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Jai Alai: Dania Jai Alai Daily and Weekly Leaders -- Winter 2020--Week Ending January 19

In this space we will keep an account of the daily, weekly, and cumulative statistics of the Dania Beach Jai Alai Roster. Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Chalk Talk Bulletin Board.

The Dania Beach (Fronton before AND after renovation) (Frontons.net)
The Winter 2020 season began on January 2.

Entries; Results; Game Pages; Roster Information; Statistics (Note: roster information is part of the "statistics" pages.

Note that complete up to date roster statistics are only publicly available through the latest performance at the above links at this time. Latest leading daily winners data is available at the Basque Pelota Current Results page, under Jai Alai Cesta Punta. Scroll to Dania Jai Alai.

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The highlight of the Fall 2018 season was the Fall Challenge Partido Tournament, which consisted of an 8 team knock out tournament. Full match videos of 7 of the matches are available here (look for "partido" or "Fall Challenge.") The earliest available partido is November 16, 2018 (Zulaika-Amigorena v Jairo-Leke).

The final was on December 14, 2018.

Erik-Ladutxe 15 Diego-Bailo 9 (Youtube video)

E-L v D-B, point by point analysis (by me :) (via Tiger's Chalk Talk bulletin board.) (Temporarily unavailable)

2019

Cumulative Calendar and Fall, Spring, and Winter 2019 Information Meta (Links) Page

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WINTER 2020 SEASON:

Note: For a cumulative accounting of the Dania Roster: Wins sorted by fronts/backs within earlies/lates, see the new Dania Feature Page.

CUMULATIVE SECTION (Through January 19)

Dania Statistics for the week ending January 19

A. Cumulative daily leading winners by performance and most wins in a performance. For individual performance winner statistics for this week, see below

1. Cumulative winners by performance (through January 23(E)-22
Performances).
Note: this is the number of times a player has either led or tied for the lead in most wins in a performance. Players will be listed by number of performances won. In all cases 2 or more wins have led a performance. Bold Italics indicates performance won on "through" performance date above.

e-f=early front; e-b=early back; l-f=late front; l-b=late back

5. (.227)Erik (l-f)

4. (.182) Barandika (l-f);
2. (.091) Minte (e-b); Ubilla (e-b); Leke (l-b); Arrieta (l-f); Bailo (l-b); Goenaga (e-f); Amigorena (l-b); Ladutxe (l-b)

1. (.045) Urbieta (l-b); Zulaika (l-f); Beitia (e-b); Arta (e-b); Alex (e-f); Jairo (e-f); Erik (l-f); Urtaran (l-b); Goixerri (l-f); Elizalde (e-b)

2. Players with the most wins in a performance (through January 23(E)-22 Performances). There have yet to be any performances where no player won more than one game. Corrections are always welcome. Italics=this week's additions

4. Barandika (l-f) (1/3(E))

3. Erik (l-f) (three times) (1/22(M); 1/22(E); 1/23(E)); Leke (l-b) (two times) 1/12(M), 1/15(E)); Bailo (l-b) (two times) (1/4(M), 1/16(E)), Arrieta (l-f) (two times) (1/5(M), 1/16(E)); Barandika (l-f) (two times) (1/4(M), 1/19(M))

3. Urbieta (l-b) (1/2(E)); Minte (e-b) (1/4(E)); Zulaika (l-f) (1/4(E)); Beitia (e-f) (1/8(E); Arta (e-b) (1/9(E)); Amigorena (l-b) (1/10(E)); Alex (e-f) 1/11(M)); Ubilla (e-b) 1/12(M)); Goixerri (e-f) (1/15(E)); Goenaga (e-f) (1/18(M)); Spinner (1/22(M))

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B. Cumulative weekly leaders in wins (January 2-19) For this week, see below.

Leading Weekly winner leaders (outright or tied)

1: Barandika (l-b); Leke (l-b); Arta (e-b); Ladutxe (l-b)

Most wins for a weekly leader in a week (outright or tied).

12: Ladutxe (l-b)
8: Barandika (l-b); Leke (l-b); Arta (e-b)

Top 5 Campeonato points (5*win +3*2nd place +1*3rd place)

1. Barandika(l-f) 194 (25-17-18)

2. Ladutxe (l-b) 175 (23-14-18)
3. Erik (e-b) 164 (21-17-8)
4. Leke (l=b) 156 (19-15-16)
5. Bailo (l-b) 156 (17-19-14)

Top 5 most games played:

1. Bailo (l-b) 117

2. Leke (l-b) 116
3. Amigorena (l-b) 113
4. Urturan (l-b) 112
5. Salegi (l-b) 111

45+ Games in a week.

Leke (l-b) 49 (1/15-1/19)

Bailo (l-b) 48 (1/15-1/19)
Amigorena (l-b) 48 (1-15-1/19)
Ladutxe (l-b) 47 (1/15-1/19)
Urturan (l-b) 46 (1/15-1/19)
Erik (l-f) 45 (1/15-1/19)

C. Game 10 Standings (1/2-/1/23(E)). Note. Each number represents the wins for the week. b=Back; e=Early. This is the Florida Singles Championship. Through 22 performances.

Erik 1, 2, 0, 3=6

Barandika 2, 1, 2, 0=5
Zulaika 1, 2, 0, 0=3
Tevin 1, 0, 2, 0=3
Arrieta 0, 0, 2, 0=2
Goitia 0, 1, 0, 0=1
Amigorena (b) 0, 1, 0, 0=1

Beitia (e) 0, 0, 1, 0=1

Urtaran (b) 0, 0, 0, 0=0

Ibon (b) 0, 0, 0, 0=0

Salegi (b) 0, 0, 0, 0=0
Ladutxe(b) 0, 0, 0, 0=0

Game 12 Standings (1/2-1/23(E) 22 performances). This is the Florida Doubles Championship. Until at least February 1, Dania will have 6 singles and 6 pairs games in a performance. Because of the way that has been scheduled, Game 9 will be the FDC until the schedule returns to 4 singles and 8 pairs games. Bold Italics are players who have won this week.

Fronts

Beitia (e) 0, 4, 0, 1=5

Erik 2, 0, 2, 0, 0=4
Alex (e) 1, 2, 0, 0=3
Barandika 0, 1, 0, 2, 0=3
Zulaika 1, 0, 0, 2=3
Jairo 1, 0, 0, 0=1
Arrieta 0, 0, 1, 0=1

Goitia 0, 0, 1, 0=1
Goixerri (e) 0, 0, 1, 0=1
Tevin 0, 0, 0, 0=0
Xabat (e) 0, 0, 0, 0=0
Foronda (e) 0, 0, 0, 0=0
Johan (e) 0, 0, 0, 0=0

Backs

Leke 0, 3, 1, 1=5

Bailo 2, 0, 1, 0=3
Ladutxe 0, 1, 2, 0=3
Salegi 1, 1, 0=2
Urbieta 1, 1, 0=2
Urturan 1, 0, 1, 0=2
Amigorena 0, 1, 1, 0=2
Ibon 0, 0, 1, 0=1
Spinner(e) 0, 0, 0, 1=1
Ubilla (e) 0, 0, 0, 1=1
Yeche (e) 0, 0, 0, 0=0
Israel 0, 0, 0, 0=0

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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (1/15-1/19/2020--7 performances)--84 games, 7 doubles games +5 singles game/Performance. 133 total wins. Note Beginning the week of January 22-26, Dania will move to a 6 doubles games +6 singles game performance schedule. The 3rd game, up until now a doubles game, will be a singles game. It is unknown how long this schedule will last.

Dania Statistics for the week ending January 19

Summary:

Two things happened for the first time this season.

1. A weekly winner had more than 10 wins (Ladutxe (l-b) 12). He was one of 3 that did it (Erik (l-f) with 11 and Barandika (l-f) with 10 were the others).

2. 6 players played over 45 games, ranging from Leke's (l-b) 49 to Erik's (l-f) 45 (see above for the full listing). Erik was the only non-back to do this. Since 35 games is a regular load, it is easy to see how enormous a load this is. Leke played 58% of the games played for the week. Dania is quite short-handed with regard to fronts, at the moment, which has caused another change in the schedule. Beginning the week of January 22-26, the performances will feature 6 singles and 6 doubles matches. Normally it is a 4-8 ratio. That ratio hasn't been in effect yet this season. The ratio began at 5-7. It is unknown when the schedule will go back to 4-8.

As far as the position races were concerned, among the late front's, Barandika's . 10 wins almost offset Erik's 11. Barandika has a 4 game lead over Erik and his 25 wins topped the roster at the end of the week.

Among the late back's, Leke had a terrific week with 9 wins, but he lost ground to Ladutxe. Leke trails Ladutxe 23-19

Among the early-fronts Beitia has a 17-13 lead over Goixerri. Goenaga tied Beitia for most wins for the week with 6.

Among the early backs Elgezabal maintained his 2 game lead (15-13) over Minte and the charging Ubilla, whose 6 wins lead the group.

Leaders for the week: fronts/backs within lates/earlies:

Late-front: Erik 11
Late-back: Ladutxe 12
Early-front: Beitia and Goenaga 6
Early-back: Ubilla 6

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A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many") (12 performances +n=trifecta combinations added since last week )

84 trifectas this week.

5. 3-2-5 (+1); 5-3-1 (+3)

4. 4-3-2 (+1)

3. Many (21)

2. Many (a lot more than 20)

1. Many

There were well over 50 top 5 combinations this week (though I have only accounted for 3--see below. There are 336 possible trifecta combinations Percentage of top 5 Trifectas that actually made this list (.009). Last week there were 19 combinations that had hit 2 times. This week there were 21 that hit 3 times. This is an interesting pattern. Hopefully there will be more data next week.

B. Leading daily performance winners (links are to results pages)

e-f=early front, e-b=early back, l-f=late front, l-b=late back

1/15(M)--2

Ubilla (e-b) (Game 1 Post 5 (singles); G3P3 (Alex))

Ladutxe (l-b) (G4P5 (Goenaga [e-f]; G8P6 (Erik))

Erik (l-f) (G7P1 (Urbieta) G8P6 (Ladutxe))

Urtaran (l-b) (G9P4 (Arrieta); G12P1 (s))

1/15(E)--3

Goixerri (e-f) (G2P8 (s); G3P7 (Minte); G5P1 (Ubilla))

Leke (l-b) (G6P5 (Barandika); G8P6 (Beitia [e-f]); G9P8 (Goitia))

1/16(E)--3

Arrieta (l-f) (G6P1 (Leke); G8P7 (Bailo); G10P3 (s))

Bailo (l-b) G8P7 (Arrieta); G9P4 (Erik); G12P1 (s))

1/17(E)--2

Elizalde (e-b) (G1P4 (s); G5P7 (Goenaga))

Goenaga (e-f) (G3P4 (Spinner); G5P7 (Elizalde))

Barandika (l-f) G6P6 (Bailo); G9P1 (Ibon))

1/18(M) 3--Goenaga (e-f) (G2P2 (singles); G3P8 (Elgezabal); G5P7 (Salegi [l-b]))

1/18(E)--2

Erik (l-f) (G4P2 (Spinner [e-b); G8P3 (Ibon))

Amigorena (l-b) (G9P5 (Barandika); G11P8 (s))

Ladutxe (l-b) (G3P1 (Beitia [e-f]); G12P2 (s))

1/19(M)--3

Barandika (l-f) (G3P8 (Bailo); G4P5 (Minte [e-b); G11P5 (s))

Erik (l-f) (G5P5 (Leke); G9P6 (Ladutxe); G12P8 (s))

C. Weekly leaders in wins (January 15-19) (7 performances).

Ladutxe (l-b) 12(47) .255

Erik (l-f) 11(45) .244

In the Money (1st, 2nd, and 3rd)

Barandika (l-f) 24(42) (10-7-7) .571
Ladutxe (l-b) 24(47) (12-7-5) .511
Erik (l-f) 22(45) (11-7-4) .489

Campeonato Points: (1st=5, 2nd=3, 3rd=1)

Ladutxe (l-b) 86
Erik (l-f) 80

Most games played:

Leke (l-b) 49
Bailo (l-b) 48
Amigorena (l-b) 48

Full roster list by wins for the week (Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Ladutxe   47 12 7 5 .255 24 .511

Erik      45 11 7 4  22 

Barandika 42 10 7 7  24 .571

Leke      49 9 6 5  20 

Bailo     48 7 7 6  20 

Amigorena 48 7 7 4  18 

Goenaga   32 6 6 4  16 .500

Arrieta   41 6 3 4  13 

Ubilla    40 6 2 7  15 

Beitia    43 6 2 6  14 

Goixerri  36 5 6 2  13 

Elgezabal 39 4 8 2  14 

Tevin     33 4 3 7  14 

Minte     34 4 3 5  12 

Elizalde  36 4 3 4  11 

Jairo     28 4 2 5  11 

Ibon      38 4 0 6  10 

Salegi    44 3 9 4  16 

Zulaika   43 3 9 3  15 

Yeche     38 3 4 11  18 

Foronda   35 3 3 4  10 

Urtaran   46 3 1 8  12 

Johan     35 2 7 6  15 

Spinner   37 2 7 3  12 

Goitia    44 2 6 8  16 

Alex      35 1 4 3  8 

Urbieta   13 1 3 0  4 

Xabat     14 1 1 0  2 

Larrea    1 0 0 0  0




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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (1/8-1/12/2020--7 performances)--84 games, 7 doubles games +5 singles games/Performance. 133 total wins

Dania Statistics for the week ending January 12

Summary:

Dania swung into its full quota of 84 games this week, and Arta (e-b) won (actually tied) most weekly wins--8, the 2nd time he has done that in his 7 year career. Leke (l-b) was the other weekly wins leader. Beitia (e-f) won 4 Florida Doubles Championship matches. They comprised over half his wins for the week. 3 of Leke's 8 wins also came in the FDC competition. 5 of the 7 performances were won with 3 wins. Arta and Leke were among the players who did that. Leke shot up from 7th to 2nd among total late back wins, while Latdutxe continues to maintain a hair thin (11-10) lead. Barandika opened up a 5 game lead (15-10) over Erik and Zulaika among the late fronts. Alex and Beitia are tied for the early fronts lead with 11. Elgezabal leads Arta 11-10 among the early backs. Overall, Barandika leads the roster with 15 wins. Four players are tied for 2nd with 11 wins. All are listed above.

Leaders for the week: fronts/backs within lates/earlies:

Late-front: Barandika 7
Late-back: Leke 8
Early-front: Alex and Beitia 7
Early-back: Arta 8

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A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many") (12 performances +n=trifecta combinations added since last week )

84 trifectas this week.

There were 26 top 5 combinations this week (though I have only accounted for 7--see below. There are 336 possible trifecta combinations (.077)

4. 3-2-5 (+1); 4-3-2 (+3)

3. 2-5-4 (+2); 3-7-2 (+2); 6-3-5 (+3); 8-2-6 (+1); 8-6-3;

2. Many (19) :) :) (just "bending" the Iron Law of "Many" rule in the interest of time saving).

1. Many

"Batting average" reflects the total number of combinations in the top 5 combinations divided by all trifectas for the week.

SEVEN top 5 combinations added 12 trifectas (.310)

UNKNOWN of the top 5 combinations added 1 or 2 trifectas (because of lack of comparison to last week of the 19 TWO combinations)

TWO of the top 5 combinations added 3 trifectas (.071) (6/84)

FOUR known new combinations joined the top 5 combinations this week:
4-3-2; 2-5-4; 3-7-2; 6-3-5

B. Leading daily performance winners (links are to results pages)

1/8(M) 2--Minte (e-b) (Game 3 Post 2 Partner (Johan); G6P1 (Zulaika [l-f]))

This is the first time this season that only 1 player has won more than 1 game in a performance.

1/8(E) 3--Beitia (e-f) (G5P6 (Elgezabal); G7P7 (Salegi [l-b]); G9P4 (Ladutxe [l-b]))

1/9(E) 3--Arta (e-b) (G2P4 (s); G3P3 (Goitia [l-f]; G5P2 (Xabat))

1/10(E) 3--Amigorena (l-b) (G7P8) (Barandika); G9P5 (Barandika) G10P3 (s))

1/11(M) 3--Alex (f-b) (G3P4 (Elizalde); G4P6 (Elgezabal); G9P2 (Leke))

1/11(E) 2--Jairo (e-f) (G4P8 (Minte); G5P6 (Elizalde))

For the 2nd time this week, a performance has only one 2 game winner.

1/12(M)--3

Ubilla (e-b) (G3P7 (Goenaga); G5P5 (Xabat); G6P8 (Arrieta [l-f]))

Leke (l-b) (G7P5 (Alex [e-f]); G8P4 (Goitia); G9P8 (Alex [e-f]))

C. Weekly leaders in wins (January 8-12) (7 performances).

Arta (e-b) 8(32) .250
Leke (l-b) 8(41) .195
Ubilla (e-b) 7(31) .226
Alex (e-f) 7(37) .189
Beitia (e-f) 7(39) .179
Salegi (l-b) 7(43) .163

In the Money (1st, 2nd, and 3rd)

Barandika (l-f) 21(39) (7-7-7) .538

Elizalde (e-b) 19(34) (4-5-10) .559

Campeonato Points: (1st=5, 2nd=3, 3rd=1)

Zulaika (l-f) 64 (6-11-1)

Barandika (l-f) 63 (7-7-7)

Most games played:

Salegi (l-b) 43

Amigorena (l-b) 42

Urbieta (l-b) 42

Full roster list by wins for the week (Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Arta      32 8 4 5 .250 17 .531

Leke      41 8 4 5  17 

Barandika 39 7 7 7  21 .538

Salegi    43 7 6 5  18 

Beitia    39 7 4 5  16 

Alex      37 7 1 4  12 

Ubilla    31 7 1 3  11 

Zulaika   40 6 11 1  18 

Elgezabal 31 6 6 1  13 

Goixerri  37 6 5 7  18 

Amigorena 42 5 6 6  17 

Ladutxe   33 5 5 6  16 

Minte     35 5 5 1  11 

Xabat     33 5 4 2  11 

Erik      22 4 7 0  11 .500

Goitia    41 4 6 4  14 

Elizalde  34 4 5 10  19 .559

Ibon      36 4 5 5  14 

Urbieta   42 4 3 6  13 

Bailo     38 3 8 5  16 

Yeche     35 3 5 5  13 

Arrieta   37 3 3 6  12 

Tevin     39 3 3 4  10 

Goenaga   22 2 4 5  11 .500

Johan     34 2 3 3  8 

Jairo     34 2 2 8  12 

Urtaran   35 2 2 5  9 

Foronda   32 2 1 3  6 

Spinner   26 1 3 6  10 

Israel    16 1 2 0  3 

Larrea    28 0 2 0  2




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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (1/2-1/5/2020--5 performances) 48 games, 7 doubles games +5 singles games/Performance. 95 total wins.

Dania Statistics for the week ending January 5

Summary:

Dania began its 2020 Winter season short handed (seriously short handed in the front), so much so that the Performance format was changed (through at least February 1) from 8-4 pairs-singles to 7-5. This includes 2 early & 3 late singles games, and and 4 early & 3 late doubles games. Under this format, the 84 games per week are split into 49-35 instead of the usual 56-28. And this most likely had an effect on the Performance Wins in the first week. I have been following the most wins in a performance on a day by day basis since the beginning of the Winter 2019 season. In all that time, there has never been a week where every Performance was won with 3 or more wins, until this week. Only 6 players won the 5 performances in the shortened 1st week of the season (see below). The mix of wins among the performance winners was 18 doubles wins and 4 singles wins.
Barandika won 4 games during the January 3 Evening performance. He won 7 of his roster leading 8 wins in 2 performances.

There was much flux in the early-late mix, but it appears, if these trends continue, that backs Ladutxe and Bailo have been moved from early to late games. Front Beitia and back Elegezabal have been moved from late to early. It is too early to tell if this is a permanent change.

Game 10 and Game 12 (which is actually Game 9 while the new schedule is in effect) are again official Florida Singles and Doubles Championship competitions, and the leaders are being tracked in the Dania official statistics sheets. This page will keep a complete table, on a performance by performance basis, for those who might be interested in that (see above under "cumulative").

Most wins for the week of January 2-5, fronts/backs within earlies/lates

Late-Front: Barandika 8
Late-Back: Bailo 7
Early-Front: Beitia, Xabat, Jairo, and Alex 4
Early-Back: Elgezabal 5

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A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

1/2(E) 3--Urbieta (l-b) (Game 6 Post 4 Partner (Arrieta); G8P8 (Zulaika) G9P3 (Erik))

1/3(E) 4--Barandika (l-f) (G6P3 (Ibon); G7P8 (Amigorena); G8P6 (Urbieta); G10P1 (singles))

1/4(M)--3

Barandika (l-f) (G5P1 (Elgezabal); G7P3 (Bailo); G10P6 (s))

Bailo (l-b) (G7P3 (Barandika); G8P5 (Arrieta) G9P1 (Erik))

1/4(E)--3

Minte (e-f) (G1P7 (s); G3P8 (Goixerri); G5P5 (Zulaika [l-f]))

Zulaika (l-f) G5P5 (Minte); G9P3 (Urtaran); G10P2 (s))

1/5(M) 3--Arrieta (l-b) (G3P4 (Larrea [e-f]); G6P8 (Israel); G7P6 (Ibon))

C. Weekly leaders in wins (January 2-5) (5 performances).

Barandika (l-f) 8(29) .276

Bailo (l-b) 7(31) .226

In the Money (1st, 2nd, and 3rd)

Barandika (l-f) 15(29) (8-3-4): .517

Ladutxe (l-b) 15(31) (6-2-7): .484

Bailo (l-b) 14(31) (7-4-3): .452

Campeonato Points: (1st=5, 2nd=3, 3rd=1)

Barandika (l-f) 53 (8-3-4)

Bailo (l-b) 50 (7-4-3)

Most games played:

Urbieta (l-b) 32

Bailo (l-b) 31

Urtaran (l-b)31

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Heaven Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name GP W P S Win% ITM Money%
Barandika 29 8 3 4 .276 15 .517
Bailo 31 7 4 3 14
Erik 27 6 3 4 13
Ladutxe 30 6 2 7 15 .500
Elgezabal 26 5 5 2 12
Arrieta 28 5 1 4 10
Zulaika 26 4 6 3 13 .500
Beitia 26 4 6 3 13 .500
Jairo 26 4 2 4 10
Yeche 22 4 2 2 8
Alex 22 4 2 2 8
Xabat 26 4 1 6 11
Urbieta 32 4 1 4 9
Minte 17 4 0 1 5
Ibon 24 3 4 2 9
Salegi 24 3 2 3 8
Leke 26 2 5 6 13 .500
Foronda 26 2 5 3 10
Urtaran 31 2 5 3 10
Arta 19 2 4 2 8
Israel 24 2 4 2 8
Elizalde 22 2 3 3 8
Goixerri 26 2 2 2 6
Larrea 21 2 0 3 5
Johan 26 1 5 3 9
Amigorena 23 1 4 2 7
Goitia 29 1 4 2 7
Tevin 27 1 2 2 5
Ubilla 21 0 6 3 9
Spinner 23 0 2 5 7

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FALL 2019 SEASON:

Note: For a cumulative accounting of the Dania Roster: Wins sorted by fronts/backs within earlies/lates, see the new Dania Feature Page.

Milestone: In the 8th game of the Friday, October 4 Evening performance, Asier Elesgarai (Beitia) won his 5,000th game at Dania Jai Alai. His partner was Ibon Aldazabal. This is Beitia's 27th season at Dania.

Milestone article (Jai Alai News Facebook) (Basque)

Two new players begin their Dania Careers. Johan Sorozabal, 17, from Biarritz and Alex Goitiaiandia, 18, from Markina-Xemein.

Source: Jai Alai News Facebook (Castilian) (added September 26, 2019)

NOTE: AS OF OCTOBER 20, I have begun a new cumulative section below that keeps standings for Game 10 and Game 12--the Florida Singles and Doubles Championships--which are not being tracked officially this season. The Dania Fall Challenge Partido competition is replacing those competitions (see below).

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Season Summary:

By my calculations, there were 1076 games played during the season. 13 weeks + opening day*7 performances*12 games per performance=1104. Minus 8 games for each performance where there was a partido match=1096. Minus Thanksgiving Day =1084. Minus 3 performances tacked on at the end of the season to make up for the loss of 3 performances due to a flooding accident at Dania. These performances each consisted of 10 games instead of the usual 12. So that is a loss of 6 more games. That equals 1076. (Corrections gladly accepted if I have missed something).

A lot happened during these games. And there was a lot of great Quiniela and Partido Jai Alai.

Dania brought in two new players (see above for more on them), early fronts Alex Goitiaiandia, 18 years old, from Markina-Xemien in Hegoalde (South Basque Country) and Johan Sorozabal, 17 years old, from Bairritz in Iparralde (North Basque Country). They had a very steep learning curve and worked very hard. They were the only two players on the entire roster to play over 500 games. Johan finished the season by playing 90 games in the last two weeks, Alex played 87. Granted that one of these weeks had 8 performances instead of 7, but those are heavy workloads in any event. Only 4 times all season did a player have a 45+ game weekly workload. Johan and Alex accounted for 3 of them (Goitia (l-b) had the other). Why do I start a season recap with this? Because for me, this was one of the most astonishing feats of the season. Two young players, thrown in at the deep end against the finest quiniela players in the world. Over and again. They showed up. They played. They ate massive amounts of games, which was crucial to a larger Dania "team", especially one that missed two of its most important late forwards, Tevin (Leon Shepherd--more on him below), missing over half the season while still recovering from the career threatening injury he suffered last winter, and Kevin Ithurria, who was injured twice during the Summer Partido season in the Basque Country, and missed large parts of the Dania season.

To be sure, the youngsters took more than their share of "knocks" and harvested little in the way of wins or money finishes (although Alex did lead the roster in 3rd place finishes with 76). But, hopefully, it was also a vast learning experience for both of them. If they can progress anything like the other young forward, Goixerri (early-front) has, it will be a great thing for Dania Jai Alai.

On October 4, Asier Elesgarai (Beitia) (late-forward) won the 8th game of the evening performance. It was something he had done 4,999 times before in his 27 years at Dania. 5,000 is a big number. About 185 wins a year. Beitia is 12 years older than Johan and Alex combined. Beitia played 489 games! Mostly late games. That was 7th most on the roster, and 2nd of any player who was not an early forward. He is still coming to work and doing it, day in and day out, every day. 5,000 was a magnificent achievement, a mark of great consistency over a very long time in one of the most grinding Basque Pelota modalities. One of the lasting memories I will take from this season came when, in one of the final games of the season, during Game 10, the front's late singles game, he stopped yet another Erik (late-front) perfect game on game point with a perfectly placed shot that sent him to the bench. At the end of the season Beitia very deservedly received a plaque for the career achievement.

Tevin's return was also a joy. He is Betia's age and suffered a very serious injury 9 months ago. The fact that he came back at all is amazing. The fact that he began to get in rhythm and collected 5 victories in the final week of the season was not surprising.

Goixerri continued his upward ascent among the early forwards. Here is his progress

Winter 2019
339 (games) 20 (wins) 30 (2nd place) 29 (3rd place) .059 (win %) .233 (ITM %)

Spring 2019
342 37 41 37 .108 .336

Fall 2019
491 82 70 63 .167 .438

He led the early-fronts in wins for a good part of the season. In the end he lost out to Jairo. They each had 82 wins, but Jairo played 3 less games and so won the early-front race by .001 percentage points. Goixerri, unfortunately, was scratched out of the final performance of the season. He also played an excellent semi-final in the Dania Fall Partido challenge, losing a very hotly contested semi-final with Ibon (late-back) to eventual finalists Erik (late-front)-Bailo (early-back) 15-13, when his winner that would have tied the game was just a little too low. Before that his team thrashed Xabat (early-front)-Arta (early-back) 15-3 in the quarter-finals. If he keeps on his present trajectory, how far away can a promotion to late-gamer be? It will be interesting to follow his progress.

So, what else was there? Well... there was Erik Mendizabal (late-forward). Erik is, quite simply, one of the best cesta punta players in the world. This year he "came of age" in the Summer Partidos, being named the Player of the Summer (forward) in the Jai Alai World Tour. A forward named Inaki Goikoetxea also played in the JAWT. Erik won 3 JAWT tournaments, most of any player in the company.

What he did during the Dania season was routinely amazing. He won the most games (131, 28 more than 2nd place Zulaika (late-back)), won or tied the most weekly "pennant races" (8, including 6 in a row), won the most games in a week (13--twice), won the most wins (or ties for wins) in a performance a roster leading 25 times, won 4 games in a performance four times, and 3 eight times. Perhaps most amazing of all, he had a 26 performance winning streak (at least 1 win in a performance) from the October 23 Matinee to the November 17 Matinee. This is the longest performance winning streak I have found in the time I have been doing this blog. That kind of consistency in a sport that so harshly punishes errors is almost unfathomable. He won the most games in both the Game 10 (AKA Florida Singles Championship--which was not officially contested this season due to the Partido Championship) and Game 12 fronts (Florida Doubles Championship--also not officially contested). He won the most Campeonato points (5*wins +3* 2nd place +1*3rd place) with 961, 202 points more than 2nd Place Zulaika. He came within 1 point of repeating as Dania Fall Partido Champion, and he had a pretty good game, +9 -4 with 22 saves, by my scoring. At the moment he strides over the Dania roster like the Colossus of Rhodes.

Zulaika had a pretty good season as well. He was 2nd in wins, 2nd in weekly wins (5), 2nd in most wins in a week (12), Campeonato points, performance wins (22), and Game 10 and 12 front (tied) wins. And in two important categories, he was 1st.

1. He won the Dania Fall Partido Championship with Ladutxe, 15-14 over Erik-Bailo (early-back). His statistics in that match were stratospheric, +8 -1 with 24 saves.

2. On December 8, in the Matinee performance he won 5 games, the first and only time that happened in the 2019 calendar year.

Finally, the Partido Championship (more on that in a forthcoming post) was a terrific way to end the season. It was a match that neither team led by more than 2 points, a 44 minute struggle that consumed 264 balls in play, with total scoring of +18 (.621) -11 (.379) and 78 saves (almost 30% of all the balls in play). Of the 11 errors, 5 came after 10-10, when the players seemed to tire just a bit. But it was an epic struggle, as good a partido as you will see anywhere.

At the same time, three of the 4 position races came down to the last week, with two of them (early-fronts and early-backs) going down to the last day. The most amazing of these was the early-back race, where the two Partido finalists battled to the last day. In the end, Ladutxe made up a 17 game deficit (69-52), in the last 4 weeks of the season with a phenomenal run of 10, 8, 8, and 8 wins to end the race in a tie (86-86). Ladutxe played 7 less games and so won it by .003 percentage points.

All in all a great season of Quiniela and Partido action. Many thanks to the players, the manager and assistant manager, announcers, judges, and all the people behind the scenes, especially for successfully dealing with a two day unexpected shutdown. We can hardly wait for the Winter season (beginning January 2, 2020) to get underway. Eskerrik Asko, Muchos Gracias, Merci Beaucoup, Thank You.

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NOTE: THERE WAS NO PLAY NOVEMBER 9-10 (3 PERFORMANCES, 36 GAMES) DUE TO A FLOODING ACCIDENT AT DANIA. THE GAMES ARE EXPECTED TO BE MADE UP LATER IN THE SEASON.

2019 Dania Partido Challenge (November 1-December 13, 2019)

The top 16 scorers (8 fronts and 8 backs), determined by their October 2-27 Campeonato points (5 for win, 3 for 2nd place, and 1 for show) played. The entire competition schedule can be found here. Friday Evening Performance Game 11 was a 15 point partido every Friday from November 1 to December 13. Nov 1, 8, 15, and 22 were Quarter-finals 1-8, 4-5, 3-6, 2-7. Semi-finals were November 29 and December 6. 3rd place match was played December 12. The Final was December 13. Total prize money was $15,000.

Champion: $4,500; 2nd: 3,500, 3rd: 2,500, 4th: 1,500; 5th-8th: $750.

The Teams (by seed):

e-early game players; l-late game players

1: Erik (late)-Bailo (early)--eliminated 12/13

2. ZULAIKA(l)-LATUDXE(e)--CHAMPIONS

3. Barandika (l)-Elgezabal (l)--eliminated 12/6

4. Goixerri (e)-Ibon (l)--eliminated 11/29

5. Xabat (e)-Arta (e)--eliminated 11/8

6. Goitia (l)-Amigorena (l)--eliminated 11/15

7. Goenaga (e)-Salegi (l)--Eliminated 11/22

8. Foronda (e)-Yeche (e)--eliminated 11/1

There were 8 earlies and 8 lates. There were two early pairs, two late pairs, and 4 mixed pairs. The 4 mixed pairs were evenly divided between e-l and l-e.

As with all tournaments of this duration, if you are interested in following it chronologically, scroll to the bottom and read up.

December 13

FINAL

Zulaika-Ladutxe (l-e) 15

Erik-Bailo (l-e) 14 (flusyndrome Youtube, last two points of the match are missing)

Final points and post match presentations (Benbueno Youtube).

Condensed linescore (winners always listed 1st)

1-0; 1-2; 2-2; 2-3; 3-3; 3-5; 5-5; 5-7; 6-7; 6-8; 8-8; 8-9; (3 great saves by Bailo to no avail) 9-9; 10-9; (32 balls in play--11 saves) 10-10; 10-11; 12-11; 12-12; 13-12; 13-13; 14-13; 14-14; 15-14

11 equal scores, 3 lead changes

Scoring (mine, yours may be different)

Zulaika +8 -1 (24 saves); Ladutxe +0 -3 (17 saves)

Erik +9 -4 (20 saves); Bailo +1 -3 (15 saves)

Total scoring for the match: +18 (.621) -11 (.379); 76 saves

Balls in Play: 264

Non-error %: .958

Saves %: (.288)

Balls in Play/Points

0-4......8

5-9.....10

10-14....5

15-19....5

+30......1

Longest Point: 9-10--10-10, 32 balls in play

Time of the Match: 44 minutes

Match article (Jai Alai News Facebook)

December 12

3rd Place Match

Barandika-Elgezabal (l-l) 15

Goixerri-Ibon (e-l) 13

(l-l 1-1; e-l 1-1)

December 6

2nd Semi-Final

Zulaika-Ladutxe (l-e) 15 Barandika-Elgezabal (l-l) 3
(e-l 1-0; l-l 0-1)

Condensed linescore: (winners always listed 1st):

4-0; 4-1; 7-1; 7-2; 14-2; 14-3; 15-3

Scoring (preliminary, I had a poor feed that often went into slow motion. If I have a chance to look at this again, I will. Take these stats with a grain of salt, the best I could do under the circumstances.)

Zulaika +4 -1; Ladutxe +1 -1
Barandika +1 -4; Elgezabal +0 -6

Total scoring for the match: +6 (.333) -12 (.667)

Balls in Play: 128

Number of balls in play/number of points

0-4....5
5-9....8
10-14..4
15+....1

Longest point: Pt 7. 5-1--6-1: 15 balls in play

Total non-error %: .906

Time of the match: 20 minutes.

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November 29

1st Semi-Final

Erik-Bailo (l-e) 15 Goixerri-Ibon (e-l) 13

Condensed linescore (winners always listed 1st)

0-1; 1-1; 1-5; 5-5; 5-6; 7-6; 7-7; 8-7; 8-10; 10-10; 10-11; 14-11; 14-13; 15-13

Match article (Diario Vasco) (added December 8, 2019)

November 22

4th Quarter-final

Zulaika-Latdutxe (l-e) 15 Jairo-Salegi (e-l) 6 (Flusyndrome Youtube)

Best throw of the match: Salegi 4-2--4-3 (video): Falling rebote from the 12/13 line turns into a high two wall winner.

Best point of the match: 6-3--7-3 (video): 31 balls in play, 5 saves, Zulaika finishes the point with a dejada.

Condensed linescore (winners always listed 1st)

1-0; 1-2; 4-2; 4-3; 10-3; 10-6; 15-6

Scoring (mine: yours may be different)

Zulaika +7 -0 (8 saves); Ladutxe +1 -2 (6 saves)
Jairo +1 -3 (7 saves); Salegi +3 -4 (6 saves)

Total scoring for the match: +12 (.571) -9 (.429); 27 saves/238 balls in play (.113)

Non-error %: .962

Balls in play: 238

Number of balls in play/Number of points

0-4....3

5-9....8
10-14..4
15-19..4
30-34..2

Longest point of the match: 10-5--10-6 33 balls,

Time of the match: 37 minutes by the Dania clock; 36:12 by the video.

November 15

Barandika-Elgezabal (l-l) 15 Goitia-Amigorena (l-l) 10 (Flusyndrome Youtube Full Match Video)

Condensed linescore (winners always listed 1st)

1-0; 1-4; 4-4; 4-5; 6-5; 6-6; 7-6; 7-8; 10-8; 10-9; 13-9; 13-10; 15-10

6 tie scores. 4 lead changes.

Scoring (mine, yours may be different).

Barandika +5 -4 (5 saves); Elgezabal +1 -2 (6 saves)
Goitia +4 -6 (6 saves); Amigorena +0 -3 (11 saves)

Total scoring for the match: +10 (.400) -15 (.600) (28 saves/193 balls in play) (.093).

+ of the match: Elgezabal, with the score 13-10, saves with a falling rebote with a high two wall to win the point.

Balls in play: 193: Barandika 60; Elgezabal 39; Goitia 43; Amigorena 51

Number of balls in play/Number of points

0-4........8
5-9........9
10-14......5
15-19......1
20+........2

Longest point: 9-8--10-8; 23

Individual save %: Barandika (.083); Elgezabal (.153); Goitia (.140); Amigorena (.261)

For the match: Winners and Saves: 38/193=.197; Errors: 15/193=.078

Total non-error %; .922

Time of the match: 33 minutes by the Dania clock. 32:20 by the video.

For a more complete analysis of this game, including point by point and ball by ball analysis, see my blog post: Anatomy of a Partido

November 8

2nd Quarter-final

Goixerri-Ibon 15 Xabat-Arta 3 (e-l 2-0; e-e 0-2)

November 1

1st Quarter-final

Erik-Bailo 15 Foronda-Yeche 9 (e-l 1-0; e-e 0-1)

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CUMULATIVE SECTION (Through December 15)

Dania Statistics for the week ending December 15

A. Cumulative daily leading winners by performance and most wins in a performance. For individual performance winner statistics for this week, see below

1. Cumulative winners by performance (through December 15(M)-91 Performances--FINAL).
Note: this is the number of times a player has either led or tied for the lead in most wins in a performance. Players will be listed by number of performances won. In all cases 2 or more wins have led a performance. Bold Italics indicates performance won on "through" performance date above. Note: on the following dates, the performances contained only 11 matches: 11/1, 11/8, 11/15; 11/22; 11/29, 12/6, 12/12, and 12/13 (Game 11 is the 2019 Fall Partido Challenge Competition. Game 10 is a doubles game, and there is no Game 12.) NOTE: EVERY ACTIVE PLAYER ON THE ROSTER HAD AT LEAST ONE PERFORMANCE WIN, BASED ON THE ABOVE CRITERIA.

e-f=early front; e-b=early back; l-f=late front; l-b=late back

25. (.275) Erik (l-f)

22. (.242) Zulaika (l-f)
18. (.198) Goixerri (e-f)
17. (.187) Bailo (e-b)
15. (.165) Barandika (l-f)
14. (.154) Jairo (e-f); Ladutxe (e-b)
9. (.099) Ibon (l-b)
8. (.088) Salegi (l-b); Israel (l-b)
7. (.076) Foronda (e-f); Elizalde (e-b)
6. (.066) Arrieta (l-f); Larrea (e-b)
5. (055) Leke (l-b); Xabat (e-f)
4. (.044) Arta (e-b); Urbieta (l-b); Ubilla (e-b); Elgezabal (l-b); Alex (e-f)
3. (.033) Goenaga (e-f); Goitia (l-f); Chasio (l-b); Yeche (e-b); Spinner (e-b)
2. (.022) Urtaran (l-b); Anndy (e-f); Johan (e-f); Beitia (l-f)
1. (.011) Ithurria (l-f); Amigorena (l-b); Tevin (l-b); Minte (e-b)

2. Players with the most wins in a performance (through December 15(E)--91 Performances--FINAL). Number of winning games leading a performance was, until December 8, 2-4. Then Zulaika had the best performance of the 2019 Calendar year. There have yet to be any performances where no player won more than one game. Corrections are always welcome.

24 players had at least 3 wins in a performance. 18 players had 3 wins. 5 players had 4 wins. 1 player had 5 wins.

Player with the most 3 win performances: Erik: 8; Most 4 win performances: Erik: 4. Zulaika had the only 5 win performance of the 2019 calendar year.

5. Zulaika (l-f) (12/8(M))

4. Erik (l-f) (4 Times) (9/27(E); 10/16(M); 10/19(E); 11/24(M))

4. Barandika (l-f) (9/25(M)); Bailo (e-f) (10/9(E)--won 4 late games)); Ladutxe (e-b) (10/12(M)--won 4 late games)); Goixerri (e-f) (11/20(E))

3. Erik (l-f) (8 times)--(9/19(E); 9/20(E); 10/3(E); 10/9(M); 11/3(M); 11/6(M); 11/13(E); 12/13(E)
Ibon (l-b) (5 times) (10/6(M); 10/16(E); 10/19(M); 11/24(E); 12/11(M)
Zulaika (l-f) (4 times) (9/25(E); 10/20(M); 10/23(M); 10/30(M))
Ladutxe (e-b) (4 times) (10/16(E); 10/23(E); 11/23(E); 11/27(E))
Jairo (e-f) (4 times) (9/18(E); 10/10(E); 11/3(M); 12/1(E))
Goixerri (e-f) (4 times) (11/2(M); 11/14(E)); 11/22(E); 12/14(M))
Bailo (e-b) (2 times) (9/25(E); 10/12(E)--won 3 late games))
Arrieta (l-f) (2 times) (11/16(M); 12/4(E))
Leke (l-b) (2 times) (11/17(M); 12/7(E))
Barandika (l-f) (2 times) (10/19(M); 12/11 (E))
Israel (l-b) (2 times) (9/21(E); 12/14(M))

3. Beitia (l-f) (9/18-(E)); Urtaran (l-b) (10/2(E)); Goenaga (e-f) (10/4(E)); Larrea (e-b) (10/16(E)); Foronda (e-f) (10/19(M)); Goitia (l-b) (10/24(E)); Ubilla (e-b) (10/27(M)); Urbieta (l-b) (11/2(M)); Xabat (e-f) (11/6(E)); Salegi (l-b) (11/14(E)); Tevin (l-f) (12/11(M)); Elizalde (e-f) (12/15(M)

2. Many

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B. Cumulative weekly leaders in wins (through December 8). For this week, see below. For the week ending December 15

Leading Weekly winner leaders (outright or tied)

8. Erik (l-f) (9/15-9/22; 10/16-10/20; 10/23-10/27; 10/30-11/3; 11/6-11/8; 11/13-11/17; 11/20-11/24; 12/11-12-15)

5. Zulaika (l-f) (9/25-9/29; 10/2-10/6; 10/30-11/3; 12/4-12/8; 12/11-12/15)

1. Bailo (e-b) (10/9--10/13)
1. Jairo (e-f) (11/27-12/1)
1. Ladutxe (e-b) (12/11-12/15)
1. Ibon (l-b) (12/11-12/15)

Most wins for a weekly leader in a week (outright or tied).

13. Erik (2 times) (9/15-9/22; 10/2-10/6)

12. Erik (2 times) (10/23-10/27; 11/20-11-24)

12. Zulaika (2 times) (9/25-9/29; 12/4-12/8)

12. Bailo (10/9-10/13)
11. Erik (10/30-11/3)
11. Zulaika (10/30-11/3)

10. Zulaika (10/2-10/6); Erik (11/13-11/17)
10. Jairo (11/27-12/1)
8. Erik (2 times) (11/6-11/8; 12/11-12/15)
8. Zulaika (12/11-12/15)
8. Ibon (12/11-12/15)
8. Ladutxe (12/11-12/15)

Top 5 Campeonato points for the season (5*win +3*2nd place +1*3rd place)

Erik (131; 81; 63) 961

Zulaika (103; 60; 64) 759
Bailo (86; 73; 60) 709
Jairo (82; 73; 59) 688
Goixerri** (e-f) (82; 70; 63) 683

**=First Year Player

Top 5 most games played:

Johan* (e-f) 516

Alex* (e-f) 513
Xabat (e-f) 497
Foronda (e-f) 495
Goixerri** 491
Arrieta (l-f) 491

*=First Season Player
**=First Year Player

45+ Games in a week.

Johan 50 (December 4-8) (8 performances)
Alex 47 (December 4-8) (8 performances)
Goitia 46 (December 4-8) (8 performances)
Johan 45 (October 9-13)

C. Game 10 Standings (9/15-12/15(E))--FINAL. Note. Each number represents the wins for the week. b=Back; e=Early. Through 83 performances. Note: there were no G10 Singles game or Game 12 Doubles game on 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22, 11/29, 12/6, and 12/13 due to the Fall 2018 Challenge Partido Competition. Note that for the weeks ending November 24 (wk 11), December 1 (wk 12), and December 8 (wk 13), Dania added a 10 game performance on Sunday Evenings to make up for the 3 performances missed November 9-10 due to a flooding accident. For these performances I used G8 as a proxy for G10 and G10 as a proxy for G12. There was no performance on November 28, Thanksgiving Day in the US.

