Abstract
We analyzed women's Cuban team. It team's match analysis based on rotation phases in '97 international women's world champion's cup (November 14-23 1997).
The Cuban team achieved a point rate of 32.88% and side-out success rate of 54.50%. Both rates were higher than those of the Brazilian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean teams. When compared with the Russian team, the point rate was lower but the side-out success rate was almost equal. In terms of the technical evaluation of the team rotations, the Cuban team showed the highest point rate (41.9%) when played in R4, and the highest side-out success rate (61.9%) when played in R2. The most contributive players in the respective attack formations were the attacker No. 8 and blocker No. 14 in the case of R4, and the attacker No. 8 and blocker No. 18 in the case of R2. The most outstanding individual performer in terms of the contributive rate of points and side-out successes was player No.14 (point-22.7%; side-out success-21.1%).
In the six-group comparison, player No.14 in the blocker group showed the highest point rate (35.44%) when she was in the forward row (R3-R4-R5), and player No.10 in the setter group showed the highest side-out success rate (57.45%) when she was in the forward row (R1-R2-R3).
