{"id":82346,"date":"2022-07-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/?p=82346"},"modified":"2022-07-11T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T13:00:00","slug":"to-tip-or-not-to-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/11\/to-tip-or-not-to-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"To tip, or not to tip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fellow blogger and researcher Hai-Binh Ly has done <a href=\"https:\/\/thevolleyballanalyst.wordpress.com\/2022\/07\/05\/which-attack-is-the-most-effective-in-volleyball-hard-attacks-roll-shots-or-tips\/\">a study on the effectiveness of tipping<\/a> at the levels he mostly observes. You may recall that I blogged previously about other stuff he&#8217;s done <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/using-point-related-performance-metrics\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/to-block-or-not-to-block\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/considerations-serve-reception-ratings\/\">here<\/a>. In this post he compares hitting percentages for spikes, roll shots, and tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the figures in the piece are interesting and have value, we need a grain of salt before application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Consideration #1: Interaction of attack types<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, it is important to understand how the success of tipping\/rolling relates to hard swing performance. Generally speaking, the idea of a tip or roll shot is to catch the defense expecting a full swing. That is, of course, not counting the times when it&#8217;s just about trying to get the ball in the court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What happens as you increase the frequency of off-speed shots? Or if your effectiveness when spiking is low? The defense starts to expect the tips and rolls, right? Maybe they move a defender in to a position dedicated to tip coverage. That means tips score less often. It&#8217;s a case of diminishing returns, so you need to find the balance point.*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Consideration #2: What happens on non-kills?<\/h6>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We also have to keep in mind that we can&#8217;t just consider offensive effectiveness in terms of kills and errors (hitting efficiency). It&#8217;s also worth looking at what happens on those non-terminal plays. There&#8217;s a big difference between an attack the has the opponent scrambling and one which results in an in-system offensive opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result, a somewhat better metric to use here is rally win% after the off-speed shot. That will better capture what happens when there isn&#8217;t a kill or error.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*<em>It&#8217;s worth noting that there are a lot of teams out there who <a href=\"https:\/\/coachingvb.com\/should-i-commit-someone-to-defend-tips\/\">commit someone to tip coverage when it really isn&#8217;t warranted<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fellow blogger did some research on the effectiveness of off-speed shots. There are a couple additional considerations, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[421,422],"class_list":["post-82346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-volleyball-coaching-strategy","tag-volleyball-offense","tag-volleyball-offensive-strategy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testsite.coachingvb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}