| """Build pandas_recipes.ipynb — a 10-recipe cookbook for the Ringside dataset. |
| |
| Run: python3 build_recipes.py |
| Output: pandas_recipes.ipynb (sibling) |
| """ |
| from __future__ import annotations |
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|
| import json |
| from pathlib import Path |
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| HERE = Path(__file__).parent |
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| CELLS: list[tuple[str, str]] = [ |
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| |
| ("md", """\ |
| # Pandas Recipes — Ringside Wrestling Archive |
| |
| Ten common analyses on the dataset, each a self-contained recipe. Pick the one closest to what you want to do and adapt. |
| |
| **Setup:** point `DATA` at the directory holding the `.parquet` files (Kaggle attaches the dataset at `/kaggle/input/ringside-wrestling-archive/`). |
| """), |
|
|
| ("py", """\ |
| from pathlib import Path |
| import pandas as pd |
| import numpy as np |
| import matplotlib.pyplot as plt |
| |
| DATA = Path("/kaggle/input/ringside-wrestling-archive") |
| if not DATA.exists(): |
| DATA = Path(".") |
| |
| TABLES = ["promotions", "wrestlers", "wrestler_aliases", "events", "matches", |
| "match_participants", "titles", "title_reigns", "alignment_turns"] |
| df = {n: pd.read_parquet(DATA / f"{n}.parquet") for n in TABLES} |
| |
| print({n: len(t) for n, t in df.items()}) |
| """), |
|
|
| |
| ("md", """\ |
| ## Recipe 1 — Wrestler profile lookup (with alias resolution) |
| |
| Find a wrestler by any name they've used (ring name or alias) and return their canonical profile. |
| """), |
|
|
| ("py", """\ |
| def find_wrestler(name: str) -> pd.Series: |
| name = name.strip().lower() |
| # Try canonical ring_name first |
| hit = df["wrestlers"][df["wrestlers"]["ring_name"].str.lower() == name] |
| if len(hit): |
| return hit.iloc[0] |
| # Fall back to aliases |
| alias_match = df["wrestler_aliases"][df["wrestler_aliases"]["alias"].str.lower() == name] |
| if len(alias_match): |
| wid = alias_match.iloc[0]["wrestler_id"] |
| return df["wrestlers"][df["wrestlers"]["id"] == wid].iloc[0] |
| raise KeyError(f"No wrestler named {name!r}") |
| |
| print(find_wrestler("Stone Cold Steve Austin").to_dict()) |
| """), |
|
|
| |
| ("md", """\ |
| ## Recipe 2 — Career arc (matches per year for one wrestler) |
| """), |
|
|
| ("py", """\ |
| def career_arc(wrestler_id: int) -> pd.Series: |
| mp = df["match_participants"] |
| m = df["matches"][["id", "event_id"]].rename(columns={"id": "match_id"}) |
| e = df["events"][["id", "date"]].rename(columns={"id": "event_id"}) |
| arc = (mp[mp["wrestler_id"] == wrestler_id] |
| .merge(m, on="match_id") |
| .merge(e, on="event_id")) |
| arc["year"] = pd.to_datetime(arc["date"]).dt.year |
| return arc.groupby("year").size() |
| |
| w = find_wrestler("John Cena") |
| arc = career_arc(int(w["id"])) |
| |
| fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 3)) |
| arc.plot(ax=ax, color="#c9352d", linewidth=2, marker="o", markersize=3) |
| ax.set_title(f"Career arc — {w['ring_name']}") |
| ax.set_xlabel("Year"); ax.set_ylabel("Matches") |
| ax.grid(alpha=0.3) |
| plt.tight_layout(); plt.show() |
| """), |
|
|
| |
| ("md", """\ |
| ## Recipe 3 — Head-to-head record between two wrestlers |
| """), |
|
|
| ("py", """\ |
| def head_to_head(name_a: str, name_b: str) -> pd.DataFrame: |
| a = find_wrestler(name_a); b = find_wrestler(name_b) |
| mp = df["match_participants"] |
| |
| # Find singles matches both participated in |
| singles_match_ids = mp.groupby("match_id").size().pipe(lambda s: s[s == 2]).index |
| a_in = mp[(mp["wrestler_id"] == a["id"]) & mp["match_id"].isin(singles_match_ids)] |
| common = a_in[a_in["match_id"].isin( |
| mp[mp["wrestler_id"] == b["id"]]["match_id"] |
| )] |
| |
| # For each common match: did A win? |
| out = common[["match_id", "result"]].copy() |
| out["a_won"] = (out["result"] == "win").astype(int) |
| |
| e = df["events"][["id", "date"]].rename(columns={"id": "event_id"}) |
| m = df["matches"][["id", "event_id"]].rename(columns={"id": "match_id"}) |
| out = out.merge(m, on="match_id").merge(e, on="event_id") |
| out = out.sort_values("date") |
