The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between team performance in volleyball and the skill components of serving, service reception, setting, spiking, spike defense, and free ball passing as measured by adapted charting procedures. A purposive sample of 107 games between the best “AA” teams in each of 9 Northwest volleyball tournaments was charted. The results of the study indicated that, considered together, the volleyball skills studied were significantly related to team performance. Further analysis of the nature of the relationship revealed that the order of volleyball skills most influential in predicting team success was spiking, followed by spike defense, service reception, setting, serving, and free ball passing, respectively.
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Richard H. Cox (1974) studied this question.