Releases: Dharit13/NCAA_2025-26-Season-Dataset-Analysis
Releases · Dharit13/NCAA_2025-26-Season-Dataset-Analysis
Release list
NCAA All-Sports Rosters 2025-26 v2.0.4
v2.0.4 — territory origin + docs (2026-07-18)
Data-quality fix on the public 19-column tier. No rows added or removed (514,696). Schema unchanged.
Fixes
- #1 — 150 US territory athletes (AS/GU/VI/MP + residual PR) were
origin=internationalwith emptyhometown_state. Nowdomesticwith the matching USPS territory code. British Virgin Islands remain international. - #3 — CODEBOOK no longer claims
conferenceis ~68% sparse; public tier is fully populated.
Assets
- Master parquet is in
data/onmain(and attached below). by_sport/convenience slices rebuilt from the corrected master.
DOI: 10.57967/hf/9512 (cite with version 2.0.4).
NCAA All-Sports Rosters 2025-26 v2.0
NCAA All-Sports Rosters 2025-26 — v2.0
Individual-level roster data for all 28 NCAA championship/emerging sports, all three
divisions (D1/D2/D3), both genders, athletic year 2025-26 — the first year under the
House v. NCAA settlement (roster limits, revenue sharing, NIL).
- 515,393 athletes across 1,089 schools (~91.8% of officially reported NCAA
participations; 96.9% of sponsor-list teams; 98.5% of D1). - De-identified (no names, no contact info). Every field is an institution-published
roster fact from official college athletics sites, validated against NCAA sponsor lists. - Public tier: 19 columns. Analysis tier: 54 columns (adds Census town income,
high-school public/private/religious classification, College Scorecard / mobility joins).
Canonical record & DOI
- DOI: 10.57967/hf/9512 — https://doi.org/10.57967/hf/9512
- Hugging Face (record of origin): https://huggingface.co/datasets/dharits3/ncaa-college-athlete-rosters-2025-26
- Kaggle (mirror): https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/shahdha/ncaa-all-sports-rosters-2025-26
What's in v2.0
- High-school public/private/religious classification (NCES CCD + PSS; fuzzy (name, state)
match, threshold >=85, ~98% precision; resolved 394,447 / 76.5%). - Census-validated town income & population (ACS 2022; r=0.97 with the original field;
correctly re-scaled small-town population).
License
CC0-1.0 (public domain). Roster facts are not copyrightable (Feist v. Rural). Please do not
attempt re-identification. Per-record removal honored on request: dharits3@gmail.com.
Citation
Shah, D. (2026). NCAA All Sports Rosters 2025-26: An Individual-Level Dataset Across All
Divisions (Version 2.0) [Data set]. Hugging Face. https://doi.org/10.57967/hf/9512