The 2010–11 LEB Plata season is the 11th season of the LEB Plata, second league of the Liga Española de Baloncesto and third division in Spain. It is also named Adecco Plata for sponsorship reasons.
Competition format 15 teams play the regular season. This is a round robin, where each team will play twice against every rival. The champion of the Regular Season is promoted to the 2011-12 LEB Oro season and the eight next teams enter the play-offs, where the winner is promoted too.
The last qualified teams is relegated to 2011-12 Liga EBA.
Eligibility of players All teams must have in their roster: A minimum of seven eligible players with the Spanish national team. A maximum of two non-EU players. A maximum of two EU players, which one can be a player from an ACP country. If a team has not two non-EU players, it can sign a player of everywhere.
Teams can not sign any player after February 28.
Regular season Each team of every division has to play with all the other teams of its division twice, once at home and the other at the opponent's stadium. This means that in Liga LEB the league ends after every team plays 28 games. The regular season started on October 1, 2010, and finished on April 15, 2011.
Like many other leagues in continental Europe, the Liga LEB takes a winter break once each team has played half its schedule. One feature of the league that may be unusual to North American observers is that the two halves of the season are played in the same order—that is, the order of each team's first-half fixtures is repeated in the second half of the season, with the only difference being the arenas used. This procedure is typical in Europe; it is also used by La Liga in football.
If two or more teams have got the same number of winning games, the criteria of tie-breaking are these: Head-to-head winning games. Head-to-head points difference. Total points difference.
At the final of the season: The regular season winner promotes directly to LEB Oro. Teams qualified between 2nd and 9th, joined the promotion playoffs to LEB Oro.
Team information TeamCityArenaFoundedCoachADT Tarragona Tarragona Casal Esportiu Riu Clar-Torreforta Mateo RubioBàsquet Mallorca Inca Pabellón Municipal d'Inca Xavi SastreRiver Andorra Andorra La Vella Poliesportiu d'Andorra Joan PeñarroyaKnet Rioja Logroño Pabellón de los Deportes Jesús SalaFeve Oviedo Oviedo Polideportivo de Pumarín Alfredo RieraPrat Joventut El Prat de Llobregat Pavelló Joan Busquets Carles DuránLeyma Natura Basquet Coruña A Coruña Polideportivo de Riazor Antonio PérezSanturtzi SanturtziPolideportivo Municipal Pepe CarriónLan Mobel ISB Azpeitia Polideportivo Municipal Jon TxakartegiRayet Guadalajara Guadalajara Polideportivo San José Román Peinado CB Illescas Illescas Polideportivo Municipal 2001 Sergio JiménezPlasencia Extremadura Plasencia Pabellón Ciudad de Plasencia Rafael GomárizFontedoso Carrefour El Bulevar de Ávila Ávila Multiusos Carlos Sastre Pablo AlonsoPromobys Tíjola Tíjola Pabellón Municipal Antonio HerreraRegal FC Barcelona B Barcelona Palau Blaugrana Borja Comenge
Regular season
Results Results on FEB.es
League table # Teams GP W L PF PA PT Qualification or relegation1Knet Rioja (C) 28 25 3 2437 2122 53 Promotion to LEB Oro2Bàsquet Mallorca 28 22 6 2307 2084 50 Promotion playoffs3Promobys Tíjola 28 19 9 2209 2133 474River Andorra 28 19 9 2203 1936 475CB Prat Joventut 28 17 11 2135 2006 456ADT Tarragona 28 15 13 2140 2119 437Plasencia Extremadura 28 15 13 2039 2054 438Feve Oviedo 28 13 15 2198 2232 419Fontedoso Carrefour El Bulevar de Ávila 28 12 16 2033 2095 4010Regal FC Barcelona B 28 11 17 1873 2033 39 11Leyma Natura Básquet Coruña 28 9 19 1938 2153 3712Santurtzi 28 9 19 2013 2179 3713Rayet Guadalajara 28 8 20 2026 2127 3614CB Illescas 28 8 20 1930 2054 3615Lan Mobel ISB 28 8 20 2095 2249 36 Relegation to EBA
(C) indicates Copa LEB Plata champion.
