Who Won PlusLiga? – The Final Answer

Tagged Volleyball Analytics, Volleyball Statistics, Plus Liga, Science Untangled, 2020-21 Plus Liga

The Athletes Unlimited (AU) organisation recently started what they call a professional league in the United States. The significance of this league is that it does not have teams, but is structured so that an individual will be the ultimate. We can discuss and debate this but some other time and place. What interests me is who would win if we applied the scoring system to other leagues. If you click here you can see exactly how they score, but it is a combination of points won with individual actions which we discussed revealed in Part 1 and calculated here, plus points by team results and MVP awards. Because the structure of the league is very specific, we have to make different, I decided to award a straight 60 points per set won. AU give three MVPs per match. The Plus Liga website records one match MVP, and one best player for the losing team. I decided to give 60 points for MVP and 30 points for the second.

We found out yesterday that Karol Butryn from Rzeszów was the best individual scorer, but he was not the winner. Once team and MVP points are added, Kamil Semeniuk wins the individual title. Interestingly, Kędzierzyn players make out three of the top four places. Which begs several questions, none of which we need to discuss here. Here is the final Top 10.

RANK	NAME	SKILL	TEAM	MVP	TOTAL
1	Kamil Semeniuk	2429.1	4380	300	7109.1
2	Karol Butryn	2973.4	3420	600	6963.4
3	Aleksander Śliwka	2205.0	4380	330	6915.0
4	Łukasz Kaczmarek	2060.6	4380	300	6740.6
5	Mohamed Al Hachdadi	1852.8	4020	450	6322.8
6	Bartłomiej Lipiński	2325.4	3480	420	6225.4
7	Mateusz Malinowski	2510.2	3120	390	6020.2
8	Bartłomiej Bołądź	2655.6	2700	540	5895.6
9	Rafał Szymura	1677.8	4020	180	5877.8
10	Klemen Čebulj	2154.7	3420	240	5817.7

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