Japan - V.League V1 (Division 1, Women) 2022-2023

    So Prestige is coming for Himeji and Gunma will play Okayama


    If I was Himeji I'd practice a lot the next couple weeks

    I just can't with this mousey Mr Rogers guy calling the JT Toyota match

    Minami Nishimura takes the all time serve receive award honors from Risa Shinabe


    1 Minami Nishimura SAGA 74.8 2022-23 V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 WOMEN 335 / 226 / 49 / 60
    2 Risa Shinnabe Hisamitsu
    		70.0 2018-19 V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 WOMEN
    3 Mako Kobata JT Marvelous 69.5 2021-22 V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 WOMEN
    4 Satomi Fukudome Denso 69.4 2022-23 V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 WOMEN
    5 Mami Uchiseto Saitama 69.3 2022-23 V.LEAGUE DIVISION1 WOMEN


    At the V.League site where you can see these things they have it cut between 2016/17 and 2017/18.They must have changed the way they calculate or judge it?


    The Pre-2017 list has zeros under the "Good" column, so they didn't count/judge those. But the players had much higher % so they must have counted every positive as "Excellent" with no penalty for the Fails (before or after 2017)


    1 Ikumi Narita NEC Red Rockets 87.4 7th V League Women-- 215 / 188 /0 / 27
    2 Yuka Sakurai denso airy beads 86.4 6th V League Women
    3 Suiko Tanaka NEC Red Rockets 86.0 8th V League Women
    4 Yumi Kumakura Ito-Yokado Priol 85.6 7th V League Women
    5 Akiko Ino Hitachi Rivale 85.0 V Premier League Women 2006/07

    2023.03.26 Results

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    		 Set 1 Set 2 Set 3 Set 4 Set 5 Stats

    SAGA 3–1 Kurobe

    23-25

    25-18

    25-14

    25-14


    98–71

    Himeji 1–3 Hitachi

    25-20

    20-25

    23-25

    23-25


    91–05

    Saitama 0–3 NEC

    21-25

    16-25

    24-26



    61–76

    JT 3–0 Toyota

    25-17

    26-24

    25-12



    76–53

    Regular Round Final Ranks

    # Team 33 Matches

    Points

    Win Rate

    		 Sets

    Set Rate

    		 Points Point Rate

    1) Toray

    26–7

    73

    0.79

    89–46

    1.93

    3116–2797

    1.11

    2) Saitama

    24–9

    70

    0.73

    78–40

    1.95

    2763–2486

    1.11

    3) SAGA

    24–9

    69

    0.73

    82–47

    1.74

    2981–2739

    1.00

    4) NEC

    23–10

    73

    0.70

    81–42

    1.93

    2856–2662

    1.07

    5) JT

    23–10

    67

    0.70

    83–47

    1.77

    2952–2715

    1.09

    6) Denso

    14–19

    44

    0.42

    56–67

    0.84

    2785–2805

    0.99

    7) Hitachi

    14–19

    42

    0.42

    58–71

    0.82

    2813–2887

    0.97

    8) Toyota

    		 14–19

    39

    0.42

    53–73

    0.73

    2721–2904

    0.94

    9) PFU

    12–21

    36

    0.36

    50–76

    0.66

    2674–2872

    0.93

    10) Kurobe

    10–23

    28

    0.30

    45–82

    0.55

    2734–2964

    0.92

    11) Okayama

    		 9–24

    33

    0.27

    53–80

    0.66

    2833–3020

    0.94

    12) Himeji

    		 5–28

    20

    0.15

    31–88

    0.35

    2433–2810

    0.87


    Individual Awards

    Award Player Team Record # of Times

    Top Scorer

    Danielle Cuttino

    Toyota Body Queens

    788 points

    first award

    Spike Award

    Ayaka Araki

    SAGA

    50.0 %

    first award

    Block Award

    Ayaka Araki

    SAGA

    0.80 / set

    first award

    Serve Award

    Sarina Koga

    NEC Red Rockets

    13.1% whatever

    first award

    Serve Receive Award

    Minami Nishimura

    SAGA

    74.8%

    first award


    Other awards such as MVP, fighting spirit , best rookie, and best Coach will be decided after the Final Stage

    Nakada is coaching at a V3 hopeful men's team called Fragolad. It's not shown on their IG but one of Nakada's assistants is Rika Nomoto. It's quite possible that after this she will return to coaching a V1 women's team. I tried to find out how long her contract is with the team but I couldn't find anything.


