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Chad Gordon

2 years

✅ Serve/Spike Velocity 💥💥 coming soon: jump height / touch metrics what else should we pull out of this data? @jessesultzer @eduardocoaches @NateNgo1 @PeterVint @wrobel00 @JtotheChang @inpredict @drewtao #computervision #volleyballanalytics #avca2022

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Chad Gordon

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10 months

In-System vs. Out of System Attacking - NCAA Tournament 🦡 Wisconsin is still absolutely running away offensively as we head into tournament season! Over .350 in-system and just shy of .200 OOS is pretty unheard of from an offense. 🐆 Pitt leads the pack in-system, hitting a

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Chad Gordon

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11 months

In-System vs. Out of System Attacking - NCAA Volleyball (2023) 🤯 Wisconsin out here smoking everybody on offense - putting up huge numbers. 0.356 in-sys and 0.187 OOS is simply nuts. 🐆 Pitt is the only team to edge out Wisconsin in-system, hitting a blistering 0.366 🌲🐥

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Chad Gordon

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11 months

Good Pass Rate vs. Reception Errors - NCAA Volleyball (2023) 🌽🌽 No surprise Nebraska leading in the serve receive game. Pretty impressive when you consider this isn’t adjusted for the quality of the opponents they’re facing… Stanford, Tennessee, and Kansas right up there as

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Chad Gordon

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Top Passers NCAA Volleyball 2024 🥇 Courtney Jackson - Arkansas 🥈 Olivia Mauch - Nebraska 🥉 Ava Underwood - Texas A&M Jackson has really found her stride this season so far, adding huge value while taking 1/3 balls for Arkansas Nebraska’s Mauch is super underrated - please

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Best liberos from the 2022 @NCAAVolleyball season How well do they receive vs. expectation? How well do they lower the attacker's efficiency? #expectedexpectedsideout @B1GVolleyball dominating the top @emilyehman 👋 look at those 'cats go more here:

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

11 months

Sideout % vs. Passer Rating - NCAA Volleyball (2023) 🌽 Nebraska boasts the top sideout rate of 68% which is +4% higher than their passer rating of 2.25 would predict 🦡 Wisconsin is even crazier!! Despite passing only a 2.05, their SO is at 67% and +6% higher than expected.

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Chad Gordon

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11 months

Top Outside Hitters - NCAA Volleyball (2023) 🥇 Sarah Franklin - Wisconsin 🦡 🥈 Jill Gillen - Arkansas 🐗 🥉 Madi Skinner - Texas 🤘 🍀 Paige Briggs - WKU 🏔️🏃‍♂️ ✋🏼 Taylor Head - Arkansas 🐗 Franklin has been absolutely unbelievable for the Badgers this season. Not only carrying

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

Top Passers split by Float / Spin 🥇 Lexi Rodriguez - Nebraska 🌽 🥈 Andelyn Simkins - Western Michigan 🐴 🥉 Gabby Gonzales - Oregon 🦆 🍀 Geli Cyr - Arizona State 👿 ✋🏼 Elia Rubin - Stanford 🌲 Naturally float reception is the major chunk for most passers. But for those

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

11 months

Service Ace vs. Error Rates - NCAA Volleyball (2023) Some interesting stuff in this one… 🌲 Stanford at nearly 15% error, but getting pretty good returns for their risk 🌽 Nebraska isn’t getting a ton of aces for the errors they’re putting up? Maybe a sign of their youth? But

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

10 months

Players from Top 8 Seeds In-System vs. OOS Attacking 🦡🦡🦡 + Skinner dominate the OOS conversation 🐆🐆🐆, 🦆, and Smrek crushing the in-system game Everyone else bunches a little more neatly in the middle Will be super interesting to see what happens when dominant in-system

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Chad Gordon

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12 days

Best Serving Teams NCAA Volleyball 2024 🥇 Pitt Panthers 🥈 Georgia Bulldogs 🥉 Texas Longhorns No shock here, except maybe in the ace/error rates a bit. The top teams are the top teams, but Georgia is scoring a ton of aces from the end line. Colorado has also had a sneakily

