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Post by nevollfan on Oct 25, 2022 17:53:39 GMT -5
Quick without looking up on the Nebraska 2022 roster list our starters and class to test your basic knowledge of Nebraska. You will be lucky to name the starters. I always (Hord) regret (Hames) opening up (ALlick) (LRod) posts (Lauenstein) from (Krause/Batenhorst) people (Knuckles) I've blocked (Kubik 1) on here. And by the way, I know your second middle but I'm forgetting her name. Queue the discrediting and disbelief that anyone on this board that doesn't have a corn cob behind their name knows anything about NE volleyball, has watched NE VB, or knows anything close to approaching what another commentator knows. Oh, and Orr was slated to start but has been abysmally in her head and unable to set...like at all...since recovering.  Touchy are we? I bet you looked at a roster before posting. I wouldn’t expect the truth here. PS i never have had a corn cob ever in my name or otherwise regarding Nebraska sports. They are really good to eat as corn of the cob during cookout season. |
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Post by robtearle on Oct 25, 2022 17:56:35 GMT -5
I always (Hord) regret (Hames) opening up (ALlick) (LRod) posts (Lauenstein) from (Krause/Batenhorst) people (Knuckles) I've blocked (Kubik 1) on here. And by the way, I know your second middle but I'm forgetting her name. Queue the discrediting and disbelief that anyone on this board that doesn't have a corn cob behind their name knows anything about NE volleyball, has watched NE VB, or knows anything close to approaching what another commentator knows. Oh, and Orr was slated to start but has been abysmally in her head and unable to set...like at all...since recovering. Touchy are we? I bet you looked at a roster before posting. I wouldn’t expect the truth here. PS i never have had a corn cob ever in my name or otherwise regarding Nebraska sports. They are really good to eat as corn of the cob during cookout season. Telling people you don't know what they do and don't know or understand based on essentially nothing is likely to draw that sort of reaction. |
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Post by gohuskervolleyball on Oct 25, 2022 18:16:38 GMT -5
I’m way too eager for this one to start. On paper it’s going to be a very even matchup in almost all positions with the exception of Libero.
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Post by rjaege on Oct 25, 2022 18:48:44 GMT -5
Just relisting this after your recent comments, to demonstrate fans don't always practice what they preach... This makes no sense. I was making this comment prospectively (look it up) for an event that has yet to occur. You alone make NE a fly over state. LMAO. Have no problem with pregame taunting. All part of the fun, but you complain about others doing what you do. LMAO |
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Post by scarletandcream on Oct 25, 2022 20:04:11 GMT -5
I’m way too eager for this one to start. On paper it’s going to be a very even matchup in almost all positions with the exception of Libero. Agreed. Wisconsin could have the nod in serving, but then Nebraska in passing, and then it just goes back and forth ok basically everything else too |
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Post by rjaege on Oct 25, 2022 20:27:47 GMT -5
Here is my take from a Ne perspective: Pettit prefers the 5-1 thinks Whitney hitting out of the back row offsets advantages of 6-2 Pettit thinks Lexi's ability to make OOS sets is key to the success of the NE 6-2 They talked about WI too. Ignored that part. Badgers are smelly and ill mannered. Expect the same tomorrow. |
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Post by rjaege on Oct 25, 2022 20:49:39 GMT -5
Here is my take from a Ne perspective: Pettit prefers the 5-1 thinks Whitney hitting out of the back row offsets advantages of 6-2 Pettit thinks Lexi's ability to make OOS sets is key to the success of the NE 6-2 They talked about WI too. Ignored that part. Badgers are smelly and ill mannered. Expect the same tomorrow. Just a suggestion for WI based on Pettit's comments: SERVE LEXI R.... |
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Post by gibbyb1 on Oct 25, 2022 21:11:17 GMT -5
Here is my take from a Ne perspective: Pettit prefers the 5-1 thinks Whitney hitting out of the back row offsets advantages of 6-2 Pettit thinks Lexi's ability to make OOS sets is key to the success of the NE 6-2 They talked about WI too. Ignored that part. Badgers are smelly and ill mannered. Expect the same tomorrow. I sort of think the fact that Pettit has never seen her hit a ball out of the back row should matter. |
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Post by rjaege on Oct 25, 2022 21:16:57 GMT -5
Here is my take from a Ne perspective: Pettit prefers the 5-1 thinks Whitney hitting out of the back row offsets advantages of 6-2 Pettit thinks Lexi's ability to make OOS sets is key to the success of the NE 6-2 They talked about WI too. Ignored that part. Badgers are smelly and ill mannered. Expect the same tomorrow. I sort of think the fact that Pettit has never seen her hit a ball out of the back row should matter. Good point. I am a fan of the 6-2 for this NE team in part because it gets most of the sophomores on the court and that gets more talented hitters on the court and that facilitates team unity and growth. Edit follow-up: All the front line hitters are getting rotations on both the left and right. This has to create game plan challenges for opponents. And it creates match-up flexibility for NE going forward. |
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Post by texashorns on Oct 25, 2022 21:25:33 GMT -5
I love devyn Robinson I just hope she has a great match and goes off.
