Chad Gordon
Bay to Bay Volleyball Club, Head Coach 17-1, 2021
Harker School, Head Coach Boys Varsity, 2018/2019
University of Illinois, Volunteer Assistant, 2014/2015
Thesis: Predicting Performance via Self-Reported Metrics
twitter: @chadgordon09 // email: chadgordon09@gmail.com
Coach Your Brains Out interviews (May 2021): Part One // Part Two
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 […]
Season Trends
Interactive Dashboard: https://public.tableau.com/views/SeasonTrends/HittingEfficiency?:language=en&:display_count=y&publish=yes&:origin=viz_share_link Is your team getting better or worse as the season progresses? Are your players developing and performing stronger as the year goes on? In the chart above, we take a look at Madeline Gates, the middle from Stanford. We’re looking at a rolling average of her hitting efficiency, in this case, rolling […]
Expectation vs. Reality
Interactive Dashboard: https://public.tableau.com/views/Expectationvs_Reality/Overall?:language=en&:display_count=y&publish=yes&:origin=viz_share_link This is the direction I think the sport of volleyball needs to go – getting all skills, all contacts, all situations, and all performance evaluation into the single language of points. The same way the NBA has expected points per shot based on the location on the floor + number of defenders, […]
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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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