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Post by badgerbreath on Apr 21, 2021 0:18:27 GMT -5
So, what magic dust has been cast onto Lauren Barnes? Look at these numbers - all at libero.
In 8 matches before April 21st, she averaged 3.43 D/S, with her highest return being 5D/S in the 4 setter against Illinois.
In 7 matches from April 21st on, she is averaging 5.72 D/S, and she has been under 5 only once, at 4.33 D/S against Michigan.
That is an insane transformation, and an insane rate of digs. I don't think I've ever seen something that before that didn't involve a position change.
Edit: yes, I mean February not April.
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Post by BadgerAce42 on Apr 21, 2021 5:40:24 GMT -5
So, what magic dust has been cast onto Lauren Barnes? Look at these numbers - all at libero. In 8 matches before April 21st, she averaged 3.43 D/S, with her highest return being 5D/S in the 4 setter against Illinois. In 7 matches from April 21st on, she is averaging 5.72 D/S, and she has been under 5 only once, at 4.33 D/S against Michigan. That is an insane transformation, and an insane rate of digs. I don't think I've ever seen something that before that didn't involve a position change. I mean she looks like a completely different human this season and not just because of the hair. She’s upping balls even Clark wasn’t. Love this kid.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2021 6:02:45 GMT -5
So, what magic dust has been cast onto Lauren Barnes? Look at these numbers - all at libero. In 8 matches before April 21st, she averaged 3.43 D/S, with her highest return being 5D/S in the 4 setter against Illinois. In 7 matches from April 21st on, she is averaging 5.72 D/S, and she has been under 5 only once, at 4.33 D/S against Michigan. That is an insane transformation, and an insane rate of digs. I don't think I've ever seen something that before that didn't involve a position change. I mean she looks like a completely different human this season and not just because of the hair. She’s upping balls even Clark wasn’t. Love this kid. home girl was a digging machine against Florida. It was very frustrating haha. Her block coverage was also stellar. She has to pick up her serve receive though. Everything else about her game is great
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Post by Wiswell on Apr 21, 2021 8:01:46 GMT -5
So, what magic dust has been cast onto Lauren Barnes? Look at these numbers - all at libero. In 8 matches before April 21st, she averaged 3.43 D/S, with her highest return being 5D/S in the 4 setter against Illinois. In 7 matches from April 21st on, she is averaging 5.72 D/S, and she has been under 5 only once, at 4.33 D/S against Michigan. That is an insane transformation, and an insane rate of digs. I don't think I've ever seen something that before that didn't involve a position change. I would say it's like Joe Musgrove being traded to the padres, Garrott Cole being traded to the Yankees, and a long line of other Pirates pitchers who finally got good after pitching for a lousy team, except Minnesota was not a lousy team. Nevertheless, your ability to thrive does depend on context.
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Post by rbball02 on Apr 21, 2021 8:16:38 GMT -5
So, what magic dust has been cast onto Lauren Barnes? Look at these numbers - all at libero. In 8 matches before April 21st, she averaged 3.43 D/S, with her highest return being 5D/S in the 4 setter against Illinois. In 7 matches from April 21st on, she is averaging 5.72 D/S, and she has been under 5 only once, at 4.33 D/S against Michigan. That is an insane transformation, and an insane rate of digs. I don't think I've ever seen something that before that didn't involve a position change. The simple answer is that UW is playing better teams who are getting blocked less frequently and dig UW attackers more making the rallies longer, she was unbelievable before that arbitrary date they were just crushing teams so didn't have the chance to rack up tons of counting stats.
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Post by BadgerAce42 on Apr 21, 2021 10:22:10 GMT -5
Lauren Barnes--second team, whatttttt?!