Erik 1,1,3,3,3,3,2,2,2,1,1,1,1=24

Zulaika 1,3,3,3,2,0,1,0,1,0,1,3,2,1=21

Barandika 0,2,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,2,2,2,1=11
Arrieta 0,1.0,1,0,0,0,0,2,1,0,1,2=8
Beitia 1,0,0,0,0,2,1,0,0,1,0,1,0=6
Goitia 2,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0=5

Ithurria 3,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0=3

Utaran (b) 0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,0=2

Leke (b) 0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0=2

Chasio (b) 0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0,0,0=1

Game 12 Standings (9/15-11-12/14(E)--FINAL--83 performances)

Fronts

Erik 2,2,2,2,1,2,1,0,1,1,2,1,1=18

Barandika 2,0,0,2,2,2,1,0,1,0,1,3,0=14
Zulaika 0,3,1,2,1,2,1,0,1,1,1,1,0=14
Arrieta 0,2,0,1,1,0,0,1,2,2,1,1,0=11
Goitia 0,0,2,0,1,0,0,1,0,1,1,1,2=9
Beitia 2,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0=4
Tevin 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,0,2=4
Alex(e) 0,0,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0=2
Anndy(e) 0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0=2
Foronda(e) 0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,1,0,0,0,0=2
Ithurria 0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,0,0,0=1
Goenaga(e) 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0=1
Jairo(e) 1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0=1

Backs

Ibon 1,1,1,0,3,2,0,1,2,1,0,1,2=15

Salegi 1,2,0,2,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,0=11
Leke 1,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,1,3,0=9
Elgezabal 0,1,1,3,0,1,0,0,1,0,1,0,1=9
Israel 2,0,0,0,0,0,2,0,0,1,2,1,1=9
Urbieta 0,1,2,0,0,1,2,0,0,0,1,0=7
Amigorena 1,0,2,0,0,1,0,0,1,0,0,1=6
Urturan 2,1,1,1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0=5
Bailo(e) 0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,3,0,0,0=5
Chasio 0,1,0,0,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,0=5
Ladutxe(e) 0,0,0,2,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0=2

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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (12/11-12/15--END OF FALL 2019 SEASON

Dania Statistics for the week ending December 15

Summary:

Dania saved the best for last, as 3 of the 4 position races (late-back, early-front, and early-back) were decided, and two great Partido matches were played, including a Final for the ages. Alas, the 4th position race (late-back) was won by Erik in a 28 game "blowout" over Zulaika, even though Zulaika, with 103 wins, placed 2nd among the entire roster, with 17 more wins than Bailo (late-back) or Ladutxe (late-back), and 21 more wins than Jairo (early-front) or Goixerri (early-front). Zulaika had the considerable consolation of a Partido Tournament championship, beating, (with Ladutxe), Erik-Bailo 15-14. He also outplayed Erik (+8 -1, 24 saves to +9 -4, 22 saves, by my scoring) in the partido.

Here are their cumulative weekly wins for the season. Note: the first week for all of the below listed races, includes Opening day, September 15. The 10th, 11th, and 12th weeks below were all 8 performance weeks.

Erik:....13.24.33.44.57.69.80.88*.98.110.115.123.131
Zulaika:..5.17.27.35.42.48.59.62*.67..75..83..95.103

*=4 performances due to flooding accident.

To give you some idea of how dominant these two were, Erik averaged 10.07 wins per week, while Zulaika averaged 7.92, the two highest averages on the roster. Erik had eight 10+ weekly wins. Zulaika had four. That was 53% of the 19 10+ weekly wins achieved by the entire roster.

Late-back. Israel opened up an early lead, but then was injured. Ibon took over the lead the week ending October 6. Salegi held it at the end of the next week, but Ibon took over again the week ending October 20 and never relinquished it, but never really dominated either. Always challenged by either Salegi or Amigorena, he went into the last week of the season with a 55-52 lead over Salegi. Then Ibon dominated the last week, beating Salegi 8-1 to win 63-53. Israel, who was out from the week ending October 2 to the week ending October 27, and came back with only 12 victories and 53 total games, played great Jai Alai the last 7 weeks. He played 222 games (averaging 33) and won 38 (.172). His weekly wins were 6-4-5-7-6-4-6. In the end he tied Amigorena for 3rd, but had a slightly higher winning percentage.

Here are their cumulative weekly wins for the season

Ibon:.......5..8.16.**.24.30.36.38*.45.50.52.55.63

Salegi:.....5..9.13.18.23.28.30.34*.38.42.46.52.53

Israel:....10.12.**.**.**.**.18.22*.27.34.40.44.50
Amigorena:..2..9.13.17.21.28.31.33*.38.43.45.48.50

*=4 performances due to flooding accident.

**=Did Not Play; Israel injured; Ibon played in a Tournament in the Basque Country

Early-front. Goixerri and Jairo dominated this race from start to finish. Jairo started strong, holding the lead from the week ending September 22 until the week ending October 13. Goixerri had a great week the following week (9 wins) to take the lead. From there (+2), he kept the lead: +3; +1; +1; + 4; +11(his best week, with 11 wins). The race seemed over the week ending November 24. But then Jairo went on a tear, cutting the lead to 5, 2, and 0, picking up 11 games in 3 weeks. He won because he played 3 less games. He won by .001 win percent.

Here are their total cumulative weekly wins for the season.

Jairo:.....10.18.23.31.32.36.45.47*.52.56.66.75.82
Goixerri:...8.13.19.25.34.39.46.48*.56.67.71.77.82

*=4 performances due to flooding accident.

This race came down to the last performance. Unfortunately Goixerri scratched and missed the entire performance, which opened the door for Jairo, who won the 1 game he needed to win the race. Even with a full slate of games in the final performance, he ended up with 3 less than Goixerri for the season.

Early-back: This was the most compelling of the three close races. Bailo owned this race for most of the season, but then a tremendous comeback by Ladutxe was just enough to forge a tie and a .003 victory for him. In essence, the Partido final, won 15-14 by Zulaika-Ladutxe was the difference in this race. Had Bailo won the partido, he would have won the race. Ladutxe made up 17 games in 4 weeks in an amazing charge. Bailo had his 2 worst weeks during that period.

Here are their total cumulative weekly wins for the season.

Ladutxe:..11.14.19.26.33.39.45.46*.52.62.70.78.86

Bailo:.....7.14.22.34.39.48.57.60*.69.77.79.85.86

*=4 performances due to flooding accident

Note: Source for all race charts and narrative: Dania win sorts: fronts/backs within earlies/lates, Fall 2019

Leaders for the week: fronts/backs within lates/earlies

Late-Front: Erik and Zulaika 8

Late-Back: Ibon 8

Early-Front: Jairo 7

Early-Back: Ladutxe 8

As far as the Partido Final goes, that will be fully discussed in another post (forthcoming).

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

Note: I am experimenting with a few things and so it should be emphasized that I make NO CLAIM FOR TOTAL ACCURACY for any of the data on this page, or any of this blog, for that matter. Corrections are always welcome. ALWAYS CONSULT THE DANIA OFFICIAL STATISTICS FOR THE EXACT DATA.

14. 2-1-5; 5-2-4
13. None
12. 1-5-3; 5-3-2; 6-1-4
11. 2-7-3; 3-2-8; 4-1-2; 4-2-3; 6-4-2; 8-4-2
10. 1-4-2; 2-4-1; 4-3-2; 5-3-1; 5-4-1
9. 1-3-8; 3-1-5; 3-2-5; 3-4-2; 4-3-1; 5-1-4; 6-3-2

B. Leading daily performance winners (links are to results pages)

12/11(M)--3

Ibon (l-b) (Game 7 Post 8 (singles); G8P1 (Tevin); G11P5 (Zulaika))

Tevin (l-f) (G8P1 (Ibon); G9P6 (Israel); G12P5 (Elgezabal))

12/11(E) 3--Barandika (e-b) (G8P3 (Ibon); G9P5 (Amigorena); G11P2 (Israel)

12/12(E) 3--Erik (l-f) (G6P8 (Ladutxe [e-b]); G8P4 (s); G10P5 (Ladutxe [e-b]))

12/13(E)--2

Xabat (e-f) G4P2 (s); G5P4 (Spinner))

Zulaika (l-f) G9P4 (Ladutxe); G11P2 (Ladutxe) (Partido))

Ladutxe (e-b) G9P4 (Zulaika); G11P2 (Zulaika)(Partido))

12/14(M)--3

Goixerri (e-f) G1P4 (s); G4P3 (s); G1P1 (Ubilla))

Israel (l-b) (G7P6 (s); G8P1 (Arrieta); G9P3 (Erik))

12/14(E) 2--Minte (e-b) G5P3 (Jairo); G6P5 (Foronda))

12/15(M) 3--Elizalde (e-b) (G1P3 (s); G3P6 (Jairo); G5P2 (Erik))

C. Weekly leaders in wins (December 12-15).

Ibon (l-b) 8(28) (.286)
Erik (l-f) 8(36) (.222)
Ladutxe (e-b) 8(36) (.222)
Zulaika (l-f) 8(37) (.216)
Elizalde (e-b) 7(32) (.219)
Barandika (l-f) 7(37) (.189)
Jairo (e-f) 7(39) (.179)
Arrieta (l-f) 7(41) (.171)

In the Money

Erik 25(8-10-7) 36 (.694)
Barandika (l-f) 22(7-7-8) 37 (.595)

Campeonato points:

Erik: 77
Barandika: 64

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      36 8 10 7  25 .694

Ladutxe   36 8 3 6  17 

Zulaika   37 8 2 3  13 

Ibon      28 8 1 3 .286 12 

Barandika 37 7 7 8  22 .595

Jairo     39 7 7 3  17 

Arrieta   41 7 6 2  15 

Elizalde  32 7 2 4  13 

Israel    30 6 6 2  14 

Xabat     39 5 7 3  15 

Minte     22 5 5 0  10 

Anndy     29 5 4 5  14 

Elgezabal 29 5 4 4  13 

Goixerri  33 5 4 4  13 

Arta      33 5 2 6  13 

Tevin     37 5 2 5  12 

Yeche     35 4 7 4  15 

Foronda   39 4 6 5  15 

Urtaran   36 4 5 5  14 

Goitia    40 3 6 6  15 

Spinner   33 3 5 8  16 

Amigorena 37 2 8 1  11 

Urbieta   28 2 5 3  10 

Johan     40 2 4 6  12 

Ubilla    34 2 4 3  9 

Leke      36 2 3 4  9 

Larrea    30 2 2 4  8 

Beitia    36 2 2 2  6 

Bailo     28 1 6 5  12 

Salegi    34 1 1 5  7 

Alex      40 1 0 6  7

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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (12/4-12/8)

Dania Statistics for the week ending December 8

Summary:

The week belonged to Jon Zulaika (l-f) (Jai Alai World Tour player page). Not only did he deny Erik the weekly crown (Erik's 2nd week in a row without winning that after 6 consecutive wins), but he did something that has not been done in calendar year 2019 (over the course of 3 seasons, and around 230 performances: he won 5 games (in 7 starts) in the December 8 Matinee performance. He won 4 doubles games with 4 different partners from the

8, 4, 6, and 8 (the first two in early games, the last two in late games) post positions. He also won a singles match, and threw in a 3rd place finish for good measure, a total of 26 campeonato points in one performance. He finished the week with 12 wins and 22 in the money finishes (2nd to Erik's (l-f) 26), and won the most campeonato points (5 for 1st, 3 for 2nd, 1 for 3rd) for the week, 80 to Erik's 70. It was a great week, spearheaded by a performance for the ages. Oh and by the way, one of the wins was a crushing 15-3 Semi-final Dania Fall Partido Challenge Tournament victory with Ladutxe (e-b) over Barandika-Elgezabal (both late gamers), in which he (by my scoring) was +4 -1, the only player who had a net +, as well as being at the heart of a 7 point run--7-2--14-2, that broke the game wide open. Z-L get a shot at the championship against Erik-Bailo (l-e) this coming Friday.

Zulaika's great week allowed him to pick up 4 games on Erik for the roster season and late-front wins races. He now trails by 28 games with one week to play. That tells you all you need to know about how Erik has played this season. He leads in the following categories: most wins, most wins in the late-front category, most campeonato points (174 more than Zulaika), most wins in the "mythical" Game 10 singles and Game 12 doubles-front races, the two most important games in each performance. These are the Florida Singles and Doubles championships, not being officially tallied this season because of the partido tournament. He long ago shredded the wins race, but he also has won (or tied for winning) the most games in a performance 24 times, 3 more than Zulaika. Before Zulaika's great performance, Erik also lead in most wins in a performance 4, which he achieved 4 times. He has won performances with 3 wins in 8 performances.

Although the late-front and back wins races are basically over (Erik and Ibon have dominated), the two early races have tightened up considerably. Three weeks ago, Bailo enjoyed a comfortable 17 game lead over Ladutxe in the early-back race. By the end of this week, Ladutxe had shaved 10 games off the lead. While a 7 game lead with some 35 odd games to play is still pretty large, another big week from Ladutxe might make things interesting.

In the early-front race, 2 weeks ago Goixerri, in a career week, won 11 games, opening up an 11 game lead on Jairo, seemingly putting that race "to bed." However, Jairo has roared back since then to close the gap to 2. Can the 2nd year player who has had a magnificent season hold off the old pro? It should be one of the plot lines that makes the Quiniela season so interesting to watch.

In the "heavy lifting" section, it remains the two early-front rookies, Johan and Alex, with 476 and 473 games played respectively, who lead the roster in that department. Both are headed toward 500 game seasons. It is not easy being "thrown in at the deep end" at age 17 and 18. Their success has been limited this season. But valuable experience has been gained, and they have provided yeoman service to the roster by shouldering such a load at their age. The old saying goes "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger." It will be fascinating to watch their progress.

Leaders in wins for the week: fronts/backs within lates/earlies

Late-front: Zulaika 12
Late-back: Leke 9
Early front: Jairo 9
Early back: Spinner 10

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

93 trifectas this week.

There were 21 top 5 combinations this week. There are 336 possible trifecta combinations (.063)

NO new combinations joined the top 5 combinations this week.
SIXTEEN combinations dropped out of the top 5 combinations this week:
1-3-5; 2-6-1; 2-6-3; 2-8-4; 3-1-2; 3-1-5; 3-1-8; 3-4-2; 3-6-1; 4-1-7; 4-2-8; 5-2-3; 6-3-2 7-1-4; 7-3-5; 7-5-3
(Last week the range of top 5 combinations was SEVEN TO THIRTEEN--this week the range was NINE TO FOURTEEN).

"batting average" reflects the total number of combinations in the top 5 combinations divided by all trifectas for the week.

FIFTEEN top 5 combinations added 20 trifectas. (.161)

ELEVEN top 5 combinations added 1 trifectas. (.118)
THREE top 5 combinations added 2 trifectas. (.032)
ONE top 5 combination added 3 trifectas (.011)

SIX top 5 combinations did not add any trifectas.

14. 5-2-4 (+1)

13. None

12. 1-5-3 (+3); 2-1-5 (+2)
11. 2-7-3 (+1); 3-2-8 (+1); 4-2-3 (+2); 6-1-4 (+1); 8-4-2 (+1)
10. 1-4-2; 2-4-1 (+1); 4-1-2; 4-2-1 (+2); 4-3-2; 5-3-1; 5-3-2; 6-4-2 (+1)
9. 1-3-8 (+1); 3-2-5 (+1); 4-3-1; 5-1-4 (+1); 5-4-1 (+1)

B. Leading daily performance winners (links are to results pages)

12/4(M)--2

Spinner (e-b) (Game 1 Post 2 (singles); G3P4 (Partner--Foronda))

Foronda (e-f) (G3P4 (Spinner); G6P2 (Ubilla))

Zulaika (l-f) (G9P6 (Ladutxe [e-b]); G11P1 (Ladutxe [e-b]))

Ladutxe (e-b) (G9P6 (Zulaika [l-f]); G11P1 (Zulaika [l-f]))

12/4(E) 3--Arrieta (l-f) (G8P8 (Israel); G9P1 (Israel); G10P3 (s))

12/5(E)--2

Ladutxe (e-b) (G1P8 (s); G5P2 (Anndy))

Goixerri (e-f) (G4P6 (s); G6P1 (Ubilla)

Barandika (l-f) G10P3 (s); G12P1 (Leke))

12/6(E)--2

Spinner (e-b) (G2P2 (Alex); G3P1 (Foronda))

Foronda (e-f) (G3P1 (Spinner); G7P8 (s))

Salegi (l-b) (G6P5 (Arrieta); G8P4 (s))

Ladutxe (e-f) G10P2 (Barandika [l-f]); G11P1 (Zulaika [l-f]--Partido))

12/7(M)--2

Jairo (e-f) (G3P8 (Spinner); G5P1 (Larrea))

Larrea (e-b) (G5P1 (Jairo); G7P8 (s))

Barandika (l-f) (G8P1 (Leke); G12P3 (Ibon))

Zulaika (l-f) (10P3 (s); G11P7 (Ibon))

Ibon (l-b) G11P7 (Zulaika); G12P3 (Barandika))

12/7(E) 3--Leke (l-b) G7P2 (s); G9P7 (Zulaika); G12P5 (Goitia))

12/8(M) 5--Zulaika (l-f) (G5P8 (Ubilla [e-b]; G6P4 (Bailo [e-b]; G9P5 (Urtaran); G10P2 (s); G12P8 (Urbieta))

Zulaika becomes the first player this season to win 5 games in a performance. 4 are in posts 4-8. 2 are doubles games from P8.

12/8(E)--2

Spinner (e-b) G1P1 (s); G3P5 (Beitia [l-f]))

Beitia (l-f) G3P5 (Spinner [e-b); G8P1 (s))

Salegi (l-b) G6P1 (Goitia); G9P5 (Zulaika))

C. Weekly leaders in wins (12/4-12/8)

Zulaika (l-f) 12(40) .300

Spinner (e-b) 10(43) .233

In the Money

Erik (l-f) 26(8-6-12) 40 .650

Zulaika (l-f) 22(12-5-5) 40 .550

Campeonato Points: (1st=5, 2nd=3, 3rd=1)

Zulaika 80

Erik 70

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Zulaika   40 12 5 5 .300 22 .550

Spinner   43 10 4 4  18 

Jairo     41 9 4 2  15 

Leke      38 9 3 5  17 

Ladutxe   38 8 8 4  20 .526

Foronda   44 8 7 6  21 

Erik      40 8 6 12  26 .650

Arrieta   42 7 6 7  20 

Barandika 39 7 3 4  14 

Bailo     44 6 6 4  16 

Goixerri  43 6 5 6  17 

Yeche     41 6 4 9  19 

Salegi    37 6 3 7  16 

Beitia    44 5 11 2  18 

Goitia    46 4 7 7  18 

Alex      47 4 5 8  17 

Elizalde  37 4 4 5  13 

Urbieta   19 4 4 1  9 

Israel    34 4 3 4  11 

Ubilla    36 4 2 3  9 

Anndy     44 4 2 2  8 

Ibon      37 3 7 4  14 

Xabat     42 3 7 4  14 

Amigorena 36 3 6 7  16 

Arta      35 2 8 5  15 

Larrea    41 2 7 8  17 

Urtaran   36 2 3 4  9 

Elgezabal 34 1 5 4  10 

Johan     50 1 3 4  8 

Minte     25 1 2 2  5 

Chasio    11 1 1 0  2 

Tevin     36 0 3 3  6


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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (11/27-12/1)

Dania Statistics for the week ending December 1

Summary:

It was another irregular week at Dania, with one 10 game performance (6 doubles and 4 singles) added on December 1. But there was no performance on November 28 due to the Thanksgiving Holiday in the US. This made for an 81 game week. Erik's (l-f) 6 consecutive weekly winner championship streak was smashed by Jairo (e-b) who won 10 games. Several other players also had more than Erik's 5 wins, but only Beitia (l-f) (11) had more than his 10 2nd place finishes. Erik tied for the lead in in the money (1st, 2nd, or 3rd) finishes with 19.

He did have a nice "consolation prize". He and Bailo (e-b) won a terrific Semi-final Partido Challenge from Goixerri (early)-Ibon (late), 15-13. At 14-13, a Goixerri winner was a few inches low. The linescore above shows how tight the match was. The partido took 41 minutes to play and was highlighted by nearly 40 saves. The play of the match, in my opinion, was a great apron save by Goixerri that he immediately converted into a winner. Ibon also shone with at least 2 "home runs," pelotas were thrown so hard that they caromed far off the back wall and beat Erik trying to backpedal and chase them down. A nice crowd made a lot of noise throughout.

All of the position races remained the same or tightened. Erik had his late-front lead cut from 35 to 32 over Zulaika, but actually gained 3 games over Bailo in the overall wins race. Bailo's ordinary week combined with Ladutxe's 2nd consecutive excellent week (8 wins, after 10 last week), cut the former's seemingly safe lead from 17 games on November 17 (69-52) to 9 games on December 1 (79-70). It is still probably too much of a lead to overcome with only about 70 games left for each, but it could be interesting. Jairo's great week, combined with Goixerri's rather ordinary 4 win week, also tightened the early-front race considerably. Goixerri, who opened an 11 game lead last week (67-56), found it closed to 5 (71-66). With 2 weeks to go, it will be interesting to see if the rapidly improving but relatively inexperienced Goixerri can hold on against his far more experienced rival. Ibon maintained his 7 game lead in the late back race over his leapfrogging opponents Salegi and Amigorena. This week it was Salegi jumping back into 2nd place.

Erik's lead in Campeonato points remains impregnable, 814-630 over Zulaika (l-f). The "heavy lifting" award remains in the hands of the two rookies Johan and Alex (both e-f), with 426 games played. Anndy (e-f) is in 3rd place with 417. Of the 10 players who have played more than 400 games, 7 are early fronts. The other 3 are Beitia, Arrieta, and Erik (all late fronts).

Finally, a high cesta to Chasio, who has been struggling at the foot of the late-back table all season. He won 8 games this week, the most of any late back.

Leaders for the week: fronts/backs within lates/earlies

Late Front: Barandika: 9
Late Back: Chasio: 8
Early Front: Jairo: 10
Early Back: Ladutxe and Yeche: 8

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

93 Trifectas this week. (corrected from 81 on December 15, 2019)

"batting average" reflects the total number of combinations in the top 5 combinations divided by all trifectas for the week.

THERE WERE 36 TOP 5 COMBINATIONS THIS WEEK. THERE ARE 336 TOTAL TRIFECTA COMBINATIONS. (.107)

TWENTY-SIX top 5 combinations added 34 trifectas (.280)

NINETEEN of the top 5 combinations added 1 trifecta (.204)

SIX of the top 5 combinations added 2 trifectas (.065)

ONE of the top 5 combinations added 3 trifectas (.011) Note: all "batting averages" corrected on December 15, 2019).

EIGHT new combinations joined the top 5 combinations this week:

2-6-3; 1-3-5; 2-6-1; 2-8-4; 3-1-8; 3-6-1; 4-1-7; 7-1-4

Through December 1

13. 5-2-4 (+1)

12. None

11. None

10. 1-4-2 (+2); 2-1-5 (+1); 2-7-3; 3-2-8 (+1); 4-1-2; 4-3-2 (+1); 5-3-1 (+1); 5-3-2 (+3); 6-1-4; 8-4-2 (+2)

9. 1-5-3 (+2); 2-4-1; 4-2-3; 4-3-1 (+2); 6-4-2 (+1)

8. 1-3-8 (+1); 2-6-3 (+2); 3-2-5 (+1); 3-4-2 (+1); 4-2-1; 4-2-8 (+1); 5-1-4 (+1); 5-4-1 (+1); 6-3-2 (+1)

7. 1-3-5 (+1); 2-6-1 (+1); 2-8-4 (+1); 3-1-2; 3-1-5; 3-1-8 (+1); 3-6-1 (+2); 4-1-7 (+1); 5-2-3; 7-1-4 (+1); 7-3-5; 7-5-3

B. Leading daily performance winners (links are to results pages)

11/27(M)--2

Elizalde (e-b) (Game 2 Post 5 Partner (Alex); G6P7 (Anndy))

Anndy (e-f) G4P2 (singles); G6P7 (Ladutxe))

Salegi (l-b) G7P2 (s); G12P5 (Erik))

Zulaika (l-f) G9P3 (Israel); G11P4 (Leke))

11/27(E) 3--Ladutxe (e-b) (G2P6 (Anndy); G5P6 (Goixerri); G6P4 (Jairo))

11/28--NO PLAY

11/29(E)--2

Chasio (l-b) (G6P3 (Tevin); G7P1 (s))

Zulaika (l-f) (G5P6 (Yeche [e-b]; G9P5 (Ibon))

Barandika (l-f) G8P7 (s)); G10P1 (Urturan))

11/30(M)--2

Yeche (e-b) (G1P8 (s); G6P6 (Xabat))

Goixerri (e-f) (G2P7 (Arta); G6P5 (Larrea))

Israel (l-b) (G8P8 (Barandika); G12P4 (Arrieta))

11/30(E) --2

Ubilla (e-b) (G1P2 (s); G2P3 (Foronda))

Foronda (e-f) G3P3 (Ubilla); G6P2 (Arta))

Jairo (e-f) (G3P2 (Bailo); G4P6 (s))

Salegi (l-b) (G8P6 (Barandika); G11P4 (Erik))

Barandika (l-f) G8P6 (Salegi); G10P3 (s))

Elgezabal (l-b) G9P4 (Goitia); G12P3 (Zulaika))

6 different players (3 early, 3 late 3 fronts, 3 backs) share the honors

12/1(M)--2

Ladutxe (e-b) G3P5 (Xabat); G6P2 (Johan))

Johan (e-f) (G5P7 (Larrea); G6P2 (Ladutxe))

Alex (e-f) (G8P7 (Israel [l-b]; G9P3 (Elgezabal [l-b]

Barandika (l-f) (G11P1 (Urtaran); G12P6 (Leke))

12/1(E) 3--Jairo (e-f) (G2P4 (Elizalde); G5P3 (Yeche); G9P5 (Chasio))

C. Weekly leaders in wins (11/27-12/1)

Jairo (e-f) 10(36) .278

Barandika (l-f) 9(35) .257

In the Money

Zulaika (l-f) 19(8-4-7) 34 .559

Erik (l-f) 19(5-10-4) 34 .559

Jairo 19(10-3-6) 36 .528

Leke 19(4-7-8) 36 .528

Amigorena 18(2-7-9) 37 .486

Campeonato Points: (1st=5, 2nd=3, 3rd=1)

Jairo 65

Barandika 61

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Jairo     36 10 3 6 .278 19 .528

Barandika 35 9 4 4 .257 17 

Zulaika   34 8 4 7  19 .559

Ladutxe   30 8 2 6 .267 16 .533

Yeche     28 8 2 4 .289 14 .500

Chasio    35 8 1 5  14 

Israel    35 6 3 3  12 

Erik      34 5 10 4  19 .559

Leke      36 4 7 8  19 .528

Ubilla    34 4 5 5  14 

Goixerri  34 4 5 4  13 

Goitia    33 4 5 3  12 

Salegi    36 4 4 3  11 

Elizalde  33 4 4 2  10 

Alex      38 4 3 7  14 

Arta      30 4 3 3  10 

Foronda   35 4 2 8  14 

Anndy     40 4 1 2  7 

Elgezabal 36 4 0 4  8 

Beitia    36 3 11 1  15 

Johan     38 3 6 1  10 

Urtaran   35 3 4 4  11 

Larrea    29 3 2 3  8 

Ithurria  22 3 2 1  6 

Bailo     28 2 9 3  14 .500

Amigorena 37 2 7 9  18 

Ibon      33 2 7 1  10 

Xabat     37 2 4 6  12 

Spinner   28 2 1 5  8 

Tevin     29 2 0 3  5 

Arrieta   33 1 7 5  13 

Minte     23 0 6 2  8


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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (11/20-11/24)

Dania Statistics for the week ending November 24

Summary:

There were 8 performances this week, the first of 3 weeks leading to the end of the season where an extra performance (Sunday Evening--November 24, December 1, and December 8) of 10 games will be played. These are makeup performances for the 3 performances lost on November 9-10 due to a flooding accident at Dania. Going into the week, Erik (l-f) was on a 5 week most wins streak (4 outright and 1 tie with Zulaika (l-f)). He also had a monster performance winning streak (at least one win in a performance) of 26, finally broken in the November 17 Matinee. This was part of a larger hot streak of 28 in 29. The questions going into the week were:

1. Would he continue his weekly "pennant" wins streak?
2. Would he start a new performance streak?
3. Could anybody beat him?

And the answers: yes, no, and not yet, but almost.

These are the variables to think about for the rest of the season, as he has blown apart the season most wins title race, increasing his overall lead to 33 games over 2nd place Bailo (e-b). Among his peers in the late-front group, he increased his lead to 35 games over 2nd place Zulaika. This overall race is beginning to resemble the 1973 Belmont Stakes horse race.

But this week a new young challenger from the early-front ranks had the week of his career, and an old "war horse" from the early-back ranks also had an excellent late rush. Goixerri had one performance with 4 wins (only the 5th player to do that this season), and one with 3. Ladutxe came from 5 games back after the Saturday Matinee and almost stole the honors from both.

Here is how the race broke down, performance by performance

Erik.......2.1.1.2.1.0.4.1=12
Goixerri...0.4.0.3.2.1.0.1=11
Ladutxte...1.1.0.1.1.3.1.2=10

What a fantastic race. Goixerri had a 3 game lead (10-7) going into the Sunday performances. But Erik is not only good, he's clutch. And Ladutxe, "dead and buried," 5 games behind at the end of the Saturday Matinee, came on with a rush to spice up the race very nicely. Erik's weekly winning streak is now 6, but his latest performance streak was stopped at 7. For the season he has 110 wins. In the other races, Ibon (l-b) maintained his 7 game lead over Amgorena, (45-38), who leapfrogged Salegi into 2nd place. Among the early fronts, Goixerri's week increased his lead over Jairo by 7 games (56-52 to 67-56). And among the backs, Bailo, in spite of Ladutxe's masterful week, only lost 2 games off his lead (69-52 to 77-62).

Erik's lead in Campeonato points (1st place=5, 2nd place=3, 3rd place=1) is a massive 755-589 over Bailo.

Among the "heavy lifters" Alex and Johan (both e-f) lead the roster with 388 games played. Goixerri has played 381.

In the final Quarter-final of the Dania Fall Classic Partido Tournament (see above), Zulaika-Ladutxe (l-e) enjoyed a decisive victory over Jairo-Salegi (e-l), 15-6. The match was extremely well played in spite of the final score. The competition now moves on to the semi-finals. It is playing out to form so far, the top 4 seeds still in it.

Leaders for the week: fronts/backs within lates/earlies

Late Front: Erik: 12
Late Back: Israel: 7
Early Front: Goixerri: 11
Early Back: Ladutxe: 10

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

93 trifectas this week.

*Correction: "batting average" reflects the total number of combinations in the top 5 combinations divided by all trifectas for the week. Apologies for any confusion caused.

NINETEEN top 5 combinations added 28 trifectas (.204)*

TWELVE top 5 combinations added 1 trifecta (.129)
FIVE top 5 combinations added 2 trifectas (.054)

TWO top 5 combination added 3 trifectas (.021)*

THREE new combinations joined the top 5 combinations this week (1-3-8; 4-2-8; and 7-3-5)

FOUR combinations dropped out of the top 5 combinations this week (1-3-5; 1-8-3; 2-6-3; 3-1-8)

Through November 24

12. 5-2-4 (+3)

11. None

10. 2-7-3 (+3); 4-1-2; 6-1-4 (+2)

9. 2-1-5 (+1); 2-4-1 (+1); 3-2-8 (+1); 4-2-3 (+2); 4-3-2 (+1); 5-3-1

8. 1-4-2; 4-2-1 (+1); 6-4-2; 8-4-2

7. 1-3-8 (+2); 1-5-3; 3-1-2; 3-1-5 (+1); 3-2-5 (+1); 3-4-2 (+1); 4-2-8 (+2); 4-3-1(+1); 5-1-4 (+1); 5-2-3; 5-3-2 (+1); 5-4-1; 6-3-2; 7-3-5 (+2); 7-5-3 (+1)

B. Leading daily performance winners (links are to results pages)

11/20(M)--2

Elizalde (e-b) (Game 3 Post 2 Partner (Anndy); G5P7 (Johan))

Erik (l-f) G8P8 (Elgezabal); G11P1 (Amigorena))

11/20(E) 4

Goixerri (e-f) (G2P7 (Yeche); G4P2 (s); G5P6 (Arta); G6P4 (Ubilla))

11/21(E)--2

Bailo (e-b) (G2P2 (Barandika [l-f]); G5P7 (Anndy))

Jairo (e-f) (G3P4 (Ubilla); G4P1 (s))

Leke (l-b) (G7P6 (s); G9P4 (Zulaika))

Zulaika (l-f) (G9P4 (Leke); G10P1 (s))

Salegi (l-b) (G11P2 (Tevin); G12P5 (Arrieta))

11/22(E) 3--Goixerri (e-f) G2P3 (Spinner); G4P7 (s); G5P1 (Spinner))

11/23(M)--2

Yeche (e-b) (G2P2 (Jairo); G3P7 (Goixerri))

Goixerri (e-f) (G3P7 (Yeche); G6P1 (Ladutxe))

Bailo (e-b) G8P4 (Barandika [l-f]); G12P7 (Zulaika [l-f))

11/23(E) 3--Ladutxe (e-b) (G2P6 (Jairo); G5P3 (Foronda); G6P8 (Goixerri)

11/24(M) 4--Erik (l-f) (G5P5 (Ubilla [e-b]); G6P1 (Ladutxe [e-b]); G10P3 (s); G12P6 (Bailo [e-b]

11/24(E) 3--Ibon (l-b) G6P8 (Erik); G9P1 (Zulaika); G10P4 (Arrieta))

C. Weekly leaders in wins (11/27-12/1)

Erik (l-f) 12(42) .286

Goixerri (e-b) 11(42) .262

In the Money

Goixerri 26(11-8-7) 42 .619

Erik 25(12-8-5) 42 .595

Campeonato Points: (1st=5, 2nd=3, 3rd=1)

Erik 89

Goixerri 86

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      42 12 8 5 .286 25 .595

Goixerri  42 11 8 7 .262 26 .619

Ladutxe   32 10 4 3 .313 17 .531

Arrieta   41 9 4 3  16 

Zulaika   39 8 4 6  18 

Bailo     34 8 3 6  17 .500

Barandika 43 7 6 9  22 .512

Israel    41 7 5 6  18 

Elizalde  40 6 5 4  15 

Ubilla    41 6 3 5  14 

Foronda   38 5 5 8  18 

Amigorena 38 5 5 6  16 

Yeche     38 5 5 6  16 

Ibon      40 5 4 5  14 

Arta      38 5 0 5  10 

Jairo     40 4 8 3  15 

Leke      39 4 7 8  19 

Goitia    42 4 7 6  17 

Beitia    41 4 6 6  16 

Salegi    41 4 4 4  12 

Tevin     32 4 2 4  10 

Urtaran   35 3 6 6  15 

Anndy     38 3 5 3  11 

Chasio    35 3 4 1  8 

Larrea    35 2 7 6  15 

Xabat     42 2 6 2  10 

Johan     42 2 5 3  10 

Elgezabal 38 2 5 2  9 

Spinner   30 2 2 3  7 

Alex      44 1 5 6  12 

Ithurria  32 1 2 2  5 

Minte     27 0 4 3  7


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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (11/13-11/17)

Dania Statistics for the week ending November 17

Summary:

Notable: Erik, in the November 17 Matinee Performance, did something very out of character: he did not win a game. This broke a consecutive performance streak of 26 that began with the October 23 Matinee performance. That is the longest performance streak that I have found. Before that he had won 2 in succession and since it ended he has won 2 in succession (including his 99th--101st wins of the season). That is 30 performances in the last 32 that he has won at least 1 game. The previous best performance streak I have found was by Aritz Erkiaga (l-f), who had TWO 24 performance winning streaks (BLOG POST) sandwiched around a single performance where he didn't win a game. This occurred from Feburary 8 to March 8 of 2017, and then from March 10-April 17 (when I suspended the blog--so it is possible that this streak was even longer) at Miami Jai Alai. BTW, you can see the details of every week of Aritz' two performance streaks in the Miami Weekly Summaries on the right side of the blog. Track back to February 8. With all due respect to Aritz, it would be difficult to argue that Erik doesn't face much stiffer competition than Aritz did at Miami at that time. Erik's accomplishment, given the context, is astonishing.

This week marked the return of Kevin Ithurria (l-f) after an absence of about 4 weeks. Erik continued to add to his overall win lead with 10 this week (6th week in 10 he has led the roster in weekly wins), giving him 98 wins and a 98-69 lead over his closest opponent, Bailo (e-b). Among late backs, he leads Zulaika 98-67. Ibon increased his late-back lead over both Salegi and Amigorena to 7 (45-38). Among the earlies, Goixerri (e-f), on the strength of an 8 win week, increased his lead over Jairo to 4 (56-52). And Bailo increased his lead among the backs to 17 over Ladutxe (69-52).

And in the "heavy lifting department, Johan (e-f), Alex (e-f) and Goenaga (e-f), lead the roster in games played with 346, 344, and 341 respectively. All 8 early backs have played over 330 games. The only other player on the roster with more than 330 is Arrieta (l-f) with 334.

Finally, congratulations to Goixerri, who won 4 games during the November 21, 2019 Evening performance, becoming only the 5th player to do that this season.

Leaders for the week: fronts/backs within lates/earlies

Late front: Erik 10
Late back: Ibon and Leke 7 (second consecutive leading week for Leke)
Early front: Goixerri 8
Early back: Bailo 9

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

Through November 17

83 total trifectas this week.

SIXTEEN "top 5" combinations added 23 trifectas (.277) this week.

TEN (.120) "top 5" combinations added 1 this week. FIVE (.060) added 2. ONE added 3 (.012).

SEVEN new combination (5-4-1, 1-8-3; 3-1-5, 3-1-8, 3-2-5, 3-4-2, and 5-1-4) moved into the "top 5" combinations.
Other item(s) that might be of interest. 8-3-7 and 8-7-3 each have hit 5 times through November 17.

"batting average" reflects the total number of combinations in the top 5 combinations divided by all trifectas for the week.

10. 4-1-2

9. 5-2-4 (+2); 5-3-1

8. 1-4-2; 2-1-5 (+1); 2-4-1 (+1); 3-2-8; 4-3-2 (+2); 6-1-4 (+2); 6-4-2; 8-4-2 (+1)

7. 1-5-3 (+1); 2-7-3; 3-1-2; 4-2-1 (+1); 4-2-3; 5-2-3 (+1); 5-4-1 (+2); 6-3-2

6. 1-3-5; 1-8-3 (+1); 2-6-3; 3-1-5 (+2); 3-1-8 (+1); 3-2-5 (+1); 3-4-2 (+1); 4-3-1; 5-1-4 (+3); 5-3-2; 7-5-3

B. Leading daily performance winners (links are to results pages)

11/13(M)--2

Anndy (e-f) (Game 2 Post 6 Partner (Bailo); G4P1 (s))

Barandika (l-f) (G6P1 (Ubilla [e-b]; G9P6 (Amigorena))

Leke (l-f) G11P2 (Beitia); G12P8 (Foronda))

11/13(E) 3--Erik (l-f) (G8P5 (Leke); G11P1 (Amigorena); G12P4 (Elgezabal))

11/14(E)--3

Goixerri (e-f) (G5P5 (Spinner); G6P8 (Yeche); G11P1 (Elgezabal [l-b]))

Salegi (l-b) (G7P7 (s); G9P2 (Barandika); G12P1 (Barandika))

11/15(E)--2

Elizalde (e-b) (G1P5 (s); G2P1 (Anndy))

Jairo(e-f) (G4P7 (s); G5P3 (Spinner))

Zulaika (l-f) G6P2 (Ibon); G10P5 (Ladutxe [e-b]))

Ibon (l-b) (G6P2 (Zulaika); G7P4 (s))

Erik (l-f) (G8P7 (s); G9P1 (Amigorena))

11/16(M) 3--Arrieta (l-f)

(G9P1 (Amigorena); G10P6 (s); G12P3 (Ibon))

11/16(E)--2

Yeche (e-b) (G2P1 (Alex); G5P8 (Johan))

Goixerri (e-f) (G3P2 (Bailo); G4P3 (s))

Bailo (e-b) (G3P2 (Goixerri); G6P7 (Goenaga))

Barandika (l-f) (G8P5 (Ladutxe [e-b]; G9P8 (Israel))

11/17(M) 3--Leke (l-b) (G7P1 (s); G8P5 (Zulaika); G10P8 (s))

C. Weekly leaders in wins (11/13-11/17)

Erik (l-f) 10(36) .278

Bailo (e-b) 9(31) .290

In the Money

Erik 21(10-5-6) (36) .583

Jairo (e-f) 20(5-8-7) (40) .500

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      36 10 5 6 .278 21 .583

Bailo     31 9 3 5 .290 17 .548

Goixerri  37 8 6 5  19 .514

Barandika 35 8 3 8  19 .543

Arrieta   37 8 3 4  15 

Elizalde  34 8 2 6  16 

Ibon      37 7 8 1  16 

Leke      31 7 3 4  14 

Ladutxe   35 6 7 4  17 

Yeche     36 6 7 4  17 

Anndy     39 6 3 2  11 

Jairo     40 5 8 7  20 .500

Israel    30 5 5 4  14 

Zulaika   29 5 5 1  11 

Amigorena 34 5 4 5  14 

Goenaga   38 4 3 7  14 

Salegi    32 4 3 2  9 

Elgezabal 33 4 2 6  12 

Minte     27 3 9 4  16 .593

Foronda   36 3 7 2  12 

Spinner   35 3 4 7  14 

Xabat     37 3 2 7  12 

Urtaran   36 2 6 5  13 

Alex      36 2 4 6  12 

Johan     40 2 2 5  9 

Ubilla    30 2 1 2  5 

Goitia    33 1 7 3  11 

Beitia    37 1 4 6  11 

Tevin     19 1 0 2  3 

Chasio    36 0 5 3  8 

Arta      29 0 5 1  6 

Larrea    29 0 1 2  3 

Ithurria  8 0 1 0  1

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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (11/6-11/8)

Dania Statistics for the week ending November 8

Summary:

In the Fall Partido Challenge (see above) the two all early teams were decisively defeated in the first two quarter-finals (total score: 30-12). This, of course, was not particularly surprising. An interesting alternative might be to run two tournaments, one for earlies and one for lates. 2 semis in each division followed by 2 finals and then a "Grand Final" between the e-e and l-l Champions. It might be more interesting and competitive. It would also give the e-e champion a tremendous incentive in the "Grand Final." Just a thought.

Dania played a short week, 23 games, due to an accidental flood. The games are expected to be made up later in the season. Erik (late-front) lead the way with 8 wins in 23 games. It was the 5th time in 9 weeks that Erik has led or tied for the lead in most wins. Spinner (early-front) was the only other player on the roster to win 5 games. Erik's overall wins lead is now 26 (88-62) over 2nd place Zulaika (l-f) and 28 over 3rd place Bailo (early-back) (60). Erik's lead in number of performances won (outright or tied) (20) increased to 6 over the same two opponents. In terms of campeonato points (5 points for a win, 3 points for 2nd place, and 1 point for 3rd), another way to measure quality of play, Erik, with 595 points, has 120 more points than the 2nd place Bailo and 123 more than 3rd place Zulaika.

Although Dania is not having a Florida Singles (Game 10) or Doubles (G12) championship this season due to the Fall Challenge, Erik leads both of those as well, 18-14 over Zulaika in G10, and 12-10 for fronts in G12, also over Zulaika. Barandika, with 9 wins is the only other player even close among G12 fronts. The G12 backs race is led by Ibon with 9. Salegi, Urbieta, and Elgezabal are within striking range, 2, 3, and 3 games behind respectively. In G10, after Zulaika, the next closest total is 4 wins.

Erik has won daily performances with 4 wins thee times and with 3 wins six times. You can see 6 of Erik's 8 total wins this week in context in the daily performance winners below. Once again, through 9 weeks he towers like a colossus over the rest of the roster.

In the other 3 individual races, among the late backs, Ibon has 38 wins, 4 more than Salegi, who moved from 3rd to 2nd this week. Amigorena dropped to 3rd with 33. In the early-front race, Goixerri maintained his razor thin lead over Jairo, 48-47, with Xabat jumping from 5th to 3rd with 35. In the early-back race, Bailo maintained a commanding lead with 60 wins. Second place Ladutxe, who has played 13 less games, has 46 wins.

Finally, through 9 weeks, all players with over 300 games played are early-fronts. Alex, 308; Johan, 306; Foronda and Goenaga, 303; Goixerri, 302, and Xabat and Anndy, 300. Only Jairo has less than 300, with 292. Among other players, the closest to 300 games is Arrieta (l-f) with 297.

Leaders for the week: fronts/backs within lates/earlies

Late-front: Erik: 8
Late-back: Salegi, Israel, and Leke: 4

Early-front: Xabat: 4

Early-back: Spinner: 5

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

Through November 8

47 total trifectas this week.

SIX "top 5" combinations added 8 trifectas (.170) this week.

FOUR (.085) "top 5" combinations added 1 this week. 2 (.043) added 2.

ONE new combination (4-3-2) moved into the "top 5" combinations.
NINE combinations dropped out (see below under "Through November 3").

"batting average" reflects the total number of combinations in the top 5 combinations divided by all trifectas for the week.

10. 4-1-2

9. 5-3-1 (+1)

8. 1-4-2; (+1) 3-2-8; 6-4-2 (+1)

7. 2-1-5; 2-4-1; 2-7-3; 3-1-2; 4-2-3; 5-2-4; 6-3-2 (+2); 8-4-2 (added 11/17/19)

6. 1-3-5; 1-5-3; 2-6-3; 4-2-1; 4-3-1; 4-3-2; (+2) 5-2-3; 5-3-2; 6-1-4; 7-5-3 (+1)

B. Leading daily performance winners (links are to results pages)

e-f=early front, e-b=early back, l-f=late front, l-b=late back

11/6--11/8 Links are to results pages

1/11/6(M) 3--Erik (l-f) (Game 2 Post 6 Partner (Larrea [e-b]); G3P7 (Yeche [e-b]); G10P7 (singles))

11/6(E) 3--Xabat (e-f) (G2P7 (Spinner); G4P8 (s); G6P2 (Arta))

11/7(E)--2

Israel (l-b) (G7P4 (s); G9P1 (Beitia))

Erik (l-f) G8P4 (Leke); G10P1 (s))

Leke (l-b) G8P4 (Erik); G12P7 (Tevin))

11/8(E)--2

Johan (e-f) (G1P1 (s); G2P2 (Bailo))

Bailo (e-b) (G2P2 (Johan); G4P5 (s))

Barandika (l-f) (G8P7 (s); G9P6 (Salegi))

Salegi (l-b) G9P6 (Barandika); G10P5 (Erik))

C. Weekly leaders in wins (11/6-11/8)

Erik (l-f) 8(23) .348

Spinner (e-b) 5(21) .238

In the Money

Erik 15(8-4-3) (23) .652

Israel (l-b) 11(4-1-6) (19) .579

Goenaga (e-f) 11(1-7-3) (20) .550

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

For the week (November 6-November 8)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      23 8 4 3 ,348 15 .652

Spinner   21 5 3 2  10 

Leke      22 4 4 1  9 

Israel    19 4 1 6  11 .579

Xabat     18 4 1 2  7 

Larrea    21 4 1 2  7 

Salegi    21 4 1 0  5 

Bailo     18 3 5 1  9 .500

Zulaika   19 3 4 2  9 

Arta      18 3 2 2  7 

Yeche     23 3 2 2  7 

Beitia    21 3 1 4  8 

Johan     24 3 1 3  7 

Ibon      19 2 6 1  9 

Goixerri  22 2 4 3  9 

Jairo     22 2 4 1  7 

Foronda   20 2 3 4  9 

Barandika 19 2 2 2  6 

Alex      22 2 2 2  6 

Urtaran   21 2 2 0  4 

Amigorena 15 2 1 3  6 

Elgezabal 14 2 1 2  5 

Arrieta   19 2 1 2  5 

Tevin     13 2 1 0  3 

Goenaga   20 1 7 3  11 

Ladutxe   20 1 4 3  8 

Anndy     16 1 2 3  6 

Goitia    19 1 1 4  6 

Elizalde  16 1 0 1  2 

Minte     14 0 4 4  8 

Chasio    14 0 2 6  8 

Ubilla    19 0 1 2  3

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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (10/30-11/3)

Dania Statistics for the week ending November 3

Summary:

The best news that came out of Dania this week was that Tevin (Leon Shepard) (late-front) returned to action after a 7 month absence due to a torn quadriceps muscle. He played 11 games and had 3 second place finishes. It is great to have him back "on the team." In other news, the Fall Partido Challenge began. There are 8 teams playing a single elimination tournament, 1 game each Friday (the 11th and final game). The Friday 12th game will be dropped until the end of the season. The players were seeded by position based on their total output through the end of October (5 points for a win, 3 for 2nd place, 1 for 3rd). Casino Dania Facebook is covering the Tournament (basic information). Seeding can be found here.

