Wow. She is incredible.
Wow. She is incredible.
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What's this equivalent to in football terms, a 60 - 0 victory? It seems as if most of the conference won't offer much of a challenge with the exception of LMU, maybe St. Mary's and San Diego. This year though it seems BYU is a cut above most teams not named Stanford.Originally Posted by KillerDog
"Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
Nebraska is really good too. They lost to a good Florida team the 1st match of the season, but that was before Lexi Sun (a very good OH2) came back from injury. I don't think there is much difference between BYU, Stanford, and Nebraska. I don't think Foecke is quite as good as RJP and Plummer but she's close. So Nebraska also has one of the very best OH in the country. I also think Minnesota will likely be with that group by the end of the season. They are super athletic and their speed to the pins is impressive.
Too bad Ballard isn't playing up to expectations. That would make BYU exceptionally dangerous. Let's hope this is BYU's year.
"Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
BYU 3-0 over Portland. Another dominating performance against a midrange (top 50ish RPI) team.
San Diego looks good; their young hitters are starting to play pretty well. San Diego at San Diego is going to be a real test.
I bet they tie.
I think that would only happen if Marshall Faulk's daughter played for them.
One real upside of Robinson getting so much time this year is it will really help with the transition to the post RJP era. I'm pretty confident they move her to the left side next year and use her as a six rotation OH. She is going to be great on the left side. You can already see it; how quickly she can turn it and the angles she can get when she gets to hit on the left side this year are pretty great.
Ha, excellent reference.
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Not long ago an obituary appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune that said the recently departed had "died doing what he enjoyed most—watching BYU lose."
Other night I decided to write a web-scraper that scraped volleyball scores off of stats.ncaa.org. So I did a statistical model to estimate volleyball ranking based on point differential set by set. I was kind of surprised, BYU actually came out on top (I figured it would be Stanford):
Could be an error; my web-scraper is probably not at 100% accuracy in terms of parsing the scores (although I didn't find any errors with my latest spot checking). So there you go, BYU really is #1 (ok, the difference between BYU and Stanford is by no means statistically meaningful).Code:team rating 1 BYU 25.129406 2 Stanford 24.686814 3 Nebraska 23.244137 4 Minnesota 23.091123 5 Illinois 22.727296 6 Wisconsin 22.645981 7 Pittsburgh 22.189310 8 Texas 21.877285 9 Southern California 21.679666 10 Michigan 21.616609
Last edited by pelagius; 09-30-2018 at 02:56 AM.
decent reference - taking the liberty with San Diego vs San Diego State takes it down a notch.
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I agree �� Her build is that of an OH and so is her game. She can pass nails too.
3 of the top four have BYU head coaches and the 4th has a BYU assistant.
Now that have data, I can actually estimate win probability. So, here is my estimated win probability for the BYU @ San Diego match this Friday:
But San Diego is playing significantly better than their 37 ranking suggests. I think they are playing more like the a 20-25 ranked team. Assuming they are really 20th in quality we get the following:Code:Rankings team rating win loss 1 BYU 24.671649 15.0 0.0 37 San Diego 18.097928 7.0 7.0 Prob Match 0.92 3 Sets 0.59 4 Sets 0.28 5 Sets 0.05
Code:Prob Match 0.874 3 Sets 0.502 4 Sets 0.309 5 Sets 0.063
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Hambly was from my home burgh. Good kid. We pummeled his team in the Deacons Hoop Tourney.
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Link to tonight's stream (7PM PDT): https://player.watchstadium.com/65/i...type=liveevent
pel, any trick to making by the stream work? Mine says “video not available at the moment.”
EDIT: nm. we got it figured out
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Yikes. Getting Utah Stated in the 2nd set.
Sheesh. What a comeback. Knotted up at 24
aaaaandddd... can't complete it.. bummer.
Wait. I thought USD was supposed to be one of the good WCC teams? They have a losing record?