Positions by round Team\Round 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30Knet Rioja2112224*322111111111111*11111111Bàsquet Mallorca764333*543444333333333*322222222Promobys Tíjola12346*632113244555444*5555443343River Andorra632111114*323222222222233*334434Prat Joventut899787678810*1089777777666666*6655ADT Tarragona458*678886556554445*667777777776Plasencia Extremadura555844755665666*666554444555567*Feve Oviedo97655526*7788978812888888*10988888Fontedoso Carrefour El Bulevar de Ávila15*14151515151515151413121081012*81091011910981010999Regal FC Barcelona B3879*91191091099111213119910*111210981099101010Leyma Natura Básquet Coruña141212131414141214111215*141415131312121414121213121112*121111Santurtzi11101112111211910977711*991113139101313141313111112*12Rayet Guadalajara1015*141413101213111211111210111414*14151515151415141414131513CB Illescas1211101110910111213151415*15141515151412911111111121314*1414Lan Mobel Iraurgi13131310121313141315*141313131210101111131314151215*1515151315 Cells with "*" indicate the team didn't play that day. The positions are calculated using the rank system of the Spanish Basketball Federation, giving 2 points to the winner and 1 point to the loser of any game.
Copa LEB Plata At the half of the league, the two first teams in the table play the Copa LEB Plata at home of the winner of the first half season. The Champion of this Cup will play the play-offs as first qualified if finishes the league between the 2nd and the 5th qualified. The Copa LEB Plata will be played on January 29, 2011.
Teams qualified # Teams P W L PF PA PT1Knet Rioja 14 12 2 1206 1072 262River Andorra 14 11 3 1106 958 25
Copa LEB Plata Final
Playoffs Teams qualified from 2nd to 9th will play the promotion play-off. If the winner of Copa LEB Plata is qualified between 2nd and 5th at the final of the Regular Season, it will join the play-offs as 2nd qualified. Three best-of-five series will decide who promotes to LEB Oro.Dates of the Adecco Leagues playoffs FEB.es
Stats leaders in regular season
MVP week by week DayNameTeamPIR1 David Mesa Knet Rioja 382 Carles Bivià Bàsquet Mallorca 283 Iván García Regal FC Barcelona B 314 Kevin Ratzsch Tony Tate Feve Oviedo 285 Jonathan Barceló Plasencia Extremadura 326 Javi Román Feve Oviedo 377 Ian O'Leary Roberto Rueda Feve OviedoPlasencia Extremadura 308 Sidão Santana Knet Rioja 389 Chris Mortellaro Lan Mobel ISB 4510 Marko Todorović CB Prat Joventut 3311 Carles Bivià Bàsquet Mallorca 3412 Bismack Biyombo CB Illescas 3513 Añaterve Cruz Leyma Natura Básquet Coruña 3014 Kevin Ratzsch Feve Oviedo 3915 Carles Bivià Bàsquet Mallorca 3616 Jonathan Barceló Plasencia Extremadura 3017 David Mesa Ian O'Leary David Reichel Knet RiojaFeve OviedoSanturtzi 2818 Charles Ramsdell Fontedoso Carrefour El Bulevar de Ávila 3519 Víctor Hidalgo Leyma Natura Básquet Coruña 2620 Héctor García CB Illescas 3621 Jonathan Barceló Xavi Guirao Plasencia ExtremaduraADT Tarragona 2722 Marcos Casado Shaun Green SanturtziBàsquet Mallorca 2423 Alexey Chubrevich CB Illescas 4024 Charles Ramsdell Fontedoso Carrefour El Bulevar de Ávila 4225 Charles Ramsdell Fontedoso Carrefour El Bulevar de Ávila 3026 Ian O'Leary Feve Oviedo 2927 Ian O'Leary Feve Oviedo 4228 Ian O'Leary Feve Oviedo 3129 Quique Suárez Knet Rioja 2830 Ian O'Leary Feve Oviedo 34
Honors Classics and youngs, in the LEB Plata team FEB.es (page 28)
All LEB Plata team Carles Bivià (Bàsquet Mallorca) Mikel Uriz (Santurtzi) Jonathan Barceló (Plasencia Extremadura) David Mesa (Knet Rioja) Ian O'Leary (Feve Oviedo)
MVP of the regular season Ian O'Leary (Feve Oviedo)
Coach of the season Jesús Sala (Knet Rioja)
References
External links LEB Plata website in FEB.es Competition rules