The first match was between #1 seed Erik-Bailo (l-e) and #8 seed Foronda-Yeche (e-e). E-B won 15-9. There is a brief article on the match here.

E-B move on to the semi-finals.

Upcoming Quarter-Final matches:

November 8: (#4) Goixerri (e-f)-Ibon (l-b) v (#5) Xabat (e-f)-Arta (e-b)

November 15: (#3) Barandika (l-f)-Elgezabal (l-b) v (# 6) Goitia (l-f)-Amigorena (l-b)

November 22: (#2) Zulaika (l-f)-Ladutxe (e-b) v (#7) Goenaga (e-f)-Salegi (l-b)

For the week, both Erik and Zulaika won 11 games, sharing honors for most wins. Erik now leads Zulaika for the season by 80-59, with Bailo 3rd with 57. By position within late/early, the late-backs still have the most interesting race going on, with Ibon in the lead with 36, and Amigorena, Salegi, and Urbieta in pursuit with 31, 30, and 29 respectively. There has been flux in the l-b standings as 3 players moved up (Amigorena from 3rd to 2nd, Urbieta from 5th to 4th, and Israel (coming back from a four week absence) from 8th to 7th. They passed Salegi, Elgezabal, and Leke respectively. Among the early fronts, Goixerri held onto his lead over Jairo, but only by the slimmest of margins 46-45. And among the early-backs, Bailo maintains a big lead over Ladutxe (57-45). Bailo has played 15 more games.

And we should say a word for the two rookie early-fronts, Alex and Johan, who are #1 and tied for #3 in total games played, with 286 and 282 respectively. As might be expected, their production has been low in their first season, with 32 wins between them. They are at the foot of the early-front table. The learning curve is steep at Dania and is always steep for new quiniela players, as a mistake means a trip to the "pines", where learning is difficult. But they are performing a very useful service for the team, enthusiastic game eaters. And if you want to see how quickly it is possible to learn, you need only look to Goixerri, who also had a rocky start last Fall.

G W P S W% ITM%

Fall 2018: 339 20 30 29 .059 .233

Spring 2019: 342 37 41 37 .108 .336

Fall 2019 (7 weeks): 280 46 38 34 .164 .448

Along with a place in the Partido Challenge!

Win leaders for the week by position within early/late

Late Front: Erik and Zulaika 11

Late Back: Urbieta 7

Early Front: Jairo 9

Early Back: Bailo 9

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

Through November 3

10: 4-1-2

9: None

8: 3-2-8; 5-3-1

7: 1-4-2; 2-1-5; 2-4-1; 2-7-3; 3-1-2; 4-2-3; 5-2-4; 6-4-2; 8-4-2;

6: 1-3-5; 1-5-3; 2-6-3; 4-2-1; 4-3-1; 5-2-3; 5-3-2;

6-1-4

5: 1-6-2; 2-1-6; 2-6-1; 3-2-5; 3-7-4; 4-1-7; 6-2-5; 6-3-2; 7-5-3; 8-2-5

B. Leading daily performance winners (links are to results pages)

e-f=early front, e-b=early back, l-f=late front, l-b=late back

10/30--11/3 Links are to results pages

10/30(M) 3--Zulaika (l-f) (Game 5 Post 5 Partner (Minte); G11P3 (Urtaran); G12P8 (Urbieta))

10/30(E) 2

Barandika (l-b) (G3P4 (Elizalde [e-b]); G9P5 (Urbieta))

Bailo (e-b) (G4P7 (s); G5p2 (Johan))

Ibon (l-b) (G7P5 (s); G11P4 (Zulaika))

Israel (l-b) (G8P4 (Erik); G12P2 (Beitia))

Zulaika (l-f) (G10P8 (s); G11P4 (Ibon))

Israel returns from a 4 week layoff and celebrates with a Performance win.

10/31(E) 2

Goixerri (e-f) (G3P2 (Arta); G6P8 (Arta))

Arta (e-b) (G3P2 (Goixerri); G6P8 (Goixerri))

Ibon (l-b) (G7P3 (s); G11P5 (Zulaika))

Zulaika (l-f) (G8P3 (Elgezabal); G11P5 (Ibon))

Barandika (l-f) (G9P6 (Leke); G12P3 (Chasio))

11/1(E) 2

Chasio (l-b) (G3P8 (Barandika [l-f]); G6P2 (Arrieta [l-f]))

Jairo (e-f) (G4P5 (s); G5P2 (Spinner))

Arrieta (l-f) (G6P2 (Chasio [l-b]); G9P8 (Amigorena))

Erik (l-f) G10P4 (Bailo [e-b]); G11*P1 (Bailo [e-b]))

Bailo (e-b) G10P4 (Erik [l-f]);G11*P1 (Erik [l-f))

* 15 point partido game:

Erik-Bailo 15 Foronda-Yeche 9

11/2(M) 3

Goixerri (e-f) (G4P4) (s); G6P2 (Israel ([l-b]); G11P3 (Leke [l-b])

Urbieta (l-b) (G7P4 (s); G9P2 (Zulaika); G12P7 (Erik))

11/2(E) 2

Goixerri (e-f) (G2P1 (Arta); G5P4 (Bailo))

Bailo (e-b) G1P1 (s); G5P4 (Goixerri))

11/3(M) 3

Jairo (e-f) (G2P7 (Bailo); G3P2 (Ubilla); G6P1 (Bailo))

Erik (l-f) (G8P2 (Chasio); G9P1 (Leke); G10P3 (s))

C. Weekly leaders in wins (10/30-11/3)

Erik (l-f) 11(35) .314

Zulaika (l-f) 11(37) .297

Bailo (e-b) 9(31) .290

Jairo (e-f) 9(39) .231

In the Money

Jairo 23(9-9-5) (39) .590

Erik 22 (11-6-5) (35) .629

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

For the week (October 30-November 3)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      35 11 6 5 .314 22 .629

Zulaika   37 11 3 4 .297 18 

Jairo     39 9 9 5  23 .590

Bailo     31 9 4 7 .290 20 .645

Urbieta   36 7 7 6  20 .556

Barandika 38 7 4 7  18 

Goixerri  38 7 4 4  15 

Ibon      25 6 5 3  14 .560

Ladutxe   30 6 3 3  12 

Arta      31 6 2 3  11 

Israel    33 6 1 1  8 

Goenaga   39 5 8 2  15 

Arrieta   38 4 7 7  18 

Leke      32 4 5 3  12 

Chasio    35 4 1 2  7 

Amigorena 34 3 6 3  12 

Urtaran   32 3 5 4  12 

Larrea    30 3 5 3  11 

Yeche     28 3 5 1  9 

Beitia    35 3 4 6  13 

Anndy     39 3 1 4  8 

Elgezabal 37 2 6 9  17 

Ubilla    20 2 4 0  6 

Minte     23 2 4 0  6 

Alex      43 2 3 4  9 

Xabat     37 2 2 8  12 

Elizalde  34 2 1 10 13 

Salegi    31 2 1 5  8 

Foronda   35 1 7 3  11 

Johan     39 1 4 7  12 

Spinner   29 1 4 4  9 

Goitia    38 1 4 3  8 

Tevin     11 0 3 0  3

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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (10/23-10/27)

Dania Statistics for the week ending October 27

Summary:

Erik (l-f) dominated the week with 12 wins, 3 more than 2nd place Bailo (e-b). He has increased his lead over Zulaika (l-f) and Bailo to 21 games (69-48). There are lots of games to play, as the season is only 6 weeks old, but already it looks like Erik is likely to be most wins champion again. Erik opened up his most performance wins lead over Zulaika to 5 (16-11) and caught and passed him for the lead in Game 10 wins (14-12). He also leads Zulaika 11-9 in Game 12 Front wins. Ibon leads the Game 12 backs race 8-6 over Salegi and Elgezabal. 2 of the other 3 total wins races (fronts/backs within earlies/lates) are very tight, with Ibon leading the late backs by 2 wins over Salegi and Amigorena (30-28), and Goixerri (e-f) increasing his lead over Jairo by 1 this week (39-36). Bailo is beginning to run away with the early backs race increasing his lead over Ladutxe to 48-39.

Late Front: Erik: 12 wins
Late Back: Amigorena: 7 wins
Early Front: Xabat: 8 wins
Early Back: Bailo: 9 wins

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")



Through October 27





9. 4-1-2

8. 5-3-1

7. 1-4-2; 2-1-5; 8-4-2

6. 1-5-3; 2-4-1; 2-6-3; 2-7-3; 3-1-2; 4-2-1; 4-2-3; 5-2-4; 6-1-4;

5. 1-3-5; 1-8-3; 2-1-6; 2-6-1; 3-2-5; 3-2-8; 3-7-4; 4-1-7; 5-3-2; 6-3-2

B. Leading daily performance winners (links are to results pages)

10/23(M) 3--Zulaika (l-f) (Game 6 Post 6 Partner (Yeche); G11P8 (Amigorena); G12P2 (Amigorena)

10/23(E) 3--Ladutxe (e-b) (G3P8 (Johan); G5P5 (Anndy); G6P1 (Foronda)

10/24(E) 3--Goitia (l-f) (G5P2 (Elizalde [e-b]); G8P1 (Salegi); G9P4 (Urtaran))

10/25(E) 2

Xabat (e-f) (G4P3 (s); G6P1 (Spinner))

Ladutxe (e-b) (G7P4 (s); G8P3 (Arrieta [l-f]))

Erik (l-f) (G9P5 (Ibon); G11P2 (Urtaran))

10/26(M) 2

Larrea (e-b) G1P3 (s); G3P4 (Anndy))

Goixerri (e-f) G2P2 (Bailo); G4P5 (s))

Bailo (e-b) G2P2 (Goixerri); G5P4 (Xabat))

Zulaika (l-f) G8P7 (Amigorena); G12P2 (Elgezabal))

Amigorena (l-b) G8P7 (Zulaika); G11P1 (Erik))

Erik (l-f) G10P2 (s); G11P1 (Amigorena))

6 players win 2 games.

10/26(E) 2

Bailo (e-b) (G1P2 (s); G3P5 (Anndy))

Goixerri (e-f) (G2P2 (Ladutxe); G6P4 (Ubilla))

Xabat (e-f) (G4P1 (s); G5P7 (Ubilla))

Ubilla (e-b) (G5P7 (Xabat); G6P4 (Goixerri))

Salegi (l-b) (G9P1 (Erik); G11P5 (Goitia))

10/27(M) 3--Ubilla(e-b) (G1P8 (s); (G2P1 (Jairo); G5P4 (Goenaga))

C. Weekly leaders in Wins (October 23-27)

Erik (l-f) 12(39) .308

Bailo (e-b) 9(37) .243

In the Money

Zulaika (l-f) 22 (6-6-10) (39) .564

Ladutxe (e-b) 20 (6-9-5) (37) .541
Erik (l-f) 20 (12-4-4) (39) .513

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

For the week (October 23-27)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      39 12 4 4 .308 20 .513

Bailo     37 9 7 3  19 .514

Xabat     41 8 5 6  19 

Ubilla    30 7 5 4  16 .533

Amigorena 34 7 2 4  13 

Ladutxe   37 6 9 5  20 .541

Ibon      38 6 7 2  15 

Zulaika   39 6 6 10  22 .564

Chasio    38 6 3 5  14 

Urbieta   35 6 2 6  14 

Goixerri  41 5 9 3  17 

Anndy     39 5 6 3  14 

Barandika 39 5 4 6  15 

Goitia    41 5 1 8  14 

Salegi    33 5 1 4  10 

Alex      43 4 4 6  14 

Larrea    30 4 4 5  13 

Jairo     39 4 3 9  16 

Foronda   39 4 3 3  10 

Goenaga   40 3 9 3  15 

Arrieta   39 3 8 3  14 

Beitia    37 3 7 1  11 

Elgezabal 34 3 6 3  12 

Arta      36 2 6 4  12 

Yeche     35 2 4 5  11 

Urtaran   32 2 2 5  9 

Spinner   26 2 2 1  5 

Elizalde  35 2 1 6  9 

Minte     12 2 1 3  6 .500

Leke      41 1 6 7  14 

Johan     41 1 3 3  7

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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (10/16-10-20)

Dania Statistics for the week ending October 20

Summary

Erik won the most games this week, the 2nd time in 5 weeks he has done that. He won 13 games, the highest total of any weekly winner, for the 2nd time this season. 12 of his 13 wins can be found in the daily performance winners list below. He won or tied for daily performance winner in 4 of the 7 performances, including two 4 perfomance wins. For the season he has opened up a 15 game lead over Zulaika (57-42) for most win
s. Zulaika continues to lead the Game 10 standings, as he has since the 2nd week of the season. Erik leads the fronts and Ibon the backs in the Game 12 standings. Erik is the only player to win at least 1 Game 10 AND Game 12 in each week of the season.

Perhaps the most eye opening performance of the week was that of Goixerri, the 2nd year early back, who won 9 games, and, with Jairo having an off week with only 1 win, took over the Early Fronts lead in total wins (34-32). Goixerri had a difficult start to his Dania career last Winter, but improved tremendously in the Spring (see the link to the Spring 2019 Season Summary above).

Leading weekly winners:

Early-Front: Goixerri 9

Early-Back: Ladutxe 7

Late-Front: Erik 13

Late-Back: Ibon and Elgezabal 8

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

8. 4-1-2; 5-3-1

7. None

6. 2-7-3; 5-2-4; 6-1-4

5. 1-5-3; 2-1-5; 2-6-3; 3-2-5; 4-2-1; 4-2-3; 5-3-2; 6-3-2; 8-4-2;

4. Many

B. Leading Daily Performance Winners (links are to results pages)

e-f=early front, e-b=early back, l-f=late front, l-b=late back

10/16--10/20 links are to results pages

10/16(M) 4--Erik (l-f) (Game 8, Post 7, Partner (Urbieta)); G9P1 (Amigorena); G11P2 (Salegi); G12P5 (Leke)

Erik starts the week off with a bang, his 2nd 4 win performance of the season. The only game he doesn't win is the game he usually "owns," Game 10.

10/16(E) 3

Larrea (e-b) (G1P1 (s); G2P5 (Goenaga); G5P6 (Goixerri))

Ladutxe (e-b) (G3P4 (Xabat; (G4P5 (s); G6P1 (Beitia))

Ibon (l-b) (G8P4 (Foronda); G9P5 (Zulaika); G12P8 (Arrieta))

10/17(E) 2

Goenaga (e-f) (G4P4 (s); G6P6 (Ladutxe))

Ladutxe (e-b) (G3P4 (Xabat); G6P6 (Goenaga))

Erik (l-f) (G8P2 (Urturan); G10P7 (s))

Elgezabal (l-b) (G9P5 (Barandika); G11P2 (Beitia))

10/18(E)--2

Arta (e-b) (G1P3 (s); G2P8 (Beitia))

Goixerri (e-f) (G3P7) (Minte); G6P8 (Larrea)

Larrea (e-b) (G5P7 (Alex); G6P8 (Goixerri))

Erik (l-f) (G8P5 (Urtaran); G10P2 (s))

Goitia (l-f) (G9P3 (Bailo); G12P2 (Elgezabal))

10/19(M)--3

Foronda (e-f) (G1P6 (s); G3P7 (Elizalde); G5P5 (Ubilla))

Ibon (l-b) G7P2 (s); G8P3 (Barandika); G12P5 (Barandika))

Barandika (l-f) (G8P3 (Ibon); G9P4 (Elgezabal); G12P5 (Ibon))

10/19(E) 4--Erik (l-f) G5P6 (Bailo [e-b]); G9P4 (Amigorena); G10P7 (s); G11P3 (Ibon)

Erik wins 4 games in a performance for the 2nd time this week and the 3rd time this season.

10/20(M) 3--Zulaika (l-f) (G9P2 (Salegi); G10P1 (s); G11P3 (Leke))

C. Weekly leaders in Wins (October 16-20)

Erik (l-f) 13(39) .333

Goixerri (e-f) 9(40) .225

In the Money

Erik (l-f) 20 (13-4-3) (39) .513

Barandika (l-f) 20 (7-5-8) (39) .513

Elgazabal (l-b) 18 (8-5-5) (35) .514

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

For the week (October 16-20)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      39 13 4 3 .333 20 .513

Goixerri  40 9 3 5  17 

Elgezabal 35 8 5 5  18 .514

Ibon      35 8 3 4  15 

Zulaika   37 7 7 3  17 

Barandika 39 7 5 8  20 .513

Ladutxe   29 7 5 4  16 .552

Larrea    38 6 5 5  16 

Beitia    43 5 5 5  15 

Goitia    39 5 4 6  15 

Goenaga   40 5 4 6  15 

Bailo     35 5 4 4  13 

Arta      31 5 3 5  13 

Foronda   41 5 3 5  13 

Yeche     35 5 2 6  13 

Salegi    31 5 2 1  8 

Xabat     39 4 9 4  17 

Leke      38 4 6 7  17 

Amigorena 32 4 3 4  11 

Ubilla    28 3 4 1  8 

Elizalde  35 3 3 9  15 

Minte     24 3 2 0  5 

Spinner   39 2 9 5  16 

Anndy     40 2 5 6  13 

Urtaran   32 2 4 3  9 

Urbieta   35 2 2 6  10 

Arrieta   39 1 9 4  14 

Jairo     36 1 7 3  11 

Chasio    30 1 5 3  9 

Alex      39 1 4 7  12 

Johan     41 1 4 2  7 

Ithurria  6 1 0 1  2



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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (10/9--10/13)

Dania Statistics for the week ending October 13

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

October 9-13

7. 4-1-2

6. 5-3-1

5. 2-7-3; 3-2-5; 4-2-1; 5-3-2; 6-1-4; 6-3-2

4. 1-3-5; 1-5-3; 1-6-2; 1-8-3; 2-4-1; 2-6-3; 3-1-6; 4-1-3; 4-1-7; 5-1-3; 6-4-2;

7-3-5

3. Many

B. Leading Daily Performance Winners (links are to results pages)

e-f=early front, e-b=early back, l-f=late front, l-b=late back

10/9--10/13 links are to results pages

10/9(M) 3--Erik (l-f) (Game 2 Post 2 Partner (Yeche [e-b]); G9P7 (Salegi); G10P3 (singles))

10/9(E) 4--Bailo (e-b) (G7P6 (s); G8P3 (Goitia [l-f]; G9P2 (Arrieta [l-f]; G11P2 (Jairo [e-f]))

Remarkable performance by the early back, winning 4 of 5 late games due to a shortage of backs--Leke and Ibon are in Madrid for 4th Villa Madrid Tournament.

10/10(E) 3--Jairo (e-f) (G3P3 (Yeche); G7P4 (s); G8P1 (Salegi [l-b]))

10/11(E) 2

Goenaga (e-f) (G1P4 (s); G6P5 (Yeche))

Goixerri (e-f) (G2P8 (Minte); G4P7 (s))

Urtaran (l-b) (G8P1 (Erik); G9P4 (Ithurria))

Zulaika (l-f) (G10P6 (s); G12P5 (Salegi))

10/12(M) 4--Ladutxe (e-b) (G7P6 (s); G9P1 (Barandika [l-f]); G11P7 (Barandika [l-f]; G12P8 (Erik [l-f]))

Ladutxe goes "out of his time zone" and wins 4.

10/12(E) 3--Bailo (e-b) (G8P2 (Barandika [l-f]); G9P3 (Erik [l-f); G12P8 (Barandika [l-f]))

Bailo goes "out of his time zone" and wins 3.

10/13(M) 2

Arrieta (l-f) (G2P8 (Larrea [e-b]); G3P4 (Yeche [e-b]))

Erik (l-f) (G9P5 (Salegi); G10P8 (s))

Barandika (l-f) G11P1 (Elizalde [e-b]); G12P8 (Ladutxe [e-b]))

C. Weekly leaders in Wins (October 9-13)

Bailo (e-b) 12(37) .324

Erik (l-f) 11(37) .297

In the Money

Barandika (l-f) 24 (7-12-5) (35) .686

Bailo 22 (12-4-6) (37) .595

Bailo had a chance to see how he could do with the lates this week, due to the absence of Israel and the the participation of Ibon and Leke in the IV Villa Madrid Tournament over the weekend. Bailo did just fine. He played 37 games, 31 late and 6 early.

His late game record: 10 wins, 3 2nds, 4 3rds
His early game record: 2 wins, 1 2nd, 1, 3rds

Note: Bailo is listed as having 16 3rd place finishes for the week of October 2-6 on the Dania official statistics sheet. He is listed as having 22 3rd place finishes for the week of October 9-13. That totals to 6. However, I have only been able to find 5. Any help or correction with this would be greatly appreciated.

Be that as it may, he was in the money in all 7 performances this week, and was the leading performance winner twice (both times playing a complete late game schedule). He won 4 games in the October 9 evening performance, becoming the 3nd player on the roster to win 4 games in a performance. (In the October 12 Matinee Ladutxe duplicated this performance as an early playing late, to become the 4th player to win 4). Bailo also led performance winners with 3 wins in the October 12 Evening performance. (For individual performance winners and cumulative standings see above.)

Quite a statement. Some fans think Bailo belongs in the late games. No one could argue with them this week.

For the week, split out by fronts/backs within earlies/lates, the leading winners were

Erik (l-f) 11
Salegi (l-b) 5
Jairo (e-f) 8
Bailo (e-b) 12

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

For the week (October 9-13)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Bailo     37 12 4 6 .324 22 .595

Erik      37 11 5 4 .297 20 .541

Zulaika   37 8 3 7  18 

Jairo     37 8 1 3  12 

Barandika 35 7 12 5  24 .686

Yeche     35 7 5 6  18 .514

Ladutxe   42 7 5 6  18 

Arta      38 6 7 3  16 

Goixerri  38 6 6 3  15 

Xabat     40 6 5 6  17 

Elizalde  39 6 1 6  13 

Foronda   41 5 6 6  17 

Arrieta   39 5 5 6  16 

Salegi    38 5 5 1  11 

Goitia    35 4 7 4  15 

Goenaga   42 4 6 4  14 

Urtaran   37 4 4 6  14 

Amigorena 40 4 4 3  11 

Larrea    38 4 3 4  11 

Minte     30 4 2 2  8 

Spinner   39 3 13 4  20 .513

Johan     45 3 2 7  12 

Anndy     38 3 2 6  11 

Elgezabal 39 2 9 5  16 

Alex      43 2 5 5  12 

Urbieta   36 1 3 6  10 

Beitia    41 1 3 5  9 

Chasio    38 1 3 4  8 

Ithurria  16 1 3 0  4 

Ubilla    30 0 1 7  8



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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (10/2--10/6)

Dania Statistics for the week ending October 6

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

October 2-6

5. 2-7-3; 4-1-2; 6-1-4

4. 1-3-5; 1-8-3; 2-6-3; 3-1-6; 4-1-3; 5-3-1; 6-4-2; 7-3-5;

3. 1-4-2; 1-4-8; 1-5-3; 1-6-2; 1-7-5; 2-1-5; 2-3-5; 2-4-1; 3-1-2; 3-2-5; 3-2-8; 4-2-1; 4-2-6; 5-1-3; 5-3-2; 8-4-2

2. Many

1. Many

B. Leading Daily Performance Winners (links are to results pages)

e-f=early front, e-b=early back, l-f=late front, l-b=late back

10/2--10/6 Links are to results page

10/2(M) 2

Foronda (e-f) (Game 2 Post 1 Partner (Elizalde); G7P2 (singles))

Elizalde (e-b) (G2P1 (Foronda); G6P5 (Johan))

Goixerri (e-f) (G3P3 (Ubilla); G5P4 (Arta))

Erik (l-f) (G8P1 (Urbieta); G11P6 (Salegi))

Urbieta (l-b) (G8P1 (Erik); G12P4 (Goitia))

10/2(E) 3--Urtaran (l-b) (G8P1 (Foronda); G11P6 (Erik); G12P2 (Zulaika))

10/3(E) 3--Erik (l-f) (G6P8 (Minte [e-b]); G10P7 (s); G12P2 (Amigorena))

10/4(E) 3--Goenaga (e-f) (G2P7 (Larrea); G3P1 (Yeche); G4P3 (s))

10/5(M) 2

Foronda (e-f) (G2P8 (Bailo); G5P2 (Bailo))

Bailo (e-b) (G2P8 (Foronda); G5P2 (Foronda))

Zulaika (l-f) (G8P3 (Ibon); G10P4 (s))

10/5(E) 2

Bailo (e-b) (G1P5 (s); G3P6 (Goenaga))

Ubilla (e-b) (G2P5 (Goixerri); G6P4 (Johan))

Jairo (e-f) (G5P8 (Ladutxe); G9P2 (Elgezabal [l-b]))

Zulaika (l-b) (G8P4 (Ibon); G10P6 (s))

Goitia (l-f) (G11P8 (Urbieta); G12P1 (Urbieta))

Urbieta (l-b) (G11P8 (Goitia); G12P1 (Goitia))

10/6(M) 3--Ibon (l-b) (G7P4 (s); G11P6 (Arrieta); G12P3 (Anndy [e-f]))

C. Weekly leaders in Wins (October 2-6)

Zulaika (l-f) 10(37) .270

Erik (l-f) 9(37) .243

In the Money

Bailo (e-b) 24 (8-8-8) (40) .600

Zulaika 23 (10-7-6) (37) .590 .622

For the 2nd consecutive week, Zulaika edged out Erik for most wins, 10-9. 5 of Zulaika's wins and 6 of Erik's can be found in the daily leading winner lists above. Daily winners won 3 games four times this week, continuing a trend of 3+ daily winners that began last week. After the last two seasons (see below), where 3+ winners were the exception rather than the rule, this season is starting out quite differently.

For the week, split out by fronts/backs within earlies/lates, the leading winners were:

Zulaika (l-f) 10

Ibon (l-b) 8

Foronda (e-f) 8

Bailo (e-b) 8

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

For the week (October 2-6)

Name GP W P S Win% ITM Money%


Zulaika   37 10 7 6 .270 23 .622

Erik      37 9 6 3  18 

Bailo     40 8 8 8  24 .600

Ibon      37 8 5 3  16 

Foronda   43 8 3 3  14 

Goitia    41 7 4 7  18 

Goenaga   40 7 3 4  14 

Ubilla    26 7 3 2  12 

Goixerri  39 6 3 8  17 

Jairo     32 5 8 6  19 .594

Urbieta   35 5 5 7  17 

Ladutxe   35 5 5 6  16 

Elizalde  41 5 3 8  16 

Anndy     42 5 2 3  10 

Urtaran   30 5 1 5  11 

Salegi    39 4 7 3  14 

Arrieta   42 4 6 5  15 

Amigorena 38 4 5 7  16 

Arta      32 4 4 1  9 

Elgezabal 30 4 3 5  12 

Xabat     42 3 8 7  18 

Barandika 26 3 7 3  13 

Yeche     34 3 4 2  9 

Larrea    34 3 3 4  10 

Minte     24 3 2 2  7 

Johan     42 2 5 1  8 

Leke      35 1 8 1  10 

Spinner   34 1 5 5  11 

Beitia    39 1 3 4  8 

Alex      43 0 3 7  10 

Chasio    31 0 1 4  5

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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (9-25-9-29)

Dania Statistics for the week ending September 29

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

September 25-29

4. 2-6-3; 2-7-3; 4-1-3; 6-4-2

3. 1-3-5; 1-4-8; 2-3-5; 3-2-8; 4-2-6; 5-1-3; 8-4-2

2. Many

1. Many

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B. Leading Daily Performance Winners (links are to results pages)

e-f=early front, e-b=early back, l-f=late front, l-b=late back

9/25-9/29 Links are to results pages

9/25(M) 4 Barandika (l-f)

(Game 8 Post 6 Partner (Amigorena); G9P7 (Amigorena); G10 (single); G11P3 (Elgezabal))

9/25(E) 3

Bailo (e-b) (G2P3 (Goenaga); G3P4 (Goenaga); G6P2 (Goixerri))

Zulaika (l-f) G10P7 (s); G11P1 (Salegi); G12P6 (Ibon))

9/26(E) 2

Elizalde (e-b) (G1P4 (s); G6P8 (Jairo))

Jairo (e-f) (G2P6 (Arta); G6P8 (Elizalde))

Israel (l-b) (G8P4 (Erik); G11P2 (Beitia))

Zulaika (l-f) (G9P2 (Amigorena); G12P5 (Urtaran))

9/27(E) 4 Erik (l-f)

(G8P2 (Elgezabal); G9P8 (Urbieta); G10P6 (s); G12P1 (Urbieta))

9/28(M) 2

Alex (e-f) (G3P5 (Ladutxe); G6P6 (Larrea))

Larrea (e-b) (G2P7 (Barandika [l-f]); G6P6 (Alex))

Barandika (l-f) G2P7 (Larrea [e-b]); G8P1 (Chasio))

Ladutxe (e-b) G3P5 (Alex); G9P2 (Arrieta [l-f]))

Zulaika (l-f) (G5P5 (Bailo [e-b]); G10P2 (s))

Arrieta (l-f) (G9P2 (Ladutxe [e-b]); G12P4 (Chasio))

Chasio (l-b) (G8P1 (Barandika); G12P4 (Arrieta))

Incredibly, in the same week where 2 players (Barandika and Erik) had 4 win performances, 7 players, almost 20% of the roster, led this performance with 2 wins. This is the most players leading the daily winners since at least the beginning of the Winter 2019 season. Note the interlocking nature (indicated by names in italics) of every win except Zulaika's G5P5 win with Bailo, which was unique. 3 of the 14 wins were with teams of earlies paired with lates.

9/28(E) 2

Elizalde (e-b) (G1P3 (s); G6P2 (Alex))

Larrea (e-b) (G2P6 (Anndy); G3P2 (Alex))

Alex (e-f) (G3P2 (Larrea); G6P2 (Elizalde))

Erik (l-f) (G5P4 (Arta [e-b]); G8P1 (Urbieta))

Arta (e-b) (G5P4 (Erik [l-f]); G11P8 (Zulaika [l-f))

Zulaika (l-f) (G9P1 (Ibon); G11P8 (Arta [e-b]))

Arrieta (l-f) (G10P8 (s); G12P3 (Salegi))

For the 2nd consecutive performance, 7 players lead with 2 wins. 2 of the 14 wins were with teams of earlies paired with lates. Note: it appears that at least there were at least 3 scratches in this perforance: Ithurria [l-f], Leke [l-b], and Xabat [e-f]. I will add to these if and when they are updated by Tiger.

9/29(M) 2

Bailo (e-b) (G1P5 (s); G3P2 (Xabat))

Xabat (e-f) (G2P4 (Arta); G3P2 (Bailo))

Jairo (e-f) (G4P7 (s); G5P3 (Ubilla))

Elgezabal (l-b) (G7P4 (s); G9P1 (Erik))

Erik (l-f) (G9P1 (Elgezabal); G11P5 (Leke))

Zulaika (l-f) (G10P4 (s); G12P7 (Salegi))

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C. Weekly leaders in Wins (September 25-29)

Zulaika (l-f) 12(37) .324

Erik (l-f) 11(39) .282

In the Money

Zulaika 24 (12-5-7) (37) .649

Erik 23 (11-7-5) (39) .590

For the week, Zulaika and Erik dominated the proceedings. No one else had more than 8 wins. They accounted for 16% of the total wins for the week. The context of 9 of Zulaika's 12 wins can be seen above in the daily winners lists. 9 of Erik's 11 wins are in those lists as well. The two of them also dominated the ITM finishers. No one else had more than 19.

For the week, split out by fronts/backs within early/lates the win leaders were

Zulaika (l-f) 12

Amigorena (l-b) 7

Jairo (e-f) 8

Elizalde (e-b) 8

For a complete set of win sorts for the week, see the Dania cumulative and weekly win sorts page.

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Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

For the week--September 25-29

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Zulaika   37 12 5 7 .324 24 .649

Erik      39 11 7 5 .282 23 .590

Jairo     41 8 6 5  19 

Barandika 39 8 4 3  15 

Elizalde  36 8 2 4  14 

Bailo     41 7 8 4  19 

Amigorena 31 7 4 5  16 .516

Alex      41 6 4 7  17 

Goixerri  39 5 7 5  17 

Larrea    32 5 5 5  15 

Elgezabal 36 5 3 3  11 

Urbieta   35 4 7 6  17 

Arrieta   37 4 6 2  12 

Xabat     39 4 5 5  14 

Salegi    30 4 5 4  13 

Arta      33 4 4 3  11 

Yeche     36 4 4 1  9 

Ubilla    23 4 3 2  9 

Foronda   38 3 5 7  15 

Ibon      32 3 5 4  12 

Ladutxe   34 3 4 5  12 

Urtaran   27 3 3 2  8 

Goenaga   39 3 2 7  12 

Anndy     41 3 2 2  7 

Beitia    37 2 5 3  10 

Chasio    30 2 4 3  9 

Spinner   33 2 3 5  10 

Israel    16 2 2 2  6 

Leke      36 2 0 6  8 

Johan     40 1 6 3  10 

Goitia    37 1 5 8  14 

Minte     26 0 5 4  9 

Ithurria  9 0 0 3  3

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INDIVIDUAL DAILY AND WEEKLY SECTION (9-15, 9-18-9-22)

Dania Cumulative statistics for the week ending 9-22 (8 performances--9/15, 9-18--9-22)

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations, cumulative, by week--number of combinations with more than 20 trifectas="Many")

September 15-22 (8 performances)

3: 4-1-3

2: 1-7-5; 2-7-3; 2-8-4; 3-2-8; 3-7-4; 4-2-6; 5-2-4; 6-1-4; 6-4-2; 8-3-6

1: Many

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B. Leading Daily Performance Winners (links are to results pages)

9/15(M) 2

Jairo (early-front) (Game 2 Post 2 Partner Elgezabal); G12P6 (Leke))

Ladutxe (early-front) (G5P1 (Goenaga); G6P7 (Erik))

Urbieta (late-back) (G9P4 (Arrieta); G11P6 (Zulaika))

9/18(M) 2

Jairo (e-f) (G2P2 (Elgezabal); G12P6 (Leke))

Ithurria (l-f) (G3P4 (Elizalde); G10P5 (singles)

Ladutxe (e-b) (G5P1 (Goenaga); G6P7 (Erik))

9/18(E) 3

Jairo (l-f) (G3P1 (Elgezabal); G4P6 (s); G6P2 (Ladutxe))

Beitia (l-f) (G8P4 (Ibon); G10P2 (s); G12P1 (Urturan)

9/19(E) Erik (l-f) 3

(G8P4 (Leke); G10P6 (s); G11P1 (Leke))

9/20(E) Erik (l-f) 3

(G8P8 (Chasio); G11P2 (Israel); G12P7 (Salegi))

9/21(M) 2

Goixerri (e-f) (G2P5 (Arta); P4G6 (s))

Arta (e-b) (G2P5 (Goixerri); G5P3 (Foronda))

Foronda (e-f) (G5P3 (Arta); G6P4 (Bailo))

Israel (l-b) (G8P3 (Zulaika); G9P1 (Erik))

Erik (l-f) (G9P1 (Israel); G12P8 (Urtaran))

9/21(E) 3 Israel (l-b)

(G9P5 (Arrieta); G11P1 (Barandika); G12P7 (Beitia))

9/22(M) 2

Alex (e-f) (G1P4 (s); G5P8 (Ladutxe))

Goixerri (e-f) (G3P4 (Minte); G4P1 (s))

Bailo (e-b) (G2P3 (Jairo); G6P8 (Goenaga)

Goitia (l-f) (G8P2 (Israel); G10P7 (s))

Israel (l-b) (G8P2 (Goitia); G12P8 (Barandika)

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C. Weekly leaders in Wins (September 18-22)

Most wins:

Erik (l-f) 13(42) .310

Ladutxe (e-f) 11(39) .282

In the Money

Goitia (l-f) 22 (5-7-10) (40) .550

Erik (l-f) 21 (13-6-2) (42) .500

Jairo (e-f) 21 (10-5-6) .457

Erik, coming back from a marvelous Summer Partido season in the Basque Country where he had a 6-4 record (13.3--6.6 set record--each .3 represents a tie breaker), as well as winning the Markina Masters (full match video available) and Hondarribia Grand Slam Tournaments, started off with a great week, leading in wins by 2 over Ladutxe. He was also 2nd in ITM finishes. He was outright or tied for leading daily winner 3 times. In the daily winner accounting above you will find 10 of his 13 wins. So far it is "business as usual" for the 2019 2 time defending wins champion.

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Note: this list is for September 18-22 and does not include Opening Day--September 15.

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      35 12 5 1 .343 18 .514

Israel    32 10 2 4 .313 16 .500

Ladutxe   34 9 3 5 .265 17 .500

Jairo     39 8 4 4  16 

Goixerri  39 7 6 6  19 

Bailo     35 6 5 3  14 

Foronda   39 6 3 5  14 

Arta      34 5 8 5  18 .529

Barandika 37 5 7 6  18 

Alex      34 5 3 5  13 

Beitia    35 5 2 6  13 

Salegi    31 4 9 4  17 .548

Xabat     39 4 9 1  14 

Goitia    35 4 6 10  20 .571

Zulaika   37 4 5 1  10 

Ibon      33 4 3 5  12 

Leke      35 4 3 3  10 

Elizalde  34 4 2 2  8 

Spinner   35 3 7 1  11 

Ithurria  37 3 5 6  14 

Johan     34 3 4 3  10 

Anndy     39 3 3 6  12 

Urtaran   31 3 3 5  11 

Goenaga   37 3 2 8  13 

Minte     22 3 2 5  10 

Urbieta   33 2 6 4  12 

Elgezabal 34 2 3 5  10 

Amigorena 33 2 3 4  9 

Yeche     34 2 2 8  12 

Larrea    31 2 2 7  11 

Arrieta   37 1 5 2  8 

Ubilla    15 1 4 0  5 

Chasio    31 1 4 0  5

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SPRING 2019 SEASON SUMMARY:

Diego Beaskoetxea (late front) retired from Dania at the end of the season, finishing a 15 year tenure. His intelligence, athleticism, hustle, almost infinite shot selection arsenal, great defense, and love of the game were a joy to watch. He is one of the best all round (quiniela and partido) front court players in the world. He is scheduled to be featured at St. Jean de Luz (Donebane Lohizun) in July and August of 2019. Watch and enjoy him while he is still active. He is one of a generation of great puntistas who have graced these shores and the Basque Country for the last 15-20 years. When they pass from the scene, they will be sorely missed, but long remembered. Eskerrik Asko, Diego.

Jai Alai News (via manista.com) announcement.

The Fronton will now "go dark" until September 15, 2019. I, for one, can't wait for things to start up again. There's nothing like the multiple "pennant" races a quiniela season can provide. Each point, each game, each day and week, new pennant races, new stories.

2019 Spring Season In a nutshell:

Most wins: Erik (late front) 66; 2nd Amigorena (late back) 60; 3rd Iturbide (early front) 59

Florida Singles Championship (G10): Erik 13; Diego 11; Barandika (late front) and Ithurria (late front) 10

Doubles Championship (G12)
Fronts: Barandika 15; Erik 14
Backs: Amigorena 15; Urbieta 10

Highest season winning percentage: Ladutxe (early back) .212; Erik .202; Amigorena .194

Highest In the Money percentage: Erik .526; Ladutxe .493; Barandika .470

Most times weekly wins leader
Amigorena 3; 7 players 1

Most weekly wins
Amigorena; Ladutxe; Jairo 11; Diego; Amigorena 10

Most times with the most wins (led or tied) in a performance: Diego 14; Erik 13; Amigorena 12

Most wins in a performance: Iturbide and Ladutxe: 4; Erik 3 (four times)

Most games played: Goenaga (early front) 346; Goixerri (early front) 342; Anndy (early front) 339

Total games played 12 (games)*7 (performances a week)* (9 weeks) 756

Congratulations to rookie Goixerri on completing a very full first 7 months at Dania. You have to like his learning curve.

Last Winter his line was;

339 (games) 20 (wins) 30 (2nd place) 29 (3rd place) .059 (win %) .233 (ITM %)

This Spring:

342 37 41 37 .108 .336

Great work, Goixerri!

Many thanks to the entire roster, management, staff, and announcers for making this season, as always, a joy to watch. It probably isn't as easy as it looks :) :) :)

SPRING 2019 SEASON

The Spring season is a short one (May 1-June 30). After that the Fronton will "go dark" until September, when the new Fall season begins. Weekly reports will cover four topics:

CUMULATIVE SECTION

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations (cumulative for the whole season--see below, by week)

NOTE: I MAKE NO GUARANTEES ABOUT THE ACCURACY OF THESE STATISTICS (OR ANY OTHERS IN THIS BLOG). ALWAYS CHECK WITH THE ACTUAL NUMBERS, WHICH CAN BE FOUND IN THE LATEST STATISTICS PAGES. THESE ARE THE OFFICIAL DJA NUMBERS AND CAN ALSO BE EXAMINED ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU THINK THIS IS AN INAPPROPRIATE STATISTIC FOR THE BLOG.

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B. Cumulative daily leading winners by performance and most wins in a performance. For individual performance winner statistics for this week, see below.

1. Cumulative winners by performance (May 1-June 30). Note: this is the number of times a player has either led or tied for the lead in most wins in a performance. Players will be listed by number of performances won. In all cases 2 or more wins have led a performance.

ef-early front; eb-early back; lf-late front; lb-late back

14. Diego (lf)
13. Erik (lf)
12. Amigorena (lb)
11. Ladutxe (eb)
10. Iturbide (ef)
9. Barandika (lf)
8. Ithurria (lf)
7. Medrano (ef); Bailo (ef)
6. Goenaga (ef); Jairo (ef); Yeche (eb); Zulaika (lf); Israel (lb); Leke (lb)
5: Ibon (lb); Foronda (ef); Goixerri (ef)
4: Salegi (lb); Elgazabal (lb); Zabala (eb); Elizalde (eb)
3: Goitia (lf); Urbieta (lb); Spinner (ef); Arta (eb); Beitia (lf)
2: Xabat (ef); Urtaran (lb); Larrea (ef); Chasio (lb)
1. Anndy (ef); Arrieta (lf)

2. Players with the most wins in a performance (May 1-June 30). Number of winning games leading a performance is, in all cases so far, 2-4. There have yet to be any performances where no player won more than one game. Corrections are always welcome.

4: ITURBIDE (EF) 5/18(M); LADUTXE (EB) 6/8(M)

3: Erik (lf) 4 times: (5/31(E); 6/1(E); 6/12(E); 6/19(M); Goenaga (ef) twice: 5/10(E); 5/17(E); Amigorena (lb) twice: 5/2(E), 6/1(M); Ibon (lb) twice: 5/17(E, 6/1(E); Iturbide (ef) twice (5/24(E), 6/2(M); Urturan (lb) twice; 5/15(M), 6/9(M); Barandika (lf) twice 5/2(E), 6/23(E)

3: Medrano (ef) 5/3(E); Yeche (eb) 5/8(M); Leke (lb); 5/10(E); Goitia (lb) 5/17(E); Jairo (ef) 5/24(E); Israel (lb) (5/25(E); Diego (lf) 5/26(M); Bailo (eb) 6/12(E); Zulaika (lf) 6/15(E); Elgezabal (lb) 6/20(E); Ladutxe (eb) 6/21(E); Spinner (eb) 6/22(M)

In 30 performances the leading performance winner won more than 2 games. In 33 performances he (they) did not.

For individual week information, see below.

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C. Cumulative Summary and analysis of Game 10 (The Florida Singles Championship).

You can find individual Game10 reports on the Dania Jai Alai Game 10 page on the right side of the blog (below) the current results section. I don't guarantee I will do them all, as I do not have the ability to watch these matches on demand or record them. I am experimenting with various forms. I am doing Game 10 because singles matches are easy to do, and Game 10 pits the best Dania forwards against each other. I hope you find these interesting, and, hopefully, informative. As always, all judgments in the reports are mine alone. Yours may be different. For individual week by week data see below.

Standings (6/30(M)--FINAL *=known perfect games. Note: the 6/26(M) G10 did not count in the official standings. 62 games were played

Erik 13 (8*) .210

Diego 11 (8*) .177

Barandika 10 (5*) .161

Ithurria 10 (3*) .161

Zulaika 7 (2*) .113

Arrieta 5(2*) .081

Goitia 5 (3*) .081

Salegi (back) 1 .016

Barandika and Ithurria eliminated 6/28(E)

Diego eliminated 6/29(M)

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D. Cumulative weekly leaders in wins (May 1-June 30). For this week, see below.

Leading Weekly winner leaders (outright or tied) .

