Author: chadgordon09

So, admittedly it's been a while since I posted about Point Win Probability (PWP), which to be honest, I think is pretty sweet. But today, I'm mostly here to steal a good idea from Nate Ngo (whose blog is here and you should 1000% check out if you have not). His issue was that, like [...]

Interactive Dashboard (click me) https://public.tableau.com/views/Step12-PointWinProbability/Stanford-Wisconsin?:language=en&:display_count=y&publish=yes&:origin=viz_share_link (Quick note: all PWP in the chart are for Stanford. Therefore if PWP hits 100%, Stanford won the point. If PWP hits 0%, Wisconsin won the point. Anything above 50% means Stanford has the advantage, anything below...you get the idea. I find it much cleaner to use a single line [...]

So this might be pretty obvious, but I'm going to spend 2 minutes posting this so we're all on the same page. Chris Tamas of Illinois reminds his team of the only goal: "three sets, by two points" and while this may hold true in a practical sense - from a statistical sense, beating a [...]

You may be seeing terms like Expected Value (eV), Win Probabilities, or other terms floating around this blog. I'd just like to take a quick second to help translate what's being talked about. Expected Value (eV) - its notation appears similar to a standard hitting efficiency. It's shown as a rate, meaning we divide by [...]

1. Download the .dvw files from VolleyMetrics. 2. Download and install R. 2.1 for Mac, you're looking for something like this on that next page - go ahead and click on the .pkg file and download that: on a Mac, you're looking for something that looks like this. 2.2 for Windows, you're looking for this [...]

RMD version: https://rpubs.com/chadgordon09/step10 1. The next logical step is to take the same methodology we used for attacking and dive deeper into the rest of the skills. If eV+ can help us better evaluate attacking, then perhaps it can be useful in other portions of the game. 2. Again, I'll attempt not to burry the [...]

for RMD version: https://rpubs.com/chadgordon09/step9 1. Expected Value Added (eV+) is simply: Results minus Expectations. 2. Building on the logic from the last two posts (Step 7 - Expected Value in Attacking, Step 8 - Expected Value of Input Situations) we merely combine the two to determine the value of each touch. Output eV comes from [...]

for RMD version: https://rpubs.com/chadgordon09/step8 1. No reason to bury the lede - all attacking situations are not created equal. 2. A middle attacking on a Front 1 after a perfect pass is expected to score at a better rate than an outside hitter receiving a high ball over her shoulder from 30 feet away. I [...]

for RMD version: https://rpubs.com/chadgordon09/step7 1. Above are the possible outcomes that result from any given attack, using VolleyMetrics' coding. The Expected Value is given for each output along with the count of each in parentheses (you'll notice we're not working with a small sample size...) 2. Block touches; if you're wondering where they are - [...]

Brian Hurler is currently the Performance Analyst for the USA Women's National Team. Brian was most recently the Technical Coordinator at Stanford and held a similar position at Creighton University when he wrote this in 2020. Not a terrible trajectory for the guy huh? (https://usavolleyball.org/story/hurler-bringing-talents-to-u-s-womens-nt-staff/) Outside Set Speeds Per Team Using match data from the [...]