Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the technical items in winning and losing in top-level college men’s volleyball and to identify the specific trends observed in the fifth set. The analysis revealed a positive correlation between the difference in goals scored against the opposing team and the reception attack, dig attack, and block in the fifth set. For reception attacks, significant moderate positive correlations were found between the kill ratio (r =.51) and the efficiency (r =.55), and for dig attacks, between the kill ratio (r =.42) and the efficiency (r =.47). For blocks, there was a significant moderate positive correlation with the efficiency (r =.44) and a significant moderate negative correlation with the error ratio (r = -.44). In the fifth set of the top-level collegiate men’s team, it seems that kill reception attack ratio and reception attack efficiency, the kill dig attack ratio and the dig attack efficiency, the block efficiency, and the error ratio have an influence on the goal difference. The results of the present study support many previous studies, because the tendency that the attack has the greatest influence on the win/loss is similar to that of previous game analysis studies that do not distinguish the fifth set. However, in the present study, we found an association between the block efficiency and the error ratio and the goal difference, suggesting that the fifth set and the other sets may have different game structures.