Dana and Hilley 1st team; Devyn 3rd team
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Post by ineedajob on Apr 21, 2021 10:33:19 GMT -5
So, what magic dust has been cast onto Lauren Barnes? Look at these numbers - all at libero. In 8 matches before April 21st, she averaged 3.43 D/S, with her highest return being 5D/S in the 4 setter against Illinois. In 7 matches from April 21st on, she is averaging 5.72 D/S, and she has been under 5 only once, at 4.33 D/S against Michigan. That is an insane transformation, and an insane rate of digs. I don't think I've ever seen something that before that didn't involve a position change. Today is April 21st. I'm assuming you mean March or Feb. since they've only played 6 matches since March 21. Maybe I'm just confused. However, I crunched some numbers. As with all "Per set" statistics, Digs/Set is another one that can grossly misrepresent what actually happens. I think a big part of her not racking up a ton of digs in the first half of the season is lack of opportunity - they simply didn't play very many points against their opponents and their opponents didn't have many attacks. Example: winning sets 25-10 will likely provide a lot fewer dig opportunities for an individual vs. winning sets 25-23 (that's 13 more rallies!) - looking back, they didn't play many close sets early on (they've gotten a little bit closer since). To further show the difference (I used Feb. 21 as the cut-off point instead of April 21 because I think that's what you meant to say)...: 1st half of season: Opponents had 31.75 Total Attacks/set (6.25 attack errors/set) - so really only 25.5 opportunities to dig a ball (and that doesn't include balls that UW blocked but were covered 2nd half of season: Opponents had 35.84 Total Attacks/set (5.8 attack errors/set) - so about 30 opportunities to dig a ball (same caveat as above) Now, that doesn't mean the full 2.3 D/S increase is all due to those differences. Her dig% (percentage of attacks she touched that turned into digs) did increase some in the latter half of the season (1st half: 81.3% vs. 2nd half: 84.8%), as did her share of the team's touches (Team is at 100% - Barnes 1st half: 27.5% vs. Barnes 2nd half: 33.4%)
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Post by vergyltantor on Apr 21, 2021 10:46:33 GMT -5
Congratulations to Dana Rettke on becoming only the sixth player in history to gain a well deserved 4th first team AVCA All-American award.
Here's to the whole team, do the B1G proud and bring home the National Championship.
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Post by badgerbreath on Apr 21, 2021 12:06:20 GMT -5
So, what magic dust has been cast onto Lauren Barnes? Look at these numbers - all at libero. In 8 matches before April 21st, she averaged 3.43 D/S, with her highest return being 5D/S in the 4 setter against Illinois. In 7 matches from April 21st on, she is averaging 5.72 D/S, and she has been under 5 only once, at 4.33 D/S against Michigan. That is an insane transformation, and an insane rate of digs. I don't think I've ever seen something that before that didn't involve a position change. Today is April 21st. I'm assuming you mean March or Feb. since they've only played 6 matches since March 21. Maybe I'm just confused. However, I crunched some numbers. As with all "Per set" statistics, Digs/Set is another one that can grossly misrepresent what actually happens. I think a big part of her not racking up a ton if digs in the first half of the season is lack of opportunity - they simply didn't play very many points against their opponents and their opponents didn't have many attacks. Example: winning sets 25-10 will likely provide a lot fewer dig opportunities for an individual vs. winning sets 25-23 (that's 13 more rallies!) - looking back, they didn't play many close sets early on (they've gotten a little bit closer since). To further show the difference (I used Feb. 21 as the cut-off point instead of April 21 because I think that's what you meant to say)...: 1st half of season: Opponents had 31.75 Total Attacks/set (6.25 attack errors/set) - so really only 25.5 opportunities to dig a ball (and that doesn't include balls that UW blocked but were covered 2nd half of season: Opponents had 35.84 Total Attacks/set (5.8 attack errors/set) - so about 30 opportunities to dig a ball (same caveat as above) She's dug only 13% of non error attacks before Feb 21, and since she's picking up 19%. That's a 43% increase in efficiency. That improvement basically accounts for the entire team's improvement in digs per non-error attempts over the same interval (50% to 55%), though that's a noisier number. That's a seven dig difference over a standard 3-set match between the two periods, or a 63% increase in digs/S. Hard to explain that in terms of relatively modest (18%) differences in non-error attacks. Given her early season rate of digs per non-error attempt, she would be at 4 D/S for the last half of the season instead of 5.7 D/S. The only way the increase in non error attacks can explain the difference in digs is if she is picking up 2.3/4.5 or 51 % of those additional attacks. I don't think that is reasonable. Dig's in hitter coverage is something you can't get at with these numbers. Still, I think something changed. I mean, MSU is not a very good team this year. That's when the change started. Michigan at the end of the season was not much better than Illinois or Purdue at the beginning of the season. Indiana actually had the highest HP against the badgers for the year. Maybe it's block touches and coordination between the block and D. Maybe they are giving her more responsibility. Maybe she is just moving better.
