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I would like to participate in future homegrown leagues.

I would like to participate in future homegrown leagues.

Thank you, that's excellent to hear! I will add you to a list of interested teams immediately.

Preparations for Season 2 of HGL, as far as "regular managers" of HGL are concerned, will start during this Buzzerbeater season, approximately when we all reach semifinal stages in