The following question came in from a reader:
What percent of kills should we expect on a perfect pass? Serve receive or free balls?
The answer to this is reliant very much on level of play. High school girls probably do not score at the same rate as college men, for example. Unfortunately, the mailer didn’t tell me what level they are at.
I honestly don’t have a specific answer in any case. I reached out to Mark Lebedew from At Home on the Court to see what he had to say, and he told me in the men’s PlusLiga in Poland (the top professional division) it’s a 62% kills rate, with a 47% hitting efficiency. This struck me as low, but that just goes to show that personal impressions aren’t always (or even often?) right. 🙂
Mark went on to say the PlusLiga sideout rate off perfect passes is 72%.
My analysis from the 2017 Midwestern State suggested our perfect pass kill rate was below 40%, which was definitely sub-optimal.
I’m curious to hear what folks with good figures say about kill % and sideout rates at their level. If you have any data, please share via a comment below.