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Chad Gordon

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10 months

Volleydork Statistical All-American Honors (NCAA 2023) Player of the Year: 🦡 Sarah Franklin - Outside, Wisconsin Freshman of the Year: 🐆 Olivia Babcock - Opposite, Pitt more here: While you can slice and dice numbers all day, they’re obviously only a

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

11 months

Top Opposite Attackers - NCAA Volleyball (2023) 🥇 Kendall Kipp - Stanford 🥈 Marta Levinska - Arizona State 🥉 Olivia Babcock - Pitt 🍀 Anna Smrek - Wisconsin ✋🏼 Merritt Beason - Nebraska 🌲 Stanford’s Kipp is having another stellar season, making her case for NPOY after

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

14 days

We’re so back. Servers adding the most value so far this season! 🥇 Emma Halter - Texas 🥈 Raina Terry - Illinois 🥉 Erin Lamb - Kentucky Jordyn Harvey is the dark horse at 16% ace and 27% opponent good pass. Could be a huge weapon for Stanford in key moments down the road.

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

Top Liberos / DS so far in 2023. Gonna start using the Lexi Rodriguez test. If she’s in the top 5, the metric isn’t worthless. But at the same time… I’m torn on this one. Defensive metrics are always notoriously tricky to measure. How do you appropriately reward scrappy

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

11 months

Kill vs. Error Rates - NCAA Volleyball (2023) Strength of schedule isn’t factored in, which makes Wisconsin and Stanford even more impressive. Interesting that Nebraska is about level on the kills, but maybe the large underclassmen presence has led to a few more errors? Scary

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Chad Gordon

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12 days

Top Outside Hitters NCAA Volleyball 2024 Non-Conference 🥇 Kamryn Gibadlo - Utah 🥈 Melanie Parra - TCU 🥉 Claire Little - BYU Gibadlo has Utah off to a 10-1 start and has really been playing well out of system Parra is a familiar face to these lists - a high workload outside

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

10 months

Final Four - Back Row Attacking NCAA Volleyball (2023) Players to watch: 🤘 Madi Skinner - Texas 🌽 Merritt Beason - Nebraska 🐆 Olivia Babcock - Pitt Of the remaining high volume back row attackers, Skinner has been the best all year. Primarily on the Bic where she’s most

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

Top Back Row Attackers - NCAA 2023 🥇 Harper Murray - Nebraska 🥈 Madi Skinner - Texas 🥉 Avah Armour - UCF 🍀 Olivia Babcock - Pitt ✋🏼 Michelle Ohwobete - UCSB updated: Still relatively early in the year, but some amazing numbers coming out of the back

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

Top Middles so far in 2023 Andi Jackson just out here making defenses look silly Cara Cresse and Taylor Trammell some familiar favorites rounding out the top 3 How will this list change over the course of the season??

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

10 months

Postseason Conference Awards! 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 a thread 🧵🧵 Big Ten - Statistical Postseason Conference Honors I’d comfortably put Sarah Franklin as the POTY, she’s just been incredible in all facets this season Smrek then Beason for Opposite Booth then Jackson in the Middle We

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Best Outsides from the 2022 @NCAAVolleyball season Results are adjusted for opponent strength @notbradkeller get on twitter @jessesultzer not too shabby? @eduardocoaches good to see the Pac12 well represented @OrlandoCatalan sneaking into T10 @coachtamas 2nd in the B1G #HTTO

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

Top Attacking Outside Hitters 🥇Paige Briggs - Western Kentucky 🥈Sarah Franklin - Wisconsin 🥉 Iman Isanovic - Washington State They’re hitting +200 points higher per swing than we’d expect from an average D1 player!! Interesting to see how they make their money - some

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

11 months

Top Middle Blockers - NCAA Volleyball (2023) 🥇 Kara McGhee - Oregon 🦆 🥈 Liv Mogridge - Georgia Tech 🐝 🥉 Chiamaka Nwokolo - Pitt 🐆 🍀 Carter Booth - Wisconsin 🦡 ✋🏼 Magda Jehlarova - WSU 🐅 couldn’t find cougar or panther emojis… 🦆 Kara McGhee has been unreal for the

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

11 months

Attack Efficiency vs. Usage by Zones - NCAA Volleyball (2023) Interesting to see the shifts in the ‘logo clouds’ between zones, albeit mostly driven by most OOS attempts typically going to the OH WKU, Wisconsin, Pitt, Stanford with some of the strongest left side attacks The

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 months

Guys... are we a real sport finally?!

