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By ADRIAN STEWART CO
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Sunday, May 7, 2017
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EYEBROWS were raised after it was announced that De La Salle University Lady Spikers’ middle blocker Mary Joy Baron is UAAP Season 79 women’s volleyball Most Valuable Player (MVP).
At first, it is really surprising since there are players that had a more impressive performance during the elimination round – like Jaja Santiago of the National University Lady Bulldogs or Michelle Morente of the Ateneo Lady Eagles – but why Baron?
Otie Camangian, UAAP Season 79 women’s volleyball commissioner, said that picking the winner of the individual awards is based on the overall statistics points (OSP) gained by the players during the double-round eliminations.
“This formula has been in place for quite a number of seasons already,” Camangian said. “This was not only implemented this year so we are surprised with the reactions from the fans.”
According to Camangian, every end of the match, the Volleyball Information System (VIS) group reports the performance of each player thru the individual performance by skill form or P-5 before it will be send to the parties concerned for evaluation.
“The winners of the individual awards are being selected by getting the actual OSP earned by each player per category plus the matches won divided by the total sets played,” Camangian said.
As for the MVP award, the formula being used is adding up the rank points in scoring, spiking, blocking, serving, digging, setting and receiving multiplied by 10 plus the product of won games multiplied by 30 before dividing the sum to the total won sets.
For Baron: 46 (score) + 81 (spike) + 90 (block) + 66 (serve) + 20 (digs) + 36 (sets) + 20 (receive) = 359 x 10 = 3,590, then 3590 + (11 (won games) x 30) = 3920, then 3920 divided by 46 (won sets) = 85.217 statistical points (SPs).
For Morente: 60 + 90 + 40 + 73 + 44 + 20 + 51 = 378 x 10 = 3,780, 3,780 + (12 x 30) = 4,140 and 4,140 ÷ 51 = 81.176 SPs and for Santiago: 100 + 100 + 100 + 51 + 21 + 21 + 20 = 413 x 10 = 4,130, 4,130 + (7 x 30) = 4,340 and 4,340 ÷ 55 = 78.909 SPs.
Despite Morente and Santiago leading in terms of their production on offense and defense, the highest individual award still landed on the lap of Baron with her playing the least sets.
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Filipino boxer Jerry Tomogdan scored a stunning victory over the heavily-favored Riku Kano of Japan to capture the World Boxing Organization (WBO) Asia Pacific minimumweight title on Friday night at Bunka Gym in Hyogo, Japan.
While it was the third title of the Valencia, Bukidnon-native Tomogdan in the weight class, this marks his most prestigious one (his previous two were from the Philippine Boxing Federation and the Philippine Games and Amusements Board).
Heading into the match, no one expected Tomogdan to win following a see-saw campaign the last few years that includes defeats to Mexican Pedro Guevarra and Thai WBC minimumweight champion Chayaphon Moonsri.
But with the toughness and determination shown by the 23-year-old Tomogdan, it is expected for him to attract more big matches abroad and at the same time entering the rankings in various boxing organizations./PN
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