    Quote from Phoenix

    Nakada is coaching at a V3 hopeful men's team called Fragolad. It's not shown on their IG but one of Nakada's assistants is Rika Nomoto. It's quite possible that after this she will return to coaching a V1 women's team. I tried to find out how long her contract is with the team but I couldn't find anything.


    she’s the Executive Director as it says on the banner as that is the position she’ll take

    quick question about nishimura. if she was this good all along how come she never had any records at okayama? that serve receive award hasn't been given away since 2019 according to saga. i don't know who the last recipient was.

    Quote from bolt

    quick question about nishimura. if she was this good all along how come she never had any records at okayama? that serve receive award hasn't been given away since 2019 according to saga. i don't know who the last recipient was.

    Kobata won it in 21/22, before that it was just the "receive Award" Hayashi 2020, and Kotoe Inoue 2019


    Re: Nishimura. It's a good question. I guess she was more valuable to Okayama as a Defensive Specialist since they had 19 liberos. She a stability player, don't do anything stupid. Worked that way in all her U-Squads too


    Annoying Okayama fan that I am :) I've enjoyed her work for years and know she was this good all along :drink:


    [edit] 75% reception? No, I didn't know that :rolll: It's crazy

    19 liberos! why are they keeping so many!? I didn't know she was in the U Squad but then again the only libero I remember is Mizusugi. Ironically she never grew any further despite multiple? awards of best libero If I remember correctly.

    Himeji's training team MaxValu Victorina is going independent and changing their name to Viale Hyogo. They are also going to open their roster to "V-League retired players, [who] can play an active role, and make a fresh start"


    That's not interesting but this is ... kinda:

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    Kaori Inoue (born in Toyooka City, Hyogo Prefecture) and Yukiko Ebata, former Japan national team and bronze medalist at the 2012 London Olympics, have been appointed as team directors responsible for player guidance and PR

    And they are "aiming for V.League"

    Quote from bolt

    19 liberos! why are they keeping so many!? I didn't know she was in the U Squad but then again the only libero I remember is Mizusugi. Ironically she never grew any further despite multiple? awards of best libero If I remember correctly.

    Well, not 19, but 7 including her. Still a lot. In U-Squad she was always in Mizusugi's shadow


    I'm gonna take Saori Sakoda's name drops less seriously now. She's picked Mizusugi, Shima, and Himeji in general. Not a good batting average


    But players can grow

    Quote from sitenoise

    Well, not 19, but 7 including her. Still a lot. In U-Squad she was always in Mizusugi's shadow


    I'm gonna take Saori Sakoda's name drops less seriously now. She's picked Mizusugi, Shima, and Himeji in general. Not a good batting average


    But players can grow

    Saori Kimura as well lol she has no eye on these things she just doesn't get it lol I can see why she's never invited to do training camps except during Manabe's entourage appearance at Satsumasendai where she had to be photographed next to Koga.


    Btw, what happened to that Seitoku middle that her and Araki were promoting before their ancient coach retired? where is she now?

    Quote from Hassan Kadem

    Btw, what happened to that Seitoku middle that her and Araki were promoting before their ancient coach retired? where is she now?

    I think you mean Airi Furukawa? She signed with Toray like most good Seitoku players do


    She may be experiencing a bit of a fizzle for a couple reasons: Seitoku didn't make the last Haruko so she didn't get promoted/honored in any way, and throughout her stay at Seitoku she played all three front row positions, ending on OH -- so it's unclear what her position is


    She is at this year's U21 training camps, and she dressed for last year's U18 Champions. I don't remember how much she played. She's somewhere in between promising and forgotten

    Quote from sitenoise

    I think you mean Airi Furukawa? She signed with Toray like most good Seitoku players do


    She may be experiencing a bit of a fizzle for a couple reasons: Seitoku didn't make the last Haruko so she didn't get promoted/honored in any way, and throughout her stay at Seitoku she played all three front row positions, ending on OH -- so it's unclear what her position is


    She is at this year's U21 training camps, and she dressed for last year's U18 Champions. I don't remember how much she played. She's somewhere in between promising and forgotten

    But what about Otomo's daughter what makes her promising? have you seen her play? In the articles I've read it says she's participating in the upcoming Asian games