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ESPN is serving up its most expansive @NCAAVolleyball programming lineup on record! 🏐 2,600+ matches on ESPN platforms this fall 🏐 1st regular season match on ABC 🏐 Thousands of live hours on @ESPNPlus Complete schedule: | #NCAAWVB

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Chad Gordon

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2 years

Single video, everything in one!! Ball Tracking much improved, same with Touch ID. Green circle blip indicates the model detects a touch. Still work to be done of Player ID swaps, but huge to see the whole thing in action like this.

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

Most Value Added by Middle Routes (and it’s a lot of Andi Jackson…again) Two of her routes in the top 5 for value-add. Lethal on the slide and strong on the Front 1 Mostly Front 1 on the list, makes Perkins, Jackson, and Booth that much more interesting Carter Booth and

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

How are the top teams using the back row attack? 1. Texas, Nebraska, and USC are using it the best. All adding great value per attack! 2. Wisconsin uses it the least of the 25 AVCA teams 🤯 but with attackers like they have, can’t blame ‘em 3. Almost

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Player Tracking + Ball Tracking combined! Some smoothing still needed for player tracks, but slow and steady over here. 🐢🐢 @BrianHurler @eduardocoaches @NateNgo1 @VolleyStation @jessesultzer @OrlandoCatalan @GatorsVB @drewtao

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

11 months

Opponent OOS Rate vs. Service Errors NCAA Volleyball (2023) The higher above the trend line, the better! Indiana Hoosiers getting teams OOS a ton for how many errors they’re making from the end line. Similarly with BYU, LMU, UCF, Georgia, and Arkansas! All forcing teams off

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

10 months

NCAA Tournament 2023 Attack Eff vs. Opponent Attack Eff 🥇 Pitt Panthers 🥈 Wisconsin Badgers 🥉 Creighton Bluejays 🍀 Oregon Ducks ✋🏼 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers The gap between these metrics is probably one of the top indicators of overall team strength that can be pulled

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

Top Receiving Liberos/DS in 2023 Reception error % always a sneaky important factor in these metrics. Some of the best are under 3% error! Passer ratings can be deceptive as well. While they match up for the top 4 passers, players like Wisconsin's Julia Orzol and Purdue's

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

Top Attacking Opposites 🥇 Anna Smrek - Wisconsin 🥈 Morgan Lewis - Oregon 🥉 Katy Ryan - Washington State Relative to the D1 average, holy Smrek 🤯 hitting +0.372 out of system above expected?! Actually ludicrous. A&M’s Lednicky with a huge night against Florida last night!!

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

Top Offspeed Attacking Teams NCAA 2023 🥇 Wisconsin Badgers 🥈 Arkansas Razorbacks 🥉 Stanford Cardinal 🍀 Washington State Cougars ✋🏼 Kentucky Wildcats Offspeed attacking has evolved from a safety play meant to continue the rally to an effective way to score points or recycle

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

Best Back Row Attacking Teams Updated post: We already know Texas, Nebraska, and USC are the best. But how good is everyone else? 🍀 Oregon Ducks ✋🏼 Purdue Boilermakers 🕡 ASU Sun Devils 🤞🏼 Stanford Cardinal 🎱 Pitt Panthers (number emojis would be too

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

11 months

Aces vs. Errors (updated) NCAA Volleyball 2023 Interestingly the top 2 teams of Nebraska and Stanford aren’t in the “ideal” quadrant here. Stanford putting up huge error numbers but getting good returns on their risk. Nebraska just missing a bunch of serves without getting

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

Top passers so far after the non-conf matches. Familiar names up top. Geli Cyr has been huge for @SunDevilVB in all skills Buckeye transfer and now @OregonVB Gabby Gonzales refuses to get aced @HuskerVB , @StanfordWVB , and @Pitt_VB rounding out the T5

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

✅ Ball Velocity 💥 ✅ Skill Recognition ✅ Player / Ball Tracking Let’s pull out: - jump count - optimal serve speeds - set tempos - attacker arm speed - blocker reaction time - defender positioning - setter mechanics via pose detection what else…?

