How to calculate ratio of values in a pandas dataframe column?

Question

I'm new to pandas and decided to learn it by playing around with some data I pulled from my favorite game's API. I have a dataframe with two columns "playerId" and "winner" like so:

playerStatus:
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   playerId   winner
0    1848      True
1    1988      False
2    3543      True
3    1848      False
4    1988      False
...

Each row represents a match the player participated in. My goal is to either transform this dataframe or create a new one such that the win percentage for each playerId is calculated. For example, the above dataframe would become:

playerWinsAndTotals
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   playerId   wins  totalPlayed   winPct
0    1848      1        2         50.0000
1    1988      0        2         0.0000
2    3543      1        1         100.0000
...

It took quite a while of reading pandas docs, but I actually managed to achieve this by essentially creating two different tables (one to find the number of wins for each player, one to find the total games for each player), and merging them, then taking the ratio of wins to games played.

Creating the "wins" dataframe:

temp_df = playerStatus[['playerId', 'winner']].value_counts().reset_index(name='wins')
onlyWins = temp_df[temp_df['winner'] == True][['playerId', 'wins']]
onlyWins
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    playerId    wins
1     1670       483
3     1748       474
4     2179       468
6     4006       434
8     1668       392
...

Creating the "totals" dataframe:

totalPlayed = playerStatus['playerId'].value_counts().reset_index(name='totalCount').rename(columns={'index': 'playerId'})
totalPlayed
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   playerId   totalCount
0    1670        961
1    1748        919
2    1872        877
3    4006        839
4    2179        837
...

Finally, merging them and adding the "winPct" column.

playerWinsAndTotals = onlyWins.merge(totalPlayed, on='playerId', how='left')
playerWinsAndTotals['winPct'] = playerWinsAndTotals['wins']/playerWinsAndTotals['totalCount'] * 100
playerWinsAndTotals
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   playerId   wins   totalCount     winPct
0    1670      483      961       50.260146
1    1748      474      919       51.577802
2    2179      468      837       55.913978
3    4006      434      839       51.728248
4    1668      392      712       55.056180
...

Now, the reason I am posting this here is because I know I'm not taking full advantage of what pandas has to offer. Creating and merging two different dataframes just to find the ratio of player wins seems unnecessary. I feel like I took the "scenic" route on this one.

To anyone more experienced than me, how would you tackle this problem?

Answer 1

We can take advantage of the way that Boolean values are handled mathematically (True being 1 and False being 0) and use 3 aggregation functions sum, count and mean per group (groupby aggregate). We can also take advantage of Named Aggregation to both create and rename the columns in one step:

df = (
    df.groupby('playerId', as_index=False)
        .agg(wins=('winner', 'sum'),
             totalCount=('winner', 'count'),
             winPct=('winner', 'mean'))
)
# Scale up winPct
df['winPct'] *= 100

df:

   playerId  wins  totalCount  winPct
0      1848     1           2    50.0
1      1988     0           2     0.0
2      3543     1           1   100.0

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DataFrame and imports:

import pandas as pd

df = pd.DataFrame({
    'playerId': [1848, 1988, 3543, 1848, 1988],
    'winner': [True, False, True, False, False]
})