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Post by beachcoach on Mar 24, 2024 8:18:53 GMT -5
Do Bansley/Bukovec have a chance to make Paris still? If so, what is Pavan's plan to stay ahead of them? when PMcB hit their required no of events their average should be on the low 500’s so will be on the cusp with room to improve. LLLL are also going to break into top 17 when they get their no. As will Huberli/Brunner Mel and Brandie. So def chance. BnB average is below the cusp line but will improve and they need more events to qualify than the others but totally doable. For both if not one. Hope it’s not either for Canadian fans as the NORCECA event and who goes would be interesting but pretty sure that won’t happen and one will make it directly. But the numbers game is going to be a close watch. PnMcB in main draw next week BnB have to come through QF again.
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Post by KO7 on Mar 24, 2024 9:53:16 GMT -5
Watching highlights, it appears Heather’s attack and serving are better than ever (albeit, against a weaker field this tourney). Also liking how Sophie’s making more shots nowadays instead of swinging on everything.
May renew my subscription in order to watch the Gold match against 🇱🇻.
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Post by dunninla3 on Mar 24, 2024 11:14:39 GMT -5
Watching highlights, it appears Heather’s attack and serving are better than ever (albeit, against a weaker field this tourney). Also liking how Sophie’s making more shots nowadays instead of swinging on everything. May renew my subscription in order to watch the Gold match against 🇱🇻. I agree, with one exception. It was better in her Quarterfinal win at the Olympics v. Slaes.
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Post by dunninla3 on Mar 24, 2024 11:18:37 GMT -5
Do Bansley/Bukovec have a chance to make Paris still? If so, what is Pavan's plan to stay ahead of them? After next week's results in Saquarema, I'll update my Top 9 to be Top 10, and add B/B at the bottom so you can get a guage. My gut says they started way too late. I think there are, what, 8 events after today to get a Top 12 total? And 2 of them are E16 where they have low chances of good points?
This event is again proof that if a team want the best bang for buck in Olympic Points, they should enter every Challenge event, and E16s are irrelevant.
B/B reached the Finals by beating a GER3 team that is very up and down and currently around #22 in Olympic Qualifying Points, Top 9. That's 760 points as difficult as shooting fish in a barrel.
On the other hand, there was no reason for LAT to not withdraw from this event after last week's result pretty much assured their Paris Qualification. I suppose it's an easy $10k. And travel expense is shared by Recife and Saquarema in back/back tournaments.
So why didn't Pavan/McBain play both? Not so much to block B/B, but to give them more chances to break into into Top 18?
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Post by houdini on Mar 24, 2024 13:21:01 GMT -5
I updated the attack percentages through the Finals. Here are the attack percentages for all quarterfinal teams + France's Richard and Swiss Mader/V-D. I added the USA qualifier stats. You can see what a big gap there is from the USA teams and the rest - and the gap between Tina and the rest of the attackers. Heather Bansley currently the top attacking defender. Sophie Bukovec underperformed in the final and the lowest attack percentages for quarterfinalist blockers alongside Swiss Bobner. Borger had a particularly bad match vs. Lithuania for bronze. The 1,97 Aine Raupelyte came through with a big bronze medal game with her partner Monika P.
Recife Challenge Attack Percentage (points minus errors divided by total attempts) 0.000% Graudina Tina (LAT) .634 Raupelyte (LTU) 547 Richard (FRA) 485 Raupelyte (LTU) 466 Ittlinger (GER) 446
Bansley Heather (CAN) 443 Verge-Depre Anouk (SUI) 438 Klinger Dorine (AUT) 430 Silva Taina (BRA) 427 Mader (SUI) 419 Paulikiene (LTU) 418 Verge-Depre Zoe (SUI) 407 Klinger Ronja (AUT) 400
Samoilova (LAT) 396 Bukovec Sophie (CAN) 359 Bobner (SUI) 348 Borger (GER) 275 Vitoria (BRA) 270
USA Quali Stats
Hildreth .443 Van Gunst 292 Rodriguez 160 Coakley 156 Simo 128 Sweat 000
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Post by houdini on Mar 24, 2024 15:26:49 GMT -5
Latvians take the final 21:18, 21:17. Bansley / Bukovec not at the top of their game with serve errors and hitting out. Aside from Samoilova the teams looked mildly tired in the 89 degree humid stadium. Bukovec had only 5 kills and 4 errors out of 12 attempts. Plus four serve errors and only one ace, while the Latvians earned five aces. Anastasija raised her game when Tina had a slow start, but both finished strong in the second set. fivb.12ndr.at/match?match=419663&refresh=false
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Post by houdini on Mar 24, 2024 15:49:06 GMT -5
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Post by houdini on Mar 24, 2024 16:01:12 GMT -5
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Post by dunninla3 on Mar 24, 2024 16:12:30 GMT -5
that's like listing baseball Home Runs and not listing Strikeouts next to it. Useless stat.
