Conference or Tournament Rankings
        The following examples were taken from the 1998 NAIA National Volleyball Championship with 20 teams participating with 12 players on each team.  For this display, only the top seven teams are shown, however, for the tournament, all 20 were printed out.  The first page shows the accumulative stats for the entire tournament in the various categories.  Rankings were computed between all 240 players in number of kills, spiking percentage, assists, service percentage, passing percentage, number of digs, and blocking.  Players who did not meet a certain criteria were not ranked.  This shows up most obviously in the setting column where most of the players have a zero ranking.  The criteria can be set in the program.  For this tournament, in order for a player to be considered in a category, she would have to have a minimum number of attempts of 40, spiked 10 times, had at least 4 assists per game, served eight or more times, passed at least 20 time, got 13 or more digs, and got at least two blocks.  These criteria are printed at the bottom of the page in the Legend.
        The second page shows the players ranked in the various skills on a per game basis.  The skills included there are kills, assists, aces, good passes, digs made, blocks, and the average ranking of these skills.
        The next set of three pages shows the top ranking players in various categories.  This display shows only the top nine players, however, the program can show up to the top 30 players in each category.  The categories included in these rankings are spiking efficiency; average kills per game; assists per game; the top setters for average ranking of assists per game, serving percentage, digs, and blocks per game; serving percentage; aces per game; passing percentage, passes made per game; digs per game; blocks per game; top ranking players for average ranking of kills, aces, passes, digs, and blocks per game; top back court players for average ranking in serve percentage, passing percentage, and digs per game; and the top front court players for average ranking of spiking percentage, kills per game, a factor of two times the number of blocks per game.  This is to make blocking have the same weight as spiking since two categories were included for that skill.
        This program is very useful in helping to determine players that should be considered for all tournament or all conference honors.






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