Volleyball Statistics Made Easy!
Keeping volleyball statistics can be frustrating and at times
near impossible. In order to help volleyball coaches and their
assistants, I wanted to address a section on keeping stats and offer a
free download for those coaches that need a statistics sheet.
Here is where you can download the statistics
sheet for volleyball.
There
are some simple things that will help you keep accurate stats. There
are six categories of stats that you will keep. They are serving,
attacks, setting, blocking, passing, and defense.

Your stats on attacks will all be based on the
premise that a player
made a strategic hit and intended to score. Without that
qualifier, then there is not an attack.
Setting statistics occur when a player
passes or sets the ball to a
teammate that gets a kill. A player can get a setting or
assist without the ball being "set" and it does not have to be on the
second contact.
When it comes to serving, an ace is when the
serve goes untouched, contact is
made by the ball goes out of play (shanked pass), or a passing
violation is called. When any of these conditions are met,
it is a service ace.
Passing is based on the
initial contact after the serve. So, you should have a
reception attempt for EVERY serve.
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Defensive stats are based on digs. You will count a dig for a player
that
receives an
attacked ball and keeps it in play. Digs only occur on
balls that are attacked. That is a common mistake when it comes to
volleyball statistics.
Finally, blocking is based on when the
block leads to a point.
If the block does not result in a point, then it is not a block from a
statistics point of view. When a player touches the ball on a block,
that also does not count. However, if it ended in a point, it could
have been a solo block, or an assisted block.
Volleyball stats
can be hard to keep because of how fast the game moves. However, if you
follow the rules that I have spelled out above, then keeping stats for
your volleyball team will be much easier and more consistent.
Good luck and happy stats!