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Alex Simons

Alex Simons

Oct 1, 2026

5:17
What do you wanna do?
5:19
You definitely wanna receive.
5:21
Uh, so actually I was motivated by, to do this by a blog post by a fellow, his name is Coach Swingle.
5:26
Uh, and he had put up kind of a math argument explaining why you always want to receive.
5:32
And so then I just went looking through the data to see, okay, can I find...
5:35
His math argument was good, right? It made sense to me.
5:37
But I just wanted to see, okay, can I actually find in the data that there's an advantage to receiving systematically.
7:35
What were some things that were different, and, and what was the same?
0:49
How does that happen, and why?
0:51
Well, I've, I've been playing volleyball my whole life.
0:53
I d- I love grass doubles, man.
0:54
That's my thing.
0:55
I just, uh, love grass doubles.
0:58
And when my kids were little, I got the call from the Boys & Girls Club, "Hey, we got 18 kids, including your kids, on the list for the volleyball team and no coach.
1:07
Are you coming out?" And I was like, "Well, I've never coached sixes, but sure.

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6:44
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