Amigorena 3 (late-back); Diego (late-front) 1; Foronda (early-front) 1; Iturbide 1; Zulaika (late-front) 1; Ladutxe (early-back) 1; Erik (late-front) 1; Jairo (early-front) 1; Barandika (late-front) 1

Most wins for a weekly leader in a week (outright or tied) (May 1-June 30)

Amigorena 11; Ladutxe 11; Jairo 11; Diego 10; Amigorena 10

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INDIVIDUAL WEEKLY SECTION

For the week ending June 30, 2019--END OF THE SUMMER SEASON

Dania cumulative statistics, June 30

A. Top 5 Trifecta combinations

10: 2-6-3
9: 1-3-2; 4-1-7; 6-1-5
8: 1-2-7; 1-5-3; 2-1-7; 4-2-1; 4-3-1; 5-1-4; 6-2-4; 6-3-2; 6-3-5; 7-2-5; 7-3-6; 8-5-3
7: 1-3-8; 3-2-6; 4-2-7; 7-1-5; 8-3-6; 8-3-7
6: 1-3-6; 1-3-7; 1-4-2; 1-8-4; 2-6-4; 3-2-1; 4-1-2; 4-2-6; 5-3-1

B. Leading Daily Performance Winners (links are to results pages)

6/26(M)--2

Ithurria (late front) (Game 1 Post 8 (singles); 4P5 (s))

Diego (lf) (2P3 (Ibon); 3P1 (Leke))

Erik (lf) (9P8 (Elgezabal); 10P5 (s))

Elgezabal (late-back) (9P8 (Erik); 11P6 (Medrano))

6/26(E)--2

Arta (early-back) (1P3 (s); 5P4 (Goenaga))

Foronda (early-front) (3P2 (Bailo); 6P8 (Bailo))

Bailo (eb) (3P2 (Foronda); 6P8 (Foronda))

Amigorena (lb) (7P6 (s); 12P3 (Erik))

Chasio (lb) (8P2 (Ithurria); 9P6 (Zulaika))

Erik (lf) (10P8 (s); 12P3 (Amigorena))

6 players share the honors

6/27(E)--2

Beitia (ef) (2P5 (Arta); 4P3 (s))

Zabala (eb) (3P3 (Foronda); 5P8 (Iturbide))

Barandika (lf) (8P4 (Ibon); 12P5 (Urbieta))

Erik (lf) (9P5 (Amigorena); 11P7 (Chasio))

6/28(E)--2

Goixerri (ef) (3P4 (Yeche); 5P2 (Yeche))

Yeche (eb) (3P4 (Goixerri); 5P2 (Goixerri))

Ibon (lb) (8P3 (Diego); 9P6 (Barandika))

Barandika (lf) (9P6(Ibon); 12P3 (Urbieta))

6/29(M)--2

Ladutxe (eb) (2P2 (Goenaga); 6P1(Foronda))

Zulaika (lf) (9P6 (Israel); 11P2(Urbieta))

Israel (lb) (9P6) (Zulaika); 12P8 (Barandika))

Barandika (lf) (10P3 (s); 12P8 (Israel)

6/29(E)--2

Medrano (ef) (2P6 (Ladutxe); 4P3 (s))

Foronda (ef) (5P2 (Yeche); 6P8 (Minte))

Amigorena (lb) (7P1 (s); 12P7 (Barandika))

Diego (lf) (8P7 (Chasio); 9P5 (Chasio))

Chasio (lb) (8P7 (Diego); 9P5 Diego))

6/30(M)--2

Bailo (eb) (1P8) (s); 6P1 (Goenaga))

Goixerri (ef) (2P1 (Elizalde); 5P6 (Yeche))

Elizalde (eb) (2P1 (Goixerri); 3P8 (Jairo))

Leke (lb) (8P1 (Barandika); 9P7 (Diego))

Diego (lf) (9P7 (Leke); 10P1 (s))

For the first and only time this season, no leading performance winners won more than 2 games in a performance. It was as symptomatic as anything of just how much parity there has been on a day to day basis. It seems almost pointless to tease out these players by position or when they played. There are 19 individual players on this list, and only Erik is on it more than twice.

C. Game 10--June 19-23

*=known perfect game

6/26(M)--No official G10

6/26(E) Erik (P8) (+3 -0)*

6/27(E) Ithurria (P5) (forthcoming)

6/28(E) Goitia (P5) (+4 -0)

6/29(M) Barandika (P3) (forthcoming)

6/29(E) Ithurria (P1) (forthcoming)

6/30(M) Diego (P1) (+4 -1)

Standings (6/30(M)--FINAL *=known perfect games. Note: the 6/26(M) G10 did not count in the official standings. 62 games were played.

Erik 13 (8*) .210

Diego 11 (8*) .177

Barandika 10 (5*) .161

Ithurria 10 (3*) .161

Zulaika 7 (2*) .113

Arrieta 5(2*) .081

Goitia 5 (3*) .081

Salegi (back) 1 .016

Barandika and Ithurria eliminated 6/28(E)

Diego eliminated 6/29(M)

The title was basically decided in the 6/26(E) performance, when both Barandika and Diego let golden opportunities slip through their fingers with a missed dejada and overserve respectively. This allowed Erik to run out a perfect game (being the recipient of the overserve which began his run) to take what proved to be an insurmountable 3 game lead with 5 to play. None of his pursuers could put together the necessary streak to challenge for the title. Goitia had a little bit to do with this, winning his 1st game since May 22, to pretty much clinch the title for Erik. It was a very competitive season, with Erik not really taking control until last week, after winning 3 times the week of June 5-9, and then 3 more times over the next two weeks. He didn't win the title until the 60th of 62 games played. I decided to do a micro study of this game, and the results were very interesting. See this link for a day by day accounting from May 11-June 16. I plan to finish the last two weeks, as time permits, and will let you know when I do.

D. Weekly leaders in Wins (June 26-30)

Most wins:

Barandika (late-front) 9(36) .250
Chasio 8(30) .267

In the Money

Ithurria (late-front) 21(38) (7-7-7) .553
Erik (late-front) 20(37) .785

14 players won 5 or more games.

8 of Barandika's 9 wins are shown in the Daily Performance leaders data above. He tied with 2 wins in 3 performances. He had at least a chance to win one more that we know of (see G10 analysis above), which would have moved him into elite company with Amigorena, Ladutxe, Jairo, and Diego as the only players with 10 or more victories in a week. The weekly data reflected the daily data this season in that there was no one dominant player on the roster. In 9 weeks 9 players either won or tied for the top in wins for the week. Only Amigorena won 10 games more than once.

Full roster list by wins (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

For the week ending June 30, 2019

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Barandika 36 9 4 5 .250 18 .500

Chasio    30 8 2 6 .267 16 .533

Diego     35 8 1 6  15 

Erik      37 7 8 5  20 .541

Ithurria  38 7 7 7  21 .553

Goixerri  38 7 6 4  17 

Bailo     37 7 3 8  18 

Foronda   38 7 3 6  16 

Amigorena 31 6 5 2  13 

Zulaika   37 6 5 1  12 

Urbieta   35 6 4 4  14 

Ibon      31 6 1 4  11 

Arta      29 5 6 3  14 

Yeche     35 5 0 2  7 

Ladutxe   32 4 8 4  16 .500

Medrano   37 4 6 8  18 

Goenaga   38 4 4 5  13 

Elizalde  37 4 4 4  12 

Leke      31 4 2 5  11 

Jairo     37 4 2 5  11 

Salegi    31 3 8 3  14 

Elgezabal 35 3 4 3  10 

Beitia    37 3 4 3  10 

Anndy     41 3 3 6  12 

Iturbide  35 2 8 3  13 

Spinner   30 2 4 4  10 

Zabala    31 2 4 3  9 

Israel    20 2 2 3  7 

Goitia    37 1 4 4  9 

Minte     25 1 4 2  7 

Urtaran   31 0 7 4  11 

Arrieta   38 0 6 3  9 

Larrea    30 0 1 5  6

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For the week ending June 23, 2019

Dania cumulative statistics, June 23

A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations

10: 2-6-3

9: 4-1-7; 6-1-5

8: 1-2-7; 1-3-2; 1-5-3; 4-2-1; 4-3-1; 6-3-2; 7-3-6

7: 2-1-7; 5-1-4; 6-2-4; 6-3-5; 7-2-5; 8-3-7

6: 1-3-7; 1-4-2; 2-6-4; 3-2-6; 4-1-2; 4-2-6; 4-2-7; 5-3-1; 7-1-5; 8-3-6

B. Leading Daily Performance Winners (links are to results pages)

6/19(M) 3--Erik (late games-front court)(Game 8 Post 7 partner (Salegi); 11P5 (Elgazabal); 12P6 (Salegi)

6/19(E)--2

Iturbide (early-front) 1P5 (singles); 4P6 (singles));

Diego (late-front) 3P7 (Yeche); 10P1 (s))

Zulaika (late-front) 6P6 (Bailo); 9P4 (Amigorena))

Ithurria (late-front) 11P4 (Ibon); 12P1 (Urturan))

6/20(E) 3--Elgezabal (late-back) (7P6 (s); 8P2 (Erik); 12P8 (Goitia))

6/21(E) 3--Ladutxe (early-back) (1P1 (s); 2P3 (Jairo); 3P5 (Iturbide))

6/22(M) 3--Spinner (early-back) (2P1 (Jairo); 3P2 (Beitia); 5P7 (Medrano))

6/22(E) 3--Barandika (late-front) (8P3 (Amigorena); 9P5 (Urtaran); 10P1 (s)

6/23(M)--2

Arta (early-back) (1P7 (s); 5P4 (Foronda))

Jairo (early-front) 4P7 (s); 6P2 (Minte))

Diego (late-front) 10P6 (s); 11P4 (Salegi))

For the first time this season 3 wins was achieved in 4 consecutive performances. Diego's week allowed him to take the undisputed lead in most times winning or tying for most wins in a performance this season, with 11 (for the full list, see above). Late gamers won or tied 7 times. Early gamers won or tied 5. Fronts won 8 times, backs 4. 10 different players shared the honors. This was down considerably from every other week because of the 3 win winners won outright. Singles matches contributed to the wins 7 times.

C. Game 10--June 19-23

Both Erik and Barandika threw/dropped/whiffed on chances to add 2 to their victory column. Erik has a 2 game lead on Diego with 7 to play. It should make for an interesting final week of action. Diego and Erik both won twice this week. 5 of the 7 wins were perfect games.

* Known perfect games

Links are to entries

6/19(M) Arrieta (P7) (+5 -0)*

6/19(E) Diego (P1) (+4 -0)

6/20(E) Erik (P4) (+3 -0)*

6/21(E) Erik (P4) (+6 -0)*

6/22(M) Zulaika (P1) (forthcoming)

6/22(E) Barandika (P1) (+5 -?)

6/23(M) Diego (P6) (+3 -0)*

Standings (6/23(M) *=known perfect games

Erik 12 (7*)

Diego 10 (8*)

Barandika 9 (5*)

Ithurria 8 (3*)

Zulaika 7 (2*)

Arrieta 5(2*)

Goitia 4 (3*)

Salegi (back) 1

D. Weekly leaders in Wins (June 19-23)

Most wins

Jairo (ef) 11(37) .297
Iturbide (ef) 10(36) .278

In the money:

Jairo 21(37) (11-5-5) .568

Beitia (ef) 21(39) (3-9-9) .538

Erik 19 (lf)(37) (9-3-7) .514

15 players had 5 or more wins

12 players had 2 or less

Jairo led weekly winners for the first time since last October and tied for the most wins for a weekly winner with Amigorena and Ladutxe. 4 of Jairo's wins are accounted for in the daily performance winners list above. The other 7 were scattered throughout the week.

Full roster list by wins for the week (Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Jairo     37 11 5 5 .297 21 .568

Iturbide  36 10 3 5 .278 18 .500

Erik      37 9 3 7  19 .514

Diego     40 8 5 2  15 

Elgezabal 35 8 2 6  16 

Spinner   31 8 2 5 .258 15 

Amigorena 31 7 4 4  15 

Foronda   41 6 7 4  17 

Ladutxe   30 6 4 5  15 .500

Zulaika   38 6 4 4  14 

Medrano   37 5 8 3  16 

Barandika 37 5 6 5  16 

Salegi    30 5 6 3  14 

Leke      32 5 6 3  14 

Zabala    31 5 2 3  10 

Arta      25 4 3 2  9 

Beitia    39 3 9 9  21 .538

Ithurria  37 3 5 7  15 

Goenaga   39 3 4 7  14 

Yeche     36 3 4 5  12 

Urtaran   30 3 1 5  9 

Urbieta   35 2 9 6  17 

Arrieta   37 2 8 0  10 

Bailo     36 2 7 4  13 

Israel    30 2 4 2  8 

Elizalde  30 2 3 4  9 

Ibon      30 2 2 5  9 

Minte     24 2 2 0  4 

Goitia    37 1 1 7  9 

Chasio    30 1 1 1  3 

Anndy     35 1 1 0  2 

Larrea    31 0 6 5  11 

Goixerri  36 0 3 7  10

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For the week ending June 16, 2019

Dania cumulative statistics, June 16

A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations 5/1-6/16 (combinations that appear 20 or more times will be listed as "many.")

7: 1-3-2; 1-5-3; 2-6-3; 4-1-7; 4-2-1; 4-3-1; 5-1-4; 6-1-5; 7-3-6

6: 1-2-7; 1-3-7; 2-1-7; 3-2-6; 4-1-2; 6-2-4; 6-3-5; 7-1-5; 8-3-6

5: 1-2-6; 1-3-6; 1-4-2; 2-6-4; 3-7-1; 4-2-6; 4-2-7; 5-3-1; 5-4-3; 6-2-5; 6-3-2; 7-2-5; 7-5-4; 8-3-7; 8-5-2; 8-5-3

4: Many

3: Many

B. Leading Daily Performance Winners (links are to results pages)

6/12(M)--2

Ladutxe (early-back) (Game 1 Post 5 (singles); 6P1 (Goixerri))

Goixerri (early-front) (5P2 (Zabala); 6P1 (Ladutxe))

Amigorena (late-back) (7P8 (s); 12P7 (Diego))

Ithurria (late-front) (8p8 (Israel); 9P4 (Salegi))

6/12(E)--3

Bailo (eb) (2P6 (Foronda); 5P8 (Xabat); 12P2 (Erik))

Erik (lf) (8P2 (Ibon); 9P4 (Leke); 12P2 (Bailo))

6/13(E)--2

Medrano (ef) (1P3 (s); 4P2 (s))

Goenaga (ef) (2P7 (Elizalde); 6P6 (Minte))

Arta (eb) (3P6 (Goixerri); 5P3 (Foronda))

Israel (lb) 7P7 (s); 8P5 (Ithurria))

Erik (lf) 9P3 (Urtaran); 12P4 (Urbieta)

6/14(E)--2

Goixerri (ef) (2P1 (Ladutxe); 4P8 (s))

Ladutxe (eb) (2P1 Goixerri); 3P3 (Jairo))

Elgezabal (lb) (7P3 (s); 8P8 (Erik))

Leke (lb) (8P6 (Ithurria); 11P8 (Barandika))

6/15(M)--2

Jairo (ef) (2P5 (Bailo); 6P8 (Zabala))

Bailo (eb) (2P5 (Jairo); 3P6 (Beitia))

Israel (lb) (7P6 (s); 11P4 (Erik))

Barandika (lf) (9P8 Urtaran); 12P4 (Barandika))

6/15(E) 3--Zulaika (lf) (5P3 (Elizalde); 6P5 (Minte); 11P3 (Urbieta)

6/16(M)--2

Larrea (eb) (1P8 (s); 3P1 (Iturbide))

Jairo (ef) (4P4 (s); 5P2 (Bailo))

Israel (lb) 7P1 (s); 8P4 (Zulaika)

Arrieta (lf) 9P4 (Elgazabal); 12P5 (Ibon))

Bailo, Erik, and Zulaika were the only players to lead with 3 games in a performance. This was the 4th time Erik had led in performance wins with 4. 5 of Erik's roster leading 9 wins came in two performance wins. He was part of 2 other performance wins, so that 7 of his 9 wins can be tracked above. 9 performance winners were earlies. 8 were late (includes those who won multiple times, winners, not indivuals). 6 were fronts, 11 were backs. 11 of the games won were singles, the rest were doubles.

Game 10--Through 6/12-6/16

* Known perfect games

Links are to entries

6/12(M) Barandika (P8) (8 wins) (+4 -0)*

6/12 (E)Arrieta (P4) (3 wins) (+4 -1)

6/13(E) Zulaika (P1) (6 wins) (+5 -0)

6/14(E) Arrieta (P7) (4 wins) (+5 -0)*

6/15(M) Ithurria (P6) (8 wins) (+4 -0)*

6/15(E) Erik (10 wins) (P5) (+6 -0)*

6/16(M) Diego (8 wins) (P5) (+5 -0)*

Standings (6/16(M)) *=known perfect games

Erik 10 (4*)
Barandika 8 (5*)
Ithurria 8 (2*)
Diego 8 (7*)
Zulaika 6 (2*)
Goitia 4 (3*)
Arrieta 4(2*)

Salegi (back) 1

GAME 10 (FLORIDA SINGLES CHAMPIONSHIP) SUMMARIES, GAME MAPS, AND ANALYSIS (5/11(M)--6/16(M)

D. Weekly leaders in Wins.

Erik (lf) 9(37) .243

Israel (lb) 7(35) .200

Elgazabal (lb) 7(35): .200

Jairo (ef) 7(35) .200

Bailo (eb) 7(39) .184

In the money:

Ibon (lb) 20(35) (4-12-4) .571

Bailo (eb) 20(39) (7-6-7) .513

15 players had 5 or more wins.

Erik led the roster in wins for the first time this season. He also pushed into the lead for total wins, after being behind for most of it.

Full Roster list by wins (Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S ITM Money%

Erik      37 9 6 4 19 .514

Israel    35 7 2 5 14 

Elgezabal 35 7 3 2 12 

Bailo     39 7 6 7 20 .513

Jairo     35 7 7 3 17 

Foronda   36 6 1 4 11 

Ithurria  37 6 4 3 13 

Goixerri  36 6 5 4 15 

Ladutxe   30 6 6 3 15 .500

Leke      30 5 3 2 10 

Arrieta   35 5 4 3 12 

Medrano   36 5 4 4 13 

Zulaika   37 5 4 5 14 

Amigorena 30 5 4 7 16 .533

Barandika 37 5 8 6 19 .514

Zabala    32 4 0 6 10 

Arta      32 4 3 4 11 

Diego     37 4 3 4 11 

Larrea    31 4 6 2 12 

Iturbide  36 4 6 5 15 

Ibon      35 4 12 4 20 .571

Minte     26 3 3 2 8 

Elizalde  30 3 3 3 9 

Goitia    37 3 4 6 13 

Goenaga   36 3 5 6 14 

Salegi    35 2 2 5 9 

Spinner   32 2 3 5 10 

Urbieta   35 2 3 5 10 

Urtaran   35 2 5 3 10 

Yeche     36 2 5 6 13 

Xabat     17 1 2 2 5 

Anndy     36 1 4 5 10 

Beitia    37 1 4 5 10

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For the week ending June 9, 2019

Dania cumulative statistics, June 9

A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations (combinations that appear 20 or more times will be listed as "many.")

7: 1-3-2; 2-6-3; 7-3-6
6: 1-2-7; 1-3-7; 1-5-3; 4-1-7; 4-2-1; 4-3-1; 6-1-5; 6-2-4; 7-1-5
5: 1-2-6; 1-4-2; 3-2-6; 4-1-2; 4-2-6; 4-2-7; 5-1-4; 5-4-3; 6-3-5
4: Many
3: Many

B. Leading Daily Performance Winners (links are to results pages)

6/5(M)--2

Jairo (early-front) (Game 2; Post 1; Partner Bailo); (4P3 (singles))

Medrano (early-front) (5P4 Yeche; 6P5 Yeche))

Yeche (early-back) (5P4 (Medrano); 6P5 Medrano))

Urbieta (late-back) (7P8 (s) 8P1(Erik))

Erik (late-front) (8P1 (Urbieta); 10P8 (s))

Ibon (late-front) (11P2 (Zulaika); 12P1 (Barandika))

6 way tie for the leading winner, 3 early, 3 late, ties a record for most players with most performance wins since I've been doing this.

6/5(E)--2

Xabat (early-front) (2P5 (Bailo); 8P3 (Urbieta))

Bailo (early-back) (2P5 (Xabat); 3P3 (Goixerri))

Goixerri (early back) (3P3 (Bailo); 6P2 (Yeche))

Yeche (early-back) (5P5 (Jairo); 6P2 (Gioxerri))

Leke (late-back) (7P5 (s); 12P3 (Erik))

Erik (late-front) 10P4 (s); 12P3 (Leke))

6 way tie for the second consecutive performance. 4 early, 2 late.

6/6(E)--2

Ladutxe (early-back) (1P6 (s); 3P8 (Goixerri))

Iturbide (early-front) (4P6 (s); 5P5 (Zabala))

Zabala (early-back) 5P5 (Iturbide); 6P6 (Foronda))

Diego (late-back) (8P8 (Urturan); 12P2 (Salegi))

Ithurria (late-back) (9P3 (Salegi); 10P2 (s))

Salegi (late-back) (9P3 (Ithurria); 12P2 (Diego))

Third consecutive performance where 6 players shared the lead with 2 wins. 3 early 3 late.

6/7(E)--2

Elizalde (eb) (2P6 (Iturbide); 5P1 (Goenaga))

Barandika (lf) (8P1 (Urtaran); 12P2 (Israel)

6/8(M) 4--Ladutxe (eb) (2P7 (Jairo); 5P5 (Jairo); 11P7 (Diego); 12P4 (Goitia))

Manu Ladutxe becomes 2nd player this season to win 4 games in a performance. Iturbide (ef) was the first, on 5/18(M)

6/8(E)--2

Jairo (ef) (3P6 (Bailo); 5P3 (Spinner))

Bailo (eb) (3P6 (Jairo); 4P2 (s)

Elgezabal (lb) 7P8 (s); 11P5 (Barandika)

Ithurria (lf) (8P1 (Israel); 10P2 (s)

Urbieta (lb) (9P2 (Zulaika); 11P5 (Barandika)

6/9(M) 3--Urturan (lb) (9P3 (Arrieta); 11P7 (Ithurria); 12P5 (Barandika)

Parity was the highest this season in this category. In each of the first 3 performances of the week 6 players tied for performance leading wins with 2. At the end of the week Manu Ladutxe won 4 games in a performance, only the second to achieve that this season. 20 of these wins came from fronts. 32 from backs. 30 from earlies. 22 from lates. 11 were singles wins. 41 were doubles.

C. Game 10, Day by Day

Cumulative: through June 9, 2019

Wins:

* Known perfect games

Erik 9 (3*)
Barandika 7 (4*)
Ithurria 7 (1*)
Diego 7 (6*)
Zulaika 5 (2*)
Goitia 4 (3*)
Arrieta 2 (1*)
Salegi(back) 1

For game reports for 5/29-6/9 see the Game 10 Florida Singles Championship Page on the right side of the blog. This page also keeps daily standings. Simply hit the back key to get back to this page.

Game 10--Through 6/5-6/9

Links are to entries

6/5(M) Erik (P8) (7 wins) (Points for and against; +3 -0)

6/5(E) Erik (P5) (8 wins) (+5 -1)

6/6(E) Ithurria (P2) (6 wins) (+5 -1)

6/7(E) Erik (P5) (9 wins) (+3 -1)

6/8(M) Zulaika (P5) (5 wins) (+4 -1)

6/8(E) Ithurria (P2) (7 wins) (+6 -0)

6/9(M) Diego (P3) (7 wins) (+6 -0)

Erik had 3 wins for the week, moving him into 1st place by two wins over Diego and Ithurria.

D. Weekly leaders in Wins.

Most wins in a week (6/5--6/9)

Ladutxe (early-back) 11(35) .314;

Jairo (early-front) 9(34) .265

15 players had 5 or more wins.

In the money finishes:

Erik (late-front) 20(35) (7-7-6) .571

Ladutxe (early-back 19(35) (11-5-3) .543

Judging by the daily winners (see above). The major winners were spread broadly across the performances. Ladutxe obtained 6 of his 11 wins in the 2 performances he either led or tied for the lead in wins. Jairo got 4 of his 9 wins in the 2 performances he lead or tied for the lead. He got 2 other wins partnering with backs who led or tied for the lead.

Full roster list by wins (Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Ladutxe   35 11 5 3 .314 19 .543

Jairo     34 9 3 3 .265 15 

Erik      35 7 7 6  20 .571

Urbieta   37 7 5 6  18 

Medrano   36 7 4 6  17 

Urtaran   30 6 7 4  17 .567

Barandika 37 6 7 3  16 

Goixerri  36 6 7 0  13 

Diego     30 6 3 5  14 

Iturbide  35 5 7 4  16 

Larrea    33 5 6 2  13 

Ithurria  35 5 5 1  11 

Bailo     37 5 4 9  18 

Zulaika   35 5 4 4  13 

Yeche     35 5 4 4  13 

Elgezabal 37 4 6 5  15 

Ibon      30 4 2 6  12 

Leke      32 3 5 5  13 

Elizalde  32 3 5 2  10 

Amigorena 30 3 3 3  9 

Salegi    31 3 2 2  7 

Xabat     30 3 1 6  10 

Arrieta   36 3 1 5  9 

Israel    32 3 1 1  5 

Spinner   35 2 6 5  13 

Goitia    35 2 6 4  12 

Foronda   35 2 4 4  10 

Anndy     37 2 3 7  12 

Goenaga   38 2 3 6  11 

Zabala    32 2 3 5  10 

Minte     26 2 0 2  4 

Arta      22 1 5 2  8 

Beitia    35 1 3 6  10 

Chasio    15 0 3 4  7


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For the week ending June 2, 2019

Dania cumulative statistics, June 2

A. Top 5 Trifecta combinations (combinations that appear 20 or more times will be listed as "many.")

7: 1-3-2

6: 1-5-3; 6-2-4; 7-3-6;

5: 1-2-6; 1-4-2; 2-6-3; 3-2-6; 4-1-2; 4-2-6; 6-1-5; 6-3-5; 7-1-5

4: Many

3: Many

B. Leading Daily Performance Winners (links are to results pages)

5/29(M)--2

Anndy (early-front) (Game 2; Post 1; Partner (Elgezabal); 6P2 (Larrea))

Zulaika (late-front) 10P8 (s); 11P2 (Chasio))

Barandika (late-front) 9P2 (Amigorena); 12P1 (Urbieta))

5/29(E)--2

Foronda (early-front) (2P6 (Ladutxe); 6P7 (Elgezabal))

Ladutxe (early-back) (2P6 (Foronda); 3P5 (Goitia))

Goitia (late-front) (3P5 (Ladutxe); 8P2 (Amigorena))

Amigorena (late-back) (8P2 (Goitia) 9P6 (Barandika))

Diego (late-front) (10P7 (s); 11P5 (Ibon))

5/30(E)--2

Jairo (early-front) (2P3 (Elizalde); 5P6 (Ladutxe))

Elizalde (early-back) (2P3) (Jairo); 3P1 (Iturbide))

Amigorena (late-back) (8P4 (Zulaika); 9P3 (Diego))

Diego (late-front) (9P3) Amigorena; 10P6 (s)

5/31(E) 3--Erik (late-front) 9P1 (Leke); 10P6 (s); 12P2 (Elgazabal)

6/1(M) 3--Amigorena (late-back) (7P1 (s); 11P6 (Barandika); 12P4 (Arrieta))

6/1(E)--3

Erik (late-front) (8P1 (Ibon); 9P2 (Chasio); 12P7 (Amigorena)

Ibon (late-back) (7P5 (s); (8P1 (Erik); 11P6 (Goitia)

6/2(E)--3 Iturbide (early-front) (1P8 (s); 3P5 (Bailo); 4P8 (s)

For the first time this season, there were more performance leaders with 3 wins than with 2. 10 of Amigorena's 11 weekly wins (see below) show up in this list. He led in performance wins 3 times, the most this week. 31 of these games were doubles, 8 were singles. Earlies won most performances 6 times, lates won 11. Fronts won 11, backs 6. Amigorena, Erik, Ibon, and Iturbide joined Goenaga as players who have won 3 performances twice.

C. Game 10

Cumulative: through June 2, 2019

For game reports for 5/29-6/2 see the Game 10 Florida Singles Championship Page on the right side of the blog. Simply hit the back key to get back to this page.

* Known perfect games

Links are to entries

5/29(M) Zulaika (P8)* (4 points, +4 -0) (3 wins)

5/29(E) Diego (P7)* (5 points +4 -0) (5 wins)

5/30(E) Diego (P6)* (5 points +5 -0) (6 wins)

5/31(E) Erik (P6)* (5 points +5 -0) (5 wins)

6/1(M) Erik (P4) (5 points +4 -1) (6 wins)

6/1(E) Barandika (P6)* (4 points +4 -0) (7 wins)

6/2(M) Zulaika (P7)* (5 points +5 -0)

Standings (6/2(M)) *=known perfect games

Barandika 7 (4*)

Diego 6 (5*)

Erik 6 (2*)

Ithurria 5 (1*)

Goitia 4 (3*)

Zulaika 4 (2*)

Arrieta 2 (1*)

Salegi (back) 1

D. Weekly leaders in Wins.

Most wins in a week (5/29-6/2)

Amigorena (late-back) 11(36) .306;

Iturbide (early-front) 9(36) .250

13 players had 5 or more wins.

In the money finishes:

Ibon (late-back) 22(34) (6-11-5) .647

Erik (late-front) 21(35) (8-7-6) .600

Of Amigorena's 11wins, 10 can be found in list of daily winners, either as a daily winner or as the partner of one. For Iturbide, only 4 of his 9 wins can be found in the daily winner list, 3 for one performance where he won that many times, and 1 where he partnered another daily winner. Since there were 15 different daily performance winners (led outright or tied), Iturbide, who won 1/3 of his weekly games in one performance, must have had an exceedingly diffuse number of wins throughout the week to add to his final total. But since 4 of the 7 performances featured winners who won 3 games, he could have easily picked up several victories during those performances.

Full roster list by wins (Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Amigorena 36 11 6 0 .306 17 

Iturbide  36 9 3 5 .250 17 

Erik      35 8 7 6  21 .600

Barandika 37 7 7 5  19 .514

Goixerri  38 7 4 3  14 

Ladutxe   37 7 2 3  12 

Ibon      34 6 11 5  22 .647

Elizalde  37 6 7 2  15 

Medrano   36 6 5 5  16 

Zulaika   35 6 4 2  12 

Goitia    37 6 1 4  11 

Elgezabal 32 5 4 4  13 

Salegi    35 5 3 6  14 

Foronda   36 4 6 6  16 

Zabala    37 4 6 4  14 

Yeche     36 4 5 10  19 .528

Beitia    38 4 4 4  12 

Diego     35 4 3 7  14 

Spinner   38 4 3 4  11 

Larrea    37 3 4 3  10 

Chasio    34 3 1 5  9 

Arta      26 3 1 4  8 

Anndy     37 3 1 4  8 

Goenaga   36 2 8 3  13 

Jairo     36 2 6 4  12 

Leke      35 2 5 5  12 

Arrieta   35 2 4 3  9 

Minte     15 2 1 2  5 

Ithurria  37 1 5 9  15 

Bailo     21 1 5 4  10 

Urbieta   34 1 3 3  7 

Xabat     16 1 2 0  3 

Urtaran   2 1 0 0 .500 1 .500

Israel    34 0 3 6  9

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Dania Cumulative Statistics for the week ending May 26, 2019

Dania cumulative statistics, May26

A. Top 5 Trifecta combinations (combinations that appear 20 or more times will be listed as "many.")

5: 1-5-3; 4-1-2; 6-2-4; 7-1-5

4: Many

3: Many

2: Many

1: Many

B. Leading Daily Performance Winners (links are to results pages)

5/22(M)--2

Larrea (early-back) (Game 2 Post 1 Partner Goixerri); 5P2 (Goenaga))

Medrano (early-back) (2P8 (Zabala); 11P7 (Salegi))

Ithurria (late-front) (8P1 (Ibon); 12P6 (Amigorena))

Amigorena (late-back) 9P3 (Barandika); 12P6 (Ithurria))

5/22(E)--2

Ladutxe (early-back) (2P1 (Beitia); 3P6 (Foronda))

Foronda (early-front) (3P6 (Ladutxe); 5P1 (Elizalde))

Elizalde (early-back) (5P1 (Foronda); 6P8 (Goenaga))

Ithurria (late-front) (8P8 (Amigorena); 12P3 (Israel))

5/23(E)--3

Iturbide (early-front) 1P4 (s); 5P8 (Yeche); 6P2 (Yeche)

Jairo (early-front) (2P4 (Spinner); 3P6 (Arta)

5/24 (E)--2

Ladutxe (early-back) (1P2 (s); 6P1 (Jairo))

Zabala (early-back) 3P4 (Medrano); 5P1 (Iturbide))

Iturbide (early-front) (4P4 (s); 5P1 (Zabala))

Diego (late-back) (9P6 (Amigorena); 11P3 (Salegi))

5/25(M)--2

Ithurria (late-back) 2P4 (Elizalde); 12P8 (Amigorena))

Barandika (late-front (5P6 (Zabala); 10P1 (s))

Amigorena (late-back) 9P2 (Diego); 12P8 (Ithurria))

5/25(E) 3--Israel (late-back) (7P4 (s); (8P3 (Erik); 12P1 (Diego))

5/26(M) 3--Diego (late-front) (9P5 (Amigorena); 10P8 (s); 11P2 (Leke))

Ithurria won or tied for the most performance wins this week. He tied for the lead three times with two wins. Earlies led or tied for the lead 10 times. Lates did it 9 times. Fronts did it 8 times, Backs 11. Singles matches accounted for only 6 of the 32 games won. Three players have won or tied for most wins in a performance 5 or more times: Iturbide (early-front--7), and Amigorena (late-back) & Diego (late-front), each with 6. Iturbide is the only player to have 4 wins in a performance. He did it on May 18(M). Thirteen players have had 3, Goenaga having done it twice. Iturbide, Jairo (early-front), Israel (late-back), and Diego (late-front) did it for the first time this week.

C. Game 10

Cumulative: through May 26, 2019

For game reports for 5/22-5/26 see the Game 10 Florida Singles Championship Page on the right side of the blog. Simply hit the back key to get back to this page.

* Known perfect games (links are to entries pages)

5/22(M) Erik (P7)* (5 points, +4-0) (3 wins)

5/22(E) Goitia (P8) * (4 points +2 -0) (4 wins)

5/23(E) Barandika (P8)* (4 points +3 -0) (5 wins)

5/24(E) Erik (P8)* (4 points +4 -0) (5 wins)

5/25(M) Barandika (P1) (5 points +5 -0) (6 wins)

5/25(E) Arrieta (P7)* (5 points +5 -0) (2 wins)

5/26(M) Diego (P8)* (4 points +4 -0) (4 wins)

Cumulative Standings (May 26 (M))

Barandika 6 (3*)
Ithurria 5 (1*)
Goitia 4 (3*)
Diego 4 (4*)
Erik 4 (2*)
Zulaika 2
Arrieta 2 (1*)
Salegi (back) 1

D. Weekly leaders in Wins.

Amigorena (late-back) 10(36) .278; Ladutxe (early-back) 10(37) .270

Iturbide (early-front) 9(40) .225

15 players had 5 or more wins.

In the money finishes:

Ladutxe 25(37) (10-5-10) .676

Zulaika (late-front) 20(37) (3-12-5) .541

Leke (late-back) 20 (38) (5-6-9) .526

It was an interesting week at Dania in that the daily performance winners (see above) did not easily translate into the weekly winners. 7 of Amigorena's 10 wins can be found in the listing of daily performance winners, either his own or others that he partnered with. Ladutxe is a little different in that only 5 of his 10 wins show up in the daily listing, which means his other five were diffused thorough the 7 performances. Note that of the three performances won by a player with 3 wins, none of them involved Ladutxe. 5 of Iturbide's 9 wins can be found in the daily listing.

Full roster list by wins (Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Ladutxe   37 10 5 10 .270 25 .676

Amigorena 36 10 2 2 .278 14 

Iturbide  40 9 4 4  17 

Jairo     36 8 4 7  19 .528

Diego     35 8 1 4  13 

Barandika 37 7 4 6  17 

Medrano   37 6 7 2  15 

Erik      37 6 6 6  18 

Salegi    38 6 6 6  18 

Ithurria  37 6 5 4  15 

Goenaga   40 6 4 7  17 

Elizalde  36 6 3 5  14 

Leke      38 5 6 9  20 .526

Zabala    35 5 2 0  7 

Israel    36 5 1 2  8 

Ibon      35 4 8 4  16 

Arta      37 4 6 4  14 

Goitia    37 4 5 4  13 

Zulaika   37 3 12 5  20 .541

Urbieta   35 3 5 4  12 

Larrea    36 3 3 4  10 

Arrieta   35 3 2 6  11 

Spinner   32 2 6 0  8 

Yeche     35 2 4 6  12 

Beitia    37 2 4 6  12 

Urtaran   30 2 4 5  11 

Foronda   36 2 3 4  9 

Elgezabal 28 1 7 4  12 

Anndy     42 1 6 4  11 

Goixerri  38 1 3 2  6 

Chasio    35 0 2 4  6

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For the week ending May 19, 2019

Dania cumulative statistics, May 19

A. Top 5 Trifecta combinations (combinations that appear more than 20 times will be listed as "many.")

5: 1-5-3; 6-2-4; 7-2-5
4: 4-1-2; 4-1-3; 4-1-7; 6-2-5; 7-3-2;
3: 1-2-6; 1-5-2;
2-1-7; 2-3-8; 2-6-3; 2-6-4; 2-8-3;
3-2-6;
5-1-6; 5-3-1;
6-1-5; 6-3-5;
7-1-6; 7-4-1; 7-5-3; 7-5-4;
8-1-5; 8-4-7

2: Many
1: Many

B. Leading Daily Performance Winners

5/15(M) 3--Urtaran (late-back) (Game 7, Post 1 (s); 9P8 (Zulaika); 11P7 (Erik))

5/15(E) 3--Amigorena (late-back) 8P1 (Erik); 9P2 (Barandika); 11P3 (Ithurria))

5/16(E)--2

Beitia (early-front) 2P3 (Chasio); 5P6 (Yeche))

Yeche (early-back) 5P6 (Beitia); 6P1(Jairo))

Amigorena (late-back); 11P8 (Barandika); 12P1 (Erik))

5/17(E)--3

Goitia (late-front) (3P1 (Arta); 7P7 (Ibon); 9P8 (Leke))

Goenaga (early-front) (4P1 (s); 5P8 (Ladutxe); 6P7 (Ladutxe))

Ibon (late-back) 8P7 (Goitia); 11P8 (Arrieta); 12P4 (Ithurria))

5/18(M) 4--Iturbide (early-front) (1P6 (s); 3P1 (Spinner); 4P5 (s); 6P2 (Elizalde))

5/18(E)--2

Iturbide (early-front) 2P2 (Spinner); 5P6 (Elizalde))

Diego (late-front) (8P6 (Ibon); 11P2 (Ibon))

Ibon (late-back) (8P6 (Diego); 11P2 (Diego))

5/19(M)--2

Goenaga (early-front) (1P6 (s); 5P7 (Arta))

Erik (late-front) (2P8 (Arta); 8P3 (Leke))

Arta (early-back) (2P8 (Erik); 5p7 (Goenaga))

Amigorena (late-back) (7P1 (s); 11P2 (Zulaika))

Leke (late-back) (8P3 (Erik); 12P2 (Ithurria))

Ithurria (late-front) (10P1 (s); 12P2 (Leke))

6 players shared the lead with 2 wins apiece

Iturbide won 6 of his roster leading 9 matches in two performances, lead by his 4 wins on 5/18(M). He won both early singles games, won twice in two days with Spinner and Elizalde. Amigorena, who tied with Iturbide with 9 wins, won 7 in his three performance wins. He won with Erik and Barandika in two performance winning days in a row. 7 of the matches above above games were singles games, 35 doubles. The fact that fifteen different players won or shared most performance wins, and the amount of parity on the Dania roster at present.

C. Game 10

Cumulative: through May 19, 2019

For game reports for 5/15-5/19 see the Game 10 Florida Singles Championship Page on the right side of the blog. Simply hit the back key to get back to this page.

Date links below are to performance entries. They do not reflect scratches. For scratches see Tigerhili.com Dania Scratches which links to all discovered scratches for the current month. I will try to note scratches in the Game 10 Florida singles page (see above).

* known perfect game; bold=winning streak

5/15(M) Goitia(P4--3* 2 wins in a row, carried over from last week); 5/15(E) Diego (P1-#3*); 5/16(E) Ithurria(P8-#4*); 5/17(E) Barrandika(P4--#3*); 5/18(M) Salegi(back) (P3--#1); 5/18(E) Barandika (P8--#4*); 5/19(M) Ithurria (P1--#5)

Standings Week 3

Ithurria 5 (1*)
Barandika 4 (2*)
Goitia 3 (2*)
Diego 3 (3*)
Zulaika 2
Erik 2
Arrieta 1
Salegi 1

D. Weekly leaders in Wins.

Amigorena (late-back) 9(39) .231; Iturbide (early front) 9(40) .225

Erik (late-front) 8(37); .235; Spinner (early-front) 8(37) .235; Goenaga (early-front) 8(42) (.190)

14 players had 5 or more wins.

In the money finishes:

Barandika (late-front) 20(40) (6-6-8) .500

Iturbide (early-front) 19(40) (9-4-6) .475

For the roster: (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Iturbide  40 9 4 6  19 

Amigorena 39 9 3 5  17 

Erik      37 8 6 4  18 

Goenaga   42 8 5 5  18 

Spinner   37 8 2 3  13 

Ladutxe   26 7 3 4 .269 14 .538

Ibon      36 7 3 2  12 

Barandika 40 6 6 8  20 .500

Ithurria  37 6 5 5  16 

Zulaika   37 5 7 6  18 

Leke      36 5 4 8  17 

Diego     35 5 4 3  12 

Jairo     41 5 4 3  12 

Salegi    36 5 3 7  15 

Urtaran   35 4 8 1  13 

Foronda   38 4 5 9  18 

Beitia    40 4 5 5  14 

Elizalde  36 4 4 6  14 

Goitia    39 4 1 5  10 

Anndy     35 4 1 2  7 

Yeche     35 3 6 5  14 

Arta      36 3 6 4  13 

Israel    37 3 5 2  10 

Urbieta   36 3 4 6  13 

Chasio    38 3 4 4  11 

Medrano   38 2 7 1  10 

Goixerri  43 2 5 6  13 

Arrieta   21 2 4 2  8 

Zabala    35 1 6 7  14 

Larrea    35 1 6 4  11 

Elgezabal 24 0 4 2  6

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The week ending May 12, 2019

Dania cumulative statistics, May 12

A. Top 5 Trifecta combinations (combinations that appear more than 20 times will be listed as "many."

4: 1-5-3; 4-1-7; 6-2-4; 7-1-5;

3: 2-1-7; 2-3-8; 2-6-4; 5-4-3; 6-1-5; 6-3-5; 7-1-6; 7-5-4

2: Many

1: Many

B. Leading winners by performance.

5/8(M) 3--Yeche (early-back) (Game 1 Post 5 (single); 2P4 (Jairo); 6P2 Medrano))

5/8(E)--2
Medrano (early-front) (2P7 (Ladutxe); 5P2 (Spinner))
Spinner (early-back) (3P7 (Goenaga); 5P2 (Medrano))
Amigorena (late-back) (7P2 (s); 9P3 (Diego))
Israel (late-back) (8P8 (Goitia); 12P3 (Barandika))
Barandika (late-front) (11P4 (Ibon); 12P3 (Israel))

5/9(E)--2
Goixerri (early-front) (1P7 (s); 2P2 (Zabala))
Zabala (early-back) (2P2 (Goixerri); 6P8 (Iturbide))
Iturbide (early-back) (4P5 (s); 6P8 (Zabala))
Diego (late-front) (5P3 (Elizalde); 12P7 (Arta))

5/10(E)--3
Goenaga (early-front) (1P4 (s); (3P3 (Israel); 4P7 (s))
Leke (late-back) (7P4 (s); 8P1 (Zulaika); 9P2 (Erik))

5/11(M)--2
Goenaga (early-front) 4P8 (s); 6P5 (Larrea))
Urbieta (late-back) 7P3 (s); 9P5 (Arrieta))
Amigorena (late-back) 5P2 (Goixerri); 8P5 (Diego))
Diego (late-front) 8P5 (Amigorena); 10P2 (s))

5/11(E)--2
Foronda (early-front) 1P6 (s); 3P4 (Spinner))
Beitia (early-front) 2P4 (Elizalde); 5P8 (Spinner))
Spinner (early-back) 3P4 (Foronda); 5P8 (Beitia))
Erik (late-front) (8P7 (Leke); 9P5 (Leke))
Leke (late-back) (8P7 Erik); 9P5 (Erik))

5/12(M)--2
Medrano (early-front) (3P4 (Elizalde); 4P5 (s))
Diego (late-front) (8P1 (Salegi); 9P6 (Salegi))
Salegi (late-back) (8P1 (Diego); 9P6 (Diego))

C. Game 10

For game reports for 5/11 and 5/12 see the Game 10 Florida Singles Championship Page on the right side of the blog. Simply hit the back key to get back to this page.

Standings: Week 2

Ithurria 3

Barandika 2

Zulaika 2

Erik 2

Diego 2 (2*)

Goitia 2 (1*)

Arrieta 1

* known perfect game; bold=winning streak

5/8(M) Goitia (P6--#1); 5/8(E) Ithurria (P1--#2); 5/9(E) Arrieta (P2--#1); 5/10(E) Ithurria (P7--#3); 5/11(M) Diego (P2--#1*) 5/11(E) Diego (P1--#2*) 5/12(M) Goitia (P1--#2*)

D. Weekly leaders in Wins.

Diego (late-front) 10(37): .270

Yeche (early-back) 7(37): .189 and Zulaika 7(37) finished second. 16 players won 5 or more games.

