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Feb 6, 20237 min read
Serving Series 11: Why You Should Optimize Instead of Maximize Ace:Error Ratio.
Previous post: Serving Series 10: When to Change Your Approach Late last year I wrote a blog about Ace:Error ratio. I've updated my...
Feb 3, 20238 min read
Serving Series 10: When to Change Your Approach
Previous post: Serving Series 9: Implementing an Approach Analytics-forward people are often accused of failing to understand the human...
Jan 13, 20234 min read
Serving Series 9: Implementing an Approach
Previous post: Serving Series 8: Developing an Approach with Experimental Design In my last post I wrote about how to use experimental...
Jan 5, 20236 min read
Serving Series 8: Developing an Approach with Experimental Design
Previous post: Serving Series 7: Serving Series 7: What a Data-Driven Approach Can Do, What it Can't, and How to Trust It In this post I...
Dec 16, 20227 min read
Serving Series 7: What a Data-Driven Approach Can Do, What it Can't, and How to Trust It
It's been a while since I last posted. I'm posting this from my hotel room in Omaha at the AVCA convention, which is pretty cool....
Dec 1, 20226 min read
Serving Series Part 6: Generating Athlete-Level Data
Sorry for missing this Tuesday, I had to take more time learning the statistics than I was expecting to. In my last post, I talked about...
Nov 25, 20224 min read
Serving Series Part 5: Identifying Suboptimal Shape
Previous post: Serving Series Part 4: Shaping Production How do we use shape to make our athletes more productive? How do we know if an...
Nov 23, 20224 min read
Serving Series Part 4: Shaping Production
Previous post: Serving Series Part 3: Serving Production and How to Measure It In player development, we have two tools for increasing...
Nov 18, 20222 min read
Serving Series Part 3: Serving Production and How to Measure It
From previous post: Serving Series Part 2: The All-or-Nothing Server: "Servers are productive insofar as they contribute to scoring...
Nov 15, 20222 min read
Serving Series Part 2: The All-or-Nothing Server
Previous post: Serving Series Part 1: Your team needs to miss more serves Let us imagine a server for whom the only outcomes of their...
Nov 7, 20222 min read
Serving Series Part 1: Your team needs to miss more serves
“We’re missing too many serves,” “Next one needs to be in,” “We’re better than this team, we just need to keep the ball in play.” How...
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