VS Report 1-3

VolleyStation Report is a series of five spreadsheets that allow you to summarize the season or a few games and analyze the team’s performance. It gives a lot of information, and you can conduct a detailed analysis of team performance and each player.

Each of these spreadsheets contains the first organizing sheet that influences the rest of the spreadsheet. You can find the numbers and names of players of the analyzed team and a list of games and visualization choices if necessary. The “show on video” function in this report is not available yet, but it shows you many numbers and graphs that help you analyze the team.

HOW DOES IT WORK?

I.   VS Report 1 (Summary + Serve)

In the first sheet, you can find all the players’ names and numbers that change when you choose the season, team, and games you want to analyze. In the orange cell (F2), you can put the number of games you want to study. After that, you get the list of the games and opponents below. Then, in dark orange cells (I2 and J2), you can choose the visualization style for each court in the whole spreadsheet. Moreover, in the second sheet, “Legend,” you can find all the necessary information about how to read the entire report.

In the “Intro” sheet, you can see the analyzed team’s game list. In the first table, you can see the opponents, the score of the match, and the results of particular sets.

This table presents the last fifteen games of Atlanta Vibe in the Pro Volleyball Federation Championship with the results of each set. The second table contains opponents and rotation for each set. Letter S means the analyzed team served first, and letter R - means they began that set with passing. 

The “Team Summary” sheet contains detailed information about team performance. You can find pass and attack percentages filtered by won and lost sets. There is also a breakdown of points scored by teams in each set.

Here, for example, we can see the breakdown of points of the Atlanta Vibe, the team that claimed the No. 1 overall seed in the Pro Volleyball Federation Championship. We can also see their attack efficiency in certain game phases compared to their opponents. 

The “Serve directions” sheet presents directions and basic statistics about players' serves: total serve attempts, the percentage of aces, the percentage of errors, and overpasses. Here, you can also find the rate of points won after serve, the percentage of the opponent’s positive reception, and the efficiency of the opponent’s first-ball attack after the reception. It allows for the analysis of the directions and efficiency of the serve of every player on the team.

The next sheet, “Serve analysis”, contains a table with the serving type. You can see how many serves were typed: jump, jump float, and float, as well as the efficiency. This sheet also includes data about the player’s first, second, and third serve. It allows us to see how many serves the player performed in the row, the efficiency of the serve, and how many points the team won after their serve. 

The “Line-cross serve” sheet includes information on serve in all games and the red zone. The red zone is when a team is above 20 and within 2 points of the other team. 

Here, we can see how the Columbus Fury served in the games that they won last season. We can see that the most balls were served from zone 1 to zones 5 and 6, the highest percentage of aces they achieved while serving from zone 6 to zone 1, and also the opponent’s reception was the worst while the ball was served in this direction. In the most important moments of the set, they served from zone 1 to zone 5 or from zone 5 to zone 6. However, the best efficiency they had while they served from zone 5 to zone 5.

Here you can see the explanation of how to read the zones in this report:

II. VS Report 2 (Reception 1)

In the “Reception analysis” spreadsheet, you will find the passing breakdown by player and rotation. Here, we use four grade scales to evaluate the reception:

• 4 pt - perfect pass (#)

• 3 pt - positive pass (+)

• 2 pt - neutral pass (!)

• 1 pt - bad pass (-)

Here, we can see how the players from Orlando Valkyries passed the ball in the Pro Volleyball Federation Championship. Good pass here is the reception with #+ effects. Op means overpass and err - reception error.

In the “Line-cross reception” sheet, you will find reception breakdown by line-cross serve, allowing you to analyze whether the passing player was more effective while receiving the line or the cross serve. You can also see in which zone the passing player had the best reception and where he struggled.

III. VS Report 3 (Reception 2)

The second passing spreadsheet shows us graphs of the passing players’ efficiency by the reception type. The blue lines show the player’s efficiency and the green ones - show the team’s efficiency. 

Here, we can see how Bethania De La Cruz from Omaha Supernovas passed the ball, depending on the reception type.