Can I not call my project a "Machine Learning" project if it doesn't involve a prediction at the end?
Could you talk a bit more about your model training and evaluation? 

If you are viewing correlations, it sounds like exploratory data analysis to me.

Typically, I believe a machine learning model will be trying to predict a data point/variable. This could be in the form of classification or regression (i.e. did you do one of these?)

Just curious, why is it important to label as a machine learning project? If a class project, maybe you would be interested in your model predicting points, points per game, or win/loss ratio. Or maybe based on your model, you would want to be clustering players into different segments.

Good luck!