This is a current awareness blog that links to the latest sources of information on Basque Pelota matches and Tournaments. It covers all of both North and South Basque modalities: Pro and amateur. It links to match stories, statistics and video highlights and/or full match videos. NEW!!! JAI ALAI LEAGUE (EREMAN!) SEASON INTRO AND JAI ALAI WOMEN'S WINTER TOUR 2024 (2/22/24)!!!

Saturday, January 19, 2019

Pala/Pala Larga--Final Innpala Rankings for 2017-2018

The final Innpala player rankings for the 2017-2018 season were recently published at the Innpala website. Note: This table does not include InnPala's newest player, front courter Ibon Garate, (Mundo Deportivo) who debuted at the beginning of the 2018-19 Liga Kutxabank competition. The Liga Kutxabank competition ended on January 12, 2019. It is not included in this ranking. Garate replaced Erik Zubiri, who left InnPala in August of 2018 to become a fire fighter. (Mundo Deportivo).

Player information and photos

Ranking de pelotaris a  9/9/2018

DELANTEROS ZAGUEROS
(Front Courters)      (Back Courters)

Gaubeka  268 Gordon  212

Fusto  212     Ibargarai   210
Necol  196 Urrutia     190
Landeta 172 Ibai Perez  180
                      Brefel       156

The ranking criteria are available at Innpala at this time (scroll past the rankings, which are current).

A Google Translate version of how the rankings are derived.

The company awards diamonds (*) (1 to 3) to the championships depending on their importance, duration, etc. Note: *** ranked tournaments are the major annual tournaments, to the best of my knowledge. These would by the Liga Kutxabank (pairs), the Mundial Individual (singles), the Mundo Parejas (pairs) and the Bizkaia Open (pairs). The rankings of the summer tournaments are unknown to me at this time.

The diamonds of each tournament are multiplied by the following points ladder:

1ยบ: 22 | 2nd: 18 | 3rd: 14 | 4th: 12 | 5th onwards: 10

In the individual world the points are awarded depending on the elimination in which each paddler has fallen

The pelotaris that do not compete in a tournament acquire as many points as the last of the competition.

* New incorporations to the company that are linked to the ranking with the palista who has the fewest points on the day of incorporation

===========================

For 2019, we will be putting together a table of actual wins and losses along with jokos won and lost for players by position, as another way to look at how the Palistas are doing throughout the year. It will include all of the matches that I find, whether tournament or independent matches. Some data the early part of the 2016-17 season is available at the InnPala Player win-loss table page on the right side of the blog.