[PDF Report] Ranking of the best volleyball players in the history (after 2011)

The King will be greatly missed!

No shit, sherlock

Ivan has the highest Statistics

Brazilians got advantage cause their history in NT, they got a good team (or god team sometimes :D)
and they always get qualified

there's a lot of good player that don't have any title cause they play in a minor NT (ex: Granvorka... do u ever seen France in a final match?) or they didn't play in a NT (a lot of cubans)

Huge advantage Brazilians!

it is in ranking (World League 2007) but it was unofficial award.

Nice work :) But there is a mistake - Winiarski was best receiver twice :)

Why flag of Yugoslavia has red star ? After 1992 Yugoslavia had not red star

Excellent work

nice research... i wish you have an updated one :)

missing Juantoregna :(

really interesting!!

bigger surprise to me: Mastrangelo twice best server!

@hanes, you're quite right, and I'll add that the spiker (OH and opposite) are favourite because they have more chance to get a prize, as best spiker/best scorer/even MVP. Setter and expecially Libero (they didn't serve and block at all!) had very few chance to won more than one prize, also because considering that exist "best setter" and "best libero" awards it's almost impossible for them to win an MVP prize. So or they get the "best setter/libero" or they get nothing.

of course Sergio is an exeption ^^ (when he was nominated MVP has the "best libero" award already exist?)

This report is a great and intresting thing, but you can't take this as 100% proof.
1.becouse usually the awards come only to the top 3 or 4 lands in finals, mabie someone was better who's team was 5th or 7th.
2.some players can prepare for these competitions the whole season others dont have any rest.
3.You can really say who is the best, becouse mabie someone had more triple and double blocks against him becouse the opposite team was focusing on him.

Sergio one of the best players in the world and is a Libero, impressive!

Yeah Peter apparently didn't get enough awards.... why not, is beyond me. Also, why no Henno?

What about Peter Blange, HeeelMooi?

Very cool list! Ron Zwerver!!!!!!!! Bas van de Goor!

Karch Kirally, I agree with guys below. Even FIVB chose him player of 20th century. Also all the coaches think about him when they imagine an ideal player.

Chrison great work :)
this is very intresting

Weight of the league will be very subjective thing. Some people will think that Italian and Russian league have the same weight, some think that Italian is more luxury than Russian, others believe the opposite. I'm sure that will be people who think that Polish league should have the same weight like Italian and Russian. It is VERY subjective.

Last edited by chrison on 17:02 20/02/2011.

Yeah Saku, and look at all the Poles on this list.

great ranking

look at setters, Zagumny is much weaker than cameroon setter for sure

Krzysztof Ignaczak was best libero in World Championships 2002

Chrison:

1. I am scientist and I was suggesting something like Google page rank algorithm, which will weight the national leagues, so title in Italy and title in Izrael will not be equal; futhermore, it will weight all appearances of the players, not just the awards. It is not critical of your efforts, it is my desire to improve the ranking system

2. I didn't write that Matey Kazyiski is best in the world. All I wrote was his awards, nothing more. You are putting some context I neved put.

3. Don't talk who is adult since your reaction is deffensive.

4. My personal opionion for best player is Karch Kirally, Giba and Dimiter Zlatanov (the only player from Bulgaria in the US hall of fame). Kazyiski didn't play final with NT yet to put him there, but I do think he is one of the best, but not in top 3 or 5. He has a lot of time to enter there and I hope he will

You should open full report.


So what about all of the Brazilias who are not playing in Champions League/CEV Cup/Challenge Cup?


So I should count MVPs of Israeli/Quatar/Korean/Czech/Slovak League where are few good players?

Of course that there summaries are unnecessary, because for all Bulgarians the best volleyball player is Matey Kaziyski, for all Lett the best volleyball player in the history is Gundars Celitans (fuck rankings), for all Croat is Igor Omrcen etc.

I think that some nations aren't an adult to admit that the best volleyball player is someone not from their country.

Last edited by chrison on 09:08 16/02/2011.

Matey Kazyiski was best server in WL2004 and WCH2006, but he was best spiker in WL2006 - so 3 titles on national level. On club level he was MVP for Russian Cup, CL and World club championship - overall 6 awards I think

And to be mathematically correct should include in the formula every position of the players, no only the first one. For example, player, who was ten times second for MVP is better than someone, who has two MVPs and was out of top ten in the other eight occasions

Last edited by raylight on 08:47 16/02/2011.

This counts only the national competition awards, but should include the club ones too

Soon Murilo will be part of the top 03 !!!

Last edited by RenanZ on 02:33 16/02/2011.

Ron Zwerver... quite a legend... that dutch NT from 96 is unforgetable to me...
I'm glad to see the name of Giba among the best; to me he's the best player of brazilian volleyball history...
I wish I could have seen kiraly playing; I saw him only on the beach, unfortunitely

yeah...Karch K. - it's true...I suppose they gave him this award about his nationality (in USA "inviete" volleyb) or for his titles (gold medals) in sand and a hall...i don'tknow - but is quite strange for me...

Is it just Endres and Geric that are best blockers? No more names?

Yeah, good job!
I think, that:

Is very fair, and it finish every discussion about setters.

Raul Diago is legend of cuban volleyball, and listen now... 624 matches in Cuba NT! Amazing, nobody has more.

And ofcourse Miljkovic - for me the best volleyball player playing till now...

And my idol - Simon Aties... I hope that he will raise his score... He is 23 (?) yo now... I am sure, that he will beat Sergio and Ron Zwerver!