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Post by Josh Raymer on Oct 25, 2011 21:22:03 GMT -6
After kicking around the idea for years, WKU has finally taken the plunge and started compiling stats for its games, starting with the UK game back on October 15. Using footage from two cameras and a level of patience most mortals could only dream of, Brett Rice has painstakingly gone through and recorded stats in the following categories: 1) kills 2) throws 3) hit percentage 4) catches 5) team catches 6) blocks 7) balls secured off the opening rush 8) re-entries off a catch 9)time in the point 10) total duration of the point 11) time in percentage. You can see the fruits of his labor right here. Not only will this be key for WKU in recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of its game plan, but it will also help to further legitimize the league in the eyes of outsiders and members alike. Every sport has stats, but up until now, it was too difficult or too time-consuming to compile that kind of data for college dodgeball. Looks like we can't use that excuse anymore. As long as you have two cameras and one very dedicated team member, your club can also collect its own stats. So, answer me this NCDA: how do you think collecting stats can help the league?
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Post by hiller 87 on Oct 25, 2011 21:30:09 GMT -6
This is really cool. Good work Josh and Brett
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Post by cg on Oct 25, 2011 21:52:53 GMT -6
This sounds like a very interesting pilot program. I'm working on a different one for MSU that will be much less useful but I think players will like, given how much they play on the XBox and the PS3.
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Post by stokesj on Oct 26, 2011 1:55:12 GMT -6
Talk to Greg Trippiedi for stats on GVSU from last year. He has every game we played last year with all of those stats.
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Post by Dylan Fettig on Oct 26, 2011 10:27:35 GMT -6
I was thinking about this not too long ago.
It would be possible to make this a lot easier if you had someone with a voice recording device who basically just gave a play by play vocally so after the game the predeterminded dedicated player could just listen the the audio clip (and probably watch the video too) while recording the stats.
Also, if you were really organized, you could designate your JV / substitutes to be stat recorders for the people who are playing. One person who is not playing could record stats for 2-3 people and no time would be waisted after the game watching all the video.
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