In the Money (1st, 2nd, 3rd):

Foronda (early-front) 20(38) (5, 10, 5): .526

Diego finished 2nd with 19(37) (10, 1, 8): .514

For the roster: (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Bulletin Board)

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Diego     37 10 1 8 .270 19 .514

Yeche     37 7 6 3  16 

Zulaika   37 7 3 5  15 

Erik      37 6 11 2  19 .514

Leke      38 6 10 2  18 

Israel    39 6 7 3  16 

Goenaga   40 6 5 8  19 

Medrano   38 6 5 5  16 

Urbieta   37 6 4 6  16 

Foronda   38 5 10 5  20 .526

Elizalde  37 5 5 7  17 

Ibon      35 5 5 6  16 

Iturbide  40 5 5 6  16 

Ladutxe   30 5 5 2  12 

Spinner   37 5 3 5  13 

Amigorena 38 5 2 8  15 

Jairo     38 4 6 5  15 

Ithurria  38 4 5 1  10 

Beitia    39 4 4 5  13 

Zabala    35 4 3 6  13 

Goixerri  38 4 3 5  12 

Salegi    37 4 3 3  10 

Barandika 36 4 2 5  11 

Goitia    39 3 6 4  13 

Arrieta   37 3 5 4  12 

Urtaran   38 3 4 6  13 

Arta      39 3 4 3  10 

Larrea    35 2 5 5  12 

Anndy     39 2 2 2  6

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For the week ending May 5, 2019

Dania cumulative statistics, May 5

A. Top 5 Trifecta combinations (combinations that appear more than 20 times will be listed as "many."

4: 1-5-3

3: 2-6-4; 4-1-2

2: 2-3-1; 2-7-3; 4-1-6; 4-3-2; 5-4-3; 6-1-5; 6-2-4; 7-1-5; 7-5-4

1: Many

B. Leading winners by performance.

5/1(M)--2
Iturbide (early-front) (Game 2, Post 4 (Bailo); 6P6 (Yeche))
Yeche (early-back) (5P1 (Anndy); 6P6 (Iturbide))

5/2(E) 3--Barandika (late-front) (8P7 (Israel); (9P4 (Chasio); 11P8 (Amigorena))

5/3(E) 3--Medrano (early-front) (2P2 (Ibon); 4P1 (s); 5P5) (Yeche))

5/4(M)--2
Elizalde (early-back) (1P6 (s); 3P4 (Iturbide))
Iturbide (early-front) (2P7 (Larrea); 3P4 (Elizalde))
Urtaran (late-back) (7P1 (s); 9P4 (Zulaika))
Salegi (late-back) (8P2 (Ithurria); 11P4 (Erik))
Zulaika (late-front) (9P4 (Urtaran); 11P4 (Erik))

5/4(E)--2
Foronda (early-front) (1P8 (s); 6P4 (Ladutxe))
Xabat (early-front) (3P3 (Salegi); 5P2 (Ladutxe))
Salegi (late-back) 3P3 (Xabat); 6P4 (Foronda))
Ladutxe (early-back) (5P2 (Xabat); (6P4 (Foronda))
Urbieta (late-back) (7P3 (s); 8P2 (Zulaika))
Zulaika (late-front) (9P6 (Salegi); 10P3 (s))

6 players with 2 wins. Most so far this season.

5/5(M)--3 Jairo (early-front) (2P4 (Elizalde); (3P8 (Israel)); 6P2 (Urbieta)

C. Game 10

* known perfect game; bold=winning streak

5/1(M--entries) Barandika (P7--#1); 5/1(E) Erik (P5--#1); 5/2(E) Ithurria (#P2--1) 5/3(E) Barandika (P2--#2); 5/4(M) Zulaika (P7--#1); 5/4(E) Zulaika (P3--#2) 5/5(M) Erik (P8--#2):

Standings: Week 1

Barandika 2

Zulaika 2

Erik 2

Ithuria 1

D. Weekly leaders in Wins

Zulaika (late-front 9(35) .257
Foronda (early-front) 9(38) .237
Urbieta (late-back) 8(41) .195

In the Money:

Barandika (late-front) 20(35) (7-7-6) .571
Iturbide (early-front)20(39) (7-7-6) .571
Erik (late-back) 18(35) (6-6-6) .514

13 players had 5 or more wins.
For the roster: (Source: Tiger's Jai Alai Bulletin Board)

Foronda   38 9 2 3  14 

Zulaika   35 9 2 1 .257 12 

Urbieta   41 8 6 3  17 

Barandika 35 7 7 6  20 .571

Israel    40 7 3 5  15 

Salegi    43 7 2 8  17 

Iturbide  39 6 6 8  20 .513

Erik      35 6 6 6  18 .514

Medrano   39 6 5 5  16 

Elizalde  35 6 3 6  15 

Urtaran   38 5 4 6  15 

Goitia    35 5 4 4  13 

Ithurria  30 5 3 6  14 

Amigorena 39 4 8 4  16 

Jairo     36 4 7 2  13 

Yeche     29 4 6 2  12 

Goixerri  39 4 5 6  15 

Ibon      40 4 5 5  14 

Larrea    30 4 3 2  9 

Bailo     12 4 1 0 .333 5 

Leke      39 3 7 5  15 

Anndy     37 3 5 3  11 

Xabat     35 3 4 5  12 

Chasio    40 3 3 6  12 

Spinner   30 3 3 4  10 

Arta      30 2 7 5  14 

Beitia    35 2 3 4  9 

Ladutxe   17 2 2 3  7 

Minte     16 2 1 2  5 

Goenaga   37 1 6 5  12 

Diego     36 1 4 4  9 

Zabala    25 1 2 1  4 

Arrieta   35 0 5 5  10

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WINTER 2019 SEASON SUMMARY

FINAL WINTER SEASON DANIA JAI ALAI STATISTICS

FINAL WINTER PLAYER SORTS BY WINS: FULL ROSTER. FRONTS, BACKS, EARLIES, LATES

The Winter Season, which began on January 2, 2019, ended on April 14. The Fronton will "go dark" for two weeks and then there will be a short "Spring" season from May 1-June 30, 2019.

ERIK (MENDEZABAL) (late-front) led the roster in almost all statistical categories kept by Dania, and a few that I made up myself.

1. He won the triple crown (most wins, most Championship Singles and Doubles wins for front court players (135-108 over Ladutxe (early-back); 26-20 over Diego (late-front); and 24-14 over Zulaika (late-front) and Diego). He also won the most doubles games with a single partner (Leke) by 16-14 over Medrano-Bailo (earlies). Amigorena won the Championship Doubles back court competition 17-15 over Urbieta (late-back).

2. Some derivative "championships" he won were: most weeks with the most wins on the roster (6-4 over Ladutxe), and won or tied for the most wins in a performance 22 times, two more than Ladutxe. He also won the most times in a week, 13. He won four weeks with 12 wins. Five other players won weeks with 12 wins (see below). None of them did it more than once.

3. Erik's winning percentage was also the highest on the roster at .255, .003 better than Ladutxe, the only other player over .200 on the roster. Erik did this against the best competition Dania has to offer, including at least 4 world class partido players (Diego (Beaskoetxea), (Jon) Zulaika, Ibon (Aldazabal), and (Unai) Leke(rika)). About the only thing Erik didn't win was ITM%. At .526, he was .004 behind Ladutxe. Erik played 529 games. Ithurria (early-front) led the roster with 553. Xabat (early-front) was second with 548. Erik finished 10th on the roster in games played.

4. And if all that weren't enough, Erik had two performance winning streaks (at least one win in a performance) of 15 and 14 respectively (see below). Consistency within games, performances, and an entire season. Erik had a great season.

34 players either had the most or tied for the most wins in a performance. In addition to Erik and Ladutxe 6 other players did this 10 times or more (Diego and Bailo (early-back) 14, Barandika (late-front) 13, Amigorena (late-back) and Zulaika (late-back) 11, and Arrieta (late-front) 10.

10 players won 4 games in a performance (for the list, see below). Two did it twice, Bailo and Amigorena.

As a team, Dania had a difficult season, with many injuries and many scratches.

The 15 week season consisted of 7 performances a week (105 total) and each performance was made up of 12 games (1,260 games). The breakdown was mostly 8 doubles games and 4 singles games, but for a stretch during the season, due to the high amount of scratches, the balance was 6-6. This lasted from March 1-31. That time period covered 23 performances and 276 games (a little less than 22 percent of the total. In that period there were an equal number of singles and doubles games, 138. For the rest of the season there were 656 doubles and 328 singles games played. The totals for the season were 794 doubles games and 466 singles games. 15 weeks under the normal schedule would entail 840 doubles games and 420 singles games. How that effected player performance, along with the fact that many players were asked to carry heavier loads than their usual 5 per game for a long period of time, many games in parts of the performance that they up against much tougher, or easier competition, is unknown.

The most unfortunate incident of the season was the injury suffered by Tevin (Leon Shepard) (late-front) the weekend of March 9-10. He tore his right quadriceps muscle and will be out for 6 to 8 months. Tevin began his career in 1992 at Milford, Connecticut, later played at Miami for many years, and at Dania the last couple. 27 years in the trenches of Quiniela Jai Alai. I started watching him late in his career, and he has been a joy to watch. Great hustle all the time and a great love for the game. We all wish him a speedy recovery and hope to see him back in action soon.

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Beginning with the week of February 13-17, 2019, the format of these reports changed. Each weekly report highlights 3 aspects of the Dania week:

A: Top 5 winning trifecta combinations (cumulative for the whole season--see below)

NOTE: I MAKE NO GUARANTEES ABOUT THE ACCURACY OF THESE STATISTICS (OR ANY OTHERS IN THIS BLOG). ALWAYS CHECK WITH THE ACTUAL NUMBERS, WHICH CAN BE FOUND IN THE LATEST STATISTICS PAGES. THESE ARE THE OFFICIAL DJA NUMBERS AND CAN ALSO BE EXAMINED ON A DAY TO DAY BASIS. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU THINK THIS IS AN INAPPROPRIATE STATISTIC FOR THE BLOG.

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B. Cumulative leading winners by performance and most wins in a performance. For individual performance winner statistics for this week, see below.

1. Cumulative winners by performance (January 2, 2019-April 14(M). Note: this is the number of times a player has either led or tied for the lead in most wins in a performance. It is a complete list. The missing data for 9 dates has been uploaded to the Dania site (Thank you Benny and Tiger). Players will be listed by number of performances. Number of winning games leading a performance is, in all cases so far, 2-4. There have yet to be any performances where no player won more than one game. Corrections are always welcome.

23: Erik (late-front)
22: None
21: None
20: Ladutxe (early-back)
14: Diego (late-front); Bailo (early-back)
13: Barrandika (late-front)
12: None
11: Amigorena (late-back); Zulaika (l-f)
10: Arrieta (l-f)
9: Iturbide (early-front); Ibon (l-b)
8: Medrano (e-f)
7: Elizalde (e-b)
6: Elgezabal (l-b); Leke (l-b); Xabat (e-f); Yeche (e-b); Salegi (l-b); Urbieta (l-b); Jairo (e-f); Minte (e-b)
5: Zabala (e-b)
4: Spinner (e-b)
3: Ubilla (e-b); Israel (l-b); Betia (e-f); Arta (e-b); Foronda (e-f); Larrea (e-b)
2: Tevin (l-f); Ithurria (l-f)
1: Anndy (e-f); Chasio (l-b); Goitia (e-f); Goixerri (e-f)

2. Players with the most wins in a performance: So far the most wins in a performance is 4. Bailo has done it twice.

Bailo (early-back) 1/10(E); 3/27(E)
Barandika (late-front) 2/27(E); 4/7(M)

Zulaika (late-front) 1/16(M)
Iturbide (early-front) 1/20(M)
Erik (late-front) 1/31(E)
Amigorena (late-back) 2/6(E)
Arrieta (late-front) 3/16(M)
Ibon (late-back) 3/22(E)
Minte (early-back) 3/30(M)
Medrano (early-front) 4/3(M)

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C. Cumulative weekly leaders in wins. For this week, see below.

Weekly winner leaders (outright or tied--through April 7, 2019)

Erik (late-front) 6; Ladutxe (early-back) 4; Bailo (early-back) 3; Arta (early-back) 1; Barandika (late-front) 1; Ibon (late-back) 1; Iturbide (early-front) 1; Leke (late-back) 1; Medrano (early-front) 1; Minte (early-back) 1

Most wins for a weekly leader in a week (outright or tied--through March 31, 2019)

Erik (late-front) 13; Erik (late-front) 12 (4 times); Ladutxe (early-back) 12 (2 times); Iturbide (early-front) 12; Barandika (late-front) 12; Bailo (early-back) 12; Medrano: (early-front) 12

NOTABLE:

ERIK (Mendizabal) (late-front)--15 consecutive performances with at least one win

February 14(Evening)--March 2 (Matinee) (see results for the dates). Use arrows to scroll the months. Note: Erik scratched 2/28(E).

ERIK (Mendizabal) (late-front) 14 consecutive performances with at least one win:
January 12 (Matinee)-January 25 (Evening) (use arrow to go back to January)

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NOTE: I WILL TRY TO HAVE PART A AND B IN THIS REPORT BY EVERY SUNDAY EVENING. NO GUARANTEES, BUT IT'S BEEN WORKING OUT PRETTY WELL THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.

END OF THE 2019 WINTER SEASON (JANUARY 2-APRIL 14, 2019

The week of April 10-14 (2019)

A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations (cumulative, for the season). Note: Winning combinations that have over 20 separate trifectas will be listed as "Many".

16: 1-2-6
13: 1-3-2; 1-4-2; 3-2-5; 4-1-6; 6-3-1
12: 1-3-7; 1-5-2; 3-1-7; 5-4-1
11: 2-3-1; 4-2-3; 5-3-2; 6-1-5
10: 1-3-8; 2-1-7; 2-3-8; 5-1-3; 5-1-4; 6-3-2; 8-1-5; 8-3-6; 8-4-2; 8-6-3

B. Leading winners by performance (April 10-14, 2019)

Injury report: (Manu) LADUTXE (early-back) was sidelined with a strained bicep on about 3/23 and is expected to be out until at May 1 at the earliest.

(Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

Bailo (early-back) was the leading performance winner three times this week, the 7 wins in the three performances forming the backbone of his strong 9 win week to close the season out. The three performance wins gave him a total of 14 for the season, equaling Diego's (late-front) 3rd place total. In the three winning performances, he won 1 singles match and 6 doubles matches (with 5 different partners). Goixerri, the rookie front courter shared his first performance win with 4 other players on 4/12(E). Bailo, Erik (late-front), and Zulaika (late-front) won their performances with 3 wins apiece. For the week, Of the wins below, 25 were in doubles matches, 7 in singles (bolded matches were counted only once.) 13 matches were won by earlies, 8 by lates. 11 were won by fronts, 10 by backs. The 4/13(M) performance marked one of the few times that 6 players shared the honors. Every performance of the season had at least one player with more than one win.

4/10(M)--2

A. Arta (early-front) (Game 1 Post Position 1 (singles); 3P6 (Foronda))

B. Medrano (early-front) (2P4 (Elizalde); 5P3 (Larrea))

C. Larrea (early-back) (5P3 (Medrano); G6P8 (Xabat))

D. Zulaika (late-front) (9P3 (Israel); 12P7 (Leke))

4/10(E) 3--Bailo (early-back) (1P3 (s); 3P1 (Medrano); 5P7 (Iturbide))

4/11(E) --2

A. Bailo (early-back) (2P1 (Goenaga); 3P3 (Xabat))

B. Jairo (early-front) (4P1 (s); 5P3 (Spinner))

C. Arrieta (late-front) 9P1 (Ibon); 11P5 (Israel)

4/12(E) --2

A. Minte (early-back) (1P2 (s); 6P7 (Goixerri))

B. Foronda (early-front) (2P2 (Bailo); 4P5 (s))

C. Bailo (early-back) (2P2 (Foronda); 3P3 (Iturbide))

D. Goixerri (early-front) 5P4 (Elizalde); 6P7 (Minte))

E. Ithurria (late-front) (8P8; (Urturan); 10P3 (s))

Rookie Goixerri shares most wins in a performance for the first time.

4/13(M)--2

A. Larrea (early-back) 1P1 (s); 2P5 (Foronda))

B. Elizalde (early-back) 3P5 (Barandika); 11P8 (Erik))

C. Barandika (late-front) 3P5 (Elizalde); 12P2 (Ibon))

D. Spinner (early-back) 6P2 (Xabat); 9P6 (Ithurria))

E. Ibon (late-back) 7P6 (s); 12P2 (Barandika))

F. Erik (late-front) 8P2 (Urbieta); 11P8 (Elizalde))

6 players tied with 2 wins, equaling the most this season.

4/13(E) 3--Erik (late-front) (6P5 (Bailo); 9P1 (Zabala); 11P4 (Salegi))

4/14(M) 3--Zulaika (late-back) (8P1 (Chasio); 9P3 (Urbieta); 11P4 (Urbieta))

Links are to exact results pages.

C. Weekly leaders in wins, with the leader's week

Leading Weekly Winners:

Bailo (early-back) 9(41) .220

Urbieta (late-back) 8(35) .229

Erik (late-front) 8(37) .216

Foronda (early-front) 8(42) .190

Leading In the Money (ITM) winners

Erik (late-front) 23(37) (8-10-5) .622

Bailo (early-back) 21(41) (9-3-9) .512

Foronda (early-front) 21(42) (8-3-10) .500

15 players won five or more games.

Complete roster statistics for the week. Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board. Note: I wish I didn't have to copy out these figures, but Tiger's Board is so active that these posts quickly change "pages." Which means that they are dynamic URLs. It is what it is, and is a testament to the activity on the board.

Name      GP W P S ITM Money%

Bailo     41 9 3 9 21 .512

Erik      37 8 10 5 23 .622

Urbieta   35 8 4 1 13 

Foronda   42 8 3 10 21 .500

Zulaika   35 7 6 7 20 .571

Medrano   40 7 6 4 17 

Salegi    37 6 6 4 16 

Iturbide  38 6 5 3 14 

Arrieta   35 6 4 3 13 

Ibon      39 5 7 5 17 

Zabala    37 5 5 4 14 

Elizalde  39 5 4 7 16 

Israel    35 5 4 5 14 

Jairo     40 5 2 6 13 

Ithurria  37 5 2 4 11 

Arta      37 4 7 2 13 

Xabat     37 4 6 5 15 

Barandika 37 4 5 7 16 

Larrea    37 4 2 6 12 

Spinner   33 4 1 2 7 

Diego     37 3 6 4 13 

Beitia    37 3 5 2 10 

Goenaga   37 3 4 4 11 

Urtaran   41 3 3 9 15 

Chasio    38 3 3 4 10 

Amigorena 40 2 6 4 12 

Minte     22 2 5 1 8 

Goixerri  38 2 2 2 6 

Leke      17 1 6 2 9 

Goitia    37 1 3 4 8 

Ubilla    10 1 3 2 6 

Yeche     18 1 2 3 6

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The week of April 3-7, 2019

Complete cumulative Dania Statistics: through April 7, 2019.

A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations (cumulative, through April 7). Note: Winning combinations that have over 20 separate trifectas will be listed as "Many".

16: 1-2-6;

13: 1-4-2; 3-2-5

12: 1-3-2; 1-3-7; 1-5-2; 3-1-7; 4-1-6; 5-4-1; 6-3-1

11: 3-1-4; 4-2-3; 6-1-5

10: 5-1-4; 5-3-2; 8-3-6; 8-4-2

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B. Leading winners by performance:

Injury report: (Manu) LADUTXE (early-back) was sidelined with a strained bicep on about 3/23 and is expected to be out until at May 1 at the earliest.

(Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

This week Medrano (early-front) and Salegi (late-back) were the leading performance winners 3 times. Medrano became the 10th player to win 4 games in a performance. On the first day of the week he won 6 times in the two performances.

4/3(M) 4--Medrano (early-front) (Game 1 Post 7 (singles); 4P2 (s); 5P6 (Urbieta); 6P3 (Spinner))

Medrano becomes the third player in a week to win 4 games in a performance. Bailo (early-back) and Minte (early-back) were the others. He becomes the 10th player this season to achieve this.

4/3(E)--2

A. Medrano (early-front) (1P4 (s); 5P1 (Spinner))

B. Salegi (late-back) 6P5 (Arrieta); 11P3 (Diego))

C. Diego (late-front) 10P5 (s); 11P3 (Salegi))

4/4(E)--2

A. Arta (early-back) (1P2 (s); 3P3 (Jairo))

B. Jairo (early-front) (3P3 (Arta); 5p6 (Leke))

C. Zabala (early-back) (4P8 (s); 6P1 (Xabat))

D. Salegi (late-back) (7P3 (s); 8P6 (Erik))

E. Zulaika (late-front) 10P4 (s); 12P2 (Amigorena))

F. Amigorena (late-back) 11P7 (Diego); 12P2 (Zulaika))

6 players share most wins for a performance

4/5(E)--3

A. Medrano (early-front) (3P7 (Zabala); 5P6 (Bailo); 6P1 (Bailo))

B. Salegi (late-back) (7P3 (s); 11P4 (Erik); 12P6 (Zulaika))

4/6(M) 3--Zulaika (6P2 (Elizalde); 10P1 (s); 11P6 (Leke))

4/6(E)--2

A. Elizalde (early-back) (1P5 (s); 5P8 (Arrieta))

B. Urbieta (early-back) (3P7 (Jairo); 9P2 (Diego))

C. Arrieta (late-front) (5P8 (Elizalde); 12P2 (Chasio)

D. Diego (late-front) (9P2 (Urbieta); 11P4 (Ibon))

4/7(M) 4--Barandika (late-front) (8P1 (Salegi); 9P1 (Urbieta); 11P2 (Urbieta); 12P8 (Salegi)

In the final performance of the Winter Season, Barandika becomes the 2nd (after Bailo) to win 4 games in a performancedo twice. He also won 4 in the 2/27 (E) performance. For the season, 10 players won 4 games in a performance. For the entire list, see the Dania link below.

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C. Weekly leaders in wins, with the leader's week

Leading winner:

Medrano (early-front) 12(38) .316

Salegi (late-back) 11(39) .282

10 players had 5 or more wins.

ITM%

Medrano (early-front) 20(38) (12-3-5) .526
Salegi (late-back) 20(39) (11-6-3) .513
Barandika (late-front) 20(39) (9-9-2) .532
Zulaika (late-front) 18(37) (9-3-6) .486

Medrano had a week to remember at Dania Jai Alai. He led or shared the roster lead 3 times for wins in a performance (out of 7 performances), notching 4 and 2 in the two performances on April 3 and 3 wins on April 5. These were the highlights of a week in which he won 12 games in 38 starts for a .316 winning percentage (highest among players who carried a normal load (35 games or more). The 12 wins tied for the second most wins by any player in a week this season. A veteran journeyman, Medrano is one of the unsung heroes at Dania, grinding out 506 games to date this year, tied for 4th most on the roster, but only 10 behind the 516 by Ithurria (early-front) that leads the roster. This was his first "pennant" in over 7 years (Source: Tiger weekly compilation). The 4 wins in the 4/3 Matinee made him the 10th player on the roster to achieve that feat this season. Going into this week, he ranks 10th on the roster in most wins (or tied for most wins) in a performance. He has done that 7 times. For the season, he ranks 10th on the 37 man roster with 66 wins. He is 14th in winning % at .130 (9 players have over a .150 percentage. The leader, Erik (late-front) is at .258).

Leader's week game by game breakdown--Forthcoming

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The week of March 27-31, 2019

Dania's Winter-Spring season ends on April 7. With that in mind, and with (Manu) Ladutxe (early-back) out of action until the end of the season, it has become clear that Erik (Mendizabal) (late-front) will win most overall wins (he has a 14 game lead over Ladutxe and a 38 game lead over the 3rd place Iturbide (early-front)). The closest late player to him is Amigorena (late-back). He trails Erik by 51 wins going into the last week. Erik also has won the Singles Championship, as he has a 26-18 lead over 2nd place Diego with 7 Singles Championship games to play. He also has an 8 game lead over the same rival in the Doubles Championship for fronts. In addition, he and Leke have a 7 game lead over 4 different pairs for the pair with the most wins. About the only category Erik doesn't lead in is ITM % where Ladutxe has an 11 percentage point lead (.530-.519) over him. Erik is one of only 2 players on the roster with an over .250 winning percentage (Ladutxe is the other). Incidentally, the Doubles Championship for backs is going right down to the wire with Amigorena leading with 14 wins. Leke and Urbieta are 1 win behind.

At the heart of Erik's season were two excellent performance winning streaks (at least one win in each performance), one of 15 and one of 14 (see above). While not Aritzean in magnitude--Aritz (Erkiaga) had 24 and 25 game performance streaks a couple of years ago (49 of 50 performances!), when Miami still offered a modicum of competition, Erik's streaks are an indicator of his consistency.

(For more on Aritz, one article on the week in 2017 when his streak of most weekly wins was stopped at 8, and one that examined an other worldly week in which he was 16-5-5 in 39 games, see the two blog posts here). Unfortunately Aritz' statistics at Miami during its short season concluded in January--283 wins in 557 games with a winning percentage of .508 and ITM % of .810--cannot be taken seriously (not to disrespect Aritz in the least, he more than held his own in last Summer's Partido season in the Basque Country, with a 5-1 match record and 2 Tournament championships, 2nd only to (Inaki Osa) Goikoetxea) because of the level of competition and the structure of Miami's season.).

Needless to say, Erik faces much tougher competition at Dania (world class partido players Diego (Beaskoetxea), (Unai) Lekerika (Leke), Ibon (Aldazabal), and (Jon) Zulaika are among his daily opponents). And although he has cooled off a little in the last few weeks, Erik has had a terrific season. He is, in my opinion, one of the best (if not the best) quiniela players in the world. It takes a certain kind of toughness, talent, and hunger to win consistently at the quiniela game. It is a meat grinder, mentally and physically, that quiniela players are put through. Just because the game is not in the best of health in the US does not change this. And Erik is a joy to watch.

Complete cumulative Dania Statistics: through March 31, 2019.

A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations (cumulative, through March 31). Note: Winning combinations that have over 20 separate trifectas will be listed as "Many".

13: 1-2-6; 3-2-5
12: 3-1-7; 6-3-1
11: 1-3-2; 1-4-2; 1-5-2; 4-1-6
10: 1-3-7; 3-1-4; 4-2-3; 5-3-2; 5-4-1
9: 2-3-1; 4-1-2; 5-1-4; 6-1-5; 6-2-5; 7-3-1; 8-1-5; 8-2-6; 8-3-6; 8-4-2

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B. Leading winners by performance:

Injury report: (Manu) LADUTXE (early-back) was sidelined with a strained bicep on about 3/23 and is expected to be out until at May 1 at the earliest.

(Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board)

After going for several days without a 3 game winner (see below under last week's report), the roster had a 3 and 4 game winner. The big daily winners this week were Bailo (early-back, who won 2 games on 3/27(M), 4 on 3/27(E), 3 on 3/30(E) and 2 on 3/31(M). His 4 wins on 3/27 was the second time this season he won 4 games in a performance, the only Dania player to do that so far this season. Three days after Bailo did it, Minte (early-back) duplicated the feat of 4 wins in a performance. Daily winners won 15 singles matches and 20 doubles matches this week. (Bolded doubles below are only counted once). 5 early and 7 late players won or shared most wins in a performance. 4 fronts and 8 backs enjoyed the honors. Going into the last week of the season, Erik has won or tied for the most wins in a performance 21 times, Ladutxe will finish the season with 20 and Diego has 12. Bailo climbed the ladder (see above) from 7 times to 11 this week.

3/27(M)--2

A. Bailo (early-back) (Game 3 Post Postion 2 (singles); 4P3 (Medrano))

B. Medrano (early-front) (4P3 (Bailo); 5P5 (Spinner))

C. Barandika (late-front) (7P2 (Amigorena); 10P8 (s))

D. Amigorena (late-back) (7P2 (Barandika)11P7 (s))

E. Diego (late-front) (8P3 (Urturan); 9P2 (Israel))

3/27(E) 4--Bailo (early-back) (1P3 (s) 2P8 (s); 6P1 (Iturbide); 7P8 (Ithurria))

Bailo becomes the third player in 3 weeks to win 4 games in a performance, following Arrieta (late-front--3/16(M); and Ibon (late-back)--3/22(E). He also won 6 games today, led or tied for the most wins in each performance. With the retrieval of missing Dania result data, we now know that this is the 2nd time Bailo has won 4. The first time was January 10(E).

3/28(E)--2

A. Iturbide (early-front) (1P1 (s); 6P4 (Salegi))

B. Salegi (late-back) (6P4 (Iturbide); 12P6 (s))

C. Leke (late-back) (9P5 (Diego); 10P3 (s))

3/29(E)--2

A. Barandika (late-front) (7P4 (Salegi); 8P7 (Amigorena))

B. Amigorena (late-back) (8P7 (Barandika); 9P4 (Betia))

C. Israel (late-back) (11P7 (s); 12P4 (s))

3/30(M) 4--Minte (early-back) (1P6 (s); 4P2 (Iturbide); 5P3 (Jairo); 6P1 (Foronda))

For the 2nd time this week and 10th time this season, a player has won 4 games in a performance. Minte won his last 3 games with 3 different partners from early posts.

3/30(E) 3--Bailo (early-back) (1P3 (s); 2P1 (s); 6P2 (Medrano)

3/31(M)--2

A. Bailo (early-back) (1P4 (s); 2P6 (s))

B. Iturbide (early-front) 4P1 (Arta); 6P3 (Larrea))

C. Beitia (late-front) 7P8 (Urbieta); 9P2 (Urbieta))

D. Urbieta (late-back) (7P8 Beitia); 9P2 (Beitia))

Links are to exact results pages.

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C. Weekly leaders in wins, with the leader's week

Bailo (early-back) 12(34) .353

Erik (late-front) 9(39) .310

Leading In the Money (ITM) winners

Bailo (early-back) 19(34) (12-5-2) .559

Iturbide (early-front) 18(30) (8-6-4) .600

Bailo rode most games won in a performance to 11 of his 12 victories this week (See above). He opened with 6 wins on Wednesday, 2 in the Matinee and then 4 in the Evening. That performance was the 2nd time he has one 4 games in a performance, the only player on the roster to do it so far. He also won 3 in the Saturday Evening performance. He clearly outshone the field, with only Erik even close at 9. Because of his easy victory for the week, he was also able to edge out Iturbide for most ITMs with 19.

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The week of March 20-24, 2019

Complete cumulative Dania Statistics: through March 24, 2019.

A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations (cumulative, through March 24). Note: Winning combinations that have over 20 separate trifectas will be listed as "Many".

13: 1-2-6

12: None

11: 1-3-2; 3-1-7; 3-2-5; 6-3-1

10: 1-3-7; 1-5-2; 4-1-6; 5-3-2

9: 1-4-2; 2-3-1; 3-1-4; 4-1-2; 5-4-1; 6-1-5; 6-2-5; 8-3-6

2-1-6; 2-3-8; 2-4-1;

3-6-2; 3-7-1;

4-2-3;

5-1-3; 5-1-4; 5-4-2;

7-3-1;

8-2-6; 8-4-2

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B. Leading winners by performance:

IBON (Aldazabal) returned to action on March 20, 2019 and won 2 games in his first performance, tying for leading winner. He lead the roster with 4 wins on March 22. He also tied for leading winner on March 23(M) with 2.

Links are to exact results pages:

3/20(M)--2

A. Bailo (Early-Back) (Game 3 Position 4(Singles); 5P2 (Jairo))

B. Iturbide (Early-Front) (4P2 (Elizalde); 6P7 (Zabala))

C. Ibon (Late-Back) (8P6 (Zulaika); 11P7)(s))

D. Erik (Late-Front) (9P1 (Elgezabal); 10P3(s))

E. Elgezabal (Late-Back) (9P1 (Erik); 12P2(s))

5 players, 4 singles, 5 doubles. Note: bolded doubles matches are counted only once.

3/20(E)--2

A. Ubilla (Early-Back) (1P2 (s); 2P1 (s))

B. Ladutxe (Early-Back) 5P8 (Zulaika); 6P5 (Erik))

C. Barandika (Late-Front) (8P2 (Chasio); 9P6 (Leke))

D. Amigorena (Late-Back) (11P3(s); 12P8(s))

4 players 4 singles 4 doubles

Total for March 20: 9 players with 2 wins in two performances. 8 singles and 9 doubles. At the end of the day, there had been 6 consecutive performances without a 3 game winner going back to last week. 7 of the last 9. But that quickly changed. See below.

3/21 (E) 3--Iturbide (Early-Front) (3P2(s); 4P7 (Larrea); 8P2 (Amigorena))

1 singles 2 doubles

3/22(E) 4--Ibon (Late-Back) (7P5 (Beitia); 8P7 (Diego); 9P5 (Ithurria); 11P7(s))

1 singles 3 doubles

3/23(M)--2

A. Spinner (Early-Back) (4P8 (Foronda); 5P6 (Iturbide))

B. Diego (Late-Front) (6P1 (Ubilla); 7P4 (Salegi))

C. Ibon (Late-Back) 8P5 (Erik); 11P1(s))

3/23(E)--2

A. Elizalde (Early-Back) (1P2(s); 5P5 (Foronda))

B. Minte (Early-Front) (2P4(s); 8P3 (Arrieta))

C. Arrieta (Late-Front) (8P3 (Minte); 9P1 (Ibon))

Total for March 23: 3 singles 8 doubles

3/24(M) 3--Xabat (Early-Front) (2P7(s); 3P6(s); 5P3 (Zabala)

2 singles 1 doubles

For the week: 15 singles 23 doubles.

Ibon led the roster with 4 wins in a performance. Ibon also led the roster with most wins in the most performances, with 3.

C. Weekly leaders in wins, with the leader's week

Leading Winners:

Ibon (late-back) 11(35) .314

Diego (late-front) 8(31) .258

In the Money Leaders

Ibon (late-back) 19(35) (11-5-3) .543

Jairo (early-front) 16(32) (7-7-2) .500

Erik (late-front) 16(32) (7-5-4) .500

Iturbide (early-front) 16(34) (7-7-2) .471

11 players had 5 or more wins

Weekly Leader's week: forthcoming

Complete roster statistics for the week. Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board. Note: I wish I didn't have to copy out these figures, but Tiger's Board is so active that these posts quickly change "pages." Which means that they are dynamic URLs. It is what it is, and is a testament to the activity on the board.

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Ibon      35 11 5 3 .314 19 .543

Diego     31 8 1 5 .258 14 

Jairo     32 7 7 2  16 .500

Erik      32 7 5 4  16 .500

Iturbide  34 7 4 5  16 

Ladutxe   22 6 6 1 .273 13 .591

Zulaika   32 5 9 1  15 

Xabat     33 5 8 2  15 

Barandika 34 5 7 3  15 

Elizalde  38 5 6 3  14 

Amigorena 32 5 1 4  10 

Bailo     34 4 5 4  13 

Leke      37 4 4 4  12 

Zabala    38 4 4 4  12 

Urtaran   35 4 2 4  10 

Ubilla    36 4 0 6  10 

Israel    34 3 7 4  14 

Minte     34 3 5 7  15 

Elgezabal 27 3 5 4  12 

Larrea    35 3 5 4  12 

Beitia    32 3 4 4  11 

Ithurria  34 3 3 4  10 

Foronda   30 3 1 7  11 

Spinner   33 3 1 4  8 

Chasio    32 2 6 5  13 

Urbieta   33 2 5 5  12 

Salegi    34 2 4 8  14 

Arrieta   31 2 2 7  11 

Goitia    34 1 2 4  7 

Medrano   32 1 2 1  4 

Anndy     18 1 0 3  4

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The week of March 13-17, 2019

Complete cumulative Dania Statistics: through March 17, 2019 Matinee.

A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations (cumulative, through March 17). Note: Winning combinations that have over 20 separate trifectas will be listed as "Many".

13: 1-2-6

12: None

11: 1-3-2; 3-2-5

10: 1-3-7; 6-3-1

9: 1-5-2; 3-1-7; 4-1-6; 6-1-5

8: 2-3-1; 2-4-1; 3-6-2; 4-1-2; 4-2-3; 5-1-3; 5-4-1; 6-2-5; 8-2-6; 8-3-6

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B. Leading winners by performance:

This week, in the matches won by the daily leading winners, 14 were singles matches, 24 were doubles matches. (Bolded doubles matches were only counted once.) Ladutxe (early-back), Erik (late-front), and Israel (late-back) led the roster with 3 wins in a performance.

The following players won or tied for most wins in the most performances (2):

Ladutxe (early-back)

Erik (late-front)

Diego (late-front);

Urbieta (late-back);

Zulaika (late-front)

Arrieta (late-front)

3/13(M)--3 Ladutxe (early-back) (Game 1 Post 4 (singles); 2P1(s); 6P6 (Jairo))

3/13(E)--2

A. Ladutxe (early-back) (2P5(s); 4P2 (Goitia))

B. Bailo (early-back) (5P7 (Iturbide); 6P3 (Anndy))

C. Diego (late-front) 7P1 (Urbieta); 10P3(s)

D. Urbieta (late-back) 7P1 (Diego); 9P3 (Jairo)

3/14(E)--3

A. Erik (late-front) (6P5 (Yeche); (7P3 (Leke); 8P2 (Elgezabal))

B. Israel (late-back) (9P6 (Arrieta; 11P5(s); 12P4(s))

3/15(E)--2

A. Elizalde (early-back) (1P2(s); 4P8 (Beitia))

B. Zulaika (late-front) (6P4 (Elgezabal); 7P2 (Bailo))

C. Elgezabal (late-back) (6P4 (Zulaika); 12P4(s))

D. Erik (late-front) 8P8 (Amigorena); 9P2 (Urtaran))

3/16(M)--2

A. Arrieta (late-front) (7P7 (Leke); 8P6 (Ubilla))

B. Amigorena (late-back) (11P2(s); 12P5(s))

3/16(E)--2

A. Minte (early-back) (2P3(s); 3P1(s))

B. Diego (late-front) (4P7 (Spinner); 10P1(s))

C. Urbieta (early-back) (5P3 (Medrano); 12P3(s))

D. Zulaika (late-front) (6P1 (Ladutxe); 7P7 (Ubilla))

E. Ubilla (late-back) (7P7 (Zulaika); 11P6(s))

5 players with 2 wins. Half of the 10 wins were in singles matches.

3/16(M)--2

A. Iturbide (early-front) (5P3 (Chasio); 6P6 (Elizalde))

B. Arrieta (late-front) (8P6 (Amigorena); 10/8(s))

Links are to exact results pages

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C. Weekly leaders in wins, with the leader's week

Leading Winners:

Ladutxe (early-back) 8(33) .242

Elgezabal (late-back) 7(41) .171

Diego (late-front) 7(32) .219

Erik (late-front) 7(31) .226

In the Money Leaders

Amigorena (late-back) 18(40) (5-7-6) .450

Barandika (late-front) 17(31) (3-9-5) .548

Ladutxe (early-back; late-back) 17(33) (8-4-5) .515

14 players had 5 or more wins

The best word to describe Dania this week is parity. Ladutxe led all winners with 8, and three other players had 7. Another measure of parity is that only 3 players (see above) were able to win 3 games in a performance. Jon Zulaika came back in the middle of the week (3/15) and hit the ground running with 2 of his 5 wins for the week in the 16 games he played. This coming week, Ibon Aldazabal is scheduled to return to action after recovering from hernia surgery in early February. Ladutxe won (or shared) the most wins in a week for the 4th time this season. Only Erik has done that more times (6). There is a lively discussion on Tiger's Bulletin Board about whether or not Ladutxe should be an early or late game player. Also on what any of these numbers mean in a schedule that, at present, has 6 singles and 6 doubles games, rather than the usual 4-8 singles doubles mix. Why the change was made has not, to my knowledge, been disclosed (please correct me if I have missed that). I am assuming it had something to do with the large number of scratches that plagued the roster for a long time. In any event, Ladutxe's week should be an interesting look into just how, and when, he does it.

An anomaly to Ladutxe's week was that he missed a day's play. Given that, his load was slightly above normal for the performances he played. Some people on the discussion board think he is taking advantage of all of his singles games, but that wasn't necessarily true this week. He had more doubles wins than singles wins. He played all his games early (G1-G6). He started the week like a house on fire (5 ITMs, 4 wins in 6 games), stayed hot the second performance (he led or tied for performance wins those two performances), but then cooled off considerably. He did well in the early games, but not spectacularly. Of course we can't know how he would have done on 3/15 had he played. A .242 win percentage is good but not overwhelming. But there is nothing wrong with a .515 ITM. And when I watch him play, I see the skills and body language of a late game player.

Here is Ladutxe's week.

Date-Performance-Game number-Post number-Finish (1-2-3 or X--out of the money)-Double's partners name (wins only).

Note: as of now, G1-3 and G10-12 are singles games. G 4-9 are doubles games.

3/13(M) G1P4F1; G2P1F1; G3P7F2; G4P5FX; G5P2F3; G6P6F1 (Jairo)

A terrific start. All early games, 5 ITMS, In the money in every singles game. ITM from P1, P2, P4, P5, P6, P7. Singles wins: 2, Doubles wins: 1. Leads roster in performance wins. 6-3-1-1-1X

Entries: Results (Note: none of these data take into account scratches, for which we have no data at this time.)

3/13(E) G1P6F2; G2P5F1; G4P2F1 (Goitia); G5P4FX; G6P7FS

On fire. All early games. 5 consecutive ITMs, 8 of his first 9, 5 singles matches in 2 performances, 3 wins. 2 2nd places. Wins from P2, P5. Singles wins 1, Doubles wins 1; ties for lead in performance wins 5-2-1-0-2X

Entries: Results

3/14(E) G1P6FX; G2P2F3; G4P8FX; G5P1F1 (Arrieta); G6P7FX

Cools off a bit. All early games. Wins from P1. 5-1-0-1-3X

Entries: Results

3/15(E) DID NOT PLAY

Entries: Results

3/16(M) G1P5FX; G2P1F3; G3P3F2; G4P2F2; G5P7FX; G6P6FX

Only 1 win in last two performances he played in. All early games. 6-0-2-1-3X

Entries: Results

3/16(E) G1P6FX; G2P4FX; G4P8FX; G5P1FX; G6P1F1 (Zulaika)

Breaks 6 Out of the money streak with a win with Zulaika. All early games. 1 Doubles win from P1. 5-1-0-0-4X

Entries: Results

3/17(M) G1P3FX; G2P1F3; G3P8F3; G4P4F1 (Beitia); G5P2FX; G6P5FX

Finishes with 4 ITMs in 6 games. All early games. 1 Doubles win from P4. Finishes week with 3 singles wins and 5 doubles wins. 2 of the singles wins came in 1st performance of the week. 6-1-0-2-3X
Entries: Results

33-8-4-5-16X

All 33 games were early (G1-6). 15 singles matches, 18 doubles matches.

Singles: 15-3-3-4-5X
Doubles:18-5-1-1-11X

Dania Jai Alai, Week of March 13-17, 2019

Complete roster statistics for the week. Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board. Note: I wish I didn't have to copy out these figures, but Tiger's Board is so active that these posts quickly change "pages." Which means that they are dynamic URLs. It is what it is, and is a testament to the activity on the board.

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Ladutxe   33 8 4 5  17 .535

Elgezabal 41 7 6 3  16 

Diego     32 7 5 3  15 

Erik      31 7 1 4  12 

Urbieta   30 6 2 5  13 

Arrieta   31 6 1 3  10 

Amigorena 40 5 7 6  18 

Minte     36 5 7 3  15 

Iturbide  33 5 6 2  13 

Medrano   37 5 3 3  11 

Israel    38 5 3 3  11 

Zulaika   16 5 3 2 .313 10 .625

Elizalde  26 5 2 1  8 

Jairo     35 5 1 8  14 

Goitia    36 4 5 7  16 

Bailo     26 4 3 2  9 

Chasio    33 4 1 8  13 

Barandika 31 3 9 5  17 .548

Leke      31 3 6 3  12 

Yeche     24 3 4 3  10 

Foronda   31 3 3 5  11 

Ubilla    37 3 2 6  11 

Anndy     33 3 1 5  9 

Spinner   37 2 6 4  12 

Urtaran   38 2 5 5  12 

Salegi    29 2 5 4  11 

Larrea    35 2 4 5  11 

Arta      18 2 4 2  8 

Beitia    16 2 2 0  4 

Ithurria  33 1 6 3  10 

Xabat     35 1 5 5  11 

Zabala    26 1 4 3  8

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The week of March 6-10, 2019

Complete cumulative Dania Statistics: through March 10, 2019 Matinee.

A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations (cumulative, through March 10). Note: Winning combinations that have over 20 separate trifectas will be listed as "Many".

11: 3-2-5

10: 1-2-6; 1-3-2; 1-3-7

9: 3-1-7; 4-1-6; 6-1-5

8: 1-5-2; 2-4-1; 5-1-3; 8-2-6

7: 1-2-5; 1-4-2;

2-1-6; 2-3-1; 2-3-8;

3-1-4; 3-6-2; 3-7-1; 3-8-1;

4-1-2; 4-2-3;

5-4-1

6-2-5

8-4-2; 8-5-1

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B.  Leading winners by performance:










3/6(M)--4 Arrieta (late-front) (G7P1 (Ladutxe); 9P7 (Urtaran); 10P6; 11P2)




3/6(E)--2

A. Bailo (early-back) (1P6; 5P2 (Xabat))

B. Barandika (late-front (8P8 (Ladutxe); 9P5 (Ladutxe))

C. Ladutxe (late-back) (8P8 (Barandika);9P5 (Barandika))




3/7(E)--3 Bailo (early-back) (2P3; 4P8 (Foronda); 5P5 (Jairo))




3/8(E)--2

A. Yeche (early-back) (1P6; 6P1 (Xabat)

B. Ladutxe (late-back) (7P6 (Medrano); 11P8)

C. Diego (late-front) (8P4 (Elgezabal); 10P7)

D. Elgezabal (late-back) (8P4 (Diego); 9P2 (Arrieta))




3/9(M)--3 Diego (late-front) (7P6 (Leke); 9P8 (Urbieta); 10P3)




3/9(E)--2

A. Ubilla (early-back) (1P4; 5P1 (Medrano))

B. Yeche (early-back) (2P4; 4P2 (Foronda))

C. Medrano (early-front) (3P5; 5P1 (Ubilla))

D. Erik (late-front) (8P1 (Ladutxe); 10P8)



3/10(M)--3 Erik (late-front) (6P3 (Minte); 7P2 (Elgezabal); 9P7 (Urtaran))








Links are to exact results pages


















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C. Weekly leaders in wins, with the leader's week

Leading Winners:

Bailo (early-back) 10(40) .250

Ladutxe (early-back) 9(38) .237

In the Money Leaders

Ladutxe (late-back) 20(38) (9-8-3) .526

Barandika (late-front) 18(36) (7-9-2) .500

Bailo (early-back) 18(40) (10-6-2) .450

11 players had 5 or more wins

Anything statistical that happened at Dania this week was overshadowed by a serious leg injury to Tevin (Leon Shepard) (late-front) this weekend. He tore his right quadriceps muscle and will be out indefinitely (Jai Alai News Facebook). Tevin began his career in 1992 at Milford, Connecticut, later played at Miami for many years, and at Dania the last couple. 27 years in the trenches of Quiniela Jai Alai. I started watching him late in his career, and he has been a joy to watch. Great hustle all the time and a great love for the game. We all wish him a speedy recovery and hope to see him back in action soon.

