Boys Blog, 4/30
April 30, 2021 - By NJP A nice big schedule on the last Friday night of the month of April features some key match-up and a few surprises. The season is speeding by as we approach the end of week two
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April 30, 2021 - By NJP A nice big schedule on the last Friday night of the month of April features some key match-up and a few surprises. The season is speeding by as we approach the end of week two
April 30, 2021 - By NJP Here are state leaders in each stat category as of last nights games on 4/29/21: KILLS BLOCKS ASSISTS ACES DIGS
April 29, 2021 - By NJP Here are NJP's picks for games on Friday, April 30, 2021: UPDATED 4-30-21 9PM 20-3 Year to Date Predictor Data:
April 29, 2021 - By NJP Tonight's inner look on NJ high school boys volleyball... The dynamic game schedule continues to present challenges to some of our initiatives. But we wanted to answer some continued questions we are getting on
April 29, 2021 - By NJP Many high school players who excel at volleyball or other sports are typically very focused on their sport first and their academics second, or use their athletic success to help open doors for
April 28, 2021 - By NJP Tonight’s Inner Look… The Old Bridge Knights returned to the floor tonight after sitting out the last 2 weeks for protocol. The 14 days must have seemed like an eternity for the three-peat candidates, but the
April 29, 2021 - By NJP Here are tonights selection for the NJ High School Boys volleyball schedule: UPDATE 9:30PM 17-2 Year to date summary...
April 28, 2021 - By NJP Slow start so far for the boys season, as expected, as we start to gather info on team strength as more teams are joining the party. Preseason #1 Old Bridge is back on
April 27, 2021 - By NJP Many new additions on both BOYS and GIRLS college commitment pages. Click the links to access. We have some more updates as well that will be added tonight (probably very late). The NJP Predictor started last
April 27, 2021 - By NJP Here are today's game selections for New Jersey Boys High School Volleyball games. The Predictor got off to 21-4 start on it's first night... 3 of the four losses went three sets. Lighter schedule Tuesday.
April 26, 2021 - By NJP Our second week of the boys season is underway. This weekend, NJP issued it's first Ranking as well as it's first Player Rater of the season. We expect a lot of movement in both analysis
April 26, 2021 - By NJP Here are our game predictions for April 26th. This our first night for the Predictor for the boys. We are going to need all the luck we can get... UPDATED 4/26/21 11:30pm
April 25, 2021 - By NJP The NJP Boys Player Rater launches today. The formula basically gives a formulaic value to each statistical point by category combined with a schedule strength factor to create a system to evaluate each
April 25, 2021 - By NJP Our first week is complete and NJP has put together Ranking #1 the NJ Boys High School Volleyball. It has been an alarming experience in reviewing all of the data thus far for
April 25, 2021 - By NJP With the NJ Girls High School Volleyball season ending this past Tuesday, NJP wanted to give some additional analytics to the players and coaches as well as our year-end awards. It was a
April 24, 2021 - By NJP Well, the first week of the boys season is on the books. Spring is in the air, the sun is shining, and achy muscles will get a days of rest after an all-out effort this
April 23, 2021 - By NJP 1:18AM Another night of games in our first week of the boys season. We are starting to get a bit of clarity on who will be the strong and weaker teams. But
April 22, 2021 - By NJP What an amazing season. And I am sure there will be a lot of debate about final rankings. We applied all of year-end formulas to the rating algorithm and have finalized our ratings
April 23, 2021 - By NJP 1:18AM Another night of games in our first week of the boys season. We are starting to get a bit of clarity on who will be the strong and weaker teams. But
April 22, 2021 - By NJP Night three of the young season for NJ Boys High School volleyball brought some very interesting data for us to process in the "wide-open" season we call the "Spring". Let's take a look
