Jai Alai/Cesta Punta--Fronton Mexico Releases it's 1st Weekly Match Calendar

On March 30, 2017, Fronton Mexico released its first Calendar of scheduled weekly matches. The calendar covers March 28-April 2 and reveals, to those of us who were stumbling around the Facebook page trying to figure out the next matches, how the schedule works. It works like this. There is an opening partido,followed by a 5 point Quiniela match (contested among 6 players--all singles matches so far), followed by the Star Match partido, followed by another 5 point Quiniela match, followed by a third partido. The first Quiniela match appears to be an "A" players match. The 2nd Quiniela match appears to be a "B" players match. Quiniela players are also assigned to partidos on the same day.

This is a great communications improvement that clarifies what is going on at the Fronton. Many thanks to FM for it. The next step, obviously, is to rationalize the results information. Hopefully, that will come soon.

March 28-April 2, Calendar

At present the Calendar page links off the main FM Jai Alai Page. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page, past the pelotaris pictures.

It also links directly from the "Live" link on the main Jai Alai page and the Main Fronton Mexico Page:

Direct "Live" link

FM home page

Remonte-March 2017 Rankings and Leading Monthly Leaders

Oriamendi2010 Roster

Full March Rankings with ranking explanation

Historical monthly rankings back to July 2011

Leaders for March were

Group A: Urriza 39.17
Group B: Garces 40.0

For the fourth consecutive month, a player had a perfect ranking. For Garces, the perfect ranking was his 2nd in 4 months. Uterga and Urriza have dominated the A Group, having the highest rankings in the group each month. Uterga, who had a perfect record in February, continued his great play through the middle of March, by which time he stretched his winning streak to 9 consecutive matches. The streak began January 28, 2017. It was actually a 10 match winning streak, including a victory in the Euskal Jai Berri Festa Gala de Remonte 2017 on March 10. The streak came to an end when Uterga-Endika lost to Ezkurra-Barrenetxea IV 40-38 on March 16. Uterga has since lost 3 more matches to finish 3-4 for the month. Urriza asserted himself with a 5-1 record for the month, as well as a 5 match winning streak. He was a perfect 3-0 in Sagardoaren Txapelketa. In the B group Garces led the way with a 6-0 month. All told, he now has an 8 match winning streak going back to February 23.  As you will see in the table below, the records for the month strongly reflect performance in the ST. 17 players on the Oriameni2010 roster played either as teams in the ST or as substitutes.

2017 Leading Monthly Leaders:

Group A: Urriza 2, Uterga 1
Group A highest ranking: Uterga 40 (February)

Group B: Garces 1 , Goikoetxea V 1, Zubiri 1
Group B highest ranking: Zubiri 40 (January); Garces 40 (March)

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Remonte (Galarreta matches only) monthly tables (wins-losses, points for and against, winning or losing streaks) (d-Delantro--Front z-Zaguero--Back *-d+z)--record will be kept by position). Tables are ordered by winning percentage. First tie-breaker is wins. Second tie breaker is point differential. Third tie breaker is point winning percentage.

Final Table for March

Group A

Urriza(d)............................5-1..239-201..+5 (Sagardoaren Txapelketa VII 3-0)
Ezkurra(d)..........................3-2..177-193..-1 (ST VII 1-2)
Uterga(d)............................3-4..271-259..-4 (ST VII 2-1)
Etxarri(d)............................3-4..211-200..-1
Etxeberria IV(d).................1-3..114-149..-2 (ST VII 1-2)

Etxeberria III(z)...............3-2..159-183...+2 (ST VII 1-2)
Barrenetxea IV(z).............3-3...227-230...-1 (ST VII 1-2)
Ion(z).................................2-3...191-184...-2 (ST VII 2-1)
Endika(z)...........................2-3...168-177..+2 (ST VII 1-2)
Agirrezabala(z)..................1-4....157-168..-3 (ST VII 1-2)

Group B

Erburu(d).........................5-1...188-159...+3
Segurola(d)......................4-2...189-170...+1 (ST VII 1-2)
Otaegi(d)..........................3-2...160-155....-1 (ST VII 2-1)
Goikoetxea V(d)..............4-4..216-222....+1
Ansa II.............................3-3..188-168....+3 (ST VII 1-2)
Ezkurra II(d)....................1-4...170-193....-2 (ST VII 1-2)
Benat(d)...........................0-6...153-210....-7

Garces(z).........................6-0....205-143..+8
Azpiroz(z).......................5-2....236-212..-2  (ST VII 3-0)
Labaka(z)........................4-3...204-182...-1
Larranaga(z)...................3-3...194-189...-3(ST VII 2-1)
Zubiri(z)..........................3-4....211-230..+2 (ST VII 1-0)
Aizpuru III(z)..................3-4....199-219..+1 (ST VII 0-2)
Otano(z)...........................1-4....128-159...-2

In uneven pairings:

A-B 2-1; A-A 1-2
B-B 4-2; A-B 2-4
B 1-0; A 0-1

For full coverage of Oramendi2010 Galarreta Thursday and Saturday matches, see the Remonte: Galarreta "STAR" matches page on the right side of the blog.