About 6 years ago sbnation.com did a long form article on Jai Alai was built around a Tevin workday. Many of you are familiar with it, but for those who might not be, you can read it here.

As far as the week goes, Bailo was the leading winner in 2 performances, in which he got half his wins for the week. He was shut out the first performance, He was in the money multiple games every performance after that. He was in the money from each post position.

Here are Bailo's ITMs for the week.

3/6(M): None
3/6(E): Game 1 Post 6 Finish 1; G4P3F2 (Jairo); G5P2F1 (Xabat);
3/7(E): G2P3F1; G4P8F1 (Foronda); G5P5F1 (Jairo); G6P7F3 (Iturbide);
3/8(E): G3P3F2; G4P1F1 (Jairo); G6P2F2 (Foronda)
3/9(M):G2P7F2; G4P4F1 (Goitea); G6P2F1 (Medrano)
3/9(E): G1P3F2; G6P1F2 (Barandika)
3/10(M): G3P3F1; G5P7F1 (Goitia); G6P4F3 (Xabat)

10 Wins; 6 2nds; 2 3rds

Dania Jai Alai, Week of March 6-10, 2019

Complete roster statistics for the week. Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board. Note: I wish I didn't have to copy out these figures, but Tiger's Board is so active that these posts quickly change "pages." Which means that they are dynamic URLs. It is what it is, and is a testament to the activity on the board.

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Bailo     40 10 6 2 .250 18 

Ladutxe   38 9 8 3  20 .526

Erik      31 8 4 5 .258 17 .548

Barandika 36 7 9 2  18 .500

Diego     34 7 6 4  17 .500

Yeche     35 7 5 5  17 

Minte     35 7 2 8  17 

Arrieta   38 6 4 5  15 

Urbieta   35 6 3 6  15 

Medrano   35 5 4 1  10 

Urtaran   27 5 2 3  10 

Jairo     37 4 5 5  14 

Iturbide  33 4 5 4  13 

Goitia    38 4 3 9  16 

Ubilla    27 4 3 3  10 

Amigorena 31 4 2 7  13 

Elgezabal 28 4 2 3  9 

Salegi    39 3 6 5  14 

Foronda   31 3 5 6  14 

Ithurria  37 3 4 8  15 

Xabat     36 3 1 2  6 

Leke      35 2 7 2  11 

Arta      28 2 5 4  11 

Elizalde  35 2 5 1  8 

Zabala    35 2 4 7  13 

Spinner   32 2 4 3  9 

Israel    17 1 4 1  6 

Tevin     23 1 3 4  8 

Anndy     22 1 2 4  7 

Larrea    25 0 3 2  5 

Chasio    35 0 0 2  2

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The week of February 27-March 3, 2019

Complete cumulative Dania Statistics: through March 3, 2019 Matinee.

A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations (cumulative, through March 3). Note: Winning combinations that have over 20 separate trifectas will be listed as "Many".

11: 3-2-5

10: 1-2-6

9: 1-3-2

8: 2-4-1; 4-1-6; 5-1-3; 8-2-6

7: 1-3-7; 2-1-6; 3-1-7; 3-6-2; 6-1-5; 6-2-5; 8-5-1

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B. Leading winners by performance

2/27(M)--3 Ladutxe (early-back) (G1P4; 2P1 (Foronda); 4P8)

2/27(E)--4 Barandika (late-front) (8P5 (Salegi); 9P7 (Salegi); 11P1 (Israel); 12P8 (Urbieta)

2/28(E)--3

A. Diego (late-front) (2P4 (Yeche); 9P5 (Elgezabal); 10P1)

B. Yeche (early-back) (2P4 (Diego); 3P3 (Foronda); 5P2 (Medrano))

3/1(E)--2

A. Iturbide (early-front) (4P4 (Spinner); 6p1 (Larrea))

B. Larrea (early-back) (5P4 (Foronda); 6P1 (Iturbide));

C. Leke (late-back) (7P2 (Erik); 8P3 (Barandika)

Note: G4 and G7 were doubles games.

3/2(M)--2 (Note: Erik's 15 performance streak with at least 1 win comes to an end)

A. Elizalde (early-back) (4P3 (Foronda); 6P8 (Jairo))

B. Barandika (late-front) (7P1 (Zabala); 9P4 ((Urbieta))

C. Arrieta (late-front) (8P3 (Salegi); 10P7)

3/2(E)--2

A. Salegi (late-front) (4P6 (Goitia); 11P3)

B. Amigorena (late-back) (6P5 (Jairo); 9P5 (Erik))

C. Arrieta (late-front) (7P3 (Zabala); 8P8 (Israel))

D. Erik (late-front) 9P5 (Amigorena); 10P2)

3/3(M) 3--Elgezabal (late-back) (7P8 (Erik); 9P4 (Diego); 12P5)

Links are to exact results pages

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C. Weekly leaders in wins, with the leader's week

Barandika (late-front) won the most matches with 12(38) .361
Ladutxe (early-back) was 2nd with 9(34) .265

Barandika led in ITMs with 26(38) (12-7-7) .684
Diego (late-front) was 2nd with 18(33) (7-6-5) .545

11 players had 5 or more wins

Barandika led or tied for the most number of wins in 2 performances, including 4 wins, all in late doubles games, with 3 partners, in the February 27 Evening performance. Ladutxe was the leading winner in 1 performance. Arrieta (late-front) led or tied for the lead in wins in 2 performances. He won 4 matches for the week. Erik (late-front), last week's leading winner with 12, won half that many this week. He played 30 games this week, as opposed to 42 last week. On March 2, in the Matinee, his streak of 15 performances with at least 1 win came to an end. It was his second long performance win streak of the season. From the January 12th Matinee through the January 25th Evening performance, he won at least 1 game in 14 consecutive performances.

Without reliable scratch information, which is unavailable at this time due to technical issues, there is no way to really analyze Barandika's week. The fact that Dania, due to the extraordinary number of scratches, I presume, changed its schedule on March 1, 2019 to include an equal number (6) of singles (G1, G2, G3, G10, G11, G12) and doubles game whereas before then the mix was 8 doubles and 4 singles (G1, G4, G7, G10) games, throws into doubt the old style analysis would be of much use. So many of the variables that make it more difficult to win are now missing half the time. In any event, I can provide a map of Barandika's ITMs and partners. Not much use in the context of when he didn't win, which pretty much renders the whole exercise about as useful as a T Rex's front legs, but... here goes.

2/27(M) Game 5 Post Position 3 Finish 1 Partner (Larrea); G6P5F2 (Minte); G8P2F1 (Salegi); G9P1F2 (Urbieta); G11P4F2 (Elgezabal); G12P7F3 (Amigorena)

2/27(E) G8P5F1 (Salegi); G9P7F1 (Salegi); G11P1F1 (Israel); G12P8F1 (Urbieta)

3/1(E) G8P3F1 (Leke); G9P1F2 (Israel); G10P2F3

3/2(M) G7P1F1 (Zabala); G8P8F2 (Zabala); G9P4F1 (Urbieta); G10P6F3

3/2(E) G9P4F3 (Leke)

3/3(M) G7P2F3 (Amigorena); G8P3F2 (Elgezabal); G9P1F2 (Salegi); G10P8F1

This was all I could find going through the results pages for the week. It adds to 10-7-5. He was, according to the Dania end of week statistics, 12-7-7. The results pages obviously do not match up with the stats figures. Dania's stat sheet for close of play for March 3 shows Barandika with:

280 games played; 42 Wins; 45 2nd Place; 41 3rd Place

For February 24, 2019, the previous week.

242 games played 30W; 38 2nd; 34 3rd
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12 7 7. Nothing more that I can do, and it is a bit disconcerting if the Dania daily results do not equal the weekly stat sheets. But it is what it is. And there is always the possibility that I missed something. Early players are playing Late and vice versa, which makes it more difficult to go through the results pages looking for "Barandika." So lets just leave it with this. Barandika had a terrific week, including a fantastic performance on the evening of February 27.

Dania Jai Alai, Week of February 27-March 3, 2019

Complete roster statistics for the week. Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board. Note: I wish I didn't have to copy out these figures, but Tiger's Board is so active that these posts quickly change "pages." Which means that they are dynamic URLs. It is what it is, and is a testament to the activity on the board.

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Barandika 38 12 7 7 .316 26 .684

Ladutxe   34 9 3 3 .265 15 

Diego     33 7 6 5  18 .545

Elgezabal 31 7 4 4  15 

Zabala    32 6 5 4  15 

Medrano   37 6 4 4  14 

Erik      30 6 4 1  11 

Salegi    33 6 4 0  10 

Leke      32 5 6 4  15 

Amigorena 32 5 2 7  14 

Yeche     36 5 1 4  10 

Ithurria  37 4 8 4  16 

Elizalde  31 4 7 3  14 

Foronda   38 4 6 6  16 

Goitia    35 4 5 5  14 

Bailo     32 4 5 3  12 

Israel    32 4 4 5  13 

Arrieta   36 4 3 7  14 

Jairo     40 4 2 11  17 

Larrea    27 4 2 5  11 

Xabat     37 3 6 3  12 

Iturbide  37 3 5 6  14 

Spinner   36 3 5 4  12 

Urbieta   31 3 4 3  10 

Arta      40 2 5 5  12 

Tevin     36 2 5 4  11 

Ubilla    32 2 4 3  9 

Anndy     42 2 1 0  3 

Urtaran   33 1 6 7  14 

Minte     17 1 2 2  5 

Chasio    31 0 1 2  3 

Goixerri  8 0 0 1  1

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The week of February 20-24, 2019

Complete cumulative Dania Statistics: through February 24, 2019 Matinee.

A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations (cumulative, through February 24). Note: Winning combinations that have over 20 separate trifectas will be listed as "Many".

9: 1-2-6; 1-3-2; 3-2-5

8: 4-1-6

7: 2-4-1; 3-1-7; 6-1-5; 8-2-6; 8-5-1

1-2-5; 1-3-7; 1-4-2; 1-7-4;

2-7-5;

3-1-6; 3-2-1; 3-6-2; 3-7-1

5-1-3;

7-4-2

5: Many

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B. Leading winners by performance

2/20(M)--3 Ladutxe (back-early) (G1P8; 2P3 (Anndy); 6P4 (Anndy))

2/20(E)--3 Bailo (b-e) (2P3 (Medrano); 3P1 (Foronda); 5P6 (Foronda))

2/21(E) 2

A. Jairo (front-early) (4P2; 6P6 (Minte))

B. Barandika (front-late) (8P8 (Chasio); 10P2)

C. Israel (f-l) (9P7 (Iturbide); 11P8 (Erik))

D. Erik (f-l) (11P8 (Israel); 12P1 (Salegi))

2/22(E)--3 Elgezabal (back-late) (8P5 (Erik); 9P1 (Diego); 11P7 (Tevin))

2/23(M)--3 Zabala (back-early) (1P6; 2P7 (Ithurria); 6P2 (Arrieta))

2/23(E) 3

A. Foronda (front-early) (2P7 (Larrea); 3P2 (Ladutxe); 9P3 (Elgazabal))

B. Ladutxe (back-early) (3P2 (Foronda); 4P1; 5P3 (Iturbide))

2/24(M) 3

A. Yeche (back-early) (2P3 (Anndy); 4P1; 6P2 (Arrieta))

B. Arrieta (front-late) (5P7 (Bailo); 6P2 (Yeche); 9P1 (Urbieta))

Links are to exact results pages

C. Weekly leaders in wins, with the leader's week

Under Construction

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Dania Jai Alai, Week of February 20-24, 2019

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      42 12 4 5 .286 21 .500

Ladutxe   33 9 6 3 .273 18 .545

Foronda   46 8 9 6  23 .500

Bailo     32 8 4 3 .250 15 

Iturbide  42 6 7 4  17 

Diego     40 6 6 5  17 

Barandika 39 6 5 9  20 .513

Elgezabal 32 6 4 2  12 

Anndy     43 6 3 4  13 

Elizalde  36 6 1 4  11 

Arrieta   42 5 9 3  17 

Amigorena 36 5 8 6  19 .528

Salegi    38 5 5 6  16 

Tevin     39 5 3 4  12 

Zabala    31 5 2 6  13 

Medrano   45 4 6 3  13 

Yeche     35 4 4 4  12 

Urbieta   35 4 3 5  12 

Ithurria  39 3 8 6  17 

Leke      38 3 5 6  14 

Ubilla    32 3 4 9  16 .500

Urtaran   33 3 4 0  7 

Chasio    34 3 3 4  10 

Israel    28 3 3 2  8 

Beitia    20 3 1 4  8 

Larrea    28 2 6 2  10 

Minte     25 2 4 2  8 

Jairo     18 2 3 0  5 

Xabat     45 2 2 10  14 

Spinner   37 1 4 5  10 

Arta      10 0 2 0  2 

Goitia    45 0 1 8  9 

Zulaika   2 0 1 0  1

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The week of February 13-17, 2019

Complete cumulative Dania Statistics: through February 17, 2009 Matinee.

A. Top 5 trifecta winning combinations (cumulative, through February 17). Note: Winning combinations that have over 20 separate trifectas will be listed as "Many".

8: 1-2-6; 1-3-2; 3-2-5; 4-1-6

7: 6-1-5

6: 1-7-4; 2-4-1; 2-7-5; 8-2-6

5: Many

4: Many

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B. Most wins per performance

Most wins for the week of February 13-17, 2019

2/13(M) 3--Ladutxe (back-early) (G2P8 (Goixerri); 3P3 (Jairo); 6P1 (Anndy))

2/13(E) 2
A. Xabat (front-early) (3P2 (Spinner); 4P8)
B. Spinner (back-early) (3P2 (Xabat); 5P8 (Iturbide))
C. Leke (back-late) (9P7 (Arrieta); 12P8 (Goitia)

2/14(E) 3
A. Barrandika (front-early) (2P8 (Yeche); 3P1 (Israel); 8P8 (Amigorena)
B. Amigorena (back-late) (7P2; 8P8 (Barandika); 12P7 (Erik))
C. Zulaika (front-late) (9P7 (Urbieta); 10P3; 11P1 (Urturan))

2/15(E) 3--Zulaika (front-late) (6P3 (Yeche); 8P7 (Elgazabal); 12P2 (Chasio))

2/16(M) 3
A. Ladutxe (early-back) (1P8; 8P1 (Zulaika); 9P7 (Arrieta))
B. Diego (front-late) (5P3 (Minte); 6P1 (Elizalde); 10P4)

2/16(E) 3--Urbieta (late-back) (8P8 (Barandika); 9P5 (Erik); 11P4 (Tevin))

2/17(M) 3
A. Leke (late-back) (7P3; 9P4 (Erik); 12P2 (Ithurria))
B. Erik (late-back) (9P4 (Leke); 10P2; 11P5 (Yeche))

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C. Weekly Wins leaders

Ladutxe (early-back) 12(47) .255
Zulaika (late-front) 11(41) .268

In the Money leaders:

Zulaika (late-front) 27(41) .659 (11 Wins; 7 Places; 9 Shows)
Ladutxe (early-back) 26(47) .553 (12W 7P 7S)

13 players had 5 or more wins.

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Once again the week was plagued by scratches, which Tiger has taken the time and effort to research. He must feel like Hercules and Sysiphus (the labor only, not why Sysiphus had to do the labor :) ) combined. With a little Hephaestus thrown in for good measure.

83! of the 672 (12.3%) post positions (12*8*7) (feedback is welcome if my calculations are in error) were effected by scratches. 58 of the 84 games (69%) were effected. By my count 5 players scratched, which effected the workload of 17 players, a little less than half of the entire roster. 11 players played 40 or more games. Ladutxe (early-back) played 47. Zabala (early-back) and Barandika (late-front) played 44. The standard workload is 35. Once again, it is important to look at the entire Dania roster as a team. Early players played late. Late players played early. The show went on. They got the job done, as they always do. High Cesta to all of them. And here's hoping that everyone plays again soon.

Zulaika (late-front) (who also played over 40 games), had the best winning and ITM percentage, but Ladutxe (early-back), with his staggering workload, won the most games. So we will look at his week in detail. He is, at the moment, an early game player. This week he played in 9 late games. He played 47, I could only find 46. The error is mine, but the 47th game, wherever it came, was an out of the money game.

It was an interesting week, as Ladutxe got off to a fast start (3 wins in the first performance of the week), sputtered in the middle, and took off like a rocket late in the week, when for all practical purposes he should have been exhausted. From the 2/13(E) through the 2/15(E) performances he had only 3 wins. But then the last three performances of the week yielded 6 wins and 10 consecutive ITMs (11 of 13). His late games yielded 3 wins. He played 11 singles matches and won 5. His post position win pattern was almost the opposite of what you would expect: P1-3: 3 wins; P4-5: 1 win, P6: 1 win, P7-8: 7 wins. Of the P7-8 wins, 3 came in late games. He won with 6 different partners.

Here is a complete breakdown of Ladutxe's games.

Note: Games 1,4,7, and 10 are singles games. All other games are doubles games.

Performance Date and Time--Games-Wins-Places-Shows-Out of the Money (X)--number of early and late games-(player=Partner-number of partner wins) *=known substitute

Early games=Game 1-6; late games=Game 7-12

2/13(M) 7-3-1-0-3 (early 5, late 2)

G1P6FX; (G2P8F1) (Goixerri-1); G3P3F1 (Jairo-2); G5P7FX; G6P1 (Anndy-2) G11P4FX; G12P5F2

Early games:

Post1-3: 2W
P4-5: None
P6: 1X
P7-8: 1W 1X

Late games:

P4-5: 1P 1X

2/13(E) 5-0-0-1-4 (early 5)

G1P2FX; G2P3FX; G3P8FX; G5P6FX; G6P5F3

Early games:

P1-3: 2X
P4-5: 1S
P6: 1X
P7-8: 1X

2/14(E) 9-1-1-2-5 (early 6; late 3)

G1P7FX; G2P6FX; G3P8FX; G4P3F1*; G5P7FX; G6P3F3 G8P6F2*; G11P6FX; G12P1F3

Early Games:

P1-3: 1W 1S
P4-5: None
P6: 1X
P7-8: 3X

Late Games:

P1-3: 1S
P6: 1P 1X

2/15(E) 7-2-1-1-3 (early 6; late 1)

G1P6FX; G2P1F2; G3P4F3*; G4P7F1; G5P8FX; G6P7FX; G7P5F1;

Early games:

P1-3: 1P
P4-5: 1S
P6: 1X
P7-8: 1W 2X

Late games:

P7-8: 1W

2/16(M) 7-3-1-0-3 (early 5 late 2)

G1P8F1; G2P2F2; G3P7FX; G5P1FX; G6P5FX; G8P8F1* (Zulaika-11); G9P7F1* (Arrieta-7)

Early games:

P1-3: 1P 1X
P4-5: 1X
P6: None
P7-8: 1W 1X

Late games:

P7-8: 2W

2/16(E) 5-1-2-2-0 (5 early)

G1P4F3; G2P3F2; G3P1F2; G5P6F3; G6P8F1 (Xabat-5)

Early games

P1-3: 2P
P4-5: 1S
P6: 1S
P7-8: 1W

2/17(M) 6-2-1-1-2 (early 5 late 1)

G1P4F1; G2P6F1 (Iturbide--5); G3P8FX; G5P1F3; G6P2F2; G7P4FX*

Early games:

P1-3: 1P 1S
P4-5: 1W
P6: 1W
P7-8: 1X

Late games:

P4-5: 1X

In addition, he played 1 game I couldn't find. But it had to be out of the money.

47-12-7-7-21

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Complete roster statistics for the week. Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board. Note: I wish I didn't have to copy out these figures, but Tiger's Board is so active that these posts quickly change "pages." Which means that they are dynamic URLs. It is what it is, and is a testament to the activity on the board.

Name     GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Ladutxe  47 12 7 7 .255 26 .553

Zulaika  41 11 7 9 .268 27 .659

Erik     41 9 7 4  20 

Leke     35 9 3 5 .257 17 

Arrieta  42 7 7 4  18 

Yeche    40 7 4 5  16 

Barandika 44 6 7 4  17 

Elizalde  39 6 5 0  11 

Bailo    41 5 7 2  14 

Spinner  40 5 6 6  17 

Iturbide  36 5 6 3  14 

Xabat    36 5 4 4  13 

Urbieta  35 5 2 4  11 

Diego    34 4 7 3  14 

Foronda  31 4 5 3  12 

Ithurria  43 4 4 7  15 

Medrano  38 3 5 5  13 

Urtaran  35 3 5 4  12 

Elgezabal 31 3 4 6  13 

Larrea   30 3 4 5  12 

Salegi   35 3 4 5  12 

Tevin    40 3 3 5  11 

Amigorena 15 3 2 3  8 

Minte    35 2 6 4  12 

Chasio   35 2 6 2  10 

Zabala   44 2 2 9  13 

Israel   20 2 2 3  7 

Jairo    6 2 2 0 .333 4 .667

Anndy    38 2 1 10  13 

Beitia   36 1 4 6  11 

Goitia   35 1 1 3  5 

Goixerri  22 1 1 0  2

I am working on data for the weeks Jan. 16-20, 23-27, 30-February 3, and 6-10.

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Weekly Leaders in wins for the week of January 9-13, 2019

Before getting into specifics, it should be noted that this was an incredibly challenging week for the entire roster at Dania. By my count, seven players (out of an active roster of 34 at the moment) scratched for some or all of the week's performances. 26 players were substituted for these scratches (2, Laduxte (early back) and Anndy (early front) were both scratches and substitutes). 52% (44 of 84) of the week's games were effected. The vast majority of those games were late games. 13.5% (91 of 672) of the total posts for the week were effected. An average work load (5 games per performance) is 35 games a week. 25 players played more than that. 8 players played 40 or more games, led by Medrano, Xabat, and Goixerri (all early front), who led the roster with 44 games each (132-9-10-18 cumulatively). Goixerri (see below under January 2-6 post), after gently dipping his toes in the water in his first week (13 games), was thrown into the Mariana Trench this week and survived to tell the tale. Being professionals, players are expected to pick up the slack when their opponents scratch. In large measure, this entire roster is a team, paid to do a job. And they really stepped up this week. High cesta to all of them.

Erik (late front) was the wins leader this week with 12 in 39 games, for a winning percentage of .308. Three players--Ladutxe (early back) 8-33, Ibon (late back) 8-37, and Arta (early back) 8-38, tied for second. 14 players had 5 or more wins.

Leading In the Money Finishers

Erik 23 (12-8-3) .590. Ladutxe (8-4-8) 20-33 and Ibon (8-9-3) 20-37 tied for second.

Erik had his heaviest workload in the last performance of the week, 9 games. He had his regular workload of 5 games for every other performance. In the Sunday (January 13) Matinee he substituted four times and won twice. He really hit his stride on Saturday, winning 5 consecutive games over the two performances. In the five performances from Thursday through Sunday, beginning with Game 11 Thursday and ending with Game 3 on Sunday he was in the money 15 times in 19 games. He won 9 of them. He won with 9 partners. He helped account for Urturan's only win, and 1/3 of Salegi's, Amegorena's, and Spinner's wins. But to appreciate the hunger and desire of a great quiniela player, see his results below for Sunday. In his last three games of the week, his 7th 8th and 9th of the day, he had two places and a win.

If Erik was a baseball player, his line would have looked like this.

Games-win-place-show

5-1-1-0
5-1-2-0
5-2-0-0
5-0-1-2
5-3-0-1
5-2-2-0
9-3-2-0

39-12-8-3

He played 16 games in Post 1-3 (13 in late games) and 11 in Post 7-8 (10 in late games). He won more Post 7-8 than Post 1-3 late games. More than half his out of the money finishes (10) came in the first four performances.

His post position record looked like this.

Games-W-P-S-X (win-place-show-out of the money)

In early games:

Post 1-3: 3-2-0-0-1
Post 7-8: 1-0-0-0-1

4-2-0-0-0-2

In late games:

Post 1-3: 13-2-5-2-4
Post 4-5: 8-3-2-0-3

Post 6: 4-2-0-0-2

Post 7-8: 10-3-1-1-5

35-10-8-3-14
+ 4-2-0-0-2

39-12-8-3-16

Here is Erik's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1, G4, G7, and G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. There are 12 games per performance. *=substitute. Partner key: A=Amigorena; E= Elgezabal; I=Ibon; L=Leke; Sa=Salegi; Sp=Spinner; Urb=Urbieta; Urt=Urtaran; Z=Zabala

1/9(M): G8P7F2; G9P8F1 (Sa-3); G10P5FX; G11P2FX; G12P4FX
1/9(E): G8P6FX; G9P4F2; G10P3F2; G11P7F1 (Urt-1); G12P7FX
1/10(E): G8P2FX; G9P8FX; G10P1FX; G11P5F1 (I-8); G12P6F1 (Urb-4)
1/11(E): G8P3F3; G9P5FX; G10P2F2; G11P7F3; G12P6FX
1/12(M): G8P7FX; G9P2F3; G10P3F1; G11P4F1 (I-8); G12P6F1 (L-4)
1/12(E): G8P7F1 (A-3); G9P3F1 (E-6); G10P8FX; G11P2F2; G12P1F2

1/13(M): *G2P1F1 (Z-5); *G3P2F1 (Sp-3); *G5P7FX; *G6P1FX; G8P7FX; G9P2FX; G10P5F2; G11P1F2; G12P4F1 (Sa-3)

Complete roster statistics for the week. Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board. Note: I wish I didn't have to copy out these figures, but Tiger's Board is so active that these posts quickly change "pages." Which means that they are dynamic URLs. It is what it is, and is a testament to the activity on the board.

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      39 12 8 3 .308 23 .590

Ibon      37 8 9 3  20 .541

Ladutxe   33 8 4 8  20 .606

Arta      38 8 4 4  16 

Arrieta   38 8 1 2  11 

Ithurria  40 7 8 3  18 

Iturbide  42 7 6 8  21 .500

Bailo     36 7 6 4  17 

Elgezabal 36 6 5 4  15 

Medrano   44 6 3 5  14 

Jairo     42 5 6 4  15 

Zabala    37 5 4 7  16 

Tevin     39 5 4 7  16 

Foronda   36 5 4 5  14 

Ubilla    37 4 7 6  17 

Zulaika   35 4 6 3  13 

Urbieta   37 4 4 8  16 

Leke      37 4 4 2  10 

Yeche     37 4 2 5  11 

Amigorena 39 3 5 8  16 

Xabat     44 3 5 5  13 

Spinner   40 3 5 4  12 

Anndy     35 3 3 6  12 

Salegi    39 3 2 4  9 

Goenaga   43 2 10 2  14 

Minte     36 2 5 3  10 

Elizalde  37 2 3 3  8 

Urtaran   10 1 2 0  3 

Beitia    14 1 0 4  5 

Goixerri  44 0 2 8  10 

Barandika 10 0 2 1  3 

Chasio    7 0 1 1  2 

Diego     2 0 0 0  0

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Weekly Leaders in wins for the week of January 2-6, 2019

Four players, 3 back courters and 1 front courter--2 early gamers and 2 late gamers, tied for the lead with 8 wins. Leke (late-back) won 8 times in 35 games. Arta (early-back) 8 in 36, Erik (late-front) 8 in 37, and Minte (early-back) 8 in 38. For purposes of the top winner's week, game by game, we will use the highest winning percentage as tie breaker, Leke. 16 players had 5 or more wins.

Leading In the Money Finishers:

Ibon (late-back) 21 (6-10-5 in 35 games); Jairo (early-front) 21 (6-9-6 in 38 games)

Leke had a steady, unspectacular, but effective week. In addition to his 8 wins, he had 3 places and 4 shows, 15 in the money finishes in 35 games. He won with 6 different partners and had excellent success in his singles games (3 wins, 2 shows in 7 games). His largest in the money streak was 5 games. He was in the money in every performance. If Leke was a baseball player his line would look like this:

Games-wins-places-shows

5-2-0-0
5-0-1-1
5-2-1-1
5-1-0-1
5-2-1-0
5-0-0-1
5-1-0-0

35-8-3-4

He won from more difficult starting posts than easy ones.

Games-W-P-S-X (win-place-show-out of the money)

Post 1-3: 13-2-1-2-8
Post 4-5: 9-3-1-0-5

Post 6: 6-1-1-1-3

Post 7-8: 7-2-0-1-4

35-8-3-4-20

Here is Leke's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1, G4, G7, and G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. There are 12 games per performance. *=substitute. Partner key: A=Arrieta; D=Diego; Itu=Iturbide; Ith=Ithurria; T=Tevin; Z=Zulaika.

1/2--(M): G7P4F1; G8P3FX; G9P8F1(Z-4); G11P6FX; G12P1FX
1/2--(E): G7P2F3; G8P7FX; G9P1FX; G11P3FX; G12P6F2
1/3--(E): G7P6F3; G8P2F1(T-3); G9P5F1(Itu*-7); G11P3F2; G12P1FX
1/4--(E): G7P4FX; G8P7F1(D-6); G9P3F3; G11P5FX; G12P1FX
1/5--(M): G7P2F1; G8P3FX; G9P7FX; G11P4F2; G12P6F1(Ith-5)
1/5--(E): G7P5FX; G8P4FX; G9P7F3; G11P6FX; G12P8FX
1/6--(M): G7P5F1; G8P4FX; G9P2FX; G11P7FX; G12P6FX

Note: DJA introduced a new player this season, Giotxerri (early-front). A glimpse of him can be seen here (youtube, 10:31). He had an inauspicious debut, 13 games played, 1 win, 1 place, 1 show, but showed some promise. In the second week of the season, due to an undetermined (as yet) number of scratches he had substituted in 5 games through January 12, and was listed as playing in 44 games for the week. He had 2 places and 8 shows. And hopefully a not too sore arm. :)

Complete roster statistics for the week. Source: Tiger's Chalk Talk Bulletin Board. Note: I wish I didn't have to copy out these figures, but Tiger's Board is so active that these posts quickly change "pages." Which means that they are dynamic URLs. It is what it is, and is a testament to the activity on the board

Name GP W P S Win% ITM Money%
Arta 36 8 5 6 19 .528
Minte 38 8 4 4 16
Erik 37 8 3 6 17
Leke 35 8 3 4 15
Ladutxe 36 7 6 3 16
Iturbide 38 7 2 8 17
Ibon 35 6 10 5 21 .600
Jairo 38 6 9 6 21 .533
Diego 37 6 8 4 18
Xabat 25 6 3 1 10
Zabala 35 5 9 6 20 .571
Barandika 37 5 8 2 15
Ithurria 37 5 7 2 14
Amigorena 35 5 4 6 15
Medrano 37 5 3 1 9
Foronda 37 4 5 3 12
Salegi 36 4 4 4 12
Zulaika 28 4 3 6 13
Urbieta 35 4 3 5 12
Arrieta 35 4 2 6 12
Elgezabal 35 3 6 4 13
Beitia 37 3 4 2 9
Tevin 35 3 3 6 12
Spinner 37 3 3 5 11
Ubilla 35 3 3 2 8
Yeche 35 2 4 6 12
Anndy 37 2 3 8 13
Elizalde 36 2 1 3 6
Bailo 33 1 4 4 9
Urtaran 37 1 1 3 5
Goixerri 13 1 1 1 3
Israel 4 1 0 1 .250 2 .500
Goenaga 39 0 6 7 13

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Final Standings for the 2016 Winter season

Erik won the triple crown for the winter season with most wins (170), championship singles (39), and championship doubles (23). He had a whopping 70 more wins than second place Zulaika. He was the only player on the roster with a win percentage of over .200 and finished .78 percentage points ahead of second place Diego. He was the only player on the roster who had an in the money percentage of over .500 and finished .111 percentage points ahead of second place Echeva. Jairo played the most games with 633, 4 more than second place Erik.

Final standings for the 2016 summer season (which was a short season--May and June 2016).

Erik won the triple crown for the summer season with most wins (59), championship singles (12) and championship doubles (15). He was one of only two players on the roster with a win percentage of over .200 and he was .45 percentage points ahead of the second place Barandika. Leke had the highest in the money percentage (.551), the only player on the roster over .500 and .55 percentage points ahead of second place Barandika. Diego and Jairo played the most games (243).

Final Standings for the Dania 2016 Fall Season

There was no triple crown competition because of the Dania Team Jai Alai competition. For the season, Erik won the most games with 128. Leke was 2nd with 83. Diego was 3rd with 77. Erik led in winning percentage with .281, the only player on the roster over .200. Leke was 2nd with .175, Israel 3rd with .174. Erik lead in the money percentage with .602. Leke was 2nd with .488. Diego was 3rd with .488. Barandika played the most games with 522. Aimar played 513. Zulaika played 485.

Two sorts of player statistics and a link to a complete recap of the 2016 Dania Team Jai Alai competition are available.

Player standings sorted by wins and wins by playing position

A complete recap of the 2016 Dania Team Competition

Hit the back arrow to get back here from these two pages. If you hit "back to the update" at the bottom of either page, you will return to the main blog article that they are linked to. From there you can return to this page by clicking on the "Dania Jai Alai weekly leaders" page on the right side of the main blog.

Leading weekly winners for the 2016 Fall season (beginning with the week ending Sep. 17, 2016). Erik was the weekly wins leader for the Fall 2016 season with more than all the other weekly leaders combined.

Erik 10; Diego 2; Arbe 1; Arrieta 1; Ibon 1; Leke 1; Salegi 1; Zulaika 1

Most wins in a full week: Erik 17. Least wins to lead a full week: Erik 8.

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Leading weekly leaders for the 2017 Spring season (through the week ending April 15, 2017).

Erik 8 * **; Leke 5; Jairo 2*; Arrieta 1; Bailo 1; Barandika 1; Iturbide 1; Urbieta 1***

Most wins in a full week: Erik 13 (twice) and Leke . Fewest wins in a full week: Bailo 8.

* One of these was the "short" week January 9-14(M)

** Erik actually led the weekly leaders for the 8 game period of January 9-14 that included the 9/14(E) performance with 12. He was listed for a short week (see * above), because the rest of the roster's statistics were for that period.

*** Erik led the weekly winners for January 14(E)-21(E), a period of 9 performances, rather than the usual 8, because the statistics for the rest of the roster were for that period. The actual leader for the normal 8 match period from January 16(E)-January 21(E) was Urbieta, with 11 wins. Because of that, I am giving Urbieta credit for one weekly leader for that period.

Final standings for the Dania Winter 2017 Season

Erik won the triple crown for the third consecutive season (not counting the 2016 Fall season, when there was no triple crown competition due to the Dania Team Competition--he led all winners in that competition). He finished with 134 wins, 25 more than 2nd place Leke. He won the championship singles with 26, 6 more than 2nd place Aimar, and he won the championship doubles (front) with 31, 14 more than 2nd place Arrieta. In addition he won the most team wins-all games with 19 (with Urbieta), 7 more than any other team. He led weekly winners 8 times, 3 more than 2nd place Leke. He had the most wins to lead a week with 13 (twice). His winning percentage was .257, the only player on the roster over .200. Leke was second with a .186 percentage. Erik also led the in the money percentage with .536, .90 points higher than Leke, who finished 2nd. Erik played 521 games, 15th most on the roster. Leke played the most games with 585.

Erik was the story of the Winter 2017 season any way you look at it. But another story is beginning to emerge. Leke, the 22 year old back court player, is beginning to emerge as a factor on the Dania roster. For the second consecutive season he has finished runner up to Erik for most wins. And, after Erik dominated the Fall 2016 season weekly leaders (10, 8 more than 2nd place Diego), Leke emerged as a real challenger in that category this season. Leke is still mostly an early games player at Dania, but his progression both at Dania and in last summer's Partido season in the Basque Country (where he played under the name Lekerika), has been very interesting to watch.

Dania now takes a short hiatus before a short summer season that begins on May 2,

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For the week ending April 15, 2017

It is only fitting that Erik, who won his third consecutive triple crown, was the weekly leader for this, the final week of the Dania 2017 Winter season. He was the weekly leader with 10 wins. Garita and Urbieta tied for 2nd with 8. 12 players had 5 or more wins. Garita led the in the money finishes with 25. Iturbide was 2nd with 21. Erik had a steady week, in the money in every performance, with 2 wins in three performances. If Erik was a baseball hitter his line would look like this:

Games-W-P-S

4-0-1-1
4-2-1-0
4-1-0-0
4-1-0-1
4-2-0-1
6-2-1-0
4-1-0-0
6-1-2-0

36-10-5-3

Slightly less than half his starts came from advantageous post postitions. Like any good player, he took advantage, getting 60% of his wins from those starts.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 16-6-1-1-8
P4-5: 7-2-2-0-3

P6: 4-0-1-0-3

P7-8: 9-2-1-2-4

36-10-5-3-18

He won with 7 partners.

Here is Erik's week

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. NOTE: Beginning with the March 11 Matinee, the games have changed. Games 4 and 7, which were 7 pt singles, are now 7pt doubles. Games 5 and 6, which were 7 point doubles, are now 7 pt singles. *=substitute.. Partner key: A=Amigorena; B=Bailo; C=Chasio; G=Garita; I=Ibon; L=Leke; U=Urbieta

4/10(E)--G7P1F3; G8P4F2; G9P2FX; G10P3FX
4/11(M)--G7P2FX; G8P7F1(A-5); G9P3F1(C-4); G10P8F2
4/11(E)--G7P4FX; G8P1FX; G9P8FX; G10P2F1
4/12(E)--G7P1FX; G8P6FX; G9P2F1(G-8); G10P7F3
4/13(E)--G7P3F1(U-8); G8P4F1(L-7); G9P8FX; G10P7F3
4/14(E)--G2P1F1(I-4); G3P7F1(B-3); G7P6F2; G8P2FX; G9P5FX; G10P4FX
4/15(M)--G7P3FX; G8P1F1(I-4); G9P8FX; G10P6FX
4/15(E)--G2P6FX; G3P2FX; G7P4F1(C-4); G8P7FX; G9P1F2; G10P5F2

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik      36 10 5 3 .278 18 .500

Garita    42 8 11 6  25 .595

Urbieta   36 8 5 2  15 

Barandika 43 7 4 5  16 

Leke      35 7 4 4  15 

Iturbide  40 6 5 10  21 .525

Larrea    35 6 3 4  13 

Elgezabal 34 6 2 4  12 

Amigorena 40 5 8 5  18 

Arbe      39 5 5 6  16 

Ithurria  40 5 4 7  16 

Arrieta   35 5 1 5  11 

Jagoba    40 4 8 2  14 

Aimar     35 4 6 3  13 

Zulaika   36 4 6 3  13 

Diego     31 4 5 4  13 

Ibon      40 4 4 4  12 

Xabat     41 4 4 3  11 

Zabala    30 4 4 2  10 

Chasio    29 4 1 5  10 

Bailo     38 3 8 2  13 

Beitia    36 3 6 4  13 

Foronda   36 3 4 3  10 

Jairo     35 3 3 8  14 

Salegi    35 2 4 5  11 

Israel    37 2 2 6  10 

Urtaran   39 1 3 7  11 

Elizalde  16 1 2 2  5 

Minte     15 0 1 4  5

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For the week ending April 8, 2017

Leke, with 10 wins, led the weekly winners for the 3rd time in the last 4 weeks, Garita was 2nd with 9. 11 players had 5 or more wins. Foronda led the in the money finishes with 28. Garita was 2nd with 24. Leke was in the money in every performance. He had multiple wins in 4 performances. If Leke was a baseball hitter his line would look like this.

Games-W-P-S

6-2-0-0
6-2-1-1
5-0-0-2
6-2-1-0
5-1-0-2
5-0-1-1
6-2-1-0
4-1-0-1

43-10-4-7

He had a heavy workload this week, with more than 4 games in every performance but one. He had his most games in the most and least advantageous post positions. His record for the week reflected that.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 15-5-2-3-5
P4-5: 9-2-0-1-6

P6: 7-2-0-1-4

P7-8: 12-1-2-2-7

43-10-4-7-22

He won with 5 partners.

Here is Leke's week.

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. NOTE: Beginning with the March 11 Matinee, the games have changed. Games 4 and 7, which were 7 pt singles, are now 7pt doubles. Games 5 and 6, which were 7 point doubles, are now 7 pt singles. *=substitute.. Partner key: A=Aimar; D=Diego; Ith=Ithurria; Itu=Iturbide; X=Xabat.

4/3(E)--G1P5FX; G2P8FX; G3P2F1(X-4); G4P6FX; G5P1FX; G6P7F1
4/4(M)--G1P4F1; G2P6F3; G3P3F1(Itu-5); G4P2F2; G6P7FX; G7P5FX
4/4(E)--G1P8F3; G2P5FX; G3P1F3; G4P3FX; G6P6FX
4/5(E)--G1P6F1; G2P7F2; G3P8FX; G4P5FX; G6P2FX; G7*P2F1(D-8)
4/6(E)--G1P3F1; G2P1F3; G3P8FX; G4P4F3; G7*P6FX
4/7(E)--G1P6FX; G2P7F2; G3P5FX; G4P3F3; G5P8FX
4/8(M)--G1P1F1; G2P7FX; G3P3FX; G4P5FX; G8*P2F2; G9P4F1(A-5)
4/8(E)--G1P1FX; G2P8FX; G3P7F3; G4P6F1(Ith-8)

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Leke 43 10 4 7 21

Garita 39 9 10 5 24 .615

Ithurria 40 8 5 3 16

Diego 35 8 2 4 14

Zulaika 37 7 5 8 20 .541

Foronda 43 6 14 8 28 .651

Bailo 38 6 9 5 20 .526

Barandika39 6 2 5 13

Aimar 39 5 8 2 15

Iturbide 43 5 5 3 13

Jairo 38 5 1 4 10

Elgezabal38 4 8 4 16

Jagoba 44 4 5 3 12

Xabat 38 4 5 2 11

Zabala 22 4 3 4 11 .500

Salegi 39 4 2 6 12

Amigorena41 4 2 5 11

Erik 14 4 1 4 .286 9 .243

Arbe 39 4 0 6 10

Arrieta 35 3 7 5 15

Elizalde 38 3 6 2 11

Urtaran 37 3 3 6 12

Larrea 27 3 2 2 7

Urbieta 36 2 5 6 13

Ibon 39 2 3 3 8

Chasio 9 2 2 1 5 .556

Beitia 35 1 6 4 11

Israel 25 1 2 6 9

Minte 34 1 1 5 7

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For the week ending April 1, 2017

Bailo was the leading winner with 8 wins. Zulaika and Iturbide tied for 2nd with 7. 16 players had 5 or more wins. Zulaika led the in the money finishes with 21. Foronda, Salegi, and Erik tied for 2nd with 18. This was the second consecutive successful week for Bailo. Last week he led the in the money finishes with 23 (38-5-9-9). This week he was 38-8-6-2). He was in the money in every performance. If Bailo was a baseball batter his line would look like this:

Games-W-P-S

4-1-1-0
5-1-1-1
4-0-2-0
5-0-1-0
6-1-0-0
4-1-1-0
5-1-0-0
5-3-0-1

38-8-6-2

The highlight of the week for Bailo was the last performance of the week, where he won almost half of his total and was in the money 4 times in 5 starts. He drew fairly advantageous post positions and did his best from the best positions.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 16-4-4-1-7
P4-5: 9-2-1-0-6

P6: 5-1-1-0-3

P7-8: 8-1-0-1-6

38-8-6-22

He won with 5 partners.

Here is Bailo's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. NOTE: Beginning with the March 11 Matinee, the games have changed. Games 4 and 7, which were 7 pt singles, are now 7pt doubles. Games 5 and 6, which were 7 point doubles, are now 7 pt singles. *=substitute.. Partner key: Arb=Arbe; Arr=Arrieta; B=Barandika; D=Diego; X=Xabat

3/27(E)--G1P7F1; G2P8FX; G3P2F2; G4P6FX
3/28(M)--G1P4FX; G2P1F3; G3P5F1(D-6); G4P3FX; G7P6F2
3/28(E)--G1P4FX; G2P5F2; G3P2FX; G4P3F2
3/29(E)--G1P7FX; G2P8FX; G3P5FX; G4P3FX; G5*P3F2
3/30(E)--G1P7FX; G2P3FX; G3P6FX; G4P5F1(Arb-6); G8P2FX; G9P4FX
3/31(E)--G6P3F2; G7P5FX; G8P2FX; G9P6F1(Arr-6)
4/1(M)--G1P3FX; G2P1F1(Arb-6); G3P5FX; G4P8FX; G5P6FX
4/1(E)--G1P8F3; G2P2F1(X-4); G3P3F1(B-1); G4P7FX; G7P1F1(D-6)

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Bailo 38 8 6 2 16

Zulaika 37 7 7 7 21 .568

Iturbide 40 7 2 2 11

Arrieta 39 6 8 2 16

Arbe 39 6 6 5 17

Ibon 37 6 4 6 16

Elgezabal35 6 4 5 15

Foronda 42 6 2 10 18

Diego 37 6 2 0 8

Salegi 38 5 6 7 18

Erik 40 5 6 7 18

Urbieta 37 5 6 4 15

Chasio 38 5 4 2 11

Aimar 36 5 3 7 15

Amigorena34 5 3 5 13

Zabala 39 5 2 3 10

Leke 39 4 8 5 17

Xabat 36 4 8 4 16

Ithurria 40 4 6 4 14

Garita 32 4 5 2 11

Minte 40 4 3 6 13

Jagoba 35 3 4 1 8

Urtaran 36 3 2 9 14

Beitia 38 3 2 8 13

Elizalde 35 2 4 3 9

Barandika37 1 6 9 16

Jairo 16 1 4 0 5

Larrea 18 1 3 1 5

Israel 16 1 2 2 5

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For the week ending March 25, 2017

Leke was the leading winner for the 2nd consecutive week with 10 wins. Iturbide was 2nd with 9. 9 players had 5 or more wins. Bailo led the in the money finishes with 23. Zabala and Barandika were 2nd with 18. Leke's week had bookend performances of 6 and 7 games. Other than that, his workload was fairly normal. He played in 17 "A" games (G7-10). Last week he played in only 11 "A" games. Whether this was a scheduling quirk or a sign of things to come remains to be seen. He is a tremendous talent that, it seems to me, is wisely being brought along slowly. However, playing with the "A" group is in his future. He more than held his own in last summer's Basque Country partido season (he is listed as Lekerika in that player table). It will be interesting to follow his development, and it is always a joy to watch him play. If Leke was a baseball hitter his line would look like this:

Games-W-P-S

6-2-0-0
4-0-0-1
5-1-0-0
4-1-0-0
4-1-0-0
5-1-0-1
4-2-0-1
7-2-0-2

39*-10-0-5

* I have Leke playing 39 games. Tiger has him playing 38. I am trying to figure out the discrepancy. I will let you know if and when I find it or am notified of my mistake.