Very hard pre-conference schedule. But they are definitely down this year. After the SDSU loss on Tuesday my computer model had them ranked at 56. So they are a solid club, but not great. They remind me a little of Utah this year. Both at times will play really well, but then they also will have major lapses like losing to SDSU.
My statistical model with data through matches on Sunday. First, the top 30:
Now for just WCC teams:Code:team rating win loss 1 BYU 25.16 16 0 2 Stanford 24.56 14 1 3 Minnesota 23.82 12 2 4 Nebraska 23.18 14 2 5 Wisconsin 22.85 11 3 6 Illinois 22.79 15 2 7 Pittsburgh 22.26 17 0 8 Penn St. 21.95 13 3 9 Texas 21.67 10 3 10 Kentucky 21.52 10 4 11 Washington St. 21.48 13 3 12 Michigan 21.43 15 2 13 Southern California 21.38 12 5 14 Oregon 21.31 11 5 15 Creighton 20.87 14 4 16 Florida 20.56 15 3 17 Cal Poly 20.55 16 1 18 Marquette 20.02 14 4 19 Louisville 19.89 13 4 20 UNI 19.82 12 6 21 Washington 19.82 12 4 22 Florida St. 19.69 9 7 23 Pepperdine 19.62 12 5 24 Purdue 19.49 14 3 25 Illinois St. 19.31 13 5 26 Arizona 19.29 14 4 27 Georgia 19.18 12 5 28 Colorado 19.14 10 7 29 South Carolina 19.10 14 2 30 Utah 19.04 9 8
An finally BYU and its opponents so far:Code:team rating win loss 1 BYU 25.16 16 0 23 Pepperdine 19.62 12 5 35 Loyola Marymount 18.74 15 3 45 Portland 18.39 14 4 56 San Diego 17.98 7 9 78 Saint Mary's (CA) 16.79 11 5 102 Pacific 15.92 6 11 103 Gonzaga 15.83 6 11 141 San Francisco 14.63 8 9 175 Santa Clara 13.56 5 13
Code:team rating win loss 1 BYU 25.16 16 0 2 Stanford 24.56 14 1 13 Southern California 21.38 12 5 18 Marquette 20.02 14 4 23 Pepperdine 19.62 12 5 30 Utah 19.04 9 8 45 Portland 18.39 14 4 52 Duke 18.05 8 7 56 San Diego 17.98 7 9 58 Syracuse 17.90 9 5 73 Wichita St. 16.99 8 8 78 Saint Mary's (CA) 16.79 11 5 102 Pacific 15.92 6 11 103 Gonzaga 15.83 6 11 111 Weber St. 15.58 10 5 146 West Virginia 14.48 8 9
Is LMU about the only remaining challenge in conference? Not saying a bonehead loss isn't a possibility but the chances of going without a loss appear to be increasingly good.
"Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
I would have LMU on the road, Pepperdine at home, and Portland on the road as all about the same probability of a loss: somewhere between 7%-9%. Probability you lose at least one of those matches is in the lowish 20 percents.
Last edited by pelagius; 10-11-2018 at 01:14 PM.
This squad has got this shit on LOCK.
TURNCOAT!!!!
Last night was a ho-hum type of three set win. Even though Miller scored the most points, she had a lot of mishits as well. Except for the first set, BYU didn't play well.
LMU on the road is the last match of the regular season. That could be a trap.
"Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
He is a BYU volleyball fan. Don't you see his postings of volleytalk?
"Guitar groups are on their way out, Mr Epstein."
Upon rejecting the Beatles, Dick Rowe told Brian Epstein of the January 1, 1962 audition for Decca, which signed Brian Poole and the Tremeloes instead.
They did not play well at all ... passing was off and I think Eppoch was off too (and she's been great most of the season ... I think she's been playing like a top 5 setter this year ... not as good as Minnesota's setter but quite good).
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