Why are stats so important?

Because your “eyes lie”. You tend to pay more attention to dramatic actions and miss the mundane actions. Plus, you can’t tell the difference between a 1.50 passer and a 1.75 passer just by watching.

Stats provide an unbiased score for your players, just a like a test grade in school. Instead of Megan is passing well, Megan has improved from 1.60 to 1.75 and has reduced her error rate by 5% to 14%. 

Focus on the stats that matter.

You only need to track a few key stats for each level of play. Keep it as simple as serve and receive error %. Expand as skills improve to include the quality of the serve and receive. Then add kill rates. 
 
We’ve done extensive analysis of over 20,000 teams from college to U11 and have over 1,000,000 sets of data. Learn more about skills that correlate to winning and losing

Serve-Receive Error % is a simple but powerful stat that determines your team's level of play.

Reception skill determines whether you can control your opponent’s serve and score points. It’s considered the most difficult skill to master. Even if you hit well, you can’t win consistently without good serve-receive. Calculate it by counting the number of receive errors (balls that aren’t returned to your opponent) and dividing it by the total number of serves received.

Choose your level.

For statistics training that will help you better understand how to improve your team’s performance, choose your level below based on your players’ serve-receive performance, then click the corresponding button at the right.
Beginner

​Receive Error % Over 50%
Many novice players, still learning how to pass
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Low Intermediate

​Receive Error % 30-50%
More experienced players but still learning how to pass
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High Intermediate

​Receive Error % 15-30%
Experienced players getting better at receiving consistently
Advanced

​Receive Error % 8-15%
Team is very good at receiving the ball

About the creator

Kyle Mashima founded Rotate123 LLC to create software tools for volleyball coaches that would increase their insights, improve their team’s performance.  He has been an active player since 1968 and was the last student coach of the Stanford Men’s team before the program moved to full varsity status.  He is an active high school and club coach and is CAP 1, 2 and GMS certified.  Kyle has taught numerous seminars/webinars for the AVCA, USAV, JVA and the Art of Coaching Volleyball.  He has also written articles for USA Volleyball and Coaching Volleyball Magazines.  Kyle specializes in statistics as the founder of Rotate123/SoloStats123 and has taught over 700 coaches on how to use stats to improve their teams.
 
Rotate 123 provides tools for rotation optimization and statistics along with video breakdown.  These easy-to-use, low-cost products were designed for part-time coaches in the high school and club space.  Because of the low cost and ease of learning, over 25% of the coaches are from collegiate and professional programs.
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