NBC Olympics Website for Volleyball Stats

The NBC Olympics website is now providing extensive (indoor) volleyball statistics -- hitting, blocking, serving, digging, setting, and receiving. Further, hitting percentage is now being calculated correctly (subtracting errors from successful kills, before dividing by attempts). Clicking here leads you to men's statistics at the team level, but from that page you can click on a heading to get to women's statistics, as well as varying whether you get team or individual statistics. Pool play ends this weekend for both men and women; upon conclusion of this stage of the competition, I'll present some analyses of how the pool winners did in the various statistical categories.

Statistics are available in a similar format for men's and women's beach volleyball, but there seem to be a lot of holes in the numerical information provided. There's already been a lot of excitement for the U.S. teams in the sand, as the legendary women's duo of Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh had a first-game scare on Thursday against a Belgian team, whereas the men's pair of Phil Dalhausser and Todd Rogers eked out a three-game victory over a Swiss combo last night (U.S. time).