Ben Raymond, Adrien Ickowicz, Mark Lebedew, Jim Dietz.

Previously, we looked at the value of points at different stages of a volleyball set. For that article we used data from the Polish Plusliga men’s competition — but do we see the same patterns in other leagues?

Here we repeat the analyses using data from the German Bundesliga (first division, men’s and women’s — data courtesy Michael Mattes) and NCAA Division 1 women’s. For each plot, we have shown the corresponding plot from the original analysis (of the Polish PlusLiga men’s competition) on the right for reference.

German Bundesliga 1 women’s

1821 matches from from 2008/09 to 2019/20.

Point value

Reference (Polish men’s result)

Weighted point value

Reference (Polish men’s result)

Weighted point value vs timeouts

Reference (Polish men’s result)

(In this league there are technical timeouts at points 8 and 16 in sets 1–4, which explains the lack of team timeouts called around those points.)

German Bundesliga 1 men’s

1715 matches from 2008/09 to 2019/20.

Point value

Reference (Polish men’s result)

Weighted point value

Reference (Polish men’s result)

Weighted point value vs timeouts

Reference (Polish men’s result)

NCAA D1 Women’s 2019

4451 matches from 2019.

Point value

Reference (Polish men’s result)

Weighted point value

Reference (Polish men’s result)

Weighted point value vs timeouts

Reference (Polish men’s result)