Posted by Here are the best players in the respective categories after the full preliminary round has been completed. I have included the top ten this time. Hopefully in the next few days I will write a summary. A couple of comments… Some players have dropped off the lists because they no longer reach the minimum number of attempts which I have arbitrarily set at 40% of the maximum number of attempts for each position / skill. The servers lists have changed a lot because I did a better job of splitting jump and float serves so it is more accurate. I have included a combined list for jump servers and float servers which seems to show that float servers are better servers than jump servers.
Ben Raymond has done up a basic tool that lets you look at all players and sort your own lists. It doesn’t have the same detail as the one I am using, but I’m sure it have everything you can think of. You can find it here.
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For Matt Anderson, did you split out his Kill % between when he played OH and when he played OPP?
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He played mostly as opposite so we left it there.
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Really interesting. What do you think accounts for Wallace’s serving? Is it a low error rate compared to other jump servers?
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I haven’t checked specifically but I will say, yes. Karpukhov for example has only about 4% aces but only 10% errors. That is why he is so high.
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Just checked. Wallace’s ace rate is 9.1% which is only just outside the top 10. But his error rate is only 10% which is the lowest error rate for any jump server with more than 100 attempts.
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So you are saying there is an advantage in serving lots of aces and not many errors? it would be really interesting to chart the ‘ace/error’ ratio against the opposition sideout %.
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Ace/error ratio accounts for less than half of all serves. Logically you have to take into account that 50+% of serves.
Hence ‘expected opp SO rate’.
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