2020 AVP Champions Cup – Who’s the Best?

With the AVP Champions Cup starting this weekend, I compiled match statistics on the best main draw players.

So, Who Has the Highest Winning %?

Phil Dalhausser and Alix Klineman have both won around 80% of the matches in their careers, including AVP & FIVB matches.

If you’re interested in match stats, I’ll go over the following:

• 1. Hitting % – This is the player’s attack effectiveness. The higher the Hitting %, the better the player is at scoring points. Teams generally target the weaker players. Calculated as (Kills – Errors) / # of Attacks
• 2. Aces – Point winning serves
• 3. Blocks – Point winning blocks at the net
• 4. Digs – Successfully defending an opponent’s attack

All of the graphs below represent AVP career match averages 

1. Hitting %

Nick Lucena has the lowest hitting % out of all the main draw players. When you’re watching the tournament this weekend, look for teams to predominantly serve him to exploit this weakness.

On the women’s side, we don’t see as much of a drastic change from the top player, April Ross to the bottom, Sara Hughes.

2. Aces

With his jump-serving and aggressive style of play, Jeremy Casebeer leads the cohort in aces per match.

On the women’s side, the team of April Ross and Alix Klineman lead the cohort with the most aces.

3. Blocks

At 6′ 9″ (206cm), Phil Dalhausser is regarded as one of the best blockers on the tour. It’s surprising to see him 2nd to Theo Brunner who is 6′ 7″ (201cm), although it’s fairly close. Look for Theo’s partner, Casey Patterson, to take advantage of a big blocker on defense when you watch the tournament this weekend.

Amazing to see Brandie Wilkerson, at only 5′ 10″ (178cm), having more blocks than towering Alix Klineman at 6′ 5″ (196cm). Brandie is just behind 6′ 5″ (196cm) Sarah Pavan, both of whom get slightly over 3 blocks per match.

4. Digs

No surprise that the speedy Taylor Crabb is #1 in the digs category. His partner, Jake Gibb, is the 3rd best blocker of the cohort, which no doubt helps the defender.

On the women’s side, Melissa Paredes is #1 in digs. Same story here, her partner, Sarah Pavan is #1 in blocks, which no doubt helps Melissa get more digs.

Other Resources

• To see how players have improved in their games over time, check out my previous post
• To see a additional player information with historical match data, check out my player dashboard

Entry List

Men

Player	Partner	Seed	Combined Win %
Nick Lucena	Phil Dalhausser	1	72.40%
Jake Gibb	Taylor Crabb	2	68.30%
Chaim Schalk	Chase Budinger	3	55.40%
Casey Patterson	Theo Brunner	4	60%
Jeremy Casebeer	John Hyden	5	61.20%
Trevor Crabb	Tri Bourne	6	61.70%
Miles Evans	Ricardo Santos	Q1	71.30%
David Lee	Reid Priddy	Q2	51%
Billy Allen	Stafford Slick	Q3	50.40%
Tim Bomgren	Troy Field	Q4	51.90%
Avery Drost	Ryan Doherty	Q5	53.90%
Maddison McKibbin	Riley McKibbin	Q6	39.30%
Billy Kolinske	Sean Rosenthal	Q7	62.70%
Ed Ratledge	Skylar del Sol	Q8	47.90%
Piotr Marciniak	Roberto Rodriguez	Q9	46.20%
Chase Frishman	Michael Brunsting	Q10	44.60%
Miles Partain	Ty Loomis	Q11	45.30%
Andy Benesh	Eric Beranek	Q12	38.60%

Women

Player	Partner	Seed	Combined Win %
Alix Klineman	April Ross	1	76.70%
Melissa Humana-Paredes	Sarah Pavan	2	65.50%
Kelly Claes	Sarah Sponcil	3	63.70%
Brandie Wilkerson	Sara Hughes	4	62.10%
Emily Day	Lauren Fendrick	5	54.20%
Emily Stockman	Kelley Larsen	6	58.40%
Jace Pardon	Karissa Cook	Q1	53.80%
Amanda Dowdy	Susannah Muno	Q2	53.80%
Kelly Reeves	Terese Cannon	Q3	49.50%
Kimberly Hildreth	Sarah Schermerhorn	Q4	52.50%
Mackenzie Ponnet	Sheila Shaw	Q5	39.10%
Allie Wheeler	Corinne Quiggle	Q6	46.40%
Crissy Jones	Traci Callahan	Q7	55.60%
Kathryn Hogan	Molly Turner	Q8	47.20%
Delaney Knudsen	Katie Spieler	Q9	39.40%
Kendra VanZwieten	Kim DiCello	Q10	47.10%
Karolina Marciniak	Lane Carico	Q11	50.40%
Brittany Tiegs	Carly Wopat	Q12	38.90%

Notes About the Data

• Check my data page to access the raw data
• Data from year 2000 – 2020
• Match stat data comes from historical AVP tournaments

 

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