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It likely refers to the popular strategy where one player plays a position in the front row then is subbed by a better back row player until that "position" gets rotated to the front row again. PVS might refer to the fact that once a player subs for another player, that spot in the rotation is the only one she can play in for the remainder of that game. Volleyball requires that each player is in her rotation position when the server strikes the ball. If a player has an assigned position, she will try to get to that position as quickly as possible after the serve. Outside hitters, middle blockers, opposite hitters (right side) and setters can then concentrate on their position during practice and it can become their expertise. Positional Volleyball Substitution could refer to the fact that a player will usually sub a teammate who is in the same position as she is used to playing in.
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JordanThese are the International rules of substitutions in volleyball. If you are looking for US college or high school rules, then they're not here...sorry.
Under the International rules of the game, as sanctioned by the FIVB, each team is allowed to make 6 substitutions per set. Substitutions may be called only in between points or at the beginning of a set and may not be called during a point or after the referee has authorised a service; this may result in a team delay sanction being called. A player having been substituted may only go back on court for the player who substituted them. This counts as 2 substitutes of the 6 allowed per team in a set. A team can make as many substitutions as they wish, up to the legal maximum, at one time. So, for example, a team may replace all 6 players in one go, but this would use all the substitutions up for that set and no more substitutions may be made for the remainder of the set, unless an exceptional substitution is needed due to injury or illness (see below).
If a player gets injured or becomes ill during a set, they have to be replaced by a legal substitute within that team's quota of 6 substitutions per set, where possible. It follows that if a substitute gets injured (that is a player who did not start in the starting line up at the commencement of that set), they must be replaced by the player they went on for. Occasionally a team are unable to make a legal substitution. For example, say a team only brings 7 players to a match (a maximum of 12 players per team is allowed - and up to 14 for FIVB international competitions). During a set that team may have used a substitute and if one of the other players (not the substitute) on court becomes injured, that injured player would normally be legally subbed. However, in this case, they cannot be legally subbed as the player who has gone off court may only come back on for whomever subbed for them. In this instance, a team can make what's called an exceptional substitution, which would ordinarily be an illegal substitution, to allow the set to continue. However, the player is exceptionally subbed may now no longer partake in the rest of the game, should they make a recovery. If a team cannot provide an exceptional sub - they may have brought only 6 players or lost a player through an expulsion or disqualification - they are declared incomplete and would forfeit the match..
Similar rules apply for player who gets expelled for a set or disqualified for the match. The disqualified player must be legally substituted or the team is declared incomplete and would forfeit the set or the match as appropriate depending on the sanction. Exceptional substitutions are NOT allowed for disqualified players.
Some competitions and countries have slightly differing rules. But these rules apply to most competitions and certainly to all FIVB and Olympic competitions.
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