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ViPR D1 Volleyball Wisconsin 1,711.3731

Ivy League - Conference Overview

Conference Division: Division 1
Rnk. Team Résumé Recent ViPR Adj SP% Adj SO% Adj. Hit Mar.
1st Yale 1,468.3991 1,465.6130 1,467.0054 46.67 60.90 0.083
2nd Penn 1,378.1873 1,363.9758 1,371.0631 41.34 57.25 -0.020
3rd Columbia 1,367.7839 1,363.2257 1,365.5029 40.51 57.49 -0.013
4th Princeton 1,359.3969 1,344.0959 1,351.7248 40.92 55.31 -0.026
5th Harvard 1,334.5971 1,307.6193 1,321.0393 39.12 53.74 -0.044
6th Cornell 1,292.0619 1,285.2036 1,288.6282 37.78 53.58 -0.084
7th Brown 1,278.3787 1,269.0003 1,273.6809 39.81 50.54 -0.089
8th Dartmouth 1,187.4137 1,186.1080 1,186.7607 34.13 48.86 -0.158

ViPR Adjusted Offenses and Defenses are adjusted to expected values against an average team in the same division.

ViPR Division Adjusted Offenses

Rnk. Team Hit% Kill% HE% AST% O_DIG% O_BLK% ACE%
1st Yale 0.2392 36.79 12.87 34.43 49.52 5.32 4.70
2nd Princeton 0.2120 34.95 13.75 32.87 51.65 6.14 3.82
3rd Columbia 0.2078 34.27 13.50 32.08 53.37 5.04 3.99
4th Harvard 0.2008 33.90 13.82 32.25 53.52 5.73 4.22
5th Penn 0.1626 30.58 14.32 28.23 57.22 5.69 3.45
6th Brown 0.1515 30.94 15.79 28.94 54.75 6.52 5.67
7th Cornell 0.1504 32.79 17.76 30.64 51.26 7.12 6.50
8th Dartmouth 0.1194 27.86 15.92 25.49 58.68 7.33 6.60

ViPR Division Adjusted Defenses

Rnk. Team O_Hit% O_Kill% O_HE% O_AST% DIG% BLK% O_ACE%
1st Yale 0.1565 30.85 15.20 28.69 55.68 5.49 5.11
2nd Penn 0.1831 32.06 13.75 29.54 55.90 4.68 4.23
3rd Columbia 0.2205 37.90 15.86 35.23 47.33 6.11 5.05
4th Cornell 0.2341 38.94 15.53 35.79 45.37 6.19 6.26
5th Princeton 0.2376 38.89 15.13 36.10 46.00 5.24 7.74
6th Brown 0.2402 38.41 14.39 35.59 47.46 3.93 6.97
7th Harvard 0.2448 39.38 14.90 36.75 45.95 5.96 6.93
8th Dartmouth 0.2777 41.19 13.42 36.82 44.40 3.92 7.43

Conference Strength

Description Average Remove First and Last Remove Top and Bottom 2 Remove Top and Bottom 3 Composite
Scores 1,328.1756 1,328.6065 1,331.7238 1,336.3821 1,331.2220
Difference 0.4309 3.5481 8.2064 4.0618

Point Totals

Offense Defense
Team Sets S SP SA SE SP% S/SA S/SE OS SPA SAA SEA SO% OS/SAA OS/SEA
Yale 84 1,974 948 99 150 48.02 19.9 13.2 1,732 691 88 112 60.10 19.7 15.5
Penn 96 2,123 937 88 125 44.14 24.1 17.0 2,056 867 85 152 57.83 24.2 13.5
Columbia 84 1,887 821 90 122 43.51 21.0 15.5 1,830 768 90 138 58.03 20.3 13.3
Princeton 93 2,059 914 93 101 44.39 22.1 20.4 2,040 887 150 171 56.52 13.6 11.9
Harvard 90 1,921 823 95 140 42.84 20.2 13.7 1,978 890 133 158 55.01 14.9 12.5
Cornell 97 2,063 852 151 271 41.30 13.7 7.6 2,167 971 125 175 55.19 17.3 12.4
Brown 82 1,723 743 110 149 43.12 15.7 11.6 1,884 919 128 143 51.22 14.7 13.2
Dartmouth 84 1,589 584 114 163 36.75 13.9 9.7 1,985 1,001 140 143 49.57 14.2 13.9
Conference Average 89 1,917 828 105 153 43.01 18.8 13.6 1,959 874 117 149 55.43 17.4 13.3
  • Sets - Team Sets Played
  • S - Serves
  • SP - Service Points
  • SA - Service Aces
  • SE - Service Errors
  • SP% - Service Point Percentage
  • S/SA - Serves Per Service Ace
  • S/SE - Serves Per Service Error
  • OS - Opponent Serves
  • SPA - Service Points Allowed
  • SAA - Service Aces Allowed
  • SEA - Service Errors Against
  • SO% - Team Sideout Percentage
  • OS/SAA - Serves Per Ace Allowed
  • OS/SEA - Serves Per Error Against

