Post by Gorf on Dec 17, 2006 17:26:18 GMT -5
ruffda said:
gorf said:
It was played at a very high level, however, oddly enough there were 60 (35 for Stanord; 25 for Nebraska) unforced errors between the two teams - most of them coming from non-blocked hitting errors.Depends on how you define unforced error. There were very few truly unforced errors last night. Besides that, there were so many long rallies, it was an inevitable many would end in an error.
By the way, 25 errors in a 4 game match isn't too bad, even when it's not played at the level this one was.
Nebraska was right on their season average with 25 unforced errors in a 4 game match.
Stanford was 2 errors per game over their season average 35 unforced errors in a 4 match.
The biggest part of those errors came from non-blocked hitting errors.
Certainly those can be considered unforced and I generally try to reference them as "unforced errors", however, a 10 error disparity for the match in favor of Nebraska could have made a large impact on the outcome of the match if Stanford had managed to hold their errors to their season average.
Those 2 points per game with the closeness of the game overall could have split those 2 "extra" points that went to Nebraska to 1 point for each which would actually have a been a 2 point swing in each game.
Game 1: Stanford wins a bit easy.
Game 2: Nebraska wins a bit tigher game.
Game 3: Tied at 29 instead of 30-28 Nebraska.
Game 4: 29-28 Nebraska lead instead of 30-27 win.
Not that all of that would have happened, and Nebraska deserves some credit for getting Stanford to play more tight / nervous / whatever in the find 2-3 games.
I just think those "extra" errors made a definite impact on the final 2-3 games.