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

The @B1GVolleyball dominates the middle blocking world over last 5 years @BadgerVB Rettke's final 2 years were unreal @Huskervball Stivrins with 2 seasons in T15 @LouisvilleVB Tillman / Stevenson with some of the highest touch rates in the business more:

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

If She's a Good Passer, Why Doesn't She Pass Good? Why not getting aced is the secret to passing. @dannykinda

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Best Middles from the 2022 @NCAAVolleyball season Adjusted for opponent strength @J_Morrison000 one more year, yeah? huge. @coachtamas I-L-L strikes again, the best in the B1G! @KellenPittVB nice to see both MBs near the top

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

3 years

It's not much, but it's progress. Starting to combine tracking data with event data!! @drewtao @eduardocoaches @BrianHurler @NateNgo1 @singh_harjiv @jessesultzer @VolleyStation @annemariehickey @OrlandoCatalan

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

8 months

NCAA Volleyball 2024 Top Passers…so far 🥇Cole Power - UC Irvine 🥈 Michael Valenzi - Penn State 🥉 Tommy Poole - Ohio State Notable that Valenzi is the highest rated non-libero this season, passing at 71% good pass! I’m biased, but newcomer Joe Wallace has been steady for

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Best Opposites from the 2022 @NCAAVolleyball season Results adjusted for opponent strength - Phillips 100% doing her job on a team full of stars - Good to see @Vol_VBall up there! - Kipp handling a huge workload while putting up massive numbers is impressive @StanfordWVB

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Cleaner visual for player tracking, almost has a video game feel to it still working on the libero issue 🐢🐢 and unsure about which label colors to use, open to suggestions!! @BrianHurler @NateNgo1 @Huskervball @StanfordWVB @VolleyStation @eduardocoaches @PeterVint @drewtao

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

Best Passers from 2022 NCAA Women's Season more here: @Huskervball must be nice to bookend the top 10 @PennStateVBALL @GTVolleyball @NotKevinHambly @StanfordWVB All with 2 passers in the top 25, must be doing something right over there?

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Moneyball for Volleyball What is Expected Value? and why even bother? @kirkgoldsberry

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

Top Outside Hitters, way too early edition @StanfordWVB 's Caitie Baird is all-around efficient @RazorbackVB 's Jill Gillen handles a huge workload @SunDevilVB 's Geli Cyr, our top passer, has really shone Familiar names of Colyer / Londot round out the T5

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

10 months

Top Back Row Attackers - NCAA Volleyball (2023) A few new names on this list - including the Gauchos’ Ohwobete who has been sneaky efficient on the Bic all season. Even with her eff expectations being higher as she competes in the Big West, she’s still leading, hitting 80pts

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

2023 Volleydork All-Americans A new, data-driven approach to objectively compile the best of the best @AVCAVolleyball @ncaamvolleyball @offtheblock11 @robonthemic @VBeloRating @VBMagazine @LewisMVBall @UCImvb @UCLAMVB @HawaiiMensVB @PennStateMVBALL

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

#1 Wisconsin Badgers at #2 Nebraska Huskers Saturday, Oct. 21 - 7pm CT on @BigTenNetwork Nebraska started the season sprinting, but have cooled down just a little lately. Wisconsin took a while to find their stride, but have been playing excellent volleyball in recent weeks.

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Took a crack at creating a chart with inspiration/code from @tejfbanalytics and @thomas_mock Here are the Top 25 attackers in the big 4 men's conferences so far What do we think? @NCAAMVolleyball @NateNgo1 @matthewhouli @MPSF_Bias @offtheblock11 @VBeloRating @tifferspxp

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

3 years

Computer Vision update - player tracking + ball tracking in the works. Come check it out! @BrianHurler @eduardocoaches @databsurdist @ickoCS @NateNgo1 @jessesultzer @PeterVint @homeonthecourt

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

Over the last 6 years, Best Offspeed Attacking Teams 🥇 2023 Wisconsin 🥈 2020 Nebraska 🥉 2022 Texas 🍀 2023 Arkansas ✋🏼 2023 Stanford 6 of Top 10 are from 2023 64% of Top 50 are from 2022/23 *The offspeed game is getting better! Texas, Kentucky, and Wisconsin all find

