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Cthulhu sings up for a third season.

That's brilliant news, as among other positive things it also means that local rivalry of Finnish teams still continues on Season 3 (which Suuret Muinaiset currently leads 2 wins to 0, may I remind;)!

HGL league tables on both official threads have now been updated.

I made a mid-season check on teams' own box score posts, and noticed that some managers have not started filling out their scores of the Season 2 to their box score posts.

This is a friendly reminder to all that have not yet started the practice to fill out those Season 2 scores, that it's mandatory to add scores of your own matches to your own box score post. In other words, it remains mandatory, even if you send a separate box score post of your each match to Scores-thread (which on the other hand is not mandatory to do).

As you all likely already know, easiest way to reach your own box score post is to use link after your team name on this post, here: (327517.4), or to bookmark your teams' box score page to your browser.

Round 9 didn't seem to offer any close ones, but still couple of notes about Round 9 matches:

WAG vs. RAJ 121-132:
In this high-scoring affair RAJ was able to even up the all-time winning record between the teams to 1-1 (after suffering 4 point defeat on Season 1) in a match that was, strangely enough, played in Iisalmi, Finland (neutral court, really?;). Even large crowd of cheering WAG fans were not enough to make this a close call, as it was clear during the whole match practically that RAJ will travel back to Poland with 2 points in their pocket. While RAJ lost the competition on charity stripe (76 vs. 91%), they were shooting FG at 58% (and choosing an offensive tactics that was able to outplay my tactical choice) which is usually a guaranteed way to victory unless there are some big differences on other statistical categories, and that was the case yesterday as well.

HB vs. D 112-97:
15 point difference on the score table at the end, which was only 9 before the 4th. HB seemed to choose a good tactics compared to D's defense tactics (and guess on opponents' offensive focus), which led them to score 18 more points behind the 3 point arc than their opponent. While HB lost rebounds by 9 and blocks by 6, HB having 9 to 1 (!) assists to turnovers-ratio and finishing in a clinical manner from the free throw line (26 out of 27!) ensured that due to HB's win Sweden-Spain matchup records in HGL stands at 1-0 currently.

SUM vs. EOS 104-87:
In a battle of Nordic teams, strong SUM team was able to get 13 more second chance FG attempts than their opponent (and won total rebounds by 19), and had a 7-1 edge on blocks. 8 players from SUM scored 9 points or more, so they were hard team to defend as so many players have some (or a lot of) offensive capability. (That´s actually the story in a regular BB league as well for SUM, as 8th best scorer in their team on this Season 69 has scored 10.2 ppg in their "regular BB league", Suomi II.4). Shooting-wise the percentages were somewhat similar on both teams, but SUM had 19(!) more FG attempts than EOS, which was one of the key factors in my opinion in terms of winning the match.

VPO vs. ED 91-78:
ED wasn't too far from offering another upset on consecutive rounds, this time against a team with a perfect 8-0 record, as they actually led the match by 2 before the 4th quarter. A heat of the Mexico (yes, a long way for both teams to play a match, but luckily HGL covers the travel costs;) was too much for the ED this time around, as they lost the 4th by 15 points. Heat didn't cause shooters to be on fire though, as both teams had a very cold shooting night behind the arc; ED at 0% (0 out of 10!) and VPO at 19% (3 out of 16). Even though ED shot extremely well from the free throw line (22 out of 23), giving VPO 9 more second chance attempts (than they were able to get themselves) was too much for them to handle.
EDIT: Temperature check. Now that I checked out recent temperatures, it seems like it's actually colder in Mexico than it is in Italy or in France, so there we have an explanation for the cold shooting hands!

Last edited by Wagner at 8/13/2025 5:14:51 AM

Here's a list of essential HGL links in general and for Season 2 specifically: (327516.6).

Like you can see, it's still a work in progress, however the message character limitation is already restricting further input. However, if you notice some essential missing links, please do not hesitate to contact me and I'll try to remove some characters from some explanatory parts of the post in order to be able to add more links.

Here's a list of essential HGL links in general and for Season 2 specifically: (327516.6).

Like you can see, it's still a work in progress, however the message character limitation is already restricting further input. However, if you notice some essential missing links, please do not hesitate to contact me and I'll try to remove some characters from some explanatory parts of the post in order to be able to add more links.

Some great info and, as always, a lot of work and effort on your behalf, Wagner. Well done and thank you.

I have also recently updated the HGL ACHIEVEMENTS (327663.3)

Please check it out and, again, if there are any teams who have had success as a HGL team (Championships) please let me know and I will update them in this thread.

@Wagner, if you could add this thread link somewhere I would really appreciate that. I think it is very important that we celebrate HG success!


EDIT: spelling

Last edited by MrJ at 8/12/2025 9:21:02 PM

Here's a list of essential HGL links in general and for Season 2 specifically: (327516.6).

Like you can see, it's still a work in progress, however the message character limitation is already restricting further input. However, if you notice some essential missing links, please do not hesitate to contact me and I'll try to remove some characters from some explanatory parts of the post in order to be able to add more links.

Some great info and, as always, a lot of work and effort on your behalf, Wagner. Well done and thank you.

I have also recently updated the HGL ACHIEVEMENTS (327663.3)

Please check it out and, again, if there are any teams who have had success as a HGL team (Championships) please let me know and I will update them in this thread.

@Wagner, if you could add this thread link somewhere I would really appreciate that. I think it is very important that we celebrate HG success!


EDIT: spelling

Thanks, MrJ!
I actually added that link of your HGL Achievements-thread to my post already yesterday, it's below the HGL Statistics-category so perhaps that may have been causing you not to notice it.

I definitely also think it's excellent idea to follow and celebrate HG success, and also have some following of HGL teams in their respective leagues. Sometimes HG teams achieve extremely good things worth celebrating (and sharing to others) in their own "regular BB leagues" that often are left unnoticed, but that post of yours is a remedy for that issue.

Please let me know if you prefer it to be moved into a different category in that post, or if you want link to be added also elsewhere on either or both Official HGL Threads.

Like MrJ asked, please let him know if you've won any championships in your own "regular BB leagues" as a 100% Home-Grown team. For instance teams in HGL that have 0 purchase history, all the championships that they´ve won at different league levels in their own countries' BB leagues will be count in MrJ's listing (if I understood it correctly).

In other words, if you are for example a team that has never purchased a player, any promotion (by winning league championship, not by being promoted without winning a title) you´ve reached during your seasons, will be count as a championship in MrJ's list.
Same goes of course with teams that have purchased players at some point during their manager career, but have won championship when being 100% HG for the duration of full season when they won the championship - that championship will be count in his listing (again, if I have understood MrJ's intentions/rules correctly).

Yes, I am including any Championships (League, BBM, BBB, Cup, HGL) your team has won as a 100% HG team. In other words, for that Championship to count (and be noted in the thread) your team needed to be 100 HG for the season that you won the title (from Game 1 until the last game of the finals).

Sadly, my 10 titles before returning to BB don't count as none of them were as a HG team

So, if you have any championships as a HG team that I have not recorded in the above-mentioned thread, please let me know.

Thank you.