Strategic Interaction in Volleyball

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Introduction People come into contact with strategic interaction everyday. It happens so often that it is sometimes difficult to even notice it. There is a lot of strategic interaction in sports. One of those sports is volleyball. Volleyball is a team sport, in which two teams that consist of six players face each other from the opposite sides of a sports court, separated by a net (Volleyball, Wikipedia (2007) Retrieved: 4 November 2012 from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volleyball). Each team tries to score points by grounding the ball on the other teams court. They can do that by serving well and making it hard for the opposing team to return the ball, or by spiking, which means slamming the ball into the other team's court aggressively. In order for a team to be successful, their strategic interaction has to be well developed. For that to happen, they have to be able to communicate effectively among themselves as well. The aim of this paper is to find out how does strategic interaction take place in volleyball and what are its benefits. Applying strategic interaction The term strategic interaction is used to explain a process, in which more parties participate in order to achieve a common goal, where good communication is essential (What Is a Strategic Interaction? WiseGEEK, Malcom Tatum. Retrieved: 4 November 2012 from: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-strategic-interaction.htm). As explained before, volleyball is a team sport, so in order to score players have to interact with each other. In this case it is the coach's job to decide on a play and what the strategic interactions will look like. When doing that, he has to consider the basic elements of a game, who are the players, the possible actions the players can pursue and the outcomes of the actions. Applying this to volleyball means, that the coach has to know the players' strengths and

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