So I was thinking about elite performances today. Those nights where an attacker is just in the zone and everything slows down; where it's a woman competing against girls. This happen to tie in nicely with something Jimmy McCabe, our Illinois Men's Club Volley president (a tiresome and thankless job), happen to touch upon: how well [...]
Tag: BigTen
Attacking Theory
Hey Kolby. So I've been throwing out the question to some friends about what kinds of stats they'd like to see but have never had access to. Attacking is naturally something that comes up as it's the most common way to score points and thus a deeper understanding would be beneficial. Above is my proposed progression [...]
Specialists or Generalists?
Yes. I know this looks like some tutti-frutti clown vomit. Thanks. A college buddy of mine, Teddy Niemira, posed a question revolving around developing players' all around game or merely enhancing strengths as a better use of a coach's time. Do you want someone who is pretty good at everything or elite at one [...]
Service Error and Eff Change
*Check out the Eff Change posts if you haven't. Output, Input, Eff Change Returning to the very first question - How aggressively do we want to serve? Here is what team service error% looks like graphed against the average Eff Change per serve in each match. Again we see an inverse relationship between the two [...]
Dig Percentage & Efficiency Change
Dig Percentage is something that comes up as a way to measure defensive efficiency. You might look at two similar passers and see which one of them shanks digs at a lower rate as a means of evaluation. As we can see from the viz above, Wilhite, JWO, Albrecht, and Maloney (3 of whom play [...]
Blocking Responsibilities – Big Ten
One of the things people have never been able to look at in DataVolley is the way to examine blocker responsibilities. The reason this is an issue is that if you don't have a block contact coded in DataVolley, nobody knows that you were at the net when the attack happened. The goal of uncovering the [...]
Service Error and FBSO
As a follow-up, here is a more advanced way to evaluate serving. FBSO is of course indicative of your opponent's ability to win the point on the opening possession - but what many overlook is losing on the opening possession. What you see graphed along the y-axis is "FBSO efficiency", meaning we subtract lost points on the 1st [...]
Service Error and Passer Ratings
How aggressively do we want to serve? Tough, but not too aggressive? Keep it in and make your opponent work? Screw it and let it rip? Probably somewhere in the middle...? Serve tough until enough parents in the audience complain?? (Side note, listen to Becks talk serving if you never have) The first step coaches usually take [...]
Rethinking Volley 