June 11, 2021 - By NJP The TOC semi-final games were today. The NJ HS State Championship finals are now set. Old Bridge will get their three-peat chance against the Southern Rams on Monday at South Brunswick. Old Bridge was dominant

June 9, 2021 - By NJP Certainly some surprises tonight in the NJ Boys High School Volleyball Sectional Finals. There are just 4 teams left in the hunt for the NJ State Championship but every winner tonight took home

June 8, 2021 - By NJP Sectional Finals Analysis #3 Old Bridge at #1 Christian Brothers Academy This game is better suited for the State Championship Final but these two top teams get to play in the Sectional Final instead. Only one team

June 8, 2021 - By NJP Here is the updated Player Rater for NJ Boys High School Volleyball as of June 8th. By Player By Team

June 8, 2021 - By NJP Here is the Ranking Progression Analysis for the remaining teams in the State Playoff Tournament. The Predictor uses this factor to measure positive and negative trends in the rating formula. It also gives some insights

June 8, 2021 - By NJP As we enter the final 7 days of the season, we thought we would give a quick update to the NJP Rankings to better position the Predictor for the for the final seven games. Eight

June 7, 2021 - By NJP There were 16 teams remaining in the hunt for a New Jersey Boys High School Volleyball State Championship at 4PM today and by 7PM there were only eight teams left. The field of

June 7, 2021 - By NJP (Main photo courtesy of Steve Speicher) Scotch Plains Fanwood is the only undefeated boys high school volleyball team left in New Jersey. We are one week from the conclusion of the season and the

June 7, 2021 - By NJP Here is a look at the match-up stats for each sectional semi-finals. The stats are current through Sunday, June 6th.

June 13, 2021 (8PM) - By NJP Here are the winners of the Boys NJP Clip of the Year Contest: Congrats to Sean McNally and Justin Spagnuolo for their winning submission!!!! June 6, 2021 - By NJP Here are the 9 finalist for the

June 4, 2021 - By NJP Sixteen NJ high school volleyball quarter-final games on today's schedule gave us some exhilaration. But it means we have to say good-bye to 16 teams tonight as their seasons have come to an abrupt end.

June 3, 2021 - By NJP What an important date 6/4 will be on the NJ Boys High School volleyball landscape for Spring 2021. This is the day we widdle down the field of potential state champions from 32 teams to

June 4, 2021 - By NJP (Pictures courtesy of Tori Magarino https://www.instagram.com/toribehindthelens/) The make-up of volleyball team are an interesting dynamic. Having all of the pieces of the puzzle put together to create a winning team is always a

June 2, 2021 - By NJP It's one of the busiest night's of the year trying to report on 30 second round state playoff games. There was some amazing volleyball being played around the state. We feel very proud to be

June 1, 2021 - By NJP What a way to start off the week for NJ High School Boys Volleyball. The Shore Tournament final was this evening with NJ's #1 team CBA going up against #3 Southern. For the complete story,

June 1, 2021 - By NJP The Southern Regional Rams avenged their only loss of the season thus far and defeated previously unbeaten CBA in three sets tonight to win the Shore Conference Tournament. Southern started the season with 13 straight

June 1, 2021 - By NJP #28 Union has a "statement" game tonight as they advanced to the North 2 Quarter-finals with convincing straight set victory of Ridge. At 17-4, and three of their losses coming to #2 SPF, one would

May 31, 2021 - By NJP Jack Farah of St. John Vianney has taken the NJ High School volleyball season by storm this Spring. After a few of his inital games, Jack has exploded offensively and driven the Lancers to four

May 31, 2021 - By NJP Here are the Sectional Rankings as of June 1 for NJ High School Boys Volleyball...

May 31, 2021 - By NJP Here are the finalist for the "Boys" addition of the NJP Clip of the Year Contest. There are 24 finalist chosen from consensus of NJP staff of all of the Clips submitted. Congrats to the

May 30, 2021 - By NJP Here is the NJP Player rater for NJ High School Boys Volleyball for 6/1/21... Thanks for photo and good chatting with you tonight Pope John Lions... Collin Mills, Trace Healy, Dylan Angner, and Mike Lavin. BY RATING BY

June 1, 2021 - By NJP Here are the updated rankings and ratings for NJ Boys High School Volleyball for June 1. This will be our last in-season ranking of the year. Our next ranking will be our final ranking after

May 30, 2021 - By NJP See how your team has progressed or declined throught the season... as well as what trend they are on currently. Here are the NJP ranking and Rating progressions for Spring High School Boys Volleyball Spring

May 29, 2021 - By NJP The West Milford Highlanders rallied from behind in the first set against Wayne Hills and then never looked back in a straight set win over the Patriots. West Milford is now 20-1 and will dig

