Competitive Volleyball Action Efficiency Depending On The Opponents' Level

Abstract

Achievement of superior performance in volleyball can be reached by analyzing the efficiency of the game actions according to the level of the opponent teams. Thus, based on the efficiency indices achieved in the official competitions, we will be able to develop a model of training based on the level of opponents. The purpose of this study is to determine whether the efficiency indices of the game actions are influenced by the opponents’ level. The study verifies the hypothesis according to which the efficiency of the game actions depends on the level of the opponent team in volleyball. We used as research methods the following: the bibliographic method, the pedagogical observation method, the modelling method, the statistical-mathematical method and the graphical method. The subjects of the research were represented by the 14 players of the women’s volleyball team from Stiinta Bacau Sports Club in the 2016-2017 season. The research ran from October 2016 to February 2017. The results of the study highlighted that there are statistically significant differences between the efficiency of the opponents’ game actions for: over pass, attack, block and dig. The efficiency of the serve seems to be an invariant in the context of our analysis, which can be explained by the fact that this action does not depend in any way on the opponent. The conclusion highlights the fact that the level of the opponent teams influences the efficiency indices of the game actions, so that the model of training should be designed according to them.