By NJP NJP is trying to facilitate finding a live stream to NJ High School Volleyball action for this Spring as well as point you in the right direction for archived views of games that have taken place this season for
April 20, 2021 - By NJP We are back for the second night of the season, a rather short schedule of games (we are used to the girls schedule which sometimes had 110 games). This was the second Championship night
April 20, 2021 - By NJP It's so great to have the boys back on the court after missing last year's entire season due to the pandemic. Rating the teams for this Spring is an almost impossible task as there
April 19, 2021 - By NJP Immaculate Heart is now ready to finish their quest for a 14th consecutive state sectional title, only one game stands in their way. But this season has progressed so different than usual IHA
April 19, 2021 - By NJP Here are the new league alignments for 2021. Here are some highlights: There are 14 new high schools in NJ that have added boys volleyball. Here are the new teams: There is now an NJIC league. The
April 18, 2021 - By NJP With less than 24 hours before Magic Monday's State Sectional Final games, NJP is taking a quadruple look at 4 key matchups that will influence Top 25 final ranking. New Jersey's number 1 ranked
April 18, 2021 - By Josh Wilets Imagine this: a team finishes 4-7, gets a crack at postseason play, defeats Montclair, then both No.1 Bergen Tech and No.5 Livingston—both on the road. Well, if you had made those predictions, you win
April 18, 2021 - By NJP This is a true Marquis match-up for the state sectional playoffs as undefeated Bogota takes on undefeated Midland Park. One of these teams will finish the year with a perfect record. Bogota has not lost a
April 18, 2021 - By NJP SPF Senior Adelina Berisha Scotch-Plains Fanwood has had quite a remarkable year. Yes, they have 4 losses, but every one of those losses went to 3 sets. Could they be a diamond in the
April 18, 2021 - By NJP The Power Point system was put in place to bring objectivity to high school playoff seeding. In theory, this sounds amazing. A real system that will lay down the rules ahead of times,
April 17, 2021 - By NJP Mendham made it to the Tournament of Champions finale last year after getting off to a bit of slow start in 2019. There are some similaraties to last year and this year as the Minutemaids
April 17, 2020 - By NJP From the very beginning of the year, NJP has identified Southern as a top 3 team in New Jersey. The math has put them right near the top and they have consistently
April 16, 2021 - By NJP Despite the shortened schedule, Kearny put together a very succesful campaign for the Girl's Spring volleyball season. The Kardinals took on Hudson County and despite losing to Hudson Catholic, the perennial top 10 program in
April 15, 2021 - By Josh Wilets Wednesday afternoon, the Randolph girls varsity volleyball team pulled off a monumental upset in the second round of the NJSIAA North Jersey Section 1, Group 4 playoffs. Randolph was resilient and defeated top-seeded Bergen
April 15, 2021 - By Josh Wilets Mountain Lakes girls varsity volleyball has done something they have never done before—win a playoff game. The program was started up by the school just three years ago and now they have advanced to
April 13, 2021 - By NJP Westfield has had a truly amazing season thus far and have a solid group of talented student athletes who take their volleyball very seriously. They have strung together ten wins in a row,
April 12, 2021 - By NJP We will be tracking the NJP Predictor picks through our Bracketology page as we make selections for every playoff game for the Spring 20 sectionals. Each grid relays the game in the bracket as well
April 11, 2021 - By NJP We have updated our playoff and seed analysis for the new ranking that was run for today, Sunday, April 11th. The grid includes updated rankings, average ratings per group, average power points per group, projected
April 11, 2021 – By NJP Here are the updated NJP team rankings for NJ high school girls volleyball for Sunday, April 11, 2021. OVERALL CONFERENCE DIVISION GROUP/SECTION