May 28, 2021 - By NJP The NJP Clip of the Year Contest voting will start tomorrow. We have culled the hundred or so entries down and will be presenting all three division (Girls, Boys, Bloopers). The Girls and Bloopers contests

May, 28, 2021 - By NJP Scotch Plains Fanwood is now 22-0 for the season and have added a Union County Tournament Championship trophy to their school showcase. To say it was a hard fought victory at Roselle Catholic tonight would

May 27, 2021 - By NJP There are now just 3 county/conference tournament champions to reveal in the next few days. One more Champ was announced tonight bringing the total to 5 as Old Bridge defeated East Brunswick to win the

May 27, 2021 - By NJP Here are the NJP game predictions for the 2 days leading up to the Memorial Day holiday: UPDATED 9PM

May 27, 2021 - By NJP UPDATE 3pm added Old Bridge/East Brunswick game

May 26, 2021 - By NJP We had three County/Conference Champions crowned today. Here are the links to the individual stories... Newark East Side wins the Essex County Tournament... https://njpowerranking.com/2021/05/26/newark-eastside-defeats-livingston-to-win-essec-county-championship/ Fair Lawn win the Bergen County Tournament... https://njpowerranking.com/2021/05/27/fair-lawn-wins-bergen-county-championship/ Hunterdon Central Red Devils defeat Bridgewater

May 26, 2021 - By NJP Hunterdon Central has been a dominant presence all year on the NJ boys high school volleyball landscape. The Skyland conference is traditionally one of the bets in the state and this year is no different

May 26, 2021 - By NJP Last season could have been one of the most prolific in Fair Lawn volleyball history. But the pandemic altered time and space for the Cutters who had 5 returning all-state players from their team which

May 26, 2021 - By NJP Okay, so lets address the elephant in the room... NJP had Newark East Side ranked #125 in it's pre-season ranking report. Talk about the biggest miss of all time. The Red Raiders are no longer

May 25, 2021 - By NJP Sophomore and first year varsity player Max Finkielstein is already making his mark in his initial season with the West Windsor-Plainsboro North Knights. The NJP Player Rater already has Max in the top

May 26, 2021 - By NJP Here are the NJP Predictor game selections for the NJ high school boys volleyball schedule for May 25, 2021: UPDATE 10PM 20-1

May 25, 2021 - By NJP LOTS to look at for tonight's inner look. Let's jump in... Passaic traveled to West Milford for the Passaic County Tournament semi-final. It was a tough start for the Indians as the Highlanders jumped to an

May 25, 2021 - By NJP Here is some current data on Kills by Class for the NJ Boys Hs Volleyball Season: SENIORS JUNIORS SOPHOMORES FRESHMAN

May 25, 2021 - By NJP Here are Tuesday's NJP Game predictions for the NJ High School boys volleyball schedule:

May 23, 2021 - By NJP This is an amazing time of year for Boys high school volleyball. One county tournament in the books and 7 more advancing to a conclusion this week. Even the State tournament is underway and will

May 24, 2021 - By NJP Here are Monday nights game predictions for the NJ high school boys volleyball schedule:

May 23, 2021 - By NJP Here are the updated Sectional Rankings as of May 23rd...

May 23, 2021 - By NJP Here is the updated player rater for New Jersey High School Boys Volleyball for May 23rd:

May 23, 2021 - By NJP Here are the Updated Overall NJ High School Boys Volleyball Rankings as of 5/23/21: Please note a correction was made for the 5-10-21 Pennsauken vs Moorestown game which had inverted scores causing both of

May 21. 2021 - By NJP Just another Friday night of NJ High School volleyball with a full schedule of games including a bunch of county tournament action. Let's jump right in to the inner look... #6 West Milford avenged their only

May 21, 2021 - By NJP Here are Friday nights game predictions for the NJ high school boys volleyball schedule: UPDATE 5-21 7PM 17-0

May 20, 2021 - By NJP NJP "Faces" update with three of NJ Boys top players at https://njpowerranking.com/njp-faces/ Team Recaps were posted today to provide quick access to detailed game scores for each team, as well as opponents rating factor, to

May 20, 2021 - By NJP Here are the NJ High School Boys team recaps for all games through the cutoff date. In this analysis, you can see detailed game scores and schedule strength of opponent. The games are

May 19th, 2021 - By NJP Here are the game predictions for the NJ High School Boys Volleyball schedule for Thursday, May 20:

May 19, 2021 - By NJP Remember to submit your NJP Clip of the Year entries to njpowerranking@gmail or DM us through IG or other social channels. Be sure to include your name, school, grad year, which contest you want to