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Computer Vision in Volleyball "Anchoring" the ball to the player making the touch unlocks the ability to generate velocities. Serve/Attack speeds, tempo of sets, etc etc... Tricky with single camera, but @drewtao = wizard #computervision #volleyballanalytics @volleyballworld

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

Setters are blockers too!! Best of the best from the last 5 years... Holy Mac Podraza!! All 4 seasons?! 🤯🤯 @StanfordWVB Jenna Gray @GopherVBall Melani Shaffmaster @KentuckyVB Madison Lilley all with 2x seasons in the top 20 more:

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Chad Gordon

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2 years

Skill Identification - another piece of the computer vision puzzle!! ✅ Player Tracking ✅ Ball Tracking ✅ Player ID ✅ Skill ID Nowhere near finished, but more solid progress ... Let's freaking gooooooo! 🐢🐢 @BrianHurler @NateNgo1 @VolleyStation @J_Morrison000 @drewtao

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Chad Gordon

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5 months

Statistical All-Americans NCAA Men’s Volleyball (2024) What does being excellent at your position actually mean? And why legacy statistics don’t capture what we actually care about. Can’t promise it’s perfect; can promise I tried

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2 years

Computer Vision update - we figured out who all the dots are!! Player ID is certainly a little tricky, but what a fun problem to work on. Still need to deal with the L/MB issue as you can see from the clip, but slow and steady! 🐢🐢

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2 years

✅ Velocity and Skill Recognition Ball speed on serve/attack is on the court on the right If we did a #BigDataSpike , similar to the Big Data Bowl in the NFL, would people be interested?? @StatsbyLopez @J_Morrison000 @dmorey @PeterVint @intraoc @inpredict @drewtao

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

2018 - 2023 Back Row Attacking Is this season actually any different? updated post: 😏 yes, this is the best it’s been recently 😎 8 of the top 25 teams are from this year 🧐 how has the men’s college game affected the Bic usage? has an influx of

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Chad Gordon

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2 years

Top Passers in 2023 NCAA Men's Volleyball Merk & Gooch adding 100 points (above expectation) per reception to their team's offensive eff. Super super valuable! @PennStateMVBALL @UCLAMVB Love seeing @LewisMVBall and @PrincetonVolley in the Top 5! more:

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Chad Gordon

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7 months

Why getting aced is worse than you think! Expected Sideout vs. Reception Error and Good Pass % NCAA Men’s Volleyball (2024) Reception error explains 54% of variance in your team’s expected sideout. That’s the same level as GP% explains!! Hawai’i, Penn State, and Ohio State

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Chad Gordon

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2 years

Computer Vision in Volleyball unlocks a few things down the road - automated stats - ball speeds - player jump/load monitoring - automatically cut film/highlights - live, automatic coding - advanced Expected Value metrics - broadcast tv visuals @drewtao

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Chad Gordon

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8 months

Top Attacking Opposites NCAA Men’s Volleyball - 2024 🥇 Zathan Zini - SFU 🥈 Alaka’i Todd - Hawai’i 🥉 Jalen Phillips - CSUN @offtheblock11 opposite of the week, Nathan Zini, leads the charge so far this season. Saint Francis sits at only 5-5 but have played a nice schedule and

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Chad Gordon

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2 years

Top Servers in Men's Volleyball in 2023 @ncaamvolleyball @UCImvb 's Henno is the toughest server by far 19% ace & lowers opp. exp. eff by 200points!! Curious, @HawaiiMensVB 's Thelle in 3rd, different in terms of ace/error, but super efficient! more here

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Chad Gordon

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Service Error vs. Ace Rates - NCAA Volleyball (2024) Hawai’i somehow is leading in both categories. Nearly 11% ace while staying under 14% error. 🤯 CSUN currently leads in a different way. Third in ace%, but more than 30% error… Maybe this will stabilize as the year

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Chad Gordon

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2 years

Touch ID coming along nicely. @drewtao == wizard. Big rocks now are: - piecing it all together - more training data - DO COOL ANALYSIS Slow and steady...🐢🐢 Catch up with our progress: @J_Morrison000 @BrianHurler @NateNgo1 @PeterVint @VolleyStation