| print(f"{a['ring_name']} {out['a_won'].sum()}–{(1-out['a_won']).sum()} {b['ring_name']}") |
| return out[["date", "a_won"]] |
| |
| h2h = head_to_head("The Rock", "Stone Cold Steve Austin") |
| h2h.tail(10) |
| """), |
|
|
| |
| ("md", """\ |
| ## Recipe 4 — Highest- and lowest-rated matches by promotion |
| """), |
|
|
| ("py", """\ |
| em = df["matches"].merge( |
| df["events"][["id", "promotion_id", "date", "name"]].rename(columns={"id": "event_id", "name": "event_name"}), |
| on="event_id" |
| ).merge( |
| df["promotions"][["id", "abbreviation"]].rename(columns={"id": "promotion_id"}), |
| on="promotion_id" |
| ).dropna(subset=["rating"]) |
| |
| print("Top 5 rated matches per promotion:") |
| for promo, g in em.groupby("abbreviation"): |
| if len(g) < 50: |
| continue |
| top5 = g.nlargest(5, "rating")[["date", "event_name", "rating"]] |
| print(f"\\n--- {promo} ---") |
| print(top5.to_string(index=False)) |
| """), |
|
|
| |
| ("md", """\ |
| ## Recipe 5 — Full title lineage |
| """), |
|
|
| ("py", """\ |
| def title_lineage(title_substring: str) -> pd.DataFrame: |
| titles = df["titles"][df["titles"]["name"].str.contains(title_substring, case=False, na=False)] |
| if titles.empty: |
| raise KeyError(f"No title matched {title_substring!r}") |
| title = titles.iloc[0] |
| print(f"Lineage of: {title['name']}") |
| |
| reigns = df["title_reigns"][df["title_reigns"]["title_id"] == title["id"]].copy() |
| reigns = reigns.merge( |
| df["wrestlers"][["id", "ring_name"]].rename(columns={"id": "wrestler_id"}), |
| on="wrestler_id" |
| ).sort_values("won_date") |
| reigns["won_date"] = pd.to_datetime(reigns["won_date"]).dt.date |
| reigns["lost_date"] = pd.to_datetime(reigns["lost_date"]).dt.date |
| return reigns[["ring_name", "won_date", "lost_date", "defenses"]] |
| |
| title_lineage("WWE Championship").tail(20) |
| """), |
|
|
| |
| ("md", """\ |
| ## Recipe 6 — Alignment turn timeline for a wrestler |
| """), |
|
|
| ("py", """\ |
| def alignment_timeline(wrestler_id: int) -> pd.DataFrame: |
| turns = df["alignment_turns"][df["alignment_turns"]["wrestler_id"] == wrestler_id].copy() |
| turns["turn_date"] = pd.to_datetime(turns["turn_date"]) |
| return turns.sort_values("turn_date")[["turn_date", "from_alignment", "to_alignment", "description"]] |
| |
| w = find_wrestler("Roman Reigns") |
| alignment_timeline(int(w["id"])) |
| """), |
|
|
| |
| ("md", """\ |
| ## Recipe 7 — Wrestler PPV vs TV win-rate |
| |
| Are wrestlers booked more decisively on PPV than weekly TV? |
| """), |
|
|
| ("py", """\ |
| mp = df["match_participants"][df["match_participants"]["result"].isin(["win", "loss"])].copy() |
| mp["is_win"] = (mp["result"] == "win").astype(int) |
| m = df["matches"][["id", "event_id"]].rename(columns={"id": "match_id"}) |
| e = df["events"][["id", "event_type"]].rename(columns={"id": "event_id"}) |
| mp = mp.merge(m, on="match_id").merge(e, on="event_id") |
| mp["is_ppv"] = (mp["event_type"] == "ppv") |
| |
| per_w = mp.groupby(["wrestler_id", "is_ppv"])["is_win"].mean().unstack().dropna() |
| per_w.columns = ["tv_wr", "ppv_wr"] |
| per_w = per_w.merge(df["wrestlers"][["id", "ring_name"]], left_index=True, right_on="id") |
| per_w["delta"] = per_w["ppv_wr"] - per_w["tv_wr"] |
| print("Wrestlers most boosted on PPV vs TV:") |
| print(per_w.nlargest(10, "delta")[["ring_name", "tv_wr", "ppv_wr", "delta"]].to_string(index=False)) |
| """), |
|
|
| |
| ("md", """\ |
| ## Recipe 8 — Cohort analysis by debut year |
| |
| How does the median career length (in matches) of debutants vary by era? |
| """), |
|
|
| ("py", """\ |
| mp = df["match_participants"] |
| career_n = mp.groupby("wrestler_id").size().rename("matches") |
| w = df["wrestlers"][["id", "debut_date"]].dropna(subset=["debut_date"]).copy() |
| w["debut_year"] = pd.to_datetime(w["debut_date"]).dt.year |
| w = w.merge(career_n, left_on="id", right_index=True) |
| cohort = w[w["debut_year"] >= 1980].groupby("debut_year")["matches"].median() |
| |
| fig, ax = plt.subplots(figsize=(10, 3)) |
| cohort.plot(ax=ax, color="#c9352d", marker="o", markersize=3) |
| ax.set_title("Median career match count by debut year") |
| ax.set_xlabel("Debut year"); ax.set_ylabel("Median matches") |
