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GIJane · **Captian Positioning Advice -** 12-13-2006, 11:50 AM

Hi,

I'm new here and will be doing my introduction but I was woudnerign if anyone had any thoughts on my question:

I have a co-ed intramural league starting up next week and am looking for some positioning advice for a possible situation that may (or may not, we'll see who ends up on our team) arise. If, as can sometimes happen here or in pickup games elsewhere, you were to find yourself on a team where about half the people (often 2 of the girls and one guy, but maybe vice versa) have a decent understanding of the game, and the other three are just there to play but don't really know the game, how would you position your players?

Would you:

A) Put your skilled players next to each other, so the hitters will have someone giving them good sets when they're all in the front row, and you can generate some offense even though this will leave you with sketchy defense and vice versa when your skilled players are all in the back row?

B) Shift your skilled players throughout your lineup so that you don't leave a too big hole (like an entire front or back line), but you may lack consistent setting for hitters or vice versa, possibly resulting in your offensive output will suffering?

C) Run a simplified 4-2 or 5-1 offense, so you always are getting consistent setting even if it means losing one or two of your scarce hitters? What if your best setter is your one skilled guy (not that ours will be), do you take your biggest hitter and best blocker and put them at setter?

D) Get a new team? Well, this wouldn't really be an option in this case. Ringers could possibly be recruited, but I'd rather lose a close game that I played my hardest in with a decent amount of playing time, than watch as a team that was nominally mine won while I spent a heavy amount of bench time. (You don't improve much while riding pine.)

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GIJane Spectator Status: Offline Posts: 11 Join Date: Dec 2006	Captian Positioning Advice - 12-13-2006, 11:50 AM Hi, I'm new here and will be doing my introduction but I was woudnerign if anyone had any thoughts on my question: I have a co-ed intramural league starting up next week and am looking for some positioning advice for a possible situation that may (or may not, we'll see who ends up on our team) arise. If, as can sometimes happen here or in pickup games elsewhere, you were to find yourself on a team where about half the people (often 2 of the girls and one guy, but maybe vice versa) have a decent understanding of the game, and the other three are just there to play but don't really know the game, how would you position your players? Would you: A) Put your skilled players next to each other, so the hitters will have someone giving them good sets when they're all in the front row, and you can generate some offense even though this will leave you with sketchy defense and vice versa when your skilled players are all in the back row? B) Shift your skilled players throughout your lineup so that you don't leave a too big hole (like an entire front or back line), but you may lack consistent setting for hitters or vice versa, possibly resulting in your offensive output will suffering? C) Run a simplified 4-2 or 5-1 offense, so you always are getting consistent setting even if it means losing one or two of your scarce hitters? What if your best setter is your one skilled guy (not that ours will be), do you take your biggest hitter and best blocker and put them at setter? D) Get a new team? Well, this wouldn't really be an option in this case. Ringers could possibly be recruited, but I'd rather lose a close game that I played my hardest in with a decent amount of playing time, than watch as a team that was nominally mine won while I spent a heavy amount of bench time. (You don't improve much while riding pine.)