Friday’s Musings

Not much out there right now in the volleyball world.  The calm before the storm.  I plan to post my predictions for each West Region Conference next week and end it on Friday with my top teams from the region.  I was really hoping to see more rosters updated but I guess the SIDs have……

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Campus Encounters

I stumbled around the WordPress world today and found a neat little site called Campus Encounters.  The author does nice little write-ups of different schools and includes pictures.  I really enjoy visiting the different schools and although I’m usually in the gym watching games, it’s nice to be able to walk the different campuses and……

Pitfalls of Scheduling

Since I took the Northwest Conference to task for their scheduling, I thought I better take a look at the top teams in the west region to see what type of schedules they are playing.  I was most interested in the number of flights each team was making this year.  One problem the West Region……

Consistency

The AVCA has a number of links that are pretty cool for the stat geeks out there.  One is the number of times a school has been ranked since 1992.  How many weeks total is that?  272!  Amazingly there are two teams in the nation that have been in the rankings every week since 1992……

Statistic Losses – So What?

In a previous post I documented the statistics lost in the west region due to senior graduation.  In some cases, I was also able to determine non-seniors that left the program and include those losses, as well.  So what does it all mean?  This post attempts (and probably fails) to answer that question. I had……

Statistic Loss – Graduating Seniors

One interesting activity I’ve been doing for the last 4 years is to determine the loss of statistics a team will face due to graduating seniors.  I then augment this to any underclass(wo)men that (based on the new rosters) seem to have left the program. Below, you will find these statistics for each west region……

Why I hate the Northwest Conference

As I wrote another post about statistics lost due to graduating seniors, I came to the teams in the Northwest Conference.  I started writing about my problems with the Northwest Conference instead of the purpose of the post so I thought it best to transfer my thoughts to this post. “I dislike the Northwest Conference.”……

Coaching Changes

See the consolidated list of coaching changes in the west region…

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