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Post by Not Me on Oct 14, 2023 12:19:07 GMT -5
The Badgers' serving is definitely getting better; 7 errors / 11 aces tonight. Compare with some other top teams tonight: Nebraska 14 errors / 2 aces Louisville 11 / 2 Pitt 8 / 0 Serving could be the difference in some big matches. Never thought I'd be saying that this year. Props to the players who work hard every day to make this happen. GO BADGERS. But only Wisconsin played Rutgers |
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Post by badgerbreath on Oct 14, 2023 13:26:21 GMT -5
The Badgers' serving is definitely getting better; 7 errors / 11 aces tonight. Compare with some other top teams tonight: Nebraska 14 errors / 2 aces Louisville 11 / 2 Pitt 8 / 0 Serving could be the difference in some big matches. Never thought I'd be saying that this year. Props to the players who work hard every day to make this happen. GO BADGERS. But only Wisconsin played Rutgers The badgers had problems with SEs early in the season, but I don't think there is any doubt that the badgers are serving much better than the huskers right now. In the B1G... SA/S SE/S OppHP Huskers 1.08 3.27 0.148 Badgers 2.52 2.29 0.119 A better measure is SAs and SEs is comparing performance against the shared opponents: OSU, UM and Indiana. The story is not different... SA/S SE/S OppHP Huskers 1.1 3.7 0.151 Badgers 2.3 2.6 0.115 This is probably the biggest point of contrast between the two teams right now. The huskers are getting much less than the badgers in terms of aces and Opp HP from serving aggressively, while racking up substantially more SEs. Just in terms of aces and errors it represents a difference of 2-3 points per set. To me high error rate is typical of a young team. The badgers have seen something similar in 2017 when they had a big incoming class that served aggressively but errored ~2.5 times more often then they aced. They eventually got better through the years. I think Indiana is doing much better in that respect this year than last, too. It's one big reason they have become much more dangerous as a team. |
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