May 19, 2021 - By NJP Here are today's NJ HS Boys Volleyball game predictions for Wednesday, May 19th: UPDATE 5/19/21 630PM

May 18, 2021 - By NJP It's State Tournament Seeding Day!!! We are going to take a look at each sectional and see how the seeds compared to NJP and also NJ Volleyball God Brian Bobal at NJ.Com. This is always

May 17, 2021 - By NJP The statistics will tell you that the chances of having an impact freshman on your New Jersey Boys High School volleyball team are about as high as... well, let's just say we can't

May 18, 2021 - By NJP Here are the preliminary seed analysis for the NJ HS boy volleyball state playoff sectionals... See our Blog Post tonight for more analysis... certainly a few glaring differences in seeds from our expectation but some are

May 18, 2021 - By NJP The 2018-2019 season was the first year in Payne Tech's volleyball existence. Coach Brian Johnson's team got a slow start at 3-5 and then reeled off 11 straight wins on their way to a very

May 18, 2021 - By NJP Here are the NJP Predictions for the NJ High School Boys volleyball schedule for 5-18-21:

May 17, 2021 - By NJP We have received a number of entries for our NJP Clip of the Year campaign and contest. Your submissions can be made direct through email to njpowerranking@gmail.com or DM through IG or Facebook

May 16, 2021 - By NJP We completed a site refresh for team rankings, ratings, sectional rankings, player rater, and some additional team analysis today. Here are the quick links: Overall ranking update: https://njpowerranking.com/2021/05/16/njp-boys-ranking-4-may-16th/ Sectional ranking update: https://njpowerranking.com/2021/05/16/nj-boys-sectional-ranking-5-16/ Conference ranking update: https://njpowerranking.com/2021/05/16/conference-rankings-for-county-tournaments/ Analysis

May 17, 2021 - By NJP Here are the game selections for Monday, May 17th, for the NJ High School Boys Volleyball schedule: UPDATE 845PM 20-5

May 16, 2021 - By NJP Here is the player rater for NJ High School Boys Volleyball players as of 5-16-21: OVERALL ALPHA BY SCHOOL

May 16, 2021 - By NJP Here are the conference rankings as of 5-16-21:

May 16, 2021 - BY NJP Here is a "special" ranking analysis based on two factors that are heavily weighted in the NJP ranking algorithm. Schedule strength is a major component of the formula as is the point differential on average

May 16, 2021 - By NJP Here are the Sectional Rankings for NJ High School Boys Volleyball as of 5/15/21...

May 16, 2021 - By NJP Here are the updated Overall New Jersey High School Boys Volleyball Rankings as of 5-16-21. SPF puts some room between them and the next group of challengers. CBA still with strong hold on #2 and Old

May 16, 2021 - By NJP We will be conducting our annual "NJP Clip of the Year" contest so get your best clips ready... Here are the rules... Must be from a high school game... no club our tournament clips. There will be two

May 15, 2021 - By NJP Hillsborough always brings quality teams to the boys high school landscape. Their traditional kick-off tournament the first week of the boys season was truly missed these past two years with the pandemic. It

May 15, 2021 - By NJP It's a beautiful Spring Saturday (feels like summer today) and the end of the NJ High School Boy volleyball regular season is fast approaching. It's a great time for boy volleyball when we

May 14, 2021 - By NJP The Predictor was off to a piping hot start tonight as we banked the first 20 games of scores received in the "W" column. Then one game across our desk that was quite surprising

May 14, 2021 - By NJP Here are the NJP New Jersey Boys High School game predictions for Saturday, May 15th... UPDATE 4PM

May 14, 2021 Here are Friday nights game selections from the NJP Predictor... UPDATE 10PM 25-1

May 13, 2021 - By NJP Tomorrow is the State Cutoff date. For this season, it's a bit less of a deal with the policy being changed. Now it will just represent the last game to build your resume for seeding

May 13, 2021 - By NJP NJP relaunched a little over two years ago after having a high school hockey website for almost a decade. In NJ hockey, we flourished during a time when Delbarton dominated the high school

May 12. 2021 - By NJP We have updated the college commitment pages for both boys and girls tonight. Lots of new choices for current seniors as we wind down the school year. Check them out on the "College

May 13, 2021 - By NJP Here are the NJP Predictor game selections for NJ High School Volleyball for May 13th. A rather light schedule leading into a much larger Friday. UPDATED 12:30pm Thanks to our fans... added Kearny

May 13, 2021 - By NJP Our apologies. We thought we launched this on Tuesday but see it was never posted and remained in draft form. Here is our team stats analysis by set with data and rankings for each by

May 12, 2021 - By NJP It's not often that a player flies under the radar in NJ volleyball. From early ages and with extensive visibility of clubs throughout the state, top players rising to high school levels are

May 12, 2021 - By NJP Here is a quick analysis of how team ratings and rankings have changed from pre-season estimates through our current update on Sunday, 5/10. Rating points on the left, Rankings on the right.

