Women’s matches have longer rallies
If you've watched a bunch of men's and women's volleyball you know the rallies tend to be longer for the women, but by how much?
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volleyball statistics
Unexpected research findings
My continued research into volleyball statistics and match outcomes turned up an interesting finding. Would love to get your thoughts on it.
Talking stats with players
Some coaches wonder if they should share stats with their players. A more important consideration is how they use and talk about them.
Actually measuring improvement in practice
As coaches we constantly pursue improvement. But are we actually measuring improvement when we take stats in practice?
Home advantage in volleyball – Part 1
One thing people believe contributes to home advantage in volleyball is ref bias. Evidences supports its existence, but not its influence.
Pondering a digger rating
We rate passers in serve reception on a point scale. Can we do something similar for defenders to be able to make comparisons?
How should we allocate our training focus?
How are you allocating the time you spend in practice on the various actions of the game? Do you even know how they break down?
Looking at competitiveness across the NCAA divisions
In this post I look at the statistical comparison of conferences (and teams) across all three NCAA volleyball divisions as I think about categorizations
Correlations to league success
What statistical measures correlate to success in volleyball? Here are some figures for you to look at on the subject. Much more to come later.