Leke's schedule was slightly top heavy with advantageous positions, and he took advantage, winning 70% of his games from P1-3.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 16-7-0-3-6
P4-5: 10-2-0-1-7

P6: 5-0-0-1-4

P7-8: 8-1-0-0-7

39-10-0-5-24

He won with 7 partners.

Here is Leke's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. NOTE: Beginning with the March 11 Matinee, the games have changed. Games 4 and 7, which were 7 pt singles, are now 7pt doubles. Games 5 and 6, which were 7 point doubles, are now 7 pt singles. *=substitute.. Partner key: B=Barandika; D=Diego; F=Foronda; G=Goitia; Ith-Ithurria; Itu=Iturbide Z=Zulaika

3/20(E)--G2P2FX; G3P1F1(F-7); G6P6FX; G7P5F1(D-4); G8P3FX; G9P8FX
3/21(M)--G6P4FX; G7P6FX; G8P5F3; G9P8FX
3/21(E)--G4P7FX; G6P5FX; G7P8FX; G8P6FX; G9P3F1(B-3)
3/22(E)--G6P8FX; G7P2FX; G8P3F1(Z-3); G9P5FX
3/23(E)--G6P2F1; G7P8FX; G8P3FX; G9P6FX
3/24(E)--G2P4FX; G3P3FX; G4P2F1(Ith-4); G5P1F3; G6P5FX
3/25(M)--G2P1F1(Itu-9); G3P6F3; G4P3F1(G-3); G5P5FX
3/25(E)--G1P2FX; G2P3F3; G3P4F1(F-7); G4P7F1(Itu-9); G5*P7FX; G8P1F3; G9P5FX

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Leke 38 10 0 5 .263 15

Iturbide 35 9 2 5 .257 16

Erik 34 8 6 3 17 .500

Aimar 33 8 3 5 16

Foronda 34 7 5 4 16

Elgezabal36 6 4 2 12

Chasio 31 6 3 6 15

Bailo 38 5 9 9 23 .605

Amigorena36 5 4 8 17

Zabala 36 4 6 8 18 .500

Ithurria 34 4 6 4 14

Arbe 33 4 5 7 16

Salegi 38 4 5 5 14

Larrea 41 4 4 3 11

Diego 34 4 3 5 12

Jagoba 39 4 2 2 8

Barandika34 3 12 3 18 .529

Urbieta 34 3 9 2 14

Garita 28 3 6 4 13

Minte 37 3 5 2 10

Zulaika 29 3 3 5 11

Beitia 33 3 2 5 10

Jairo 36 3 2 2 7

Goitia 33 3 1 3 7

Ibon 33 3 1 2 6

Urtaran 30 2 4 5 11

Arrieta 34 2 4 4 10

Manex 16 2 1 1 4

Xabat 32 1 6 6 13

Elizalde 33 1 4 3 8

Arta 12 1 1 0 2

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For the week ending March 18, 2017

Leke was the leading winner with 13. Urbieta was 2nd with 10. 11 players had 5 or more wins. Leke also led the in the money finishes with 24. Urbieta was 2nd with 21. Leke had a heavy but unbalanced workload. He played as few as 3 games on 3/14. He played 6 games four times and 5 games twice. He is an early game player but he played in late games (G6-10) 15 times. He was in the money in every performance. He won multiple games in half his performances. If Leke was a baseball hitter his line would look like this:

Games-W-P-S

6-3-1-1
5-0-1-1
3-2-0-0
6-3-0-0
4-1-0-1
6-2-2-0
6-1-0-2
5-1-1-1

41-13-5-6

His wins were spread evenly among post positions.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 15-5-4-0-6
P4-5: 11-4-0-4-3

P6: 3-1-0-0-2

P7-8: 12-3-1-2-6

41-13-5-6-17

He won with 7 partners. Half of Goitia's 6 wins came with Leke.

Here is Leke's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. NOTE: Beginning with the March 11 Matinee, the games have changed. Games 4 and 7, which were 7 pt singles, are now 7pt doubles. Games 5 and 6, which were 7 point doubles, are now 7 pt singles. *=substitute (none this week). Partner key: Arb=Arbe; Arr=Arrieta; D=Diego; F=Foronda; G=Goitia; I=Ithurria; X=Xabat.

3/13(E)--G2P3F1(F-7); G3P5FX; G6P2F2; G7P6F1(Arr-5); G8P7F3; G9P8F1(D-4)
3/14(M)--G4P4F3; G6P3F2; G7P7FX; G8P5FX; G9P8FX
3/14(E)--G2P2F1(I-4); G3P4F1(G-6); G4P6FX
3/15(E)--G1P4F1; G2P2FX; G3P8F1(Arb-3); G4P1F1(X-5); G8P6FX; G9P7FX
3/16(E)--G1P5F1; G2P2FX; G3P4F3; G4P8FX
3/17(E)--G1P8F1; G2P3FX; G3P4F1(G-6); G4P2FX; G8P7F2; G9P1F2
3/18(M)--G2P2F1(I-4); G3P7FX; G4P8F3; G5P1FX; G8P5F3; G9P4FX
3/18(E)--G2P3F2; G3P1F1(G-6); G4P2FX; G5P7FX; G6P5F3

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Leke 41 13 5 6 .317 24 .585

Urbieta 42 10 7 4 21 .500

Erik 32 9 8 3 .281 20 .625

Zulaika 33 7 2 5 14

Amigorena36 7 2 5 14

Foronda 37 7 2 6 15

Goitia 33 6 5 3 14

Xabat 34 5 4 3 12

Larrea 37 5 5 6 16

Arrieta 33 5 6 7 18 .545

Elgezabal41 5 8 6 19

Diego 32 4 1 2 7

Iturbide 35 4 3 5 12

Ibon 38 4 3 9 16

Aimar 32 4 5 4 13

Bailo 39 4 5 5 14

Ithurria 34 4 7 1 12

Jagoba 39 4 7 3 14

Elizalde 36 3 2 0 5

Arbe 32 3 6 3 12

Jairo 32 2 0 3 5

Urtaran 24 2 1 1 4

Arta 33 2 2 10 14

Minte 36 2 3 6 11

Zabala 39 2 4 6 12

Chasio 36 2 8 4 14

Beitia 28 1 2 1 4

Salegi 37 1 7 4 12

Barandika33 1 8 7 16

Manex 10 0 0 0 0

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For the week ending March 11, 2017

Parity ruled for the second consecutive week at Dania, as once again nobody won 10 games. Erik led all winners with 9. Diego, Urbieta, and Bailo were 2nd with 8. 12 players had 5 or more wins. Leke led the in the money finishes with 20. Iturbide was 2nd with 18. The week was marked by a change in the order of games. Games 4 and 7, which were 7 point singles games, are now (beginning with the 3/11 Matinee) 7 point doubles games. Games 5 and 6, which were 7 point doubles, are now 7 point singles games. Erik had, for him, a rather ordinary week. He was shut out 8 consecutive times on 3/7, and 13 of 14 from 3/7--3/9. He went winless 14 consecutive games between 3/7 and 3/9. Still, he managed to win more than anyone else. He won 2 games in four performances and 1 game in one. Twice he won back to back games with the same partner, a bit of an anomaly. For the 2nd week in a row Dania's leading winner was out of the money more than in. If Erik was a baseball hitter his line would look like this:

Games-W-P-S

7-2-3-0
5-2-1-0
6-0-0-0
4-0-1-0
4-2-0-0
4-2-1-0
4-0-1-0
4-1-1-0

38-9-8-0

Nothing about his post position results really stood out.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 15-4-6-0-5
P4-5: 7-3-0-0-4

P6: 5-0-0-0-5

P7-8: 11-2-2-0-7

38-9-8-0-21

He played 3 G7 singles games and won 1. G7 is a game he seldom plays.

He won with 5 partners.

Here is Erik's week.

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. *=substitute. Partner key: B=Bailo; C=Chasio; L=Leke; Urb=Urbieta; Urt=Urtaran NOTE: Beginning with the March 11 Matinee, the games have changed. Games 4 and 7, which were 7 pt singles, are now 7pt doubles. Games 5 and 6, which were 7 point doubles, are now 7 pt singles.

3/6(E)--G2*P3F2; G3*P8F2; G5*P5F1(L-6); G6P8FX; G8P1FX; G9P1F1(Urt-3); G10P2F2
3/7(M)--G6P7F2; G7P8F1; G8P2F1(Urb-8); G9P3FX; G10P6FX;
3/7(E)--G2P1FX; G3P5FX; G6P2FX; G8P8FX; G9P6FX; G10P4FX
3/8(E)--G6P2F2; G7P7FX; G8P8FX; G9P6FX
3/9(E)--G6P7FX; G7P6FX; G8P4F1(B-8), G9P3F1(B-8)
3/10(E)--G6P3F2; G8P8F1(Urb-8); G9P4F1(Urb-8); G10P1FX
3/11(M)--G7P7FX; G8P6FX; G9P3F2; G10P5FX
3/11(E)--G7P2F1(C-7); G8P5FX; G9P7FX; G10P3F2

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik 38 9 8 0 17

Diego 34 8 4 4 16

Urbieta 37 8 4 3 15

Bailo 42 8 3 4 15

Chasio 40 7 6 3 16

Leke 46 6 7 7 20

Barandika37 6 4 6 16

Salegi 41 6 3 4 13

Goitia 35 6 2 7 15

Iturbide 35 5 10 3 18 .514

Foronda 33 5 6 1 12

Arbe 33 5 1 2 8

Arrieta 36 4 7 5 16

Ibon 38 4 6 3 13

Jairo 38 4 4 6 14

Aimar 38 4 2 7 13

Zabala 41 4 0 5 9

Elgezabal37 3 8 4 15

Jagoba 40 3 7 3 13

Urtaran 38 3 5 9 17

Minte 37 3 5 5 13

Larrea 34 3 4 4 11

Zulaika 28 3 3 5 11

Xabat 28 3 1 5 9

Beitia 25 2 6 0 8

Amigorena36 2 5 5 12

Arta 35 2 3 10 15

Ithurria 12 2 0 2 4

Elizalde 32 0 4 6 10

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For the week ending March 4, 2017

Leke, Barandika, and Jairo tied for the lead in a week of parity with 9 wins. Urbieta, Bailo, and Iturbide tied for 2nd with 8. 12 players had 5 or more wins. Since Barandika had the highest winning percentage, we will look at his week in detail. Leke and Urbieta shared the most in the money finishes with 20. 5 players (Barandika, Erik, Arrieta, Arbe, and Arta) tied for second with 17. Barandika's winning week was made in the last performance of the week, where he won 3 consecutive games. He was shut out of the win column in 2 of 8 performances, but did get into the ITM column in every performance. If Barandika was a baseball hitter his line would look like this.

Games-W-P-S

4-1-0-2
6-0-0-1
5-0-1-0
5-1-0-1
4-1-0-1
4-2-1-0
5-1-0-0
6-3-1-0

39-9-3-5

He received 16 starts in P1-3 and took advantage, winning 5 and getting 12 of his 17 ITMs from those posts. But he also won 3 of his 9 games in the P7-8 posts.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 16-5-2-5-4
P4-5: 9-1-1-0-7

P6: 5-0-0-0-5

P7-8: 9-3-0-0-6

39-9-3-5-22

He won with 4 partners. He won 4 games with Urbieta.

Here is Barandika's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. *=substitute. Partner key: E=Elgazabal; L=Larrea; Urb=Urbieta; Urt=Urtaran.

2/27(E)--G6P2F3; G8P1F1(Urb-8); G9P5FX; G10P3F3
2/28(M)--G2P2FX; G3P4FX; G6P8FX; G8P6FX; G9P7FX; G10P1F3
2/28(E)--G6P2F2; G7*P7FX; G8P1FX; G9P4FX; G10P8FX
3/1(E)--G5P7FX; G6P6FX; G8P1F3; G9P4FX; G10P8F1
3/2(E)--G6P2F1(E-5); G3P7FX; G4P5FX; G5P2F3
3/3(E)--G6P2F1(Urb-8); G8P6FX; G9P3F2; G10P8F1
3/4(M)--G6P1F1(Urb-8); G7P2FX; G8P4FX; G9P5FX; G10P6FX
3/4(E)--G2P3FX; G3P5F2; G6P2F1(Urb-8); G8P5F1(Urt-3); G9P8F1(L-4); G10P6FX

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Leke 46 9 7 4 20

Barandika39 9 3 5 17

Jairo 40 9 3 1 13

Urbieta 40 8 8 4 20 .500

Bailo 39 8 4 4 16

Iturbide 40 8 3 2 13

Erik 35 7 6 4 17

Arrieta 38 6 8 3 17

Diego 39 6 6 2 14

Arbe 38 6 5 6 17

Elgezabal41 5 5 5 15

Salegi 34 5 4 3 12

Larrea 41 4 9 2 15

Aimar 41 4 6 6 16

Foronda 40 4 5 6 15

Chasio 40 4 4 8 16

Xabat 38 4 2 3 9

Arta 41 3 6 8 17

Minte 43 3 6 3 12

Urtaran 38 3 5 7 15

Goitia 41 3 4 5 12

Garita 18 3 3 1 7

Zabala 43 2 2 9 13

Amigorena42 1 5 7 13

Beitia 23 1 3 9 13 .565

Ibon 36 1 3 7 11

Ithurria 6 1 2 1 4 .667

Israel 11 1 0 1 2

Jagoba 13 0 1 2 3

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For the week ending February 25, 2017

Erik was again the leading winner with 10. Chasio was 2nd with 9. 13 players had 5 or more wins. Erik also led the in the money finishes with 24. Leke and Goitia tied for 2nd with 20. Again, it was a solid, if unspectacular week. He had multiple wins in 3 performances and no wins in two. He had a streak of 5 consecutive games where he was in Post 1 (2/21(E) and 2/22(E)). He had 1 win, 1 place, and 1 show in those games. At the heart of his week were 4 consecutive wins across 2 performances on 2/21. He was ITM in 10 of his last 11 games. If he was a baseball hitter his line would look like this:

Games-W-P-S

5-1-0-0
4-3-1-0
4-2-1-0
4-0-1-1
4-1-0-2
4-1-2-0
4-2-1-1
5-0-1-3

34-10-7-7

Erik's post position performance was a little less impressive than last week. Only 2 of his 10 wins came from P 7-8. 5 came from P1-3. This was an almost mirror image of his February 18th week.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 14-5-3-2-4
P4-5: 9-3-2-2-2

P6: 3-0-1-1-1

P7-8: 8-2-1-2-3

34-10-7-7-10

He won with 5 partners. Half of Amigorena's wins came with Erik.

Here is Erik's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. *=substitute. Partner key: A=Amigorena, C=Chasio, G=Garita, I=Israel, U=Urbieta.

2/20(E)--G5*P6FX; G6P7FX; G8P3F1(C-9), G9P8FX, G10P4FX
2/21(M)--G6P1F2; G8P2F1(G-5); G9P5F1(I-6); G10P4F1
2/21(E)--G6P5F1(G-5); G8P3FX; G9P8F2; G10P1F1
2/22(E)--G6P1FX; G8P1F2; G9P1FX; G10P1F3
2/23(E)--G6P3FX; G8P1F1(A-6); G9P7F3; G10P4F3
2/24(E)--G6P8F1(A-6); G8P4FX; G9P6F2; G10P2F2
2/25(M)--G6P8F1(A-6); G8P5F3; G9P1F1(U-4); G10P4F2
2/25(E)--G5P6F3; G6P7FX; G8P2F3; G9P4F2; G10P8F3

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik 34 10 7 7 .294 24 .706

Chasio 41 9 3 6 18

Leke 41 8 5 7 20

Ithurria 36 7 6 3 16

Goitia 40 6 9 5 20 .500

Israel 39 6 7 1 14

Minte 38 6 5 4 15

Iturbide 40 6 4 4 14

Amigorena38 6 4 1 11

Urtaran 37 6 2 7 15

Jairo 39 6 1 4 11

Garita 40 5 3 7 15

Arrieta 37 5 3 5 13

Aimar 37 4 8 7 19 .514

Urbieta 41 4 8 7 19

Foronda 38 4 6 3 13

Xabat 40 4 4 9 17

Arbe 36 4 2 4 10

Arta 37 4 2 3 9

Diego 35 3 5 5 13

Larrea 39 3 5 4 12

Bailo 36 3 5 3 11

Barandika37 2 7 2 11

Zabala 37 2 6 5 13

Elgezabal19 2 1 5 8

Manex 8 1 3 2 6 .750

Zulaika 26 1 3 2 6

Salegi 6 1 1 1 3 .500

Ibon 42 0 3 4 7

Elizalde 10 0 0 1 1

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For the week ending February 18, 2017

Erik was the leading winner with 13. Goitia came in 2nd with 12. Bailo led the in the money finishes with 23. Goitia was 2nd with 22. 4 players had over 20 ITMs. 14 players had 5 or more wins. Erik had a solid if not spectacular week.He won in every performance. He had multiple wins in 5 of 8 performances. He had ITMs 8 games in a row from Feb. 15-17. If he was a baseball batter his line would look like this:

Games-W-P-S

5-2-0-0
4-1-0-1
4-1-0-0
6-2-1-1
4-2-2-0
4-2-0-1
4-1-0-0
4-2-1-1

35*-13-4-4

* I could find only 35 games for Erik, though he is listed with 36 for the week. The error is almost certainly mine, though, after checking 3 times through the games and substitutions, the location of the error has defeated me. I didn't check for him in the back court. Any help would be gratefully accepted.

Erik's post position performance shows just how talented a player he is. In the latest post positions (7-8), he played 9 games. He had 5 wins and 7 ITMs. In 9 singles matches, he won 4 and had 5 ITMs.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 11-3-1-2-5
P4-5: 10-5-1-1-3

P6: 5-0-1-0-4

P-7-8: 9-5-1-1-2

35*-13-4-4-14

He won with 6 partners. 4 of Manex' 5 wins were with Erik.

Here is Erik's week.

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. *=substitute (none this week). Partner key: I=Ibon, L=Leke, Ma=Manex, Mi=Minte, Urb=Urbieta, Urt=Urtaran.

2/13(E)--G6P5F1(I-2); G7P8F1; G8P4FX; G9P6FX, G10P2FX
2/14(M)--G6P5FX; G8P2FX; G9P3F3; G10P7F1
2/14(E)--G6P1F1(Ma-5); G8P8FX; G9P7FX; G10P3FX
2/15(E)--G2P8F1(Mi-3); G3P4F3; G6P5F1(Ma-5); G8P6FX; G9P3FX; G10P7F2
2/16(E)--G6P3F1(Urb-5); G8P1F2; G9P4F2; G10P7F1
2/17(E)--G6P4F1(Ma-5); G8P2F3; G9P3F1(Urt-5); G10P6FX
2/18(M)--G6P4FX; G8P2FX; G9P8F1(L-8); G10P6FX
2/18(E)--G6P4F1(Ma-5); G8P7F3; G9P6F2; G10P5F1

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik 36 13 4 4 .361 21 .583

Goitia 40 12 4 6 .300 22 .550

Leke 38 8 7 3 18

Foronda 37 8 0 5 13

Israel 40 7 4 4 15

Arrieta 38 7 4 2 13

Bailo 41 6 8 9 23 .561

Arbe 40 5 10 5 20 .500

Iturbide 40 5 7 4 16

Zulaika 34 5 5 3 13

Manex 41 5 5 3 13

Garita 44 5 4 9 18

Urbieta 38 5 3 2 10

Urtaran 36 5 2 5 12

Chasio 40 4 3 8 15

Larrea 36 4 1 4 9

Xabat 39 3 8 5 16

Amigorena37 3 7 5 15

Minte 34 3 5 5 13

Jairo 34 3 4 4 11

Arta 37 3 4 3 10

Zabala 12 3 3 0 .250 6 .500

Ibon 38 2 6 2 10

Diego 36 2 5 6 13

Elgezabal40 1 3 4 8

Aimar 16 1 0 4 5

Barandika37 0 7 7 14

Elizalde 34 0 4 6 10

Ithurria 11 0 1 1 2

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For the week ending February 11, 2017

Leke was the leading winner with 10. Diego and Erik were 2nd with 8. 11 players had 5 wins or more. Diego led the in the money finishes with 20. Manex was 2nd with 19. 14 players had 15 or more ITMs. Leke had 2 or more wins in half of his performances. He was in the money in every performance, including 10 games out of 11 in 3 performances from Feb. 7-8. If he was a baseball batter his line would look like this:

Games-W-P-S

4-2-0-0
4-2-1-0
4-3-0-1
6-0-1-0
4-2-0-0
4-1-0-1
7-0-0-3
4-0-1-0

37-10-3-5

His posts were unbalanced but his wins were quite balanced.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 16-3-2-3-8
P4-6: 12-4-1-1-6
P7-8: 9-3-0-1-5

37-10-3-5-19

He won with 7 different partners.

Here is Leke's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. *=substitute (none this week). Partner key: Arb=Arbe, Arr=Arrieta, Art=Arta, E=Elgezabal, F=Foronda, I=Iturbide, X=Xabat

2/6(E)--G2P7FX; G3P6FX; G4P5F1; G5P3F1(I-5)
2/7(M)--G2P7F1(Arb-7); G3P8F1(E-3); G4P2F2; G5P1FX
2/7(E)--G2P6F1(Art-3); G3P8F1(Arr-4); G4P2F3; G5P4F1(I-5)
2/8(E)--G2P2F2; G3P1FX; G4P4FX; G5P7FX; G8P3FX; G9P8FX
2/9(E)--G1P7FX; G2P3F1(F-4); G3P2FX; G5P5F1(X-5)
2/10-(E)--G1P1FX; G2P3F3; G3P4FX; G5P2F1(Arb-7)
2/11(M)--G1P7F3; G2P1F3; G3P6F3; G4P3FX; G5P2FX; G8P5FX; G9P4FX
2/11(E)--G1P5FX; G2P7FX; G3P6F2; G5P1FX

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Leke 37 10 3 5 .270 18

Diego 38 8 8 4 20 .526

Erik 33 8 5 3 16

Arbe 38 7 8 3 18

Ibon 34 7 5 4 16

Bailo 35 7 4 5 16

Amigorena40 7 3 4 14

Iturbide 40 6 4 5 15

Xabat 37 5 8 3 16

Manex 40 5 6 8 19

Barandika36 5 5 3 13

Urbieta 37 4 5 4 13

Arrieta 38 4 5 4 13

Zulaika 40 4 5 4 13

Goitia 37 4 4 8 16

Elizalde 35 4 4 3 11

Chasio 35 4 3 3 10

Jairo 39 4 2 10 16

Foronda 39 4 1 7 12

Minte 38 4 1 3 8

Zabala 38 3 8 6 17

Elgezabal40 3 4 8 15

Arta 39 3 4 2 9

Israel 34 2 7 6 15

Urtaran 39 2 7 4 13

Larrea 36 2 2 4 8

Garita 34 1 4 4 9

Aimar 14 1 2 0 3

Salegi 4 0 1 1 2 .500

TOTALS 1024 128 128 128 384

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For the week ending February 4, 2017

Arrieta had the most wins with 9. It was the first week this season that a leader led the roster with less than 10 wins for a full week. Iturbide was 2nd with 8. Manex and Diego led the in the money finishes with 19. Erik and Zulaika had 18. Arrieta's wins were spread fairly evenly throughout the week. If he was a baseball batter his line would look like this:

Games-W-P-S

4-0-1-0
4-2-1-0
5-2-0-1
4-0-0-1
4-0-0-0
4-1-0-0
5-2-0-0
6-2-0-0

36-9-2-2

It was basically a steady, unspectacular week in which wins were fairly evenly distributed among the roster. Arrieta was able to get the most wins even though he was shut out in in 3 performances. 14 players had 5 wins or more. Arrieta's post positions were unbalanced. His wins mostly came from the first 6 post positions.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 13-4-2-0-7
P4-6: 14-4-0-1-9
P7-8: 9-1-0-1-7

36-9-2-2-23

Almost half of his wins came in singles matches. He won with 5 different partners.

Here is Arrieta's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. *=substitute. Partner key: C=Chasio, Ib=Ibon, Is=Israel, L=Larrea, U=Urtaran

1/30(E)--G6P8FX; G8P5FX; G9P2F2; G10P4FX
1/31(M)--G6P1F2; G8P4F1(Ib-5); G9P7FX; G10P6F1
1/31(E)--G6P4F1(Is-4); G7P2F1; G8P8FX; G9P7F3; G10P3FX
2/1(E)--G6P6F3; G8P8FX; G9P4FX; G10P1FX
2/2(E)--G6P8FX; G8P3FX; G9P5FX; G10P1FX
2/3(E)--G6P3F1(U-1); G8P7FX; G9P2FX; G10P5FX
2/4(M)--G6P6FX; G7*P1F1; G8P5FX; G9P3F1(C-2); G10P4FX
2/4(E)--G5*P7F1(L-6); G6P2FX; G7P6F1; G8P4FX; G9P8FX; G10P3FX

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Arrieta 36 9 2 2 .250 13

Iturbide 36 8 4 2 14

Manex 40 7 9 3 19

Erik 36 7 7 4 18 .500

Diego 35 7 5 7 19 .543

Minte 35 6 6 2 14

Urbieta 36 6 5 4 15

Leke 35 6 4 5 15

Larrea 36 6 4 4 14

Aimar 37 6 4 4 14

Ibon 27 5 5 4 14 .519

Amigorena38 5 3 7 15

Goitia 41 5 3 7 15

Salegi 36 5 2 6 13

Zulaika 34 4 7 7 18 .529

Arbe 34 4 6 7 17 .500

Zabala 38 4 6 3 13

Jairo 34 4 6 1 11

Elgezabal38 4 5 3 12

Israel 27 4 4 2 10

Foronda 31 3 6 3 12

Barandika34 3 2 4 9

Bailo 39 3 1 5 9

Chasio 36 2 5 4 11

Arta 37 1 5 7 13

Urtaran 37 1 4 6 11

Xabat 35 1 3 5 9

Garita 14 1 1 3 5

Ithurria 16 1 0 2 3

Elizalde 36 0 4 5 9

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

For the week ending January 28, 2017

Erik once again dominated the roster with 13 wins. Urbieta and Garita tied for second place with 10. Erik also led the in the money finishes with 23. Iturbide was second with 20.

If Erik was a baseball batter his lines would look like this:

Games-W-P-S

5-1-1-1
4-0-1-0
4-0-0-0
6-4-1-0
5-3-1-0
6-2-1-1
4-2-1-0
5-1-1-1

39-13-7-3

He started off the week very slowly, with only 1 win and 4 ITMs in his first 13 games. But then, propelled by a great Wednesday Evening performance, he won games in every performance from Wednesday through the end of the week, In that stretch he had multiple wins in every performance but 1, with 5 wins in a row at one point, and 6 out of 7 at another. He had 12 wins and 19 ITMs in his last 26 games. He had uneven post distribution; P1-3 (41%), P4-6 (28%), P7-8 (31%). Again, like last "week", his wins were somewhat evenly distributed through all his posts.

G-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 16-5-4-2-5
P4-6: 11-4-0-1-6
P7-8: 12-4-3-0-5

39-13-7-3-16

The fact that he was able to rack up such numbers in 5/8 of a week's work makes you wonder exactly what kind of numbers he could rack up if he has an entire week where he is clicking on all cylinders.

He won with 7 partners.

Here is Erik's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. *=substitute, none this week. Partner key: C=Chasio, G=Garita, I=Israel, L=Leke, M=Manex, Urb=Urbieta, Urt=Urtaran

1/23(E)--G6P7F1(L-4); G7P2F3; G8P3F2; G9P6FX; G10P2FX

1/24(M)--G6P2FX; G8P3F2; G9P1FX; G10P7FX

1/24(E)--G6P5FX; G8P6FX; G9P7FX; G10P3FX

1/25(E)--G2P5F1(Urb-10); G3P1FX; G6P2F2; G8P3F1(I-4); G9P7F1(Urt-2); G10P4F1

1/26(E)--G6P1F1(I-4); G7P8F1; G8P4FX; G9P2F1(M-7); G10P7F2

1/27(E)--G5P1F3; G6P2F1(G-10); G7P7FX; G8P4FX; G9P8F2; G10P5F1

1/28(M)--G6P3F2; G8P8F1(G-10); G9P4F1(C-2); G10P2FX

1/28(E)--G5P2F1(Urb-10); G6P4FX; G8P5F3; G9P7F2; G10P8FX

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik 39 13 7 3 .333 23 .590

Urbieta 40 10 3 5 .250 18

Garita 38 10 2 2 .263 14

Aimar 37 8 5 6 19 .514

Arrieta 40 8 2 5 15

Manex 38 7 8 2 17

Iturbide 39 6 5 9 20 .513

Goitia 36 6 4 1 11

Xabat 41 5 7 6 18

Jairo 42 5 7 3 15

Zulaika 35 5 5 6 16

Salegi 39 5 5 6 16

Zabala 39 4 6 6 16

Leke 39 4 4 7 15

Elizalde 34 4 4 3 11

Israel 19 4 2 3 9

Bailo 39 3 10 2 15

Diego 39 3 5 6 14

Arbe 41 3 4 4 11

Arta 39 3 2 6 11

Elgezabal37 2 6 4 12

Chasio 35 2 6 3 11

Urtaran 36 2 4 4 10

Barandika39 2 2 8 12

Ibon 36 1 5 5 11

Larrea 36 1 4 6 11

Amigorena36 1 2 6 9

Minte 16 1 2 1 4

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

For the week ending January 21, 2017

In the long (9 game) week Erik led with 12 wins. Urbieta and Aimar were 2nd with 11. Erik led the in the money finishes with 26. Aimar and Jairo were 2nd with 22.

If Erik was a baseball batter his lines would look like this.

Games-W-P-S

5-3-0-1
4-2-1-0
5-0-1-0
4-0-0-1
6-2-0-2
5-0-0-3
5-2-1-1
5-2-1-1
5-1-1-0

44-12-5-9

In 5 of the 6 performances where he had wins, he won multiple times.

His posts were unbalanced, 17 for P1-3 and P4-6, but only 10 for P7-8. Though his posts were unbalanced, his wins, as with last week, were quite balanced. The out of balance posts are somewhat artificial because of the size of the week. If we measure posts without the Saturday (E) January 14, performance (in other words, posts as scheduled for a normal week), his posts would have looked like this.

Games-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

Normal week

P1-3: 15-3-3-3-6
P4-6: 14-3-1-4-6
P7-8: 10-3-1-1-5

39-9-5-8-17

"Long week"

Games-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 17-4-3-4-6
P4-6: 17-5-1-4-7
P7-8: 10-3-1-1-5

44-12-5-9-18

Note that he had the same number of wins for each P7-8. 30% wins and 50 % ITMs from those posts, no matter how you slice the week, is pretty good work.

He won with 8 partners.

Here is Erik's week.

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. *=substitute. Partner key: A=Amigorena, B=Bailo G=Garita, Ib=Ibon, Is=Israel, L=Leke, M=Manex, S=Salegi.

1/14(E)--G5*P3F1(B-4); G6P5FX; G8P6F1(G-2); G9P4F1(Is-8); G10P2F3

1/16(E)--G6P1F2; G8P7FX; G9P3F1(M-5); G10P4F1
1/17(M)--G5P6FX; G6P4FX; G8P1FX; G9P3FX; G10P5F2
1/17(E)--G6P2FX; G8P3FX; G9P5F3; G10P8FX
1/18(E)--G2P4F1(L-3); G3P5FX; G6P6F3; G8P1F3; G9P7FX, G10P3F1
1/19(E)--G5P6FX; G6P3FX; G8P8F3; G9P2F3; G10P4F3
1/20(E)--G6P4F3; G7*P7F1; G8P1F2; G9P7F1(L-3); G10P8FX
1/21(M)--G5P2F3; G6P5F1(A-6); G8P4FX; G9P7F1(S-7); G10P3F2
1/21(E)--G6P2F1(Ib-5); G7P8F2; G8P1FX; G9P6FX; G10P7FX

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik        44   12   5   9   .273   26   .591

Urbieta    44   11   6   4   .250   21

Aimar       49   11   3   8       22

Arrieta    45   8   3   7       18

Israel      22   8   2   0   .364   10

Salegi      46   7   9   4       20

Jairo       46   7   8   7       22

Diego       43   7   6   1       14

Zulaika    45   6   10   4       20

Xabat       43   6   9   2       17

Arbe        42   6   7   6       19

Larrea      45   6   5   2       13

Amigorena   39   6   4   5       15

Manex       44   5   5   10       20

Ibon        40   5   5   3       13

Iturbide    44   5   2   10       17

Barandika   48   4   9   1       14

Chasio      40   4   5   7       16

Bailo       43   4   2   5       11

Leke        43   3   9   4       16

Elizalde    41   3   8   5       16

Zabala      41   3   1   7       11

Garita      37   2   6   7       15

Minte       32   2   0   10       12

Urtaran    39   1   5   2       8

Elgezabal   47   1   4   8       13

Arta        47   1   4   3       8

Beitia      13   0   2   3       5

TOTALS      1152   144   144   144       432

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For the week ending January 14, 2017

Note: this week covers only through the Matinee performance on Saturday, January 14. Dania weeks, for our purposes, usually cover 8 performances from Monday-Saturday, with 2 performances on Tuesday and Saturday. Due to some technical problems, this "week" covers only 7 performances, with the Saturday Evening performance left out. That performance should be included in next week's report, which will cover 9 performances beginning with the Saturday, January 14 Evening performance, rather than the usual Monday Evening January 16 performance.

Erik and Jairo led the week with 9 wins. Since Erik had a higher winning percentage, his week will be spotlighted. 5 players tied for 2nd with 6 wins. Erik and Zabala led the in the money finishes with 17. Jairo, Leke, and Arbe were 2nd with 16. For the "full week", including the January 14(E) performance, Erik had 12 wins.

If Erik was a baseball hitter, here would be his lines.

Games-W-P-S

4-1-1-0
6-1-1-0
4-1-2-0
5-0-0-0
4-3-0-0
7-2-1-1
4-1-1-1

34-9-6-2

His post positions were spread evenly. His win efficiency was spread pretty evenly across post positions.

Posts-Games-W-P-S-X (out of the money)

P1-3: 11-4-5-1-1
P4-6: 13-3-1-1-8
P7-8: 10-2-0-0-8

It was a rather ordinary week for Erik, including a stretch of 6 consecutive out of the money finishes on January 10 and 11. He followed that up with 6 ITMs in his next 7 games, including 5 wins (4 in a row). That stretch helped push him to the front of the line.

He won with 7 partners.

Here is Erik's week.

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. *=substitute . Partner key: A=Amigorena, C=Chasio, I=Israel, S=Salegi, Urb=Urbieta, Urt=Urtaran, Z=Zabala.

1/9(E)--G6P2F2; G8P7FX; G9P3FX; G10P8F1
1/10(M)--G2P8FX; G3P7FX; G6P6FX; G8P2F2; G9P3F1(I-6); G10P4FX
1/10/E)--G6P5F2; G8P4F1(Urt-3); G9P3F2; G10P6FX
1/11(E)--G5*P7FX; G6P5FX; G8P7FX; G9P6FX; G10P8FX
1/12(E)--G6P7F1(Urb-6); G8P8FX; G9P6F1(A-4); G10P2F1
1/13(E)--G2*P3F1(Z-6); G3*P6F1(S-3); G5*P2F3; G6P8FX; G8P5FX; G9P1F2; G10P6FX
1/14(M)--G6P6FX; G8P1F2; G9P3F1(C-4); G10P5F3

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik         34    9    6    2    .265    17    .500

Jairo        36    9    3    4    .250    16

Zabala       33    6    5    6        17    .515

Iturbide     35    6    5    4        15

Leke         30    6    4    6        16    .533

Urbieta     30    6    3    6        15    .500

Israel       33    6    0    3        9

Aimar        34    5    1    4        10

Chasio       34    4    9    1        14

Arbe         37    4    7    5        16

Arrieta     32    4    1    5        10

Elizalde     30    4    1    3        8

Amigorena    31    4    0    5        9

Beitia       34    3    9    2        14

Garita       29    3    8    2        13

Minte        29    3    6    2        11

Ibon         34    3    5    5        13

Bailo        28    3    5    4        12

Barandika    35    3    3    8        14

Urtaran     34    3    3    6        12

Salegi       32    3    3    2        8

Elgezabal    36    2    6    6        14

Zulaika     33    2    6    2        10

Manex        31    2    5    4        11

Larrea       29    2    3    6        11

Goitia       5    2    1    0    .400    3    .600

Arta         36    2    0    4        6

Ithurria     9    2    0    1        3

Xabat        33    1    4    4        9

TOTALS   896    112    112    112        336

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For the week ending January 7, 2017.

The first week of the Spring 2017 season weekly wins lead was shared by Erik and Iturbide with 10. Israel and Arbe were 3rd with 9. Israel led in the money finishes with 20. Urbieta was 2nd with 18. Since Erik had a higher winning percentage, we will look at his week. Erik finished 1st in at least 1 game in every performance except his last. He had a steady week, with no more than 3 ITMs in a row. His worst out of the money streak was 4, the 1/7 evening performance where he was shut out.

Here are his post splits.

P1-3--2-1-3-6(out of the money)=12 posts;
P4-6--4-1-3-9=17 posts
P7-8--4-0-0-3=7 posts

He won with 6 partners.

Here is Erik's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Thursday evening performances, which had been expanded to 12 games for part of last season, have been reduced to 10 games. *=substitute . Partner key: A=Amigorena, C=Chasio, I=Israel, L=Leke, U=Urbieta, Z=Zabala

1/2/2017(E)--G2*P1F1(L-5); G3*P2F3; G6P4F1(I-9); G8P2FX; G9P1F2; G10P6FX
1/3(M)--G6P4F3; G8P8F1(C-3); G9P6FX; G10P2FX
1/3(E)--G6P5F2; G8P4F1(A-6); G9P8FX; G10P6F1
1/4(E)--G5*P4FX; G6P1F3; G8P8F1(C-3); G9P7FX; G10P3F3
1/5(E)--G6P6FX; G8P3F1(A-6); G9P8F1(U-5); G10P5FX
1/6(E)--G6P2FX; G8P5F3; G9P4F1(Z-7); G10P1FX
1/7(M)--G5P6F3; G6P5FX; G8P3FX; G9P4FX; G10P8F1
1/7(E)--G6P1FX; G8P6FX; G9P8FX; G10P5FX

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Iturbide  40 10 3 4 .250 17 

Erik      36 10 2 6 .278 18 .500

Israel    39 9 5 6  20 .513

Arbe      39 9 2 3  14 

Aimar     39 7 4 5  16 

Zabala    35 7 4 4  15 

Beitia    37 7 3 4  14 

Amigorena 34 6 7 4  17 .500

Urbieta   38 5 7 6  18 

Elizalde  34 5 7 3  15 

Xabat     34 5 4 5  14 

Leke      35 5 2 4  11 

Barandika 38 4 7 5  16 

Elgezabal 37 4 5 2  11 

Urtaran   37 4 3 2  9 

Salegi    37 3 8 4  15 

Jairo     33 3 7 3  13 

Manex     38 3 6 5  14 

Bailo     34 3 5 5  13 

Chasio    36 3 3 5  11 

Larrea    37 3 2 8  13 

Goitia    39 2 7 5  14 

Diego     31 2 5 4  11 

Minte     29 2 4 2  8 

Zulaika   33 2 3 7  12 

Arrieta   36 2 3 5  10 

Arta      36 1 5 6  12 

Ibon      37 1 3 6  10 

Garita    15 1 2 0  3 

Ithurria  1 0 0 0  0

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For the week ending December 15, 2016. This short week ended the Dania 2016 Fall season. The 2017 Winter season begins January 2, 2017.

Erik (who else?) had the most wins in the truncated final week of the Dania Fall season with 7. Minte, Yeche, Arrieta, and Urbieta all won 5. Minte had the most in the money finishes with 13. Erik won from each of the first 5 posts. He finished with a flourish, winning 3 times in 5 games (including the final two games of the season) of the Thursday Evening 12 game performance. He won with 6 partners. I think it really speaks to his heart and character that, on the last day of the season, with 42 more wins than the runner up (Leke), and having scored 50 more points than the runner up (Aimar) in the team competition, he had the kind of routine fantastic night that he's had all season.

Here is Erik's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Beginning the week ending November 19, 2016: the Thursday Evening Performance has 12 games. G11-12 are 7 point doubles matches. *=substitute (none this week). Partner key: G=Garita, Ib=Ibon, Is=Israel, Ma=Manex, Mi=Minte, U=Urbieta,

12/12(E)--G6P2F2; G8P3FX; G9P5F1(U-5); G10P4F1
12/13(M)--G6P7F2; G8P1FX; G9P2F3; G10P8FX
12/13(E)--G6P2F2; G8P5FX; G9P7FX; G10P6F2
12/14(E)--G6P6F1(G-4); G8P6FX; G9P3F1(Mi-5); G10P4FX
12/15(E)--G8P2F1(Is-3); G9P6FX; G10P7FX; G11P4F1(Ma-3); G12P1F1(Ib-3)

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik      21 7 4 1 .333 12 .571

Minte     26 5 5 3  13 .500

Yeche     25 5 3 2  10 

Arrieta   23 5 3 1  9 

Urbieta   24 5 1 4  10 

Elizalde  24 4 3 3  10 

Garita    24 4 2 5  11 

Foronda   12 4 2 3 .333 9 .750

Diego     22 4 1 3  8 

Israel    24 3 6 2  11 

Bailo     22 3 5 2  10 

Manex     21 3 4 0  7 

Goitia    24 3 3 5  11 

Jairo     24 3 3 5  11 

Barandika 25 3 3 3  9 

Aimar     22 3 2 4  9 

Ibon      22 3 1 1  5 

Iturbide  23 3 1 1  5 

Urtaran   22 2 5 4  11 .500

Xabat     23 2 3 3  8 

Zabala    25 2 3 3  8 

Elgezabal 25 2 2 2  6 

Larrea    25 2 1 3  6 

Zulaika   25 1 3 4  8 

Salegi    26 1 2 5  8 

Leke      15 1 2 0  3 

Arta      17 1 0 0  1 

Arbe      22 0 5 5  10 

Beitia    23 0 4 3  7 

Chasio    16 0 2 4  6

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For the week ending December 10, 2016.

Arrieta had the most wins with 11. Aimar was 2nd with 10. Erik, who has had such a tremendous season, played only 17 games this week. He won 2. Aimar led in the money finishes with 22. Arrieta played an exhausting schedule, 41 games. In a week that had a blizzard of substitutes (perhaps the roster was tiring from the long season and the rigors of the team competition), he substituted either 4 or 5 times (he was listed on the scratch sheet as a substitute in game 5 of the Dec. 5 performance, but he was also listed in the entries for the same game of that performance). Since Dania does not keep official track of scratches, this is not surprising. Arrieta won with 7 partners.

It is interesting to note that Arrieta's numbers came, for the most part, in the last 6 performances. He was shut out on Monday Evening and had only 1 ITM in his first 9 games. He followed that with 7 ITMs in his next 9 games, including a perfect Evening on Dec. 6. He shone brightest in the Dec. 10 Matinee, producing as good a performance as you will see, for a team that deparately needed it.

Here is Arrieta's week.

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Beginning the week ending November 19, 2016: the Thursday Evening Performance has 12 games. G11-12 are 7 point doubles matches. *=substitute. Partner key: A=Amigorena, C=Chasio, I=Israel, L=Larrea, M=Manex, Urb=Urbieta, Urt=Urtaran

Arrieta played 15 games in 3 performances in the crucial last round of the team competition. He had 5 wins and 9 in the money finishes, including 2 wins and 5 ITMs in the decisive December 10 Matinee. His Hollywood team crushed Fort Lauderdale to all but clinch the championship in that performance. In their G8 and G10 shutouts (Hollywood had all the ITMs in both games), he finished 3rd and 1st respectively. Arrieta partnered with Chasio 3 times on Friday Evening, Larrea and Ibon 3 times in the Saturday Matinee, and Urturan 3 times on Saturday Evening.

12/5(E)--G5P6FX**; G6P7FX; G8P5FX; G9P8FX; F10P2FX
12/6(M)--G6P1FX; G8P8F1(I-9); G9P8FX; G10P2FX
12/6(E)--G6P1F1(A-5); G8P8F1(M-4); G9P7F1(URB-6); G10P5F1
12/7(E)--G6P6FX; G7P7F3*; G8P1F2; G9P4FX; G10P3F2
12/8(E)--G2P2F1(I-9)*; G3P4FX*; G5P3FX*; G8P8F3; G9P1F2; G10P7FX; G11P3FX; G12P2FX

Team Jai Alai (Hollywood)

12/9(E)--G6P1FX; G8P7F1(C-5); G9P2FX; G10P3F3
12/10(M)--G2P4F1(L-3); G3P5FX; G5P3F2; G6P4FX; G8P8F3; G9P5F2; G10P4F1
12/10(E)--G6P5FX; G8P3FX; G9P7F1; G10P2F1

**It is unclear whether or not Arrieta was a substitute in this game.

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Arrieta 41 11 5 4 .268 20

Aimar 44 10 3 9 22 .500

Israel 38 9 6 3 18

Foronda 46 8 4 7 19

Salegi 41 7 2 7 16

Bailo 24 7 2 1 .292 10

Urbieta 42 6 8 5 19

Barandika 39 6 5 5 16

Zulaika 39 5 8 4 17

Minte 42 5 6 3 14

Leke 42 5 5 9 19

Chasio 38 5 5 3 13

Amigorena 13 5 1 0 .385 6

Diego 39 4 9 4 17

Manex 38 4 6 8 18

Elgezabal 38 4 4 4 12

Goitia 19 4 2 4 10 .526

Urtaran 38 4 2 2 8

Larrea 34 3 4 7 14

Garita 36 3 4 7 14

Iturbide 38 3 4 4 11

Erik 17 2 5 3 10 .588

Elizalde 35 2 5 3 10

Zabala 33 2 3 5 10

Jairo 32 2 3 3 8

Yeche 36 1 7 3 11

Ithurria 30 1 4 5 10

Arbe 14 1 3 1 5

Beitia 25 1 2 2 5

Arta 33 1 1 3 5

Xabat 12 1 1 0 2

Ibon 19 0 3 4 7

Anndy 1 0 0 0 0

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For the week ending December 3, 2016

Erik and Salegi tied for leading winner with 9. Arbe came in 3rd with 8. Leke led in the money finishes with 22. We will follow Erik's week because he won his games in fewer posts. How many fewer is the subject of a discrepancy. Tiger has him for 31 games. I have him for 33. Erik scratched 4 times in the December 2 Evening performance. He is listed as a substitute 3 times for the Dec. 3 Evening performance. 2 of those 3 substitutions he was in the money. He also played and won a G5 (which he is usually not scheduled for) on November 28. He played 5 games on December 1, a Thursday 12 game performance. My count for him is as follows: 11/28(E) 5; 11/29(M) 4; 11/29(E) 4; 11/30(E) 4; 12/1(E) 5; 12/2(E) DNP; 12/3(M) 4; 12/3(E) 7. I will simply show my findings. 31 or 33, he still had 9 wins and it was still in less games than Salegi. He won with 7 partners. Any corrections will be happily accepted and changes made.

