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Tillie:
I've copied something from a couple years ago on Volleytalk by Phillytom that addresses the relationship between blocking and digging. It was part of a thread about the 2014 B1G awards. Phillytom had at least one other good post in the thread. (this was a pretty good thread by the way) Sorry for the poor quality "copy."
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Post by Phillytom on Dec 2, 2014 at 1:40pm
Oh why not quit while you're ahead.
Wisconsin is a digging machine because they HAVE NO CHOICE. They terminate at .287 on the season (PSU terminates at .351). That is a few hundred balls coming back at Wisconsin that are into the floor for PSU. And despite that dramatically higher hit percentage, PSU STILL had 40 more blocks than Wisconsin this season, which is also balls that did not have to be dug. PSU also had 208 aces (half of them Hancock's) to 132 for Wisconsin, so that is another 70 balls that did not make it back to Penn State's back row.
Carlini dug at a rate 1 more per set than Hancock not because she's any better at digging than Hancock but because she had lot more balls hit at her.
FWIW Hancock is third on on the team in digs. If she were Wisconsin's setter she would probably have digging numbers very similar to Carlini's
Carlini is a great player, deserving of any individual award that comes her way. But you will be very hard pressed to make a statistical case for her over Hancock.
And really, I appreciate how they are both effective in their own very different ways.
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Dec 2, 2014 at 12:05pm badgerbreath said:
Hancock doesn't get the numbers of digs/set as Carlini. Carlini is right behind the liberos in the B1G. I'm not saying Hancock couldn't, but PSU is not set up that way. Courtney is more important defensively for PSU than Hancock. That makes sense because they don't have another setter on the floor most times.
Read more: volleytalk.proboards.com/thread/56704/b1g-awards?page=1#ixzz4UYv6iJTu
I've copied something from a couple years ago on Volleytalk by Phillytom that addresses the relationship between blocking and digging. It was part of a thread about the 2014 B1G awards. Phillytom had at least one other good post in the thread. (this was a pretty good thread by the way) Sorry for the poor quality "copy."
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Post by Phillytom on Dec 2, 2014 at 1:40pm
Oh why not quit while you're ahead.
Wisconsin is a digging machine because they HAVE NO CHOICE. They terminate at .287 on the season (PSU terminates at .351). That is a few hundred balls coming back at Wisconsin that are into the floor for PSU. And despite that dramatically higher hit percentage, PSU STILL had 40 more blocks than Wisconsin this season, which is also balls that did not have to be dug. PSU also had 208 aces (half of them Hancock's) to 132 for Wisconsin, so that is another 70 balls that did not make it back to Penn State's back row.
Carlini dug at a rate 1 more per set than Hancock not because she's any better at digging than Hancock but because she had lot more balls hit at her.
FWIW Hancock is third on on the team in digs. If she were Wisconsin's setter she would probably have digging numbers very similar to Carlini's
Carlini is a great player, deserving of any individual award that comes her way. But you will be very hard pressed to make a statistical case for her over Hancock.
And really, I appreciate how they are both effective in their own very different ways.
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Dec 2, 2014 at 12:05pm badgerbreath said:
Hancock doesn't get the numbers of digs/set as Carlini. Carlini is right behind the liberos in the B1G. I'm not saying Hancock couldn't, but PSU is not set up that way. Courtney is more important defensively for PSU than Hancock. That makes sense because they don't have another setter on the floor most times.
Read more: volleytalk.proboards.com/thread/56704/b1g-awards?page=1#ixzz4UYv6iJTu