May 11, 2021 - By NJP Did you sign up for GEVA High Performance? Ok... just checking. Another full schedule tonight so let's get right to the inner look... #2 CBA, hot off their big win over Southern on Monday, took

May 11, 2021 - By NJP The Bergenfield Bears got off to a great start to the Spring high school season. Thy won their first 8 games of the season beating some pretty formidable opponents including St. Peter's Prep,

May 11, 2021 - By NJP Here are our game selections for the NJ HS volleyball schedule for Wednesday, 5-11. The schedule is filled with games between teams with extremely close ratings so expecting the Predictor to have a

May 11, 2021 - By NJP Here is an analysis of current statistics by team in all stat categories. We have ranked each team by category and show an overall ranking of the combined averages for all categories. Tomorrow, we will

May 11, 2021 - By NJP Here are the NJP Predictor game selections for Tuesday's New Jersey high school boys volleyball schedule: UPDATE 10PM 19-1

May 10, 2021 - By NJP Lots of new analysis came out yesterday including an updated team ranking, player rater, sectional ranking, predictor, and weekend blog. Our sectional ranking included some NJP projections on state playoff qualifications as well.

May 10, 2021 - By NJP Here are Sectional rankings and analysis as of 5-9-21. The cutoff for state playoffs is this Friday. All comments welcome.

May 9, 2021 - By NJP NJP hopes all of the Volleyball Mom's had a great day today... Here is the inner look for Sunday night... Just a few comments on Saturday's schedule. We thought the Williamstown vs. Eastern game would be very

May 10, 2021 - By NJP Here our the NJP Predictor Game selections for Monday, May 10. UPDATE 11PM 26-7 Year to date update...

May 9, 2021 - By NJP The NJP Boys High School team ranking #3 has been updated as of Sunday, 5-9. For the first time in our history, the top three teams in the rankings are within .08 rating

May 9, 2021 - By NJP Here is the updated NJP Player Rater analysis as of Sunday, May 9, 2021. BY PLAYER RATING BY SCHOOL

May 7, 2021 - By NJP A quick reminder to make sure to check out the GEVA High Performance program information this weekend. The deadline is 5/14 so don't wait. Info here at this link... https://www.geva.org/hp Apologies to the NJ volleyball

May 7, 2021 - By NJP With just a couple of games on the schedule, we will just present our picks in written format. We like both home teams tomorrow in tight two-set matches... EASTERN AT WILLIAMSTOWN

May 7, 2021 - By NJP When we think about all of the high school volleyball teams in New Jersey, Scotch Plains-Fanwood sticks out as having the most young players involved in club volleyball. Over the past two years, they have

May 7, 2021 - By NJP Here are the NJP Predictor game selections for New Jersey boys high school volleyball games for Friday, May 7th: UPDATE 8PM 16-2

May 6, 2021 - By NJP Welcome to the NJP Boy's Blog for the evening of 5/6. Next Friday is the state cutoff, so keep the following in mind... The 12 game minimum rule hit us like a punch in

May 6, 2021 - By NJP The Rebels of Howell had a late start to the season and can't be underestimated in what they bring to the table for the Boys Spring high school volleyball season. They already are the closest

May 6, 2021 - By NJP Here are the NJP Predictor game selections for NJ high school boys volleyball for Thursday, May 6th: UPDATE 7PM

May 5, 2021 - By NJP We would like to lead tonight with an important announcement regarding one of the top programs offered from GEVA. The High Performance Program is one that can provide such a rich experience for

May 5, 2021 - By NJP It's not often that you engage with a student athlete that is far more driven than other athletes in his age group. They just possess that leadership gene that will drive them to not accept

May 4, 2021 - By NJP Here are our game predictions for the NJ High School Boys volleyball games for May 5, 2021: UPDATE 9PM

May 4, 2021 - By NJP A smaller schedule of games tonight on the NJ High School Boys volleyball landscape. But there were some very interesting matchups of top 20's. Let's jump in to tonight's inner look... NJP put out an

May 4, 2021 - By NJP Here are some analytical details of boys high school volleyball by class year. It's such an unusual year with the pandemic but the percentages of players by class year is holding pretty true

May 4, 2021 - By NJP Here are the NJ HS Boys volleyball game selections for May 4, 2021: UPDATE 10PM