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Post by badgerbreath on Apr 21, 2021 12:14:38 GMT -5
Lauren Barnes--second team, whatttttt?! Dana and Hilley 1st team; Devyn 3rd team I've really come to love Barnes' play, but that is way surprising! And whoa, Devyn! First year AA. Dana one of only a handful of 4 time first team AAs. People doubt Loberg and Haggerty. I honestly would have a hard time replacing Haggerty with anyone - she's that important to the team in a lot of ways this time of year. Loberg just needs a big performance on the big stage. If she comes through, and I think she can, the badgers become an incredibly difficult proposition. Other teams know this.
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Post by ineedajob on Apr 21, 2021 12:26:36 GMT -5
Today is April 21st. I'm assuming you mean March or Feb. since they've only played 6 matches since March 21. Maybe I'm just confused. However, I crunched some numbers. As with all "Per set" statistics, Digs/Set is another one that can grossly misrepresent what actually happens. I think a big part of her not racking up a ton if digs in the first half of the season is lack of opportunity - they simply didn't play very many points against their opponents and their opponents didn't have many attacks. Example: winning sets 25-10 will likely provide a lot fewer dig opportunities for an individual vs. winning sets 25-23 (that's 13 more rallies!) - looking back, they didn't play many close sets early on (they've gotten a little bit closer since). To further show the difference (I used Feb. 21 as the cut-off point instead of April 21 because I think that's what you meant to say)...: 1st half of season: Opponents had 31.75 Total Attacks/set (6.25 attack errors/set) - so really only 25.5 opportunities to dig a ball (and that doesn't include balls that UW blocked but were covered 2nd half of season: Opponents had 35.84 Total Attacks/set (5.8 attack errors/set) - so about 30 opportunities to dig a ball (same caveat as above) She's dug only 13% of non error attacks before Feb 21, and since she's picking up 19%. That's a 43% increase in efficiency. That improvement basically accounts for the entire team's improvement in digs per non-error attempts over the same interval (50% to 55%), though that's a noisier number. That's a seven dig difference over a standard 3-set match between the two periods, or a 63% increase in digs/S. Hard to explain that in terms of relatively modest (18%) differences in non-error attacks. Given her early season rate of digs per non-error attempt, she would be at 4 D/S for the last half of the season instead of 5.7 D/S. The only way the increase in non error attacks can explain the difference in digs is if she is picking up 2.3/4.5 or 51 % of those additional attacks. I don't think that is reasonable. Dig's in hitter coverage is something you can't get at with these numbers. Still, I think something changed. I mean, MSU is not a very good team this year. That's when the change started. Michigan at the end of the season was not much better than Illinois or Purdue at the beginning of the season. Indiana actually had the highest HP against the badgers for the year. Maybe it's block touches and coordination between the block and D. Maybe they are giving her more responsibility. Maybe she is just moving better. I can't really dispute that and I'm not trying to discount any noticeable improvement either. This is just part of my own personal war against common box score and "Per Set" statistics. I edited my post above so you probably didn't see this change: "Her dig% (percentage of attacks she touched that turned into digs) did increase some in the latter half of the season (1st half: 81.3% vs. 2nd half: 84.8%), as did her share of the team's touches (Team is at 100% - Barnes 1st half: 27.5% vs. Barnes 2nd half: 33.4%)" Maybe that last part was the result of them giving her more responsibility or the block trying to force teams her way or her playing better like you said. Edit for the record: I was wrong that Wisconsin played more points/set in the first half of the season, but their opponents did still have more attacks/set.
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Post by rainbowbadger on Apr 21, 2021 19:34:11 GMT -5
Rainbows just got on 151 South! Omaha, here we come!
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Post by badgerbreath on Apr 21, 2021 19:36:12 GMT -5
Rainbows just got on 151 South! Omaha, here we come! Have you had tickets? I saw that ones opened up today, but hard to get there on short notice from NY during a work day.
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Post by rainbowbadger on Apr 21, 2021 19:39:53 GMT -5
Rainbows just got on 151 South! Omaha, here we come! Have you had tickets? I saw that ones opened up today, but hard to get there on short notice from NY during a work day. Yeah, we bought them last month when they went on sale. Call it a good feeling.
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Post by knapplc on Apr 21, 2021 21:51:01 GMT -5
Hey, Wisconsintonians. Here's your girls.
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