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Post by badgerbreath on Oct 25, 2022 21:38:59 GMT -5
OK. Half season stats round up for these two teams' performances in conference play. These come with the same provisos as always: the teams have not played the same schedules, and they are evolving rather than static entities. These comparisons cannot take account of changes in either team as it progresses. I'm not going to cherry pick truly terrible performances, like the badger match against he gophers. It all goes in.
That said, there are some interesting lessons in terms of how the teams go about the business of winning.
1). Attack: The badgers have the best K/S in conference at 14.3, substantially above Nebraska at 12.9. This is a result of a combination of three things - the 2nd highest kill percentage at 41% (Neb is 5th at 38.2%), and the second lowest E/TA at 14.1% (Nebraska is best at 13.3%), and the 4th highest TA/S at 34.9 (Nebraska is 7th at 33.8). The low Nebraska kill rate and error rate is indicative of a conservative attacking philosophy that relies on defense to give them multiple chances on attack, so I'm a little puzzled why their TA/S is not better. Nonetheless, the differential between K/S for Nebraska (2.3) and opponents is larger than for Wisconsin (2.1)...just barely. That probably reflects the fact that the badgers have actually lost more sets by 8 to 3, and they do it by bunching up errors in a tight sequence.
The best K/S differential with opponents? OSU at 2.9.
2) Blocking: Maryland absolutely dominates the blocking category in the B1G. Badgers are the second best blocking team by set (3.19/S) and by TA (9.2%). Nebraska is 4th at both of those elements (2.85/S and 8.1% respectively). Badgers aren't great at preventing blocks from opponents (5th lowest, at 2.19/S and 6.3%/TA). Nebraska is second lowest at both of these (1.95/S and 5.8%). So taking blocks and block avoidance together, there is much less difference between the teams. UW gets a net of 1/S from it's blocking/anti-blocking game and NU gets 0.90. My feeling is that blocking is one of those stats that really varies a lot match to match based on adjustments, so hard to tell who has the ad here.
(Interesting tidbit about Maryland: Amazing blocking numbers (1st and not even close at 3.54/S) offset by low nonblocking error rate of opponents (12th at 10.4%). Are they blocking balls that would otherwise be errors? I always hear that a good blocking team leads to more unforced errors but I rarely see it in data. That said, the Terps are 5th in Opp. HP at 0.201, so that scans.)
3) Serving: The badgers have the second highest number of SA/S (1.63/S) and the greatest number of opponent service errors (2.54/S). That is a full 4.17/S points per set on the service game alone, although a lot of that depends on the opponent. Badgers are 2nd lowest in allowing service aces (1/S), and 5th lowest in service errors (1.83/S). The differential between the badgers and their opponents is 1.34 points/S. That's a big number. Nebraska is 3rd in SAs (1.55/S), 5th in opponent SEs (2.48), lowest in aces allowed (0.42), but 10th in SEs (2.79/S). That makes it second in differential of the service game with opponents at 0.83/S. Again, I think of serving as a "small number" variable varying a lot night-to-night, so badgers have an edge that could easily be overriden.
4) Digging: I like to look at digs per non error attack as a measure of efficiency. Interestingly, the huskers and badgers are pretty similar in this regard, ranking 3rd and 4th respectively at 49.3% and 48.3%. So Nebraska is a little better as expected, but not as much as you might have guessed. The best teams? Northwestern at 51.3 and OSU at 51.8.
Basically, it looks like a tight match dependent on execution. It's the badgers inconsistency that has me favor the huskers in my head. Of course I want the badgers to win in my heart, and they are fully capable of doing so.
