It’s time for our favorite game show “Who wants to be a scorekeeper?” where we test your skills to identify scorekeeping errors from real matches played and reported on in NJ high school volleyball. The key to mastering any task accurately is training. We consistently see unlikely to impossible scenarios across the state every single night in the data. Let’s see if you can identify the potential issues in these reported box scores… Try it and see how well you do… answers on the bottom of the page.

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Answer Key #1 Florence is reporting 32 assists and 6 kills. This is a statistical anomoly and impossible. It is more likely that digs and assists are transposed but 9 assists and 6 kills is impossible as well.

Answer key #2- Our top rated team MAY have some problems with the accuracy here. If you add their points from kills, aces, and blocks, it equals 44. They scored 50 total points. That means the opposing team (in this case Sterling) made only six errors for the entire match. Although that is possible, it is highly unlikely.

Answer Key #3- There is a lot going on here… 48 service points is not possible. 31 aces is highly unlikely. 7 kills and 28 assists is not possible. A total of 7 kills, 5 blocks, and 31 aces = 43 of the points scored leaving just 7 points for Hoboken Charter errors which again is highly unlikely.

Answer Key #4- More assists than kills is impossible.

Answer Key #5- 42 service points is impossible in two sets, numerous cases of aces exceeding service points which is impossible.

How did you do?

We randomly chose 5 games and found these 5 errors. The number of errors found does just not reflect the quality of volleyball in NJ. Let’s change this! Training is the key. Spend time with your scorekeepers. Check these totals for accuracy before submitting to the portal. Use training devices like PowerStats Academy to improve your teams accuracy and knowledge. Whatever it takes…