Chad Gordon
Bay to Bay Volleyball Club, Head Coach 15-1, 2022
Bay to Bay Volleyball Club, Head Coach 15-1 >> 17-1, 2019 – 2021
Harker School, Head Coach Boys Varsity, 2018 + 2019
University of Illinois, M.S. Kinesiology 2016 + 2017
University of Illinois, Volunteer Assistant, 2014 + 2015
UC Santa Barbara, B.S. Biopsychology 2010 – 2014
Thesis: Predicting Performance via Self-Reported Metrics
twitter: @chadgordon09 // email: chadgordon09@gmail.com
Coach Your Brains Out interviews (May 2021): Part One // Part Two
VolleyDork Rankings: How They Work
Motivation While trying to adjust our expected points (PWP) model to account for team and opponent strength, we ran into a few issues. As far as we could tell, the only analytics-based rating system out there was the Pablo rankings, and we wanted ratings that (1) are not paywalled, (2) can be reproduced by other […]
2021 D1 Women’s VolleyDork Rankings – Updated Weekly
This marks our first public unveiling of our new rating system [link to the rating system explainer post]. Our goal will be to update these rankings every Monday evening / Tuesday morning. First and foremost, huge thanks to Professor Dwight Wynne for doing the heavy lifting and getting this system off the ground. I’m excited […]
Guest Post: Dwight Wynne – Match Win Probabilities
Dwight Wynne teaches statistics at California State University, Fullerton and supervises student projects helping their women’s volleyball team get more out of their data. Introduction One tool that has become increasingly common in the modern consumption of sports analytics is a win probability graph. A win probability graph shows, given the current score and time […]
Guest Post: Steve Aronson – The Impact of Point Differential on Winning Percentage
Introduction Having a lead in a set conveys confidence that we are more likely to win. We should be even more confident if that lead is near the end of the set, unless we are matched against a much better opponent. Using a lot of data and some modeling, we can quantify that confidence into […]
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About Me
Hi, I’m Chad. I previously worked for free at the University of Illinois and before that, I paid money to play some beach (and attend classes) at UC Santa Barbara. Currently working in analytics in San Jose & coaching w/ Bay to Bay on the boys club side of the world.
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