[FMadera]

Tony,

I believe the casebook has some of the more common alignments listed. You may want to check that.

In addition, a good thing to remember is that teams will either be in a "right-left-middle" rotation, in which the setter is considered a right side, or "left-right-middle," which is much less commonplace, where the setter again is considered a right.

Once you know which system a team uses, and you know which players are playing which positions, it should be easy to know who should be where. If you know, for example, that the setter is middle back, you should be able to spot the left side to her right. If the setter is right back, that left side player (RF) should be in front of her.

Try this at a match in which you are NOT officiating, but just watching. At the collegiate level, where we don't get to use lineup cards, it makes instant identification so much easier.