| ax.grid(alpha=0.3) |
| plt.tight_layout(); plt.show() |
| """), |
|
|
| |
| ("md", """\ |
| ## Recipe 9 — Honest baseline with a temporal split |
| |
| Most tutorials use random splits. For sequential booking data, that leaks signal across folds. Here's a temporal split that doesn't: |
| """), |
|
|
| ("py", """\ |
| from sklearn.linear_model import LogisticRegression |
| from sklearn.metrics import accuracy_score, roc_auc_score |
| |
| mv = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "match_view.parquet") |
| mv = mv[mv["result"].isin(["win", "loss"])].copy() |
| mv["is_win"] = (mv["result"] == "win").astype(int) |
| |
| # Temporal split: train pre-2024, test 2024+ |
| mv["event_date"] = pd.to_datetime(mv["event_date"]) |
| train = mv[mv["event_date"] < "2024-01-01"] |
| test = mv[mv["event_date"] >= "2024-01-01"] |
| |
| # Compute career_wr ONLY from training data |
| career_wr = (train.groupby("wrestler_id")["is_win"].mean() |
| .rename("career_wr")) |
| career_n = (train.groupby("wrestler_id").size() |
| .rename("career_n")) |
| |
| def featurize(d): |
| return d.merge(career_wr, left_on="wrestler_id", right_index=True, how="left") \\ |
| .merge(career_n, left_on="wrestler_id", right_index=True, how="left") \\ |
| .fillna({"career_wr": 0.5, "career_n": 0}) |
| |
| Xtr = featurize(train)[["career_wr", "career_n"]] |
| Xte = featurize(test)[["career_wr", "career_n"]] |
| ytr, yte = train["is_win"], test["is_win"] |
| |
| clf = LogisticRegression(max_iter=1000).fit(Xtr, ytr) |
| print(f"Test accuracy: {accuracy_score(yte, clf.predict(Xte)):.3f}") |
| print(f"Test AUC: {roc_auc_score(yte, clf.predict_proba(Xte)[:, 1]):.3f}") |
| print() |
| print("Compare with the leaky random-split version: AUC drops by ~5–8 points.") |
| print("That gap IS the kayfabe problem — see paper.md for the full discussion.") |
| """), |
|
|
| |
| ("md", """\ |
| ## Recipe 10 — Reproduce the trained model exactly with `feature_matrix.parquet` |
| |
| The `feature_matrix.parquet` file contains the exact 35 features used by the trained `xgboost.joblib` model. |
| """), |
|
|
| ("py", """\ |
| fm = pd.read_parquet(DATA / "feature_matrix.parquet") |
| print(f"Shape: {fm.shape}") |
| print(f"Features: {[c for c in fm.columns if c not in ('match_id','wrestler_id','event_date','is_win')]}") |
| |
| # Honest temporal split using the same features the model was trained on |
| fm["event_date"] = pd.to_datetime(fm["event_date"]) |
| train = fm[fm["event_date"] < "2024-01-01"] |
| test = fm[fm["event_date"] >= "2024-01-01"] |
| feat_cols = [c for c in fm.columns if c not in ("match_id","wrestler_id","event_date","is_win")] |
| |
| print(f"\\nTrain rows: {len(train):,} Test rows: {len(test):,}") |
| """), |
|
|
| ("md", """\ |
| --- |
| |
| **Where to next:** |
| |
| - [Trained model with feature importances](https://www.kaggle.com/models/theodorerubin/ringside-analytics-match-winner) |
| - [HF mirror of this dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/datamatters24/ringside-analytics) |
| - [Source repo and ETL pipeline](https://github.com/tedrubin80/wrastlingfirst) |
| """), |
|
|
| ] |
|
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|
| def make_cell(kind: str, source: str) -> dict: |
| lines = source.splitlines(keepends=True) |
| if kind == "md": |
| return {"cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": lines} |
| return { |
| "cell_type": "code", |
| "metadata": {}, |
| "execution_count": None, |
| "outputs": [], |
| "source": lines, |
| } |
|
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|
| def main() -> None: |
| nb = { |
| "cells": [make_cell(k, s) for k, s in CELLS], |
| "metadata": { |
| "kernelspec": {"display_name": "Python 3", "language": "python", "name": "python3"}, |
| "language_info": {"name": "python", "version": "3.10"}, |
| }, |
| "nbformat": 4, |
| "nbformat_minor": 5, |
| } |
| out = HERE / "pandas_recipes.ipynb" |
| out.write_text(json.dumps(nb, indent=1, ensure_ascii=False)) |
| print(f"Wrote {out} ({len(CELLS)} cells)") |
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|
| if __name__ == "__main__": |
| main() |
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|