The impressive thing about Erik's week was how unimpressive it looks. He was shut out 5 times in a row on a very long Thursday night. During a period that encompassed both regular and team play, he was shut out 8 times in 9 posts (Dec. 1-3). He won more than twice in only 1 performance. And even though he missed an entire performance (which he basically made up by subbing in another performance), he still tied for the lead in wins. He has now led or tied for the lead in weekly leaders 9 times this season. No one else has led more than 2.

Here is Erik's week.

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Beginning the week ending November 19, 2016: the Thursday Evening Performance has 12 games. G11-12 are 7 point doubles matches. *=substitute. Partner key: A=Amigorena, C=Chasio, G=Garita, I=Israel, Mi=Minte, S=Salegi, U=Urbieta

Erik played 11 games in 2 performances during the Team competition. He did not play Dec. 2(E). On Dec. 3(M) He partnered with Manex. Dec. 3(E) he partnered with Minte 3 times (as a substitute) and Amegorena 3 times.

11/28(E)--G5P1F1(S-9); G6P8FX; G8P6FX; G9P5F1(U-4); G10P3F3
11/29(M)--G6P3FX; G8P1F2; G9P8F1(I-7); G10P5F3
11/29(E)--G6P1FX; G8P4FX; G9P3F1(C-7); G10P5F2
11/30(E)--G6P4F1(I-7); G8P2F2; G9P6F1(G-5); G10P1F1
12/1(E)--G8P3FX; G9P4FX; G10P5FX; G11P6FX; G12P2FX

Team Jai Alai: Captain (Fort Lauderdale)

12/2(E)--DNP
12/3(M)--G6P3F3; G8P6FX; G9P1FX; G10P2FX
12/3(E)--G2P6F3*; G3P4FX*; G5P2F1(Mi-4)*; G6P5F1(A-4); G8P1FX; G9P7FX; G10P6F2

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Salegi 35 9 5 3 .257 17

Erik 31 9 4 4 .290 17 .548

Arbe 38 8 2 4 14

Israel 34 7 5 3 15

Bailo 34 7 3 4 14

Aimar 36 7 3 2 12

Chasio 32 7 1 4 12

Leke 40 6 5 11 22 .550

Garita 35 5 7 7 19 .543

Diego 34 5 7 5 17 .500

Ithurria 40 5 4 9 18

Arrieta 38 5 4 6 15

Foronda 38 4 8 3 15

Elizalde 29 4 4 3 11

Urbieta 33 4 4 3 11

Urtaran 30 4 4 2 10

Minte 36 4 3 5 12

Amigorena 33 4 3 4 11

Jairo 28 4 3 1 8

Goitia 38 3 9 7 19 .500

Barandika 41 3 9 5 17

Zulaika 41 3 6 11 20

Zabala 36 2 7 4 13

Manex 34 2 5 5 12

Larrea 36 2 5 5 12

Yeche 31 2 3 3 8

Ibon 37 2 3 3 8

Arta 35 2 3 1 6

Elgezabal 38 2 1 3 6

Anndy 35 1 2 2 5

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For the week ending November 26, 2016:

There is a discrepancy in the actual wins and total game counts for Zulaika. According to Tiger, he played 36 and won 10, to lead all winners. According to my counts of individual games plus listed substitutions, and counts of wins results game by game and performance by performance, these totals come to 35 and 9 respectively. There is no discrepancy between Tiger's places and shows and the ones I counted. If there is an extra game that Zulaika played and won that is listed in the printed entries plus listed substitutions, along with printed results, I cannot find it. Tiger does mention, in his weekly accounting "One extra game here, as Dania made corrections to the stats." Is this the extra game that I cannot find? I don't know. I do know that Tiger has never been incorrect in any statistic he has given that I have checked. Tiger is so rock solid with his stats that I figure I have missed something and maybe will catch it the 4th or 5th time I check. Any help from anybody would be gratefully accepted. But for now I'm quitting after checking 3 times because 9 games or 10, Zulaika still led the roster with most wins this week. Yeche came in 2nd with 7. Zulaika and Foronda shared in the money honors with 19 (I could only find 18 for Zulaika).

What was more interesting than my odyssey to find the missing game was the way Zulaika achieved weekly honors. 6 of his wins came in the Team competition. 5 of those came in a single performance, the Saturday Evening performance. He had 5 wins and a place in 7 starts. Think about that. It is a pretty amazing statistic. The last 6 games he played he was in the money. 5 of those were wins. What it amounts to is that Zulaika had an excellent week in one performance. I haven't been following the Quinela form long enough to know just how excellent this is. But I can't remember seeing the likes of such a performance. He won with 5 partners.Yeche, his 5th partner, (see above) had a pretty good week on Saturday Evening as well.

Here is Zulaika's week.

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Beginning the week ending November 19, 2016: the Thursday Evening Performance has 12 games. G11-12 are 7 point doubles matches. *=substitute. Partner key: A=Amigorena, G=Garita, I=Israel, U=Urtaran, and Y=Yeche.

Zulaika played 11 doubles matches in the team competition. He played 3 with Garita on Friday Evening, 3 with Israel in the Saturday Matinee, and 5 with Yeche on Saturday Evening.

11/21(E)--G6P6FX; G8P7FX; G9P1FX; G10P3F2
11/22(M)--G5*P8FX; G6P7FX; G8P5FX; G9P3F1(A-4); G10P1F1
11/22(E)--G6P4F2; G8P5FX; G9P6F3; G10P2FX
11/23(E)--G2*P2FX; G3*P6F2; G5*P6FX; G6P5F1(U-1); G8P4FX; G9P7F3; G10P1F3
11/24(E)--No play due to the Thanksgiving holiday.

Team Jai Alai: Captain (Dania Beach)

11/25(E)--G6P7FX; G8P4FX; G9P2FX; G10P5FX
11/26(M)--G6P3FX; G8P6F2; G9P1F2; G10P2F1
11/26(E)--G2P6FX; G3P7F1(Y-7); G5P2F1(Y-7); G6P8F1(Y-7); G8P3F2; G9P1F1(Y-7); G10P6F1

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Zulaika 36 10 6 3 .278 19 .528

Yeche 31 7 4 1 12

Foronda 35 6 10 3 19 .543

Salegi 32 6 3 4 13

Minte 32 6 2 6 14

Diego 35 5 6 4 15

Barandika 34 5 5 2 12

Goitia 32 5 3 2 10

Garita 30 5 2 4 11

Leke 33 4 9 3 16

Erik 34 4 6 6 16

Aimar 37 4 4 8 16

Amigorena 25 4 3 1 8

Ibon 30 4 2 4 10

Larrea 33 3 4 8 15

Bailo 24 3 4 5 12 .500

Israel 26 3 4 5 12

Urbieta 24 3 4 4 11

Arbe 33 3 4 4 11

Elizalde 28 3 4 0 7

Manex 25 3 3 3 9

Elgezabal 32 3 3 2 8

Arta 31 3 0 5 8

Zabala 24 3 0 2 5

Chasio 31 2 4 5 11

Jairo 32 2 3 2 7

Ithurria 31 2 2 5 9

Urtaran 27 1 5 3 9

Arrieta 39 1 3 9 13

Anndy 8 0 1 0 1

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For the week ending November 19, 2016

Diego lead all winners with 10 wins. Eric was one of three players (Ithurria and Salegi were the others) who came in 2nd with 8. Eric lead in the money finishes with 25. 3 of Diego's wins and 5 of his 15 ITMs came in the 12 games of the Team competition. He won with 5 partners. He had no great streaks but rather accumulated slowly and methodically. He was in the money every performance he played in.

Here is Diego's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles. Beginning the week ending November 19, 2016: the Thursday Evening Performance has 12 games. G11-12 are 7 point doubles matches. *=substitute. Partner key: A=Amigorena, C=Chasio, I=Israel, L=Larrea, U=Urbieta. Diego played 9 doubles matches in the team competition. He played with Ibon on Friday Evening, Chasio in the Saturday Matinee, and Urturan on Saturday Evening.

11/14(E)--G5P3FX; G6P4FX; G8P6FX; G9P4FX; G10P1F2
11/15(M)--G6P4FX; G8P5F1(A-2); G9P7F1(I-7); G10P6FX
11/15(E)--G2*P4FX; G3*P3F2; G6P7FX; G8P2F1(U-5); G9P6FX; G10P8FX
11/16(E)--G6P2F1(C-7); G8P6FX; G9P5FX; G10P8FX
11/17(E)--G2P8F1(L-3); G3P7FX; G8P6FX; G9P4F1(I-7); G10P1FX; G11P5FX; G12P3F1(C-7)

Team Jai Alai: Captain (Hollywood)

11/18(E)--G6P1FX; G8P7FX; G9P6FX; G10P3F3
11/19(M)--G6P5F1(C-7); G8P1F1(C-7); G9P7FX; G10P6FX
11/19(E)--G6P3F2; G8P6FX; G9P4F2; G10P2F1

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Diego    38 10 4 1 .263 15 

Erik     37 8 12 5  25 .676

Ithurria  38 8 8 6  22 .579

Salegi    32 8 3 5 .250 16 .500

Zabala    34 7 5 4  16 

Israel    34 7 4 3  14 

Chasio    37 7 1 2  10 

Foronda   39 5 6 5  16 

Urbieta   33 5 5 5  15 

Leke     33 5 4 6  15 

Goitia    38 5 1 10  16 

Arrieta   37 5 0 3  8 

Zulaika   40 4 8 7  19 

Arbe     37 4 7 3  14 

Barandika 41 4 6 5  15 

Urtaran   32 4 6 4  14 

Aimar    36 4 4 4  12 

Ibon     34 4 2 6  12 

Yeche    34 4 2 4  10 

Minte    31 3 7 3  13 

Bailo    35 3 4 6  13 

Larrea    34 3 4 2  9 

Garita    32 2 6 5  13 

Manex    30 2 4 6  12 

Amigorena 33 2 4 3  9 

Jairo    34 2 3 4  9 

Anndy    36 2 2 3  7 

Arta     36 2 2 3  7 

Xabat    20 2 1 2  5 

Elgezabal 34 1 4 4  9 

Elizalde  17 0 3 3  6

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For the week ending November 12, 2016

Erik lead all winners with 11 wins. Ithurria was 2nd with 10, and lead in ITMs with 22. Erik has been the leading winner 8 times. 4 of his wins and 7 of his 21 ITMs came in the 12 games he played in the team competition. He played in 32 games altogether. He played in G6,8,9, and 10 in every performance. It's possible he also played in game 5 on Monday, November 7. There is some confusion about this. He is listed in the entries in Post 7 with Zabala. In the Dania scratches for the week he is listed as a substitute for Xabat in that game. Tiger notes that that day's scratches are "under review--stats error." Having Erik play in that game would give him 33 starts. Tiger has him listed with 32. If he did play in that game, he finished out of the money. I will go with Tiger's 32. Erik won with 5 partners. He began the week with 3 consecutive wins, 7 consecutive ITMs, and 9 out of 10 ITMs.

Here is Erik's week.

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles *=substitute (none this week). Partner key: A-Amigorena, G-Garita, Ib=Ibon, Is=Israel, U=Urbieta. Erik played 9 doubles matches in the team competition. He played with Manex on Friday Evening, Urbieta in the Saturday Matinee, and Amigorena on Saturday Evening.

11/7(E)--G6P7F1(A-6); G8P5F1(Ib-5); G9P6F1(G-3); G10P4F3
11/8(M)--G6P6F2; G8P2F1(U-5); G9P8F1(U-5); G10P7FX
11/8(E)--G6P4F2; G8P8F2; G9P7FX; G10P6FX
11/9(E)--G6P2F3; G8P4FX; G9P7FX; G10P3F3
11/10(E)--G6P1F1(Is-5); G8P8F3; G9P4FX; G10P3F1

Team Jai Alai (Captain, Fort Lauderdale)

11/11(E)--G6P1FX; G8P7FX; G9P6FX; G10P5F1
11/12(M)--G6P5F2; G8P3F1(U-5); G9P1F1(U-5); G10P6F3
11/12(E)--G6P8F1(A-6); G8P6FX; G9P1F3; G10P2FX

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik      32 11 4 6 .344 21 .656

Ithurria  42 10 6 6  22 .524

Salegi    37 7 8 5  20 .541

Amigorena 33 6 4 3  13 

Leke      35 6 3 6  15 

Larrea    32 5 7 3  15 

Arrieta   37 5 6 6  17 

Ibon      38 5 5 2  12 

Urbieta   33 5 4 5  14 

Barandika 39 5 3 7  15 

Arta      39 5 3 4  12 

Israel    31 5 2 7  14 

Foronda   39 5 1 4  10 

Aimar     40 4 8 4  16 

Goitia    37 4 5 4  13 

Zulaika   35 4 4 3  11 

Arbe      18 4 2 4  10 .556

Manex     33 4 2 0  6 

Yeche     28 4 1 4  9 

Garita    36 3 8 4  15 

Urtaran   31 3 6 5  14 

Jairo     37 3 6 4  13 

Zabala    33 3 3 3  9 

Diego     30 2 8 4  14 

Chasio    32 2 6 6  14 

Bailo     33 2 4 5  11 

Elgezabal 34 2 2 5  9 

Xabat     31 2 0 2  4 

Anndy     34 1 4 3  8 

Minte     27 0 2 3  5

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For the week ending November 5, 2016

Erik lead all winners with 13 wins and 24 ITM finishes. Amigorena and Leke were 2nd with 10. Erik now has been the leading winner 7 times. 5 of the 13 wins and 8 of the 24 ITMs came in the team competition at the end of the week. 4 of those came in the last 5 games of the Saturday Matinee. The burst helped his team hold on to their dwindling lead in the competition. He won with 5 partners. He won 5 times in 8 tries in the Game 10 singles match. In addition to having a perfect Matinee on Oct. 5, he was ITM all 6 games he played on Oct. 3.

Here is Erik's week.

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles *=substitute (none this week). Partner key: A-Amigorena, Ele-Elezalde, Elg-Elgezabal, G-Garita, L-Leke. Erik played 9 doubles matches in the team competition. As far as we know (there is no scratch report for Oct. 5 as this is published) he played with no substitutes. He partnered with Manex on Friday and Saturday Evenings. Amigorena was his partner for the Saturday Matinee.

10/31(E)--G6P2FX; G8P3F1(G-4); G9P7F3; G10P4F1
11/1(M)--G6P1F1(Elg-3); G8P4FX; G9P2F2; G10P8F1
11/1(E)--G2P6F1(L-10); G3F7FX; G6P7FX; G8P3F1(A-10); G9P1F2; G10P8FX
11/2(E)--G6P5FX; G8P3F2; G9P2FX; G10P8FX
11/3(E)--G2P7F3; G3P5F1(Eli-1); G6P3F2; G8P2F3; G9P1F2; G10P4F1

Team Jai Alai (Captain, Fort Lauderdale)

11/4(E)--G6P3F2; G8P6F2; G9P4FX; G10P6F1
11/5(M)--G6P4F1(A-10); G8P8F1(A-10); G9P5F1(A-10); G10P7F1
11/5(E)--G6P1F3; G8P6FX; G9P4FX; G10P6FX

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik      36 13 7 4 .361 24 .667

Amigorena 32 10 4 3 .313 17 .531

Leke      34 10 4 1 .294 15 

Aimar     42 7 7 5  19 

Barandika 43 7 5 7  19 

Larrea    35 5 4 7  16 

Israel    30 5 4 6  15 .500

Chasio    35 5 3 6  14 

Diego     38 5 3 6  14 

Goitia    39 4 7 4  15 

Arrieta   40 4 6 6  16 

Yeche     32 4 6 3  13 

Ithurria  35 4 4 6  14 

Garita    31 4 4 3  11 

Ibon      25 4 4 2  10 

Zabala    29 4 3 5  12 

Zulaika   38 4 3 5  12 

Xabat     38 4 3 4  11 

Anndy     37 4 3 1  8 

Jairo     34 3 6 4  13 

Salegi    35 3 3 5  11 

Elgezabal 32 3 3 3  9 

Foronda   38 2 8 4  14 

Arta      36 2 5 3  10 

Bailo     30 2 5 2  9 

Manex     34 2 3 9  14 

Minte     34 2 2 9  13 

Elizalde  20 1 2 2  5 

Urbieta   31 1 2 1  4 

Urtaran   31 0 5 2  7

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For the week ending October 29, 2016

Wins at the top were evenly distributed this week. Top honors were shared by Erik, Diego, and Leke with 8. In the team competition, Erik had 2, Diego 3 and Leke 0. Leke won with 5 different partners. I decided to go with his week because he had the best winning percentage of the three and because, frankly, doing Eric's week every week was getting a little tedious :). Also, a couple of things showed up. One was that it is always interesting to get to do a back courter's week. The other is that Leke did not play in two performances this week, the Evening performances on Tuesday and the team competition on Saturday. As of the this article, he has gone back to his regular schedule for the first week in November.

Here is Leke's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles *=substitute (none this week). Partner key: A=Arbe, F=Foronda, I=Ithurria, G=Goitia, X=Xabat. For the two performances he played in the team competition, he played 6 doubles matches, partnering with Ithurria and Xabat 3 times each.

10/24(E)--G2P3F2; G3P7F1(G-6); G4P4FX; G5P1F2
10/25(M)--G2P8FX; G3P6F1(G-6); G4P3F1; G5P4F1(A-6);G6P3F2
10/25(E)--Did not play
10/26(E)--G1P2FX; G2P4FX; G3P5F2; G4P8F1; G5P1FX(X-4)
10/27(E)--G2P5FX; G3P1F1(I-4); G4P2FX; G5P1F1(F-5)

Team Jai Alai (playing for Dania Beach)

10/28(E)--G2P8FX; G3P1FX; G4P8FX; G5P5F2
10/29(M)--G1P3FX; G2P4F3; G3P8FX; G4P1FX; G5P3F3
10/29(E)--Did not play

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik      34 8 8 4  20 .588

Leke      27 8 5 2 .296 15 .556

Diego     33 8 3 7  18 .545

Aimar     37 6 6 7  19 .514

Arbe      36 6 5 3  14 

Goitia    32 6 4 4  14 

Yeche     32 6 4 2  12 

Salegi    30 6 3 4  13 

Ibon      35 5 6 8  19 .543

Urbieta   32 5 6 4  15 

Israel    32 5 6 4  15 

Urtaran   33 5 3 4  12 

Foronda   33 5 2 7  14 

Manex     29 5 2 3  10 

Arta      37 4 8 4  16 

Ithurria  38 4 6 5  15 

Xabat     37 4 6 3  13 

Garita    27 4 4 3  11 

Jairo     32 4 3 1  8 

Barandika 35 3 4 3  10 

Minte     28 3 3 2  8 

Iturbide  16 3 2 4  9 

Amigorena 28 3 2 3  8 

Zulaika   35 2 5 4  11 

Zabala    30 2 3 2  7 

Elizalde  32 2 1 3  6 

Anndy     31 2 0 4  6 

Bailo     32 1 9 6  16 

Beitia    11 1 2 3  6 

Larrea    33 1 1 6  8 

Elgezabal 25 1 1 2  4 

Arrieta   31 0 3 2  5 

Chasio    31 0 2 5  7

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For the week ending October 22, 2016

For the 5th time in 6 weeks Erik lead the week with 14 wins, 6 more than 2nd place Ithurria. He also had 19 in the money finishes 1 less than Ithurria and Leke. In the 24 games he played before the weekend Team Jai Alai competition, he had 9 wins and 13 ITMs. In the Team Jai Alai he had 5 wins and 6 ITMS in 12 games. He won with 5 different partners, including Urbieta 4 times (once during the week and 3 times in the Team Jai Alai). He collected all of his wins and ITMs in the Team Jai Alai in the last two performances (8 games) after being shut out on Friday night.

Here is Erik's week.

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles *=substitute (none this week). Partner key: A=Amigorena, I=Israel, L=Larrea, U=Urbieta, Y=Yeche. For the three performances of the Team Jai Alai competition he had 9 doubles matches. He partnered with Urbieta 7 times and Amigorena twice.

10/17(E)--G2P3F1(Y-3); G3P8FX; G6P4F1(U-6); G8P7F2; G9P6FX; G10P1F1
10/18--(M) G6P2FX; G8P3F2; G9P4FX; G10P5F1
10/18(E)--G5P7F1(L-6); G6P5F3; G8P2F1(I-7); G9P1FX; G10P6F1
10/19(E)--G6P6FX; G8P2F1(A-5); G9P4FX; G10P7FX
10/20(E)--G5P6F1(L-6); G6P4FX; G8P1F2; G9P2FX; G10P7FX

Team Jai Alai (Captain, playing for Fort Lauderdale)

10/21(E)--G6P1FX; G8P7FX; G9P6FX; G10P5FX
10/22(M)--G6P5F1(U-6); G8P3F1(U-6); G9P7F2; G10P2FX
10/22(E)--G6P8F1(U-6); G8P1F1(U-6); G9P4FX; G10P6F1

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik      36 14 4 1 .389 19 .528

Ithurria  36 8 6 6  20 .556

Leke      33 7 7 6  20 .606

Israel    31 7 6 4  17 .548

Zulaika   31 7 3 3  13 

Larrea    32 6 5 5  16 .500

Urbieta   29 6 3 0  9 

Diego     36 5 9 4  18 .500

Aimar     35 5 3 5  13 

Amigorena 35 5 2 4  11 

Arbe      38 4 8 6  18 

Arrieta   34 4 6 6  16 

Iturbide  37 4 6 4  14 

Chasio    31 4 3 3  10 

Manex     30 4 2 6  12 

Bailo     34 4 2 5  11 

Goitia    34 4 1 4  9 

Barandika 39 3 4 4  11 

Yeche     32 3 3 4  10 

Minte     29 3 3 1  7 

Jairo     34 3 1 7  11 

Ibon      31 3 1 5  9 

Urtaran   28 2 6 5  13 

Zabala    32 2 6 4  12 

Arta      35 2 4 3  9 

Salegi    32 2 3 7  12 

Foronda   12 2 2 1  5 

Xabat     33 2 1 3  6 

Elizalde  18 2 0 1  3 

Garita    33 1 8 4  13 

Beitia    37 0 7 5  12 

Elgezabal 27 0 3 2  5

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For the week ending October 15, 2016

Erik dominated the week with 12 wins, 3 more than second place Urtaran. He also lead the "in the money" finishes with 29, 10 more than the second place finisher in that category, Minte. Between Oct. 12-15 he was in the money 12 consecutive games.

What stands out about Erik's week, perhaps tellingly, is that he got half of his wins in the Team Jai Alai as the Captain of Fort Lauderdale, in the final three performances of the week. He did this in 15 games, 37.5 percent of the games (40) he played for the week. In these 15 games, he also got 12 of his "in the money" finishes. This effort (see team statistics above) helped his team to a terrific week in the team competition. He had only 4 partners in his doubles wins for the week (Amigorena, Urbieta, Israel, and Minte). So far, the team competition has cut down drastically on the number of partnerships. It will be interesting to see if there is a comfort factor among the leading winners due to this. Or among your favorite players, no matter how much they win.

Here is Erik's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles *=substitute (none this week). Partner key: A=Amigorena, I=Israel, M=Minte, U=Urbieta. For the three performances of the Team Jai Alai competition he partnered in each of his 3 doubles matches with Amigorena (Friday Evening), 3 with Minte and 3 with Urbieta (Saturday Matinee), and 2 with Minte and 2 with Urbieta (Saturday Evening).

10/10(E)--G6P4S2; G8P6FX; G9P2FX; G10P7F1
10/11(M)--G2P4FX; G3P1F3; G6P6FX; G8P5FX; G9P2F3; G10P8FX
10/11(E)--G2P2F1(U-6); G3P5F1(U-6); G6P1F3; G8P4F1(A-4); G9P7F3; G10P3F2
10/12(E)--G5P7FX; G6P5F2; G8P8FX; G9P4F2; G10P2F1
10/13(E)--G6P2F2; G8P2F1(I-5); G9P3F3; G10P6F3

Team Jai Alai (Captain, playing for Fort Lauderdale)

10/14(E)--G6P3F1(A-4); G8P6F2; G9P1F1(A-4); G10P8F1
10/15(M)--G2P7F1(M-6); G3P2F3; G5P8FX; G6P4FX; G8P8F1(U-6); G9P3F3; G10P1F3
10/15(E)--G6P7FX; G8P7F3; G9P2F1(U-6); G10P5F3

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik      40 12 6 11 .300 29 .725

Urtaran   36 9 2 7 .250 18 .500

Diego     38 8 5 3  16 

Barandika 41 7 8 2  17 

Minte     36 6 6 7  19 .528

Urbieta   32 6 5 2  13 

Goitia    42 6 4 3  13 

Arbe      42 6 3 4  13 

Xabat     37 5 8 4  17 

Manex     38 5 3 7  15 

Israel    31 5 2 1  8 

Yeche     16 5 1 2  8 .500

Leke      37 4 9 3  16 

Amigorena 33 4 7 5  16 

Garita    32 4 4 5  13 

Aimar     39 4 4 4  12 

Jairo     41 4 3 6  13 

Salegi    35 4 2 5  11 

Beitia    36 4 1 2  7 

Chasio    31 3 7 3  13 

Zulaika   33 3 6 5  14 

Arrieta   37 3 6 5  14 

Elizalde  33 3 2 3  8 

Ithurria  18 2 5 1  8 

Ibon      40 2 4 6  12 

Zabala    36 2 3 5  10 

Arta      40 1 6 6  13 

Larrea    34 1 2 5  8 

Elgezabal 17 0 3 1  4 

Bailo     6 0 1 0  1 

Iturbide  17 0 0 5  5

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For the week ending October 8, 2016

This was a short week at Dania. The Thursday evening performance was cancelled due to Hurricane Matthew. For the week Arbe was the leading winner with 11 wins. He had 8 of them by the end of Tuesday (the first three performances of the week). For the first weekend of Dania Team Jai Alai, playing for Hollywood, he contributed 2 wins, 1 place, and 1 2 shows, for a total contribution to 14 15 of their 91 points. Here is Arbe's week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money) (Partner-Partner number of wins). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles *=substitute. Partner key: L=Leke, MA=Manex, MI=Minte; S=Salegi U=Urbieta. For the each of the three performances of Dania Team Jai Alai he partnered in each of his three doubles matches with Salegi (Friday Evening), Larrea (Saturday Matinee), and Salegi again (Saturday Evening).

10/3(E)--G1*P2F1; G2P7FX; G3P2FX; G4P6FX; G5P5FX; G6P1F2; G8P3F1(MA-6); G9P8FX
10/4(M)--G1P8F2; G2P6FX; G3P7F1(L-8); G5P2F1(U-2); G6*P2F2; G8P4F1(L-8); G9P1FX
10/4(E)--G1P6F1; G2P4F2; G3P8F1(L-8); G4P3FX; G5P1F1(S-7)
10/5(E)--G1P7F2; G2P1FX; G3P6FX; G5P5F1(MI-3); G8P8FX; G9P3F3

Dania Team Jai Alai:
10/7(E)--G1P2F1; G2P3F1(S-7); G3P6FX; G4P5FX; G5P4FX
10/8(M)--G1P1FX; G2P2FX; G3P7FX; G4P8FX; G5P2FX
10/9(E)--G1P1F2; G2P6F3; G3P4FX; G4P8F3; G5P7FX

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Arbe      41 11 6 3 .268 20 

Leke      37 8 7 5  20 .541

Salegi    37 7 3 6  16 

Barandika 42 7 2 8  17 

Erik      32 6 12 4  22 .688

Manex     32 6 3 3  12 

Diego     30 5 3 5  13 

Elizalde  32 5 3 4  12 

Jairo     40 5 3 4  12 

Arta      35 5 2 5  12 

Chasio    29 4 6 6  16 .552

Zulaika   35 4 4 6  14 

Garita    25 4 4 3  11 

Amigorena 33 4 3 6  13 

Urtaran   31 4 3 3  10 

Goitia    40 4 2 2  8 

Aimar     37 3 8 5  16 

Xabat     35 3 5 3  11 

Minte     38 3 5 3  11 

Ibon      33 3 3 6  12 

Israel    14 3 2 1  6 

Urbieta   33 2 6 3  11 

Arrieta   36 2 5 7  14 

Beitia    39 2 4 5  11 

Zabala    39 2 2 3  7 

Larrea    36 0 6 2  8 

Iturbide  5 0 0 1  1

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For the week ending October 1, 2016

For the week, Erik was the leading winner with 12 wins. It was a more difficult week for him than last week. He went 6 games in a row out of the money. Here is his week:

Key: Date (M=matinee, E=Evening) G=Game No., P=Post No., F=Finish No. (X=Out of the Money). All games are 7pt doubles matches except G1,G4,G7,G10, which are 7pt. singles, and G9, which is 9pt doubles *=substitute

9/26(E)--G7*P8FX; G8P6FX; G9P1FX; G10P8F1; G11P5FX; G12P3F3
9/27(M)--G6P2F2; G8P3FX; G9P8F3; G10P6F1
9/27(E)--G2*P6F1; G3*P4FX; G6P7F1; G8P8F1; G9P1FX; G10P2F3
9/28(E)--G7*P2FX; G8P3F1; G9P5F3; G10P2F1; G11P1F2; G12P6FX
9/29(E)--G2P8FX; G3P4FX; G6P3F3; G8P2F1; G9P5FX; G10P7FX
9/30(E)--G6P4FX; G8P7FX; G9P2FX; G10P5FX
10/1(M)--G5*P2F2; G6P8FX; G8P2F1; G9P5F1; G10P7FX
10/1(E)--G2P7FX; G3P3FX; G5*P5FX; G6P1F1; G8P4FX; G9P2F1; G10P8F3

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik      44 12 3 6 .273 21 

Leke      49 10 10 7  27 .551

Zulaika   41 9 8 2  19 

Diego     40 9 5 7  21 .525

Barandika 47 8 9 7  24 .511

Zabala    47 7 4 5  16 

Arbe      49 6 10 5  21 

Garita    38 6 9 4  19 .500

Amigorena 38 6 1 5  12 

Minte     41 5 5 6  16 

Urbieta   35 5 4 6  15 

Elizalde  44 5 4 6  15 

Ibon      40 5 2 4  11 

Chasio    37 4 8 5  17 

Goitia    44 4 8 2  14 

Aimar     49 4 7 7  18 

Beitia    46 4 6 3  13 

Salegi    42 4 5 3  12 

Iturbide  35 4 3 5  12 

Urtaran   38 4 2 4  10 

Arrieta   45 3 6 6  15 

Xabat     42 3 4 6  13 

Arta      45 3 3 7  13 

Manex     41 3 2 7  12 

Larrea    44 2 4 7  13 

Elgezabal 13 1 2 3  6 

Jairo     14 0 2 1  3

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For the week ending September 24, 2016.

About 3 weeks ago, Aritz Erkiaga had a magnificent week at Miami. Weeks as dominant as that are rare, but Erik Mendizabal almost equaled it this week. While he didn't quite double the second place finisher, 17 wins in 41 games is a fantastic week.

Player...Games...Wins...Place (2nd)....Show (3rd)...In the money.....ITM%

Erik      41 17 8 2 .415 27 .659

Ibon      42 10 2 8  20 

Arbe      43 9 9 3  21 

Leke      43 8 9 5  22 .512

Minte     41 8 3 4  15 

Diego     40 7 3 8  18 

Salegi    43 7 2 8  17 

Garita    40 6 6 5  17 

Larrea    43 5 9 4  18 

Barandika 38 5 7 5  17 

Jairo     38 5 2 4  11 

Zulaika   37 4 9 1  14 

Amigorena 42 4 6 2  12 

Foronda   33 4 5 6  15 

Israel    34 4 4 3  11 

Beitia    41 4 4 3  11 

Chasio    38 4 3 2  9 

Manex     41 4 3 13  20 

Zabala    43 4 2 5  11 

Aimar     40 3 7 6  16 

Iturbide  41 3 6 7  16 

Goitia    42 3 3 8  14 

Elizalde  40 2 7 3  12 

Urtaran   42 2 7 6  15 

Arta      38 2 4 4  10 

Arrieta   39 2 1 7  10 

Xabat     39 0 4 4  8 

Elgezabal 6 0 1 0  1

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For the week ending September 17, 2016. Opening week was a short week, Sep. 15-17, 4 performances. Full weeks will have 8 performances.

Player G W P S W% ITM ITM%

Erik 20 5 4 2 .250 11 .550
Ibon 18 5 2 2 .278 9 .500
Barandika 18 4 4 0 8
Amigorena 18 4 3 1 8
Beitia 19 4 0 2 6
Israel 20 3 3 5 11 .550
Zabala 17 3 3 3 9 .529
Arrieta 17 3 2 2 7
Goitia 21 3 2 2 7
Foronda 18 3 2 1 6
Iturbide 20 3 1 4 8
Xabat 19 3 1 3 7
Salegi 17 3 0 0 3
Minte 19 2 4 3 9
Manex 16 2 4 0 6
Jairo 17 2 3 1 6
Chasio 17 2 1 3 6
Garita 21 2 0 1 3
Aimar 19 1 4 4 9
Larrea 19 1 4 2 7
Leke 17 1 3 3 7
Zulaika 19 1 2 3 6
Urtaran 19 1 2 3 6
Arta 16 1 2 1 4
Elizalde 13 1 1 2 4
Arbe 20 1 1 2 4
Diego 18 0 4 4 8
Elgezabal 17 0 2 4 6
Urbieta 3 0 0 1 1

============================================ Trifecta Combinations as of January 13, 2019 Matinee Performance:

4 times: 1-3-7; 4-1-6
3 times: 1-6-2; 2-3-1; 3-2-4; 3-4-1; 7-4-2
2 times: Many
1 time: Many
0 times: Many

LATEST RESULTS: MOST WINS/PERFORMANCE: WEEK OF FEBRARY 6-10

2/6 (M) 3--Beitia (f-l) (G9P2(Amigorena); 10P5; 12P8(Amigorena))

2/6(E) 4--Amigorena (b-l) (7P8; 8P2(Diego); 9P5(Tevin); 11P6(Ithurria))

2/7(E) 3--Erik (f-l) (8P8 (Urturan); 9P6 (Leke); 11P1(Salegi))

2/8(E) 2

A. Yeche (f-e) (1P6; 2P7 (Madrano))

B. Ladutxe (b-e) (4P4; 5P8 (Jairo))

C. Jairo (f-e) (5P8 (Ladutxe); 6p3 (Spinner))

D. Erik (f-l) (9P2 (Elgezabal); 12P5 (Urbieta))

E. Diego (f-l) (10P2; 11P8 (Bailo))

5 players shared most wins.

2/9(M) 3

A. Amigorena (b-l) (7P6; 8P1(Erik); 12P3 (Diego))

B. Eric (f-l) (8p1 (Amigorena); 9P5 (Elgezabal); 10P2)

2/9(E) 3--Urbieta (b-l) (8P3 (Barandika); 11P1(Erik); 12P4 (Diego))

2/10(M) 3

A. Ladutxe (b-e) (1P5; 3P2 (Foronda); 6P1 (Goixerri))

B. Tevin (l-f) (2P8 (Spinner); 10P2; 12P6 (Salegi))

February 6-10

Erik (late-front) 11(30) .367

Ladutxe (early-back) 11(40) .275

Amigorena (back-late) 9(40)

Urbieta (back-late) 9(41)

In the Money Leaders

Leke (back-late) 24 (8-1-15) (40) .600

Yeche (back-early)22 (5-6-11) (37) .595

12 players had 5 or more wins

Full roster record for the week (Tiger, Tiger's Chalk Talk)

LATEST RESULTS: MOST WINS/PERFORMANCE: WEEK OF JANUARY 23-27

Partners: A=Arrieta; Bar=Barrandika; T=Tevin; El-Elgezabal; L=Leke; M=Minte; Z=Zabala; X=Xabat; I=Iturbide; Er=Erik; Z=Zulaika; U=Urbieta; S=Salegi; Bai=Bailo

Links are to this day's full results:

1/23(M)---3: Ibon (back-late) (Game 8 Post 8(A); 11P7(Bar); 12P1(T))
1/23(E)---3: Erik (front-late) (8P1(El); (9P6(L); 11P7(M)); Xabat (front-early) (1P1; 2P5(M); (5P7(Z)); Minte (back-early) 2P5(X); 6P2(I); 11P7(E))
1/24(E)---2: Erik (front-late) (G10P3; G11P6(U)); Urbieta (back-late) (G8P2(Z); G11P6(Er))
1/25(E)---3 Barandika (front-late) (G10P1; G11P8(S); G12P1(Bai))

1/26(M): 3 Ladutxe (back-late) (1P6) 3P3(Goitia); 5P1(Medrano)

1/26(E): 3 Ibon (back-late) (7P6; 9P8(Ithurria); G11P2(Arrieta)

1/27(M): 3 Ladutxe (back-early) 1P5; 2P3(Foronda); 5P4(Jairo)

LATEST RESULTS: MOST WINS/PERFORMANCE: WEEK OF JANUARY 16-20

Entries; Results; Game Pages; Roster Information; Statistics (Note: roster information is part of the "statistics" pages).

Partners: Y=Yeche; B=Bailo; S=Salegi; G=Goixerri; Ub=Ubilla; X=Xabat; J=Jairo; E=Elizalde; Urb=Urbieta; Ib=Ibon; It=Iturbide; Am=Am L=Leke; A=Anndy; S=Spinner; Ar=Arta; Urturan

Links are to this day's full results:

1/16(M): 4---Zulaika (F-L) (G5 P1 PARTNER (Y) ,6P1(B),10P3,12P8(S))

1/16(E): 2---Ladutxe (B-E) (1P1(G) ,2P1(Ub)); Diego (F-L) (5P6(Ub) ,10P7)); Ibon (B-L) (9P4(X) ,11P6(J))

1/17(E): 3---Zulaika (F-L) (3P1(Ub), 5P8(Ub), 6P3(E)); Iturbide (B-L) (2P2(B), 8P3(E), 9P8(Urb))

1/18(E): 3---Erik (F-L) (2P3(B), 8P5(Ib), 10P1); Elizalde (B-E) (1P2, 3P6(It)) , 5P1(X)); Xabat (F-E) (4P3, 5P1(E), G9P4(Urb))

1/19(M): 3---Amigorena (B-L) (7P3, 8P1(It), 11P8 (It)); Iturbide (F-L) (8P1(Am), 9P6(L), 11P8(Am))

1/19(E): 3---Erik (F-L) (5P6(Y), 10P8, 11P5(Urb); Spinner (1P1, 3P6(J), 6P4(A))

1/20(M): 4--Iturbide (F-E) (2P4(S), 4P2, 5P7(Ar); G8P8(Urt))

Note: Earlier weeks' Top 5 Trifecta Combinations can be found at the bottom of the page.

Top trifecta combinations
Through January 20, 2019

5: 4-1-6
4: 1-2-7; 1-3-7; 1-6-2; 5-1-3
3: 1-3-8; 1-4-7; 2-3-1; 3-2-4; 3-2-5; 3-4-1; 4-2-3; 5-2-4; 6-2-3; 6-2-4; 6-4-2; 7-4-2; 8-3-1; 8-5-1
1: Many

Through February 3, 2019

8: 4-1-6

7: 1-3-2; 3-2-5

5: 1-3-7; 1-6-2; 6-1-5; 8-2-6

4: Many

3: Many

Total:

January 16-20

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      43 12 11 4 .279 27 .628

Iturbide  43 12 6 3 .279 21 

Zulaika   42 10 6 5  21 .500

Diego     44 8 6 11  25 .568

Jairo     39 8 4 4  16 

Amigorena 35 8 1 2  11 

Urbieta   35 7 2 5  14 

Ladutxe   32 6 8 1  15 

Ubilla    34 6 5 8  19 .559

Elizalde  34 6 2 10  18 .529

Ibon      35 6 2 8  16 

Foronda   39 5 5 6  16 

Elgezabal 34 5 2 3  10 

Leke      36 4 9 6  19 .528

Spinner   34 4 7 2  13 

Yeche     35 4 4 2  10 

Bailo     35 4 2 8  14 

Xabat     41 4 2 3  9 

Minte     35 3 7 5  15 

Arrieta   44 3 5 5  13 

Goixerri  43 3 3 5  11 

Arta      34 3 2 2  7 

Ithurria  40 2 4 5  11 

Medrano   39 2 3 2  7 

Chasio    28 2 2 3  7 

Salegi    36 1 10 2  13 

Anndy     41 1 6 7  14 

Urtaran   35 1 6 3  10 

Tevin     39 0 4 7  11 

Zabala    33 0 4 3  7 

Goenaga   3 0 0 0  0

January 23-27

12 Wins does the trick, though Ibon was right there with 11 (same percentage). 

Four players had 20 or more money finishes:22 - Ladutxe 
21 - Iturbide 
21 - Zabala 
20 - Barandika
Week ending 1/27/19:
Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Ladutxe   41 12 3 7 .293 22 .537

Ibon      37 11 4 4 .297 19 .514

Erik      35 8 5 3  16 

Barandika 35 7 7 6  20 .571

Iturbide  35 7 6 8  21 .600

Jairo     35 7 5 4  16 

Xabat     35 6 3 4  13 

Medrano   37 6 2 6  14 

Minte     38 5 7 4  16 

Bailo     39 5 7 0  12 

Arrieta   39 5 6 5  16 

Tevin     37 5 5 7  17 

Foronda   37 5 4 3  12 

Ithurria  37 5 2 1  8 

Ubilla    34 4 4 8  16 

Salegi    34 4 4 5  13 

Amigorena 30 4 4 4  12 

Yeche     36 4 1 4  9 

Zabala    38 3 11 7  21 .553

Leke      32 3 5 3  11 

Urbieta   30 3 3 5  11 

Chasio    28 3 3 1  7 

Arta      17 3 2 3  8 

Elgezabal 35 2 6 4  12 

Zulaika   35 2 6 4  12 

Goitia    24 2 5 2  9 

Urtaran   37 2 4 5  11 

Beitia    28 2 2 3  7 

Goixerri  36 1 4 1  6 

Diego     35 1 3 7  11 

Elizalde  31 1 3 3  7 

Anndy     31 1 2 5  8 

Spinner   31 1 2 3  6 

Israel    1 0 0 1  1 1.000

January 30-February 3

Name      GP W P S Win% ITM Money%

Erik      37 13 5 4 .351 22 .595

Ladutxe   39 11 9 7 .282 27 .692

Elgezabal 41 8 1 4  13 

Amigorena 40 7 3 7  17 

Yeche     37 7 4 5  16 

Iturbide  36 7 7 6  20 .556

Leke      36 6 1 9  16 

Zabala    40 6 6 4  16 

Foronda   37 5 2 8  15 

Elizalde  35 5 3 4  12 

Bailo     38 5 4 5  14 

Barandika 40 5 4 6  15 

Anndy     38 4 2 3  9 

Tevin     32 4 3 1  8 

Salegi    43 4 5 1  10 

Xabat     38 4 5 2  11 

Diego     32 4 5 5  14 

Arrieta   39 4 6 3  13 

Zulaika   37 4 8 6  18 

Medrano   18 3 1 1  5 

Spinner   38 3 1 3  7 

Goitia    29 3 1 4  8 

Chasio    35 3 2 2  7 

Ithurria  36 3 6 5  14 

Jairo     39 3 7 8  18 

Goixerri  40 3 8 3  14 

Urtaran   39 2 5 4  11 

Minte     40 2 8 7  17 

Beitia    35 1 3 4  8 

Urbieta   40 1 13 6  20 .500

Ubilla    16 0 2 3  5



Week of February 27-March 3, 2019


The week of February 27-March 3, 2019




Complete cumulative Dania Statistics: through March 3, 2019 Matinee.



A. Top 5 Trifecta Combinations




11: 3-2-5

10: 1-2-6

9: 1-3-2

8: 2-4-1; 4-1-6; 5-1-3; 8-2-6

7: 1-3-7; 2-1-6; 3-1-7; 3-6-2; 6-1-5; 6-2-5; 8-5-1



B. Leading Winners by Performance





2/27(M)--3 Ladutxe (early-back) (G1P4; 2P1 (Foronda); 4P8)




2/27(E)--4 Barandika (late-front) (8P5 (Salegi); 9P7 (Salegi); 11P1 (Israel); 12P8 (Urbieta)




2/28(E)--3

A. Diego (late-front) (2P4 (Yeche); 9P5 (Elgezabal); 10P1)

B. Yeche (early-back) (2P4 (Diego); 3P3 (Foronda); 5P2 (Medrano))




3/1(E)--2

A. Iturbide (early-front) (4P4 (Spinner); 6p1 (Larrea))

B. Larrea (early-back) (5P4 (Foronda); 6P1 (Iturbide));

C. Leke (late-back) (7P2 (Erik); 8P3 (Barandika)

Note: G4 and G7 were doubles games.




3/2(M)--2 (Note: Erik's 15 performance streak with at least 1 win comes to an end)

A. Elizalde (early-back) (4P3 (Foronda); 6P8 (Jairo))

B. Barandika (late-front) (7P1 (Zabala); 9P4 ((Urbieta))

C. Arrieta (late-front) (8P3 (Salegi); 10P7)




3/2(E)--2

A. Salegi (late-front) (4P6 (Goitia); 11P3)

B. Amigorena (late-back) (6P5 (Jairo); 9P5 (Erik))

C. Arrieta (late-front) (7P3 (Zabala); 8P8 (Israel))

D. Erik (late-front) 9P5 (Amigorena); 10P2)




3/3(M) 3--Elgezabal (late-back) (7P8 (Erik); 9P4 (Diego); 12P5)




Links are to exact results pages