2014 World Championships Technical Review – Part 4

The following article originally appeared in the German ‘Volleyball Magazin‘ in December 2014, written by Michael Mattes, with help from Jan Kahlenbach. It was the originally the second part of the analysis

A note on the translation.  I speak German well, but nowhere near translator level.  Any stilted expression is solely the result of my poor translation and should not be accredited to the author.

Part 1 is here.  Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here.

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Statistics

That Markus Böhme was honoured as Best Blocker of the World Championships and Lukas Kampa as Best Setter was a great thing for the German team, but the awards should have been called “Best Individual Player of the Final Round”, because the FIVB took all other results out of the lists. Wir wanted to find out who were the best of the whole tournament. We should note two things: As we mentioned originally we have restricted the statistics to the top 16 teams.

In addition, specialists with only short game insertions have been removed from the statistics. When a player is brought in for only one action to strengthen the block for a setter and is successful, this blocker was credited in the block statistics with one block point without error from one attempt, which means 100%. Such statistical outliers have been removed, although the line to draw is not always obvious.

Individual Statistics

SERVE

(More than 2 serves per set, more than one ace per match, aces-errors/attempts)

1.      Pavlov – RUS	-0.7%
2.      Conte – ARG	-3.9%
3.      Ghaemi – IRI	-7.4%

4. Kaliberda – GER, 5. Lucarelli – BRA, 6. Muserskiy – RUS, 7. Grozer – GER

RECEPTION

(More than 2 per set, % positive receptions)

1.      Zatorski – POL	70.6%
2.      Mario – BRA	69.3%
3.      Tille – GER	64.6%

4. N‘Gapeth – FRA, 5. Ghaemi – IRI, 6. Edadipour – IRI, 7. Kerminen – FIN 8. Kaliberda – GER

MIDDLE BLOCKERS ATTACK

(More than 2 per set, efficiency)

1.      Lisinac – SRB	66.1%
2.      Muserskiy – RUS	59.4%
3.      Ramos – ARG	57.6%

4. Podrascinin – SRB, 5. Holt – USA, 6. Böhme – GER, 7. Lucas – BRA

OUTSIDE HITTERS ATTACK

(More than 2 per set, efficiency)

1.      Penchev – BUL	43.8%
2.      N. Kovacevic – SRB	43.4%
3.      Lucarelli – BRA	40.0%

4. Hoag – CAN, 5. Sander – USA, 6. Skrimov – BUL, 7. Kaliberda – GER

OPPOSITES ATTACK

(More than 2 per set, efficiency)

1.      Schmitt – CAN	39.9%
2.      Wlazly – POL	36.4%
3.      Grozer – GER	35.5%

4. Pavlov – RUS, 5. Wallace – BRA, 6. Rouzier – FRA, 7. Ghafour – IRI

BLOCK

(More than 1 block action per set, blocks/set)

1.      Mousavi – IRI	1.06
2.      Zingel – Australia	0.80
3.      Muserskiy – RUS	0.78

4. Holt – USA, 5. Buti – ITA, 6. Lucas – BRA, 7. Böhme – GER

Interesting Team Statistics

POINT DIFFERENCE IN SIDEOUT PER MATCH

1. BRA	4.7
2. CAN	3.0
3. POL, RUS	2.6
5. GER	1.6
6. FRA	1.5
7. SRB	0.9
10. ITA	-0.3
16. CHN	-8.1

POINT DIFFERENCE IN TRANSITION PER MATCH

1. USA	6.4
2. RUS	5.0
3. BRA	2.5
4. POL	1.5
5. FRA	1.4
7. GER	1.2
10. BUL	-1.4
12. ITA	-3.1

SERVICE ACES

1. RUS	8.3%
2. GER	7.5%
3. BRA	7.0%
4. ARG	6.6%
8. POL	5.2%
10. IRI	4.4%
11. ITA	3.9%
12. SRB	3.7%

SERVICE EFFICIENCY

1. RUS	-8.7%
2. GER	-9.1%
3. IRI	-9.3%
4. BRA	-10.2%
9. POL	-11.4%
14. ITA	-14.4%
16. BUL	-14.4%

RECEPTION EFFICIENCY

1. FRA	58.9%
2. BRA	57.5%
3. IRI	56.7%
5. GER	54.1%
6. POL	53.1%
13. ITA	44.8%
14. RUS	44.1%

ATTACK EFFICIENCY

1. BRA	39.5%
2. RUS	38.2%
3. CAN	36.8%
7. GER	34.1%
8. POL	33.9%
10. FRA	33.8%
15. ITA	25.5%

BLOCK POINTS PER SET

1. GER	2.58
2. BRA	2.53
3. ITA	2.5
4. POL	2.47
7. USA	2.45
8. RUS	2.31
12. BUL	1.81
14. FRA	1.72

UNFORCED ERRORS PER SET

1. IRI	5.5
2. CAN	5.8
3. FIN	6.0
4. CHN	6.1
6. FRA	6.2
10. GER	6.5
13. ITA, USA	6.9
16. SRB	6.9