American Ninja Warrior is a televised competition in which contestents try to complete a serious of obstacles as quickly as possible, without falling. My kids loved watching the show. Who knew it's been nominated for 3 Emmys?
The Fantasy American Ninja Warrior website from Travis McClure provides info about contestant results. Data for seasons 1 through 11 is on the website in HTML, but not super easy to use.
In the first notebook I scraped American Ninja Warrior (ANW) contestant data from 11 pages and combined the data into a usable format. In the second notebook, I created visualizations perform exploratory analysis to answer the following questions:
- How does the distribution of the number of appearances for each competitor look?
- How many people appeared at least seven times in the eleven years?
- Who has the most cumulative fantasy points?
- Who had the most fantasy points in a single season?
- How has the average number of fantasy points per contestant per season changed over time?
- How has the average number of participants per season changed over time?
- What's the relationship between the number of appearances and the number of fantasy points?
The notebooks in this repository can be used interactively at Binder or viewed on and downloaded from GitHub.