The Best Games in the Ivy League

Game Link EPIC Game Date Location Teams Sets Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5
GAME

70.56

 2012-09-22 Philadelphia, Pa.
Penn
Princeton
2
3
28
26
22
25
25
14
23
25
13
15
GAME

67.66

 2012-10-12
Yale
Princeton
3
1
22
25
25
22
25
19
25
22
GAME

67.46

 2012-10-05 Princeton, N.J.
Princeton
Columbia
3
1
32
34
25
19
25
22
25
19
GAME

67.18

 2012-11-02 Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard
Columbia
1
3
25
27
25
19
18
25
26
28
GAME

67.15

 2012-11-09 New York, NY
Columbia
Penn
3
1
25
21
18
25
28
26
25
16
GAME

67.02

 2012-09-28 Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard
Princeton
2
3
23
25
25
22
26
24
21
25
8
15
GAME

66.26

 2012-09-22 Providence, R.I.
Brown
Yale
1
3
15
25
26
28
25
20
25
27
GAME

66.11

 2012-10-20 Ithaca, N.Y.
Cornell
Columbia
2
3
22
25
19
25
25
21
25
23
16
18
GAME

65.90

 2012-10-26 New Haven, CT
Yale
Columbia
3
1
25
15
21
25
26
24
25
19
GAME

65.10

 2012-09-29 New York, NY
Columbia
Yale
0
3
14
25
22
25
23
25

HuskerGeek Ivy League All-Conference

1st Team

Name Team Role
Heather Braunagel Columbia A
Kelly Johnson Yale A
Lydia Rudnick Princeton A
Haley Wessels Yale A
Kendall Polan Yale D
Dani Shepherd Penn D
Ginny Willis Princeton S

2nd Team

Name Team Role
Megan Gaughn Columbia A
Lauren Martin Penn A
Kendall Peterkin Princeton A
Caroline Walters Harvard A
Mollie Rogers Yale D
Maddie Rudnick Yale D
Kelly Reinke Cornell S

Player of the Year

Rank Name Team
1 Lydia Rudnick Princeton
2 Kendall Polan Yale
3 Mollie Rogers Yale
4 Kelly Johnson Yale
5 Dani Shepherd Penn

Attacker of the Year

Rank Name Team
1 Lydia Rudnick Princeton
2 Kelly Johnson Yale
3 Kendall Peterkin Princeton
4 Megan Gaughn Columbia
5 Taylor Docter Harvard

Setter of the Year

Rank Name Team
1 Ginny Willis Princeton
2 Kelly Reinke Cornell
3 Colleen Brennan Columbia
4 Kayden Cook Dartmouth

Defensive Player of the Year

Rank Name Team
1 Dani Shepherd Penn
2 Maddie Rudnick Yale
3 Sarah Daschbach Princeton
4 Kathryn Conner Brown
5 Kristen Casey Harvard

WPA

Rk. Name Team WPA
1 Lydia Rudnick Princeton 24.2942
2 Dani Shepherd Penn 21.4403
3 Kendall Polan Yale 21.3600
4 Emma White Penn 19.9960
5 Mollie Rogers Yale 19.5873
6 Ronnie Bither Penn 18.5015
7 Ginny Willis Princeton 17.9040
8 Kristen Etterbeek Penn 17.7791
9 Kelly Johnson Yale 17.6631
10 Taylor Docter Harvard 16.8292