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Post by rjaege on Oct 25, 2022 21:49:09 GMT -5
OK. Half season stats round up for these two teams' performances in conference play. These come with the same provisos as always: the teams have not played the same schedules, and they are evolving rather than static entities. These comparisons cannot take account of changes in either team as it progresses. I'm not going to cherry pick truly terrible performances, like the badger match against he gophers. It all goes in. That said, there are some interesting lessons in terms of how the teams go about the business of winning. 1). Attack: The badgers have the best K/S in conference at 14.3, substantially above Nebraska at 12.9. This is a result of a combination of three things - the 2nd highest kill percentage at 41% (Neb is 5th at 38.2%), and the second lowest E/TA at 14.1% (Nebraska is best at 13.3%), and the 4th highest TA/S at 34.9 (Nebraska is 7th at 33.8). The low Nebraska kill rate and error rate is indicative of a conservative attacking philosophy that relies on defense to give them multiple chances on attack, so I'm a little puzzled why their TA/S is not better. Nonetheless, the differential between K/S for Nebraska (2.3) and opponents is larger than for Wisconsin (2.1)...just barely. That probably reflects the fact that the badgers have actually lost more sets by 8 to 3. The best K/S differential with opponents? OSU at 2.9. 2) Blocking: Maryland absolutely dominates the blocking category in the B1G. Badgers are the second best blocking team by set (3.19/S) and by TA (9.2%). Nebraska is 4th at both of those elements (2.85/S and 8.1% respectively). Badgers aren't great at preventing blocks from opponents (5th, at 2.19/S and 6.3%/TA). Nebraska is second at both of these (1.95/S and 5.8%). So taking blocks and block avoidance together, there is much less difference between the teams. UW gets a net of 1/S from it's blocking/anti-blocking game and NU gets 0.90. My feeling is that blocking is one of those stats that really varies a lot match to match based on adjustments, so hard to tell who has the ad here. 3) Serving: The badgers have the second highest number of SA/S (1.63/S) and the greatest number of opponent service errors (2.54/S). That is a full 4.17/S points per set on the service game alone, although a lot of that depends on the opponent. Badgers are 2nd lowest in allowing service aces (1/S), and 5th lowest in service errors (1.83/S). The differential between the badgers and their opponents is 1.34 points/S. That's a big number. Nebraska is 3rd in SAs (1.55/S), 5th in opponent SEs (2.48), lowest in aces allowed (0.42), but 10th in SEs (2.79/S). That makes it second in differential of the service game with opponents at 0.83/S. The big difference here is that NEB has a much higher SE/S (1.2/S) but also a lower number of SAs allowed (0.58/S). Again, I think of serving as varying a lot night-to-night, so badgers have an edge that could easily be overriden. 4) Digging: I like to look at digs per non error attack as a measure of efficiency. Interestingly, the huskers and badgers are pretty similar in this regard, ranking 3rd and 4th respectively at 49.3% and 48.3%. So Nebraska is a little better as expected, but not as much as you might have guessed. The best teams? Northwestern at 51.3 and OSU at 51.8. My take. Both are very good, top 5 teams. I think as a NE fan that NE is a bit better, but it's played in WI. Great match coming in less than 24 hrs. Still have not changed my opinion: Badgers are smelly criters. |
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Post by greatlakesvballer on Oct 25, 2022 23:52:56 GMT -5
They talked about WI too. Ignored that part. Badgers are smelly and ill mannered. Expect the same tomorrow. I saw Michaela Chester interviewing Emily Ehman - posted on YouTube tonight - which included discussion of volleyball venues and fans briefly. Ehman said Nebraska volleyball fans are polite and knowledgeable. She didn’t say anything about Badger fans being smelly….  |
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Post by spicycheesebread on Oct 26, 2022 0:02:35 GMT -5
I’m way too eager for this one to start. On paper it’s going to be a very even matchup in almost all positions with the exception of Libero. I definitely agree. I suspect the glaring difference will be in the serve receive game. Wisky's libero commits a lot of REs, particularly in the biggest games (conceded 10 aces in UW's three losses). GG is a fan favorite, but she's a freshman and 3rd worst in the conference at serve receive (0.41 RE/set). She can get rattled in big games. Will Wisky see more Shanel beyond just a serving specialist? The quality of blocking and middles on both teams is so darn good. UW is capable of a win, but would have to serve lights out and not commit their own service errors in droves. Given UW's inconsistency in the last two months, it's really hard to know which Badger team will show up. That said, no one has beaten the Badgers in "The Dungeon" yet this season. It's never an easy out. The anticipation is brutal. |
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Post by volleyaudience on Oct 26, 2022 0:11:22 GMT -5
Hoping for a great match between two well matched top teams. Hoping for a Husker red win. GO BIG TEN!!
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