April 11, 2021 - By NJP We hope everyone has had some fun with our game selections each night. This has been a season like no other and we found it to be an interesting way to introduce our
April 10, 2021 - By Josh Wilets With the 2021 Spring girls volleyball regular season winding to a close, teams eligible for postseason play will be ramping up the energy for the NJSIAA state playoff tournaments. Here are where all the
SNIPES All the latest best performances by NJ players... updated nightly... BOYS PRESEASON RANKING Boys are starting games on April 16th... 4/4 RANKING LINK Updated rankings for 4/4 for NJ HS Girls... Girls State Playoff Seed Analysis from NJP All individual Group
April 9, 2021 - By NJP The NPSB bracket is the lowest rated bracket in the grid. Mother Seton is a top 30 team and seven rating points better than any other team in the grid. This is the most one-sided
April 9, 2021 - By NJP The NPSA is an awesome bracket with potential to get to the semi's at every seed. 9 teams make up the grid with five teams from the top 45. We have some disparity with the
April 9, 2021 - By NJP NPNB is mostly dominated by the top two teams in the bracket. Morris Catholic and MKA are the #1 and #2 seeds as well as the NJP two top rated teams. NJP has a large
April 9, 2021 - By NJP The North Non-Public A contains the dominant Immaculate Heart Academy as they go for their 14th straight sectional title. Despite only 6 teams in the grid, Immaculate will have two difficult games on their
April 9, 2021 - By NJP SNIPES All the latest best performances by NJ players... updated nightly... Nice PODCAST with legend Pat Longo, Head Volleyball Coach at Bayonne HS for both girls and boys BOYS COLLEGE COMMITMENTS Updated college commitments
April 9, 2021 - By NJP This is a super powerful grid with some of the best and highest ranked public teams in the state. NJP thought the inevitable rematch of Southern and Williamstown would make up the finals. But
April 9, 2021 - By NJP SG3 will be an entertaining and competitive tournament with 7 strong teams having solid chances to reach the semi's. Shawnee has had a brilliant year this far and are included in the NJP top 25.
April 9, 2021 - By NJP SG2 has 13 teams and one team in particulat to watch from the lower seeds. Barnegat is the third highest NJP rated team but received the #9 seed. They are capable of beating any
April 9, 2021 - By NJP Ten teams make up SG1 in the small school match-up of South Jersey. Highland Park gets the number one seed inching out Collingswood by one-half of a Power Point. NJP has Delaware Valley
April 9, 2021 - By NJP This is an awesome grid and will provide fun games to watch throughout the entire grid. Hunterdon Central has had one of those perfect seasons up until their last game against North Hunterdon. It will
April 9, 2021 - By NJP Fourteen teams make up the CG3 with three teams in the NJP top 100 overall in NJ. SPF is the #1 seed and #1 rated NJP rated team. They continue to be on a roll
April 9, 2021 - By NJP CG2's group of ten is a competitive grid. Wall took the #1 seed at 9-2. NJP has a solid favored team here in #5 seed Governor Livingston. GL is 5-1 and was a
April 9, 2021 - By NJP CG1 is one of the smallest group at just 7 teams, it is an absolutely wide open event that truly any team can win. Dayton is the number 1 seed. NJP projects Roselle Park
April 9, 2021 - By NJP This is another grid, N2G4, that is skewed heavily in favor of the top 2 teams. Both Northern Hunterdon and Westfield are top 25 teams. They have too much firepower for other teams in the
April 9, 2021 - By NJP N2G3 has one of the largest groups at 15. NJP see's three teams competing at the top level in this grid. NJP has Mendham as the highest rated team. They received a #3
April 9, 2021 - By NJP N2G2 is a small group of 11 with 4 top 100 teams. Madison received the number 1 seed as well as the best NJP rating and ranking in the group. They have a 8-3 record
April 9, 2021 - By NJP N1G1 is a wide open group of 14 with 8 teams we think can compete for top honors. The top seed Verona has shown some signs of weakening losing to Livingston this week. They
April 8, 2021 - By NJP N1G4 are the larger schools in the North 1 grid. Despite the bigger populations, the average strength here is much less than N1G3 or N1G2. Bergen Tech garners the number 1 seed and sports a