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Post by ajm on Mar 24, 2024 16:24:57 GMT -5
Do Bansley/Bukovec have a chance to make Paris still? If so, what is Pavan's plan to stay ahead of them? After next week's results in Saquarema, I'll update my Top 9 to be Top 10, and add B/B at the bottom so you can get a guage. My gut says they started way too late. I think there are, what, 8 events after today to get a Top 12 total? And 2 of them are E16 where they have low chances of good points?
This event is again proof that if a team want the best bang for buck in Olympic Points, they should enter every Challenge event, and E16s are irrelevant.
B/B reached the Finals by beating a GER3 team that is very up and down and currently around #22 in Olympic Qualifying Points, Top 9. That's 760 points as difficult as shooting fish in a barrel.
On the other hand, there was no reason for LAT to not withdraw from this event after last week's result pretty much assured their Paris Qualification. I suppose it's an easy $10k. And travel expense is shared by Recife and Saquarema in back/back tournaments.
So why didn't Pavan/McBain play both? Not so much to block B/B, but to give them more chances to break into into Top 18?
I would agree, it’s almost certainly too little, too late for B/B. Or rather, Heather took too long to decide on her comeback. That likely cost them several events last year, including a NORCECA event that could’ve given them a world champs berth, and also potentially a wild card to the Montreal Elite 16, both of which went to Pavan. That said, they did look good this weekend, and if they can somehow do it again next week they might have a shot to climb into the race. And it was a really poor decision by Pavan/McBain to drop out of these last two events, as they may have lost a grip on their spot in the top 18. All these teams on the bubble need to be playing as many events as they can these last few months.
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Post by robvolei on Mar 25, 2024 0:38:29 GMT -5
Latvia taking care of business.
Heather was getting tired but still decided to rip jump serves. She did have success with them but as she lost energy she was serving into the net.
The reffing was pretty bad from a few of the games I watched. A bunch of no calls on obvious illegal actions.
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Post by houdini on Mar 25, 2024 1:30:08 GMT -5
that's like listing baseball Home Runs and not listing Strikeouts next to it. Useless stat.
You're right. If I had time I would expand and refine many of the stats on FIVB. Here are the aces / error ratios. Most Datavolley inputs would also show the stat for serves returned without an attack or out of system attacks. Those stats are also telling. Tina, Victoria and Heather do well on those also.
Bukovec the errors leader. The stats include two qualification games for the Canadians and the Klingers.
Percentage aces aces / errors Graudina (LAT) 10.22% 14 26 Victoria (BRA) 10.09 11 23 Bansley (CAN) 9.28 18 26 Borger (GER) 8.57 9 12 Klinger D. (AUT) 8.50 13 20 Raupelyte (LTU) 8.33 10 25 Paulikiene (LTU) 8.05 12 21 Klinger R. (AUT) 7.84 12 14 Ittlinger (GER) 7.69 7 12 Bukovec (CAN) 7.55 12 30 Samoilova (LAT). 7.43 11 17
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Post by acrossthepond on Mar 25, 2024 2:50:42 GMT -5
fivb.12ndr.at/ Is not working for me :/ First time checking the brackets with bvb info. It's pretty good. Yeah, had some server issues unfortunately...
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Post by VolleyballMag on Mar 25, 2024 8:36:40 GMT -5
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Post by houdini on Mar 26, 2024 2:38:08 GMT -5
Watching highlights, it appears Heather’s attack and serving are better than ever (albeit, against a weaker field this tourney). Also liking how Sophie’s making more shots nowadays instead of swinging on everything. May renew my subscription in order to watch the Gold match against 🇱🇻. I agree, with one exception. It was better in her Quarterfinal win at the Olympics v. Slaes. That was a Canada round one win vs. Slaes. Leaving Cheng & Sponcil in 9th place.
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