mat1992 2,228 Report post Posted September 27, 2022 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TigersTigers 69 Report post Posted September 27, 2022 Deserved. Absolutely outrageous numbers from Cajic this weekend. For those of you who don't fully understand volleyball statistics, hitting percentage is a stat commonly used to identify how effective an attacker is for their team. It reads just like a batting average, but is measured by the formula (Kills - Errors) / Total Attempts. If a player takes 10 swings, gets 5 kills, and makes 3 errors, her percentage will be .200. If she makes 3 kills and 5 errors, her percentage will be -.200. A negative percentage means you are hurting the team more than you are helping it. A good team will want their outside hitters hitting between .180-.280, their middles hitting between .300-.400, and their opposites hitting between .240-.340. Middles are always expected to have the highest hitting percentages, as they get fewer attempts and they don't have to deal with any out-of-system balls (ie. when the pass and set are not ideal). So how good was Cajic this weekend? She had 43 attempts, made 2 errors, and had 32 kills. (32-2)/43, for a percentage of .698. An opposite who is consistently half as effective as Cajic was this weekend would be considered a generational player. For the season so far, Cajic has an efficiency of .442, the highest I have ever seen for a Towson pin hitter. She is currently fifth in the nation in this statistic, only behind four middles. Nina Cajic won't win CAA Player of the Year because Towson has too many other good attackers, so they don't have to rely on her as heavily as Delaware does on Lani Mason, or Elon does on Leah Daniel. But the fact is, she is the best offensive player in this conference, and she will be playing high-level professional volleyball once she leaves Towson. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tu_fan 110 Report post Posted September 27, 2022 1 hour ago, TigersTigers said: Deserved. Absolutely outrageous numbers from Cajic this weekend. For those of you who don't fully understand volleyball statistics, hitting percentage is a stat commonly used to identify how effective an attacker is for their team. It reads just like a batting average, but is measured by the formula (Kills - Errors) / Total Attempts. If a player takes 10 swings, gets 5 kills, and makes 3 errors, her percentage will be .200. If she makes 3 kills and 5 errors, her percentage will be -.200. A negative percentage means you are hurting the team more than you are helping it. A good team will want their outside hitters hitting between .180-.280, their middles hitting between .300-.400, and their opposites hitting between .240-.340. Middles are always expected to have the highest hitting percentages, as they get fewer attempts and they don't have to deal with any out-of-system balls (ie. when the pass and set are not ideal). So how good was Cajic this weekend? She had 43 attempts, made 2 errors, and had 32 kills. (32-2)/43, for a percentage of .698. An opposite who is consistently half as effective as Cajic was this weekend would be considered a generational player. For the season so far, Cajic has an efficiency of .442, the highest I have ever seen for a Towson pin hitter. She is currently fifth in the nation in this statistic, only behind four middles. Nina Cajic won't win CAA Player of the Year because Towson has too many other good attackers, so they don't have to rely on her as heavily as Delaware does on Lani Mason, or Elon does on Leah Daniel. But the fact is, she is the best offensive player in this conference, and she will be playing high-level professional volleyball once she leaves Towson. Thanks for the continued explanations. Remarkable performance and great to see the well earned recognition... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TUTigers 119 Report post Posted September 28, 2022 Loving the detailed volleyball analysis. Thanks for all the explanations! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Blazer49 184 Report post Posted September 28, 2022 Yes, please keep information like this coming we are reading it! The more the team succeeds the more novice like myself will want to know more and more stuff like this to understand just how well the players and team is doing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Moleman1 43 Report post Posted September 28, 2022 I'm not posting much last few years, but still avidly follow the teams via this site. Glad to see W Soccer doing well, and spectacular success of Volleyball this year to date!.. Wish MLax would snap outta their funk. Everyone knows that was a keystone sport for the school in bygone seasons, the last of which was Spring 2017. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TigerNation 49 Report post Posted October 2, 2022 Got to see the team play today. They had to fight a little harder than normal to win this one. Coach called a clutch timeout during the third set. They are now 16-0. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TigersTigers 69 Report post Posted October 3, 2022 (edited) Hooray for 16-0, but the team did play poorly today. This match and the Rutgers match were their two worst performances of the season. Both matches should have been sweeps, but ended up turning into grinds. But that's just how it is sometimes. No team in any sport has their best day every day, and good teams make themselves tough to beat when they're having a bad day. It still stands that right now, this Towson team knows how to make themselves very tough to beat. Looking ahead to next week, these Delaware matches are starting to look extremely tough. Early on, Delaware looks to be the second best team in the conference. Both teams are undefeated, but Towson has only played the 3 newcomers, who will all finish in the bottom 5 this season. Delaware, on the other hand, has already beaten Northeastern and CofC, who will both finish in the top 5. They are one of the oldest teams in the CAA, and have already won numerous close matches. Like the Pitt tournament, this upcoming weekend will tell us a lot about both of these teams. On a different note, Nina Cajic continues to have the most impressive individual season I've ever seen from a Tiger. She somehow managed to raise her already ludicrous hitting percentage slightly, to finish the weekend at .444. For a frame of reference, she had 13 kills and 2 errors today, for a hitting percentage of .393. That performance would be considered a masterclass by any team in the nation, but it actually lowered her season average slightly. Edited October 3, 2022 by TigersTigers Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
