================== UPDATE 10/11/22 ================================
Let's say I take rows with values "TOT" in the "Tm" and create a new DF with them, and these rows from the original data frame...
could I then compare the new DF with the original data frame and remove the names from the original data IF they match the names from the new data frame?

Answer 1

the problem is that the df you are working on in the loop is not the same df that is in the df_list. you could solve this by saving the new df back to the list, overwriting the old df
for i,df in enumerate(df_list):
df = df.loc[df['Tm'] == 'TOT']
df = df.copy()
df['MP'] = df['MP'].astype(int)
df['Rk'] = df['Rk'].astype(int)
df = list(df[df['MP'] >= 1000]['Rk'])
df = df[df['Rk'].isin(df)]
df_list[i] = df
the2 lines are probably wrong as well
df = list(df[df['MP'] >= 1000]['Rk'])
df = df[df['Rk'].isin(df)]
perhaps you want this
for i,df in enumerate(df_list):
df = df.loc[df['Tm'] == 'TOT']
df = df.copy()
df['MP'] = df['MP'].astype(int)
df['Rk'] = df['Rk'].astype(int)
#df = list(df[df['MP'] >= 1000]['Rk'])
#df = df[df['Rk'].isin(df)]
# just the rows where MP > 1000
df_list[i] = df[df['MP'] >= 1000]