Offensive WPA

Rk. Name Team OWPA
1 Lydia Rudnick Princeton 15.2900
2 Kendall Polan Yale 11.8714
3 Kelly Johnson Yale 10.8658
4 Ginny Willis Princeton 10.7071
5 Ronnie Bither Penn 9.8672
6 Mollie Rogers Yale 8.8601
7 Megan Gaughn Columbia 8.3468
8 Rachel D'Epagnier Cornell 8.1875
9 Taylor Docter Harvard 7.9771
10 Kelly Reinke Cornell 7.6174

Defensive WPA

Rk. Name Team DWPA
1 Dani Shepherd Penn 20.9306
2 Emma White Penn 13.7312
3 Kathryn Conner Brown 12.5234
4 Sarah Daschbach Princeton 12.1174
5 Maddie Rudnick Yale 12.0089
6 Kristen Casey Harvard 11.0276
7 Kristen Etterbeek Penn 10.7655
8 Mollie Rogers Yale 10.7271
9 Kendall Polan Yale 9.4885
10 Lydia Rudnick Princeton 9.0042

WPA Per Set

Rk. Name Team WPA/S
1 Lydia Rudnick Princeton 0.2792
2 Kendall Polan Yale 0.2543
3 Mollie Rogers Yale 0.2332
4 Dani Shepherd Penn 0.2281
5 Emma White Penn 0.2197
6 Kelly Johnson Yale 0.2103
7 Ginny Willis Princeton 0.2058
8 Kelly Reinke Cornell 0.1979
9 Kristen Etterbeek Penn 0.1975
10 Ronnie Bither Penn 0.1927

Offensive WPA Per Set

Rk. Name Team OWPA/S
1 Lydia Rudnick Princeton 0.1757
2 Kendall Polan Yale 0.1413
3 Kelly Johnson Yale 0.1294
4 Ginny Willis Princeton 0.1231
5 Kelly Reinke Cornell 0.1120
6 Megan Gaughn Columbia 0.1057
7 Mollie Rogers Yale 0.1055
8 Ronnie Bither Penn 0.1028
9 Kendall Peterkin Princeton 0.0996
10 Colleen Brennan Columbia 0.0958

Defensive WPA Per Set

Rk. Name Team DWPA/S
1 Dani Shepherd Penn 0.2227
2 Kathryn Conner Brown 0.1527
3 Emma White Penn 0.1509
4 Maddie Rudnick Yale 0.1430
5 Sarah Daschbach Princeton 0.1377
6 Charlee Dyroff Columbia 0.1329
7 Mollie Rogers Yale 0.1277
8 Kristen Casey Harvard 0.1225
9 Kristen Etterbeek Penn 0.1196
10 Kendall Polan Yale 0.1130

Explanations

Conference Strength – The Conference Strength table has two parts.  The first row is a list of averages of the scores for a selection of teams in the conference ranging from all of them under the heading “Average” to an average of teams in the conference if we remove the top and bottom three teams.  This is designed to check if a conference is propped up by its elite teams of held down by its weakest teams.  The Composite score on the far right is an average of those scores.  It is a weighted score where the middle teams have a higher value than the edge teams.  The second row containing difference is simply a measure of how different removing the edge teams makes the conference from its initial average.  If the numbers are positive, then removing the edge teams increases the conferences rating.  If a value grows from the value before it, then the team removed at the bottom of the ratings was rated farther outside of the mean than the team removed at the top of the ratings.  It was weighing the average down so to speak.  The Composite difference at the far right is simply an average of the differences.

The Best Conference Games – A short list of the best games played between two members of the conference which is calculated using the EPIC score of each game.  EPIC score is essentially very simple amounting to adding the teams combined ViPR Rating and the total Win Probability Added scored by each team.

All-Conference Teams – All-conference teams are calculated using Win Probability Added per Set Played and the quality of the team that the player plays on. Team quality is included because better teams tend to have better players and more of them.  This often means that players on better teams have fewer opportunities than standouts on lesser teams.

Awards Lists – Each awards list uses the same formula that is used to calculate All-Conference Teams, and decides based on the focus of the list.  Player of the Year has no limitation on how the player score is added up. While Attacker of the Year must have a higher attack score than any other metric.  Similarly Setter and Defensive Player must acquire most of their score through those metrics.

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