April 8, 2021 - By NJP N1G3 is a dirty dozen and features the NJP #1 ranked team in Northern Highland. The Highlanders have been riding high since defeating Immaculate Heart on April Fool's Day. One of the most
April 8, 2021 - By NJP N1G2 is such a solid group with their top 6 teams with an average rating of 23.1. It has three top 20 teams and 8 in the top 100. #4 Demarest got the
April 8, 2021 One of the most interesting groups is the N1G1. Having Bogota as an 11 seed may provide them with a much easier road to the sectional group final. They are clear top seed in the NJP ranking formula
April 8, 2021 - By NJP Here are the state playoff seeds by Section and Group. NJP has presented our ranking and rating system in comparison to the seed selections. BLUE denotes areas where the seed is higher than
April 8, 2021 - By NJP Here are our year-to-date Predictor stats: SNIPES All the latest best performances by NJ players... updated nightly... Nice PODCAST with legend Pat Longo, Head Volleyball Coach at Bayonne HS for both girls and boys BOYS COLLEGE COMMITMENTS
April 7, 2021 - By NJP The typical attributes of the really great high school volleyball teams is having a really dominant middle who can control the game on both sides whether offense or defense. We watched Anna Morris at Immaculate
April 7, 2021 - By NJP Here are our year-to-date Predictor stats: College Dlll Update... TODAY!!! Wednesday, April 7th is CVC Tournament semi-final Day Tune in for #11 Kean Cougars at #9 Juniata 5PM https://landmarknetwork.tv/juniata/ #14 Rutgers Newark Scarlet Raiders @ #12
April 6, 2021 - By NJP Here are our year-to-date Predictor stats: SNIPES All the latest best performances by NJ players... Rematch Day: JP Stevens vs East Brunswick... Simi Carlsen vs. Hailey Benesz BOYS COLLEGE COMMITMENTS Updated college commitments for NJ HS
April 4, 2021 - By NJP Here are our year-to-date Predictor stats: SNIPES All the latest best performances by NJ players... BOYS COLLEGE COMMITMENTS Updated college commitments for NJ HS boys... BOYS PRESEASON RANKING Boys are starting games on April 16th... GIRLS
April 4, 2021 – By NJP Here are the updated NJP team rankings for NJ high school girls volleyball for Sunday, April 4, 2021. OVERALL CONFERENCE DIVISION GROUP/SECTION
April 4, 2021 - By NJP Whenever you have a junior leading your team in three separate statistical categories, you know you are looking at a special player. Central Regional's Jenna Czajkowski falls into this category. Jenna is a
April 3, 2021 - By Josh Wilets (Photos courtesy of Josh Wilets) This past week has featured some of the biggest storylines all season when it comes to girls varsity volleyball in the NJAC. Major Stat Leaders Kills o MacKenzie Wiggins (116) – Sparta Assists o Riley O’Hagan
April 3, 2021 - By NJP So this is what the Girls High School Volleyball season looked like over the past few days... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQxA9mxg54w Since April 1, we have felt the wind in our face, the curves and twists of a pandemic year
April 3, 2021 - By NJP (Photos courtesy of Kevin Kish) The Jefferson Falcons maintain their trend of continued improvement over the last four seasons. They just keep getting better and better as each year goes by. Last seasons 19-8 record
April 1, 2021 - By NJP The thought that Immaculate Heart could lose a game to a NJ team for just the second time in three years seemed unlikely, especially on April Fool's Day. But Northern Highlands was just too much
April 1, 2021 - By NJP After 12 years of running NJP, we thought it was time to share who runs the website. We are a pretty famous individual, so it made sense to keep our identity under wraps. But now
April 1, 2021 - By NJP YTD Game Predictor at 86%. Boys Season starts today with tryouts... Games in two weeks. Here is the Boys Preseason ranking link https://njpowerranking.com/2021/01/31/full-preseason-nj-boys-high-school-volleyball-ratings-and-rankings/ Who is NJP? Link at https://njpowerranking.com/2021/04/01/intro-to-ownership-meet-gary-at-njp/ Latest NJ High School Girls RANKING at https://njpowerranking.com/girls-high-school-ranking-1-march-28-2021-overall/ CVC