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VolleyMetrics: NCAA Women 2014: Wrapping Up the Regionals
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Wednesday, December 17, 2014. NCAA Women 2014: Wrapping Up the Regionals. My Conference-Adjusted Combined Offensive-Defensive (CACOD) measure successfully predicted the winners of 11 out of 12 matches. In the NCAA women's Sweet Sixteen and Elite Eight. Only in the Sweet Sixteen win by No. 14-seed Nebraska. CACOD = 1.72) over No. 3 Washington (2.23) did a team with a lower CACOD beat one with a higher one. Unseeded BYU (1.99) knocked off No. 6 Florida State. 165), then followed up by topping Nebraska.
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VolleyMetrics: My Simple Prediction Equation for the NCAA Women's Tourney
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Thursday, December 5, 2013. My Simple Prediction Equation for the NCAA Women's Tourney. For any match in the NCAA tourney, the team with the higher value on my measure would be expected to win. My formula did about as well as other, more complicated ranking formulas. I'm not going to do a full-scale analysis for this year's bracket. 1 Texas. (.295/.174) (1.20) = 2.03. 2 Penn State. (.312/.134) (1.25) = 2.91. 3 Washington. (.282/.192) (1.25) = 1.84. 4 Missouri. (.362/.170) (1.00) = 2.13. This blog is not ...
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VolleyMetrics: Ranking the 64 NCAA Women's Teams on the Conference-Adjusted Combined Offensive-Defensive (CACOD) Metric
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012. Ranking the 64 NCAA Women's Teams on the Conference-Adjusted Combined Offensive-Defensive (CACOD) Metric. With the NCAA Division I women's volleyball tournament. Scheduled to begin play on Thursday, I am unveiling my second annual ranking of the tournament teams on the Conference-Adjusted Combined Offensive-Defensive (CACOD) metric. Though the CACOD is extremely simple to calculate (see below), it held its own. Another reason, I suspect, that the CACOD appears to work well is ...
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VolleyMetrics: Statistical Notes Heading into Women's Final Four (2013)
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Wednesday, December 18, 2013. Statistical Notes Heading into Women's Final Four (2013). With this year's NCAA women's Final Four getting underway Thursday night in Seattle, today's posting offers some statistical observations. The two semifinal match-ups feature defending champion Texas vs. upstart Wisconsin, and Penn State vs. hometown favorite Washington. Wisconsin, a one-time power that had missed the NCAA tourney from 2008 through 2012, is now back in an ascendant mode. As the Nittany Lions did in th...
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VolleyMetrics: August 2015
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015. Volleyball Tracking" Site Provides Micro-Level Data. Over on a discussion thread at VolleyTalk, I learned of a service called Volleyball Tracking. One can find online a sample report. Webpage shows animation of player movements. On points during the match. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). This blog is not associated with the VolleyMetrics statistics company owned by Giuseppe Vinci. My Simple Prediction Equation for the NCAA Women's Tourney. Women's College Liberos: Part II (Digging).
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VolleyMetrics: Karch Kiraly Visit to Texas Tech: His Coaching Tips and My First Chat with Him in 33 Years!
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Saturday, March 7, 2015. Karch Kiraly Visit to Texas Tech: His Coaching Tips and My First Chat with Him in 33 Years! Let's start with a little "Then and Now." Back in 1982, Karch Kiraly was a senior setter for UCLA, en route to leading the Bruins to three NCAA championships in his four years, and I was the men's volleyball writer for the Daily Bruin. Here's a photographic image of one of my articles (which you can click to enlarge). That was then. This is now. He described volleyball as often involving "...
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VolleyMetrics: Belated Summary of Last December's NCAA Women's Final Four
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Saturday, February 7, 2015. Belated Summary of Last December's NCAA Women's Final Four. It's been quite a while since Penn State swept BYU. 25-21, 26-24, 25-14, last December to give the Nittany Lion program its second straight NCAA women's title, sixth in the last eight years, and seventh overall. Greater drama was to be found in the two semifinal matches, in which Penn State defeated No. 1-seeded Stanford. And BYU held off No. 2-seeded Texas. PENN STATE VS. STANFORD. However, needing a big performance ...
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VolleyMetrics: Loyola-Chicago Retains Men's Title in Epic Final
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Sunday, July 5, 2015. Loyola-Chicago Retains Men's Title in Epic Final. I'm two months late in writing about the NCAA men's final, but an unintended benefit of the delay is that I was able to take the picture to the right, on the Loyola campus during a late-June trip to Chicago. Notice at the bottom of the three-story banner (displayed on a parking structure) that it lists both the Ramblers' 2014 and. As opposed to a relatively easy four-game victory over Stanford. In both of these matches, though, the R...
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VolleyMetrics: NCAA Women's Final: Penn State Dominates Early, Hangs on Rest of the Way vs. Wisconsin for Title
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013. NCAA Women's Final: Penn State Dominates Early, Hangs on Rest of the Way vs. Wisconsin for Title. Penn State won its sixth NCAA women's volleyball title. In school history last Saturday night, stopping an amazingly tenacious Wisconsin Badger squad in four games, 25-19, 26-24, 20-25. 25-23 The Badgers had lost 3-0 to the Nittany Lions both times in Big 10. Wisconsin most certainly did make a serious run for the national title! Based on the play-by-play sheet. At this point, i...
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VolleyMetrics: July 2015
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Sunday, July 5, 2015. Loyola-Chicago Retains Men's Title in Epic Final. I'm two months late in writing about the NCAA men's final, but an unintended benefit of the delay is that I was able to take the picture to the right, on the Loyola campus during a late-June trip to Chicago. Notice at the bottom of the three-story banner (displayed on a parking structure) that it lists both the Ramblers' 2014 and. As opposed to a relatively easy four-game victory over Stanford. In both of these matches, though, the R...