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2 years

coming soon... @drewtao

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Chad Gordon

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2 years

Even more #computervision clips…because I think they’re pretty cool 🚀🚀 Serve and attack velocities are awesome - ball speed and all of this player/ball tracking unlocks so many amazing possibilities 🤯🤯🤯 #avca2022 #volleyballanalytics @drewtao

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

JR Norris with a huge impact attacking and from the service line Knight, Champlin, and Gooch - super steady as always UCLA winning the serve/pass battle Congrats to @HawaiiMensVB on an amazing 4 year run and to @UCLAMVB on picking up their 20th 🏆 more

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

Top Servers split by Float / Spin 🥇 Andjelija Draskovic 🇷🇸 🥈 Mia Schafer 🦁 🥉 Camryn Haworth 🏀 🍀 Taylor Head 🐗 ✋🏼 Emily Wilson ⚔️ Maybe not too shocking, but looks like you better hit jump serves hard… otherwise the float seems to be the better move. Certainly can be a

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Top Opposites in 2023 🥇 Marta Levinska has carried a huge workload for ASU 🥈 Kennedy Martin with a blazing hot start to her freshman year campaign 🥉 Anna Smrek, part of that Badger 6-2, has been lights out for Wisconsin in the non-conference matches

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

Top Blocking Setters in @ncaamvolleyball @LewisMVBall Morgan at 6'7" leads the pack Interesting that attackers make more errors in @PennStateMVBALL Bogner's vicinity? Setters overall doing a nice job blocking - many at the same level as the opposites!

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Chad Gordon

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1 year

Top Blocking Outsides in #NCAAWVB - - - Last 5 Years - - - @BaylorVBall Skinner takes top spot @lsuvolleyball / @MizzouVB Deberg 3x in T25! @Huskervball leads with 4 players in T25 + Batenhorst leading the 2022 list more here:

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3 years

Final Four predictions are up! We're taking @Huskervball over @Pitt_VB (60/40) 50/50 split in the other semi, but personally I like @UofLVolleyball over @BadgerVB See you all in Columbus! @eduardocoaches @coachmikegee @jennyhazelwood @VolleyStation

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Chad Gordon

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2 years

Top Liberos in @NCAAMVolleyball No surprises at the top?? @DustinWatten Lui and Briggs both having excellent years! Expected Sideout = how well an avg. team would SO given each pass In the future, would love a better metric to quantify defensive range... tricky to nail down

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Chad Gordon

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7 months

Top Servers NCAA Men’s Volleyball (2024) 🥇 Kurt Nusterer - Hawai’i 🌈 🥈 Christian Prayer - Lewis ✈️ 🥉Alaka’i Todd - Hawai’i 🌈 Not a shock that Hawai’i places 3 in the Top 5. These guys have been consistent, relatively low-error, and dangerous from the service line. Little

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@chadgordon09

2 years

Halfway through the @NCAAMVolleyball season, a look at the top attacks by position What do we think? @offtheblock11 @robonthemic @NateNgo1 love to see Knight & David crushing it @DustinWatten should do one for liberos huh? @matthewhouli

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

7 days

Most Valuable Middles NCAA Volleyball 2024 🥇 Raven Colvin - Purdue 🥈 Khori Louis - Florida State 🥉 Payton Brgoch - Ole Miss Colvin is super twitchy and touches everything - creating a ton of value for the Boilermakers in transition Louis is a favorite in our analytics

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

7 months

Jump Float / Spin Reception and Expected Sideout NCAA Men’s Volleyball (2024) Scoring aces with jump serves is the clearest way to hurt your opponent’s sideout. With an R-Squared of 0.71, you can see why spin servers are so aggressive in the men’s game. As offenses continue to

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

4 years

Expectations vs. Reality - a plea for the modernization of volleyball analytics. Are your players helping your chances of winning the rally? @NateNgo1 @ErinVirtue @eduardocoaches @homeonthecourt @databsurdist @J_Morrison000 @coachKCvb @PeterVint

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

7 months

Service Errors & Opponent Good Pass % NCAA Men’s Volleyball (2024) CSUN, despite their crazy error rate, does get teams in trouble the most frequently when the ball is actually in play. Hopefully that trend will stay steady as they work toward reducing missed serves Grand

