The most recent issue of the
Journal of Quantitative Analysis in Sports includes an article entitled "Study of the Technical and Tactical Variables Determining Set Win or Loss in Top-Level European Men’s Volleyball," by David Rodriguez-Ruiz and colleagues. The abstract is available
here; full-text access requires a subscription, but guest privileges to view an article are available. Based on study of the 2009 European Men’s Volleyball Championship, the central finding appears to be that whereas "attacking [tended] to be the highest point-scoring technical action," the block took on greater importance the closer the match.
NOTE: Leo van Hal was kind enough to share his reaction to the aforementioned study, in the Comments section (link below). Leo also had a graph to accompany his comments, which doesn't work in the Comments section. I am thus reproducing his graph here:
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Interesting report. The competition mode with part round robin and knock out has resulted in a non homogeneous data base where some team did not meet each other and other played non equal amount of matches , this may have biased the data. The attack and block data show non expected behaviour for the close matches and fifth sets . They show moreover widely different distributions, it would therefore be preferable to compare the data on a difference bases per set in stead of the lumped comparison. For women top volleyball as in the champions league I have found similar general conclusions that the winning team is superior in all play elements. Comparisons here were based on match results appears to be the unique Typical data for attack distribution are shown from the WC 2010for men .Although in the single five setter, the winners score lower result this conclusion need more data to be generalised.
up to about 75 points = 3sets
from there to 100 = 4 sets
above 5 sets .
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