Associations between performance indicators and set's result on male volleyball (original) (raw)

The present study examines the associations between performance indicators (number of spike points, spike errors, spike continuity, block points, block errors, block continuity, serve points, serve errors, serve continuity, dig excellent, dig errors, dig continuity, set excellent, set errors, set continuity, reception excellent, reception errors and reception continuity) and performance in Volleyball, concerning set result (set win and set loose). For this 65.949 actions from 550 sets of Men's Senior World League (2005) were analyzed. Multivariable logistic regression was used in data analysis. The results show that serve point (OR:16.1, 95%CI: 5.7-45.9), serve continuity (OR:4.6, 95%CI:2.8-7.5) and spike point (OR:4.1, 95%CI:2.2-7.6) are the performance indicators more associated with the success in Volleyball.