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

8 months

Top Attacking Outside Hitters NCAA Men’s Volleyball - 2024 🥇 Cooper Robinson - UCLA 🥈 Spyros Chakas - Hawai’i 🥉 Hilir Henno - UC Irvine Long Beach’s duo of Godbold + Siapanis have been excellent as well, slotting them as the top pair of OHs so far this winter You can see

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Top Opposites so far this @NCAAMVolleyball season David having a super productive year @UCLAMVB Jasper hitting nearly 200pts above expectation while carrying that workload is crazy... @PeppVolleyball Love seeing @DaemenMVB on this list!! more here:

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

4 years

Passer Ratings are lying to you. Please discard them immediately and help your friends kick this dirty habit. @AVCAVolleyball @NateNgo1 @eduardocoaches @jessesultzer @coachmikegee @homeonthecourt @databsurdist @J_Morrison000 #2020AVCAVirtualConvention

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Congratulations to @TexasVolleyball and @LouisvilleVB on their fantastic seasons!! What an amazing week in Omaha, thanks @AVCAVolleyball @drewtao #AVCA2022 #computervision #AVCAconvention #volleyballanalytics

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

3 years

Speed & Space. How much open court do attackers have? Scenario 1: Go ball to the OH, 31.6% Scenario 2: Left front blocker jumps with setter, who sets the Slide, 60% Could be useful in modeling attack difficulty? @drewtao @BrianHurler @eduardocoaches @NateNgo1 @VolleyStation

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

All-American Team Selection We can do better. @AVCAVolleyball @ncaamvolleyball @offtheblock11 @robonthemic @VBeloRating @VBMagazine @FirstPointVB @LeeFeinswog

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

3 years

NCAA Tournament Time! @TexasVolleyball favored to win it all! @UofLVolleyball , @BadgerVB , and @BYUvolleyball favored to be in the Final 4 Pass the eye test? @eduardocoaches @semperty @coachKCvb @coachmikegee @VolleyStation @jennyhazelwood @LeeFeinswog

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

8 months

Top Servers - NCAA Volleyball (2024) 🥇 Keoni Thiim - Hawai’i 🥈 Christian Prayer - Lewis 🥉 Skyler Varga - Long Beach 💪 Fan favorite, Thiim, might not be a full-time starter, but you can’t argue that he crushes his role for a strong Hawai’i squad. This data doesn’t even

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

8 months

Top Blockers by Position NCAA Men’s Volleyball (2024) Setter: 🥇 Tread Rosenthal - Hawai’i 🥈 Aidan Knipe - Long Beach 🥉 Ryan Parker - Saint Francis Outside: 🥇 Clarke Godbold - Long Beach 🥈 Riley Haine - USC 🥉 Ethan Champlin - UCLA Middle: 🥇 Guillherme Voss - Hawai’i 🥈

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

Dusting off the old code and checking out the two big matches from last night #8 @GatorsVB def. #2 @StanfordWVB 3-0 #7 @TexasVolleyball def. #5 @GopherVBall 3-1 #NCAAWVB @NCAAVolleyball

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

7 months

Opponent Expected Sideout vs. Service Error / Ace Rates NCAA Men’s Volleyball (2024) Key takeaway: Ace% has a much stronger relationship to lowering your opponent’s expected SO than your service error% (R-squared of 0.36 vs. 0.18) Teams that are performing better than average

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

2 years

Top Liberos in the @NCAAMVolleyball Super interesting to see where guys rank higher on either Reception or Defense The top few are super balanced... @DustinWatten what other ways can we credit liberos for the roles they play using data? more here:

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

1 year

Top Servers, so far in 2023 🥇 Kacie Evans scoring aces at an almost 2:1 ratio 🥈 Audra Wilmes continues the strong serving tradition of UW 🥉 Mia Schafer making a huge impact for LMU Non-con is still a small..ish sample size, wonder how the list will shift over coming weeks?!

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Chad Gordon

@chadgordon09

10 months

@cheesetrader1 @emilyehman @sportsiren @hmcpeak1 @HuskerVB @Pitt_VB @UWBadgers @TexasVolleyball @StanfordWVB @KentuckyVB @michellachester yeah I think historically Oregon’s offensive speed makes defending the pins plus a fast back row attacker super difficult and creates the space you see with most men’s offenses. we’ll see if Texas can match the same offensive balance and cause trouble for Wisconsin… but Orzol

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