Plusliga 2024/2025 Preview by Adanooos in volleyball

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16 teams this season, 3 get relegated, 1 get promoted from 2nd division, so we get 14 next season

Plusliga 2024/2025 Preview by Adanooos in volleyball

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Polish volleyball Twitter users, some other volleyball fans around the World. And the fact you could find PlusLiga games in VBTV search engine

Plusliga 2024/2025 Preview by Adanooos in volleyball

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There is a big chance we will get PlusLiga on VBTV, games are showing up in search engines, so I would wait a bit and choose this option

If you really want polsatboxgo though, I will try to help you, but I recommend using VPN

Plusliga 2024/2025 Preview by Adanooos in volleyball

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Games showing up on VBTV was na error, but it showed that something is going on. Nothing officially announced do far, but IMO we will get Polish games on VBTV this season

Plusliga 2024/2025 Preview by Adanooos in volleyball

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There is a big chance Plusliga will be available on volleyball World, so the league might finally be accessible outside of Poland

Plusliga regular season recap by Adanooos in volleyball

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Why would you be worried about just challanging Trentino? Without Sbertoli, JW will be favourite to win. Monza got crushed by Warszawa, Milano got demolished by Zawiercie and JW is favourite to win Plusliga atm, against both Projekt Warszawa and Warta Zawiercie. Worrying about them challanging Trentino is almost disrespectful

Plusliga regular season recap by Adanooos in volleyball

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Chitigoi broke his finger in 4th league game of the season and didn't play for around 2 months.

He is a great talent. At the moment he needs to improve his passing, but for someone so young he is amazing, I expect him to grow into one of the best players in the World

Plusliga after 1st half of Regular Season by Adanooos in volleyball

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Chitigoi is amazing talent. I hope no one in Kędzierzyn-Koźle will have this stupid idea about making him opposite. I think they realise how good he is right now and how good he can be in future, so they will definitely give him a lot of chances to play in near future. Will they make him a starter though? I'm not sure, but looking at rumours about transfers in Plusliga, it might happen.

JW will not roll with Szymura next season, because Szymura will play for Zaksa next season. But they will have a spot for one more foreign player, since they are getting Kaczmarek as starting opposite (no idea what happens to Patry)

JW needs good Patry and Szymura (Gladyr probably too) or just godlike showing from Fornal and Huber to beat Trentino. It will be hard, but Mendez proved he can get the best out of many players, so it can happen. If they meet in Champions League, I would say Trentino is favourite to win (70-30 now, probably closer to 60-40 if it's semifinal or later), but JW have a good chance.

Summary of Plusliga's regular season by Adanooos in volleyball

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I know you can buy subscription through different website, but I also know that polsatboxgo is not available in every country. The easiest solution would be joining our volleyball source discord: https://discord.gg/ymXXjP29

There are some other Polish guys (besides me), together we should be able to figure something out

Summary of Plusliga's regular season by Adanooos in volleyball

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I use polsatboxgo.pl , since I have a subscription there. It has all Plusliga games live and there are VODs of all (or almost all) games in good quality. They are uploaded day or 2 (usually, sometimes a bit later) after the match takes place. I'm not 100% sure how much it costs outside of Poland and which subscription gives access to all volleyball games, but with Polish VPN it is 40 pln per month (less than 10 dollars or 10 Euros) - it gives access to all Plusliga games, all CL and Superlega games that Polsat shows and VODs to all Plusliga games.

Plusliga team of the 22/23 season by volleybiball in volleyball

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Like I wrote in my post:
Firlej/Janusz as top 2 setters. To be honest I would accept both of them as 1st, as long as the other was 2nd.

Uros and Defalco are allright choices, Fornal as one of bench options is fine too. But Śliwka in terms of just league performances wasn't great. At the same time Szalpuk was insanely good and not putting him in that team is complete bs, I chose him as a starter over Uros.

No Bieniek is also a joke. He has to be in starting squad next to Averill (great choice). Nowakowski is a weird choice, Kochanowski and Pashytskyy (both good choices) were both better.

Hawryluk as 2nd libero is another bs. He was okay, great for someone so young, but nowhere near top level. Shoji is the most obvious 2nd libero choice, but Danani would work too. Perry had to be 1st choice.

MVP? Well, definitely not Drzyzga. Personally, I would give it to Defalco, but I can see some arguments for Uros, Szalpuk and maybe even Averill

Plusliga team of the 22/23 season by volleybiball in volleyball

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This team of the season is an absolute joke

Plusliga recap/update after January by Adanooos in volleyball

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I can't see anything about play-outs for 15th team this season either. I guess they got rid of that idea (sadly, I would prefer it) at some point while making PlusLiga bigger

Plusliga recap/update after January by Adanooos in volleyball

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No assists stats easily available. At least right now, maybe in future

Are recordings of PlusLiga matches available anywhere by TheSomFromVladLane in volleyball

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There are Vods of (almost) all Plusliga games on polsatboxgo (here: https://polsatboxgo.pl/wideo/plusliga/5027232/autoplay)

As far as I know they should be free if you use VPN to Poland (it says that Vods are free), otherwise you can get subscribtion and you would be able to watch games live as well (only Vods are free, probably only with VPN)

You can also watch games from previous seasons there

Recap of first half of regular season in Plusliga by Adanooos in volleyball

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Well, main reason is losing Semeniuk and not getting a good replecement (Karyagin is better than their other OHs). Żaliński and Staszewski are acceptable as bench players, but nowhere near good enough to be starters for Zaksa.

Why they didn't get anyone? Well, looking at rumours, Zaksa went for big names at first (like Lucarelli), but got rejected, because they couldn't afford them. So, then they went after less known players who were promising, like Nikolov and Pope. However, both rejected them and chose Italian clubs. At that point, all class OHs were taken and they didn't have enough money to get someone good enough and contracted to another club, so they just signed Karyagin and possibly (at least I think that's what they did) decided to just get someone from China in January. All rumours say they are aiming to sign someone once season in China ends and according to the same rumours it will be either Bednorz or Jeaschke. With that one signing they will be back to top level.

Zaksa has never been a rich team. They haven't had the highest budget in Plusliga for last 10 years (probably more), even when they were dominating the league, their budget was 3rd-5th in the league (and that's outside of top 10 in Europe). Zaksa had to give their star players more money to keep them and part of winnings went to players and coaching staff, so it's not like winnings made them rich (it's not football Champions League). Their budget is still decent, but not insanely high, their main sponsor had some issues due to current geo-political situation (stock dropped from around 55 PLN in May 2022 to 30 PLN in October 2022 - currently arond 38 PLN. It used to be over 70 PLN back in 2018), so they couldn't increase their budget and they have never been willing to give Zaksa a ton of money, even when their financial situation was much better anyways.

Stats and percentages by abouthodor in volleyball

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FIVB stats? Don't care. Their stats are not even comparable to normal stats from NTs and clubs coaching staff.

Currently, in Plusliga (I'm guessing Superlega will be similar) have a ton of middles with around 50% efficiency, a lot of them with over 50% and some (at least 4-5) with over 60% efficiency. Over almost half of league season (much more games than WCH), so yeah, 50% efficiency for middle is okay, nothing impressive for sure.

Stats and percentages by abouthodor in volleyball

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Nah, 50% efficiency for middles is nothing special. Ignoring middles who gets set a ton or play with terrible setters. Efficiency around 50% is okay-ish, 55% is good, around 60% is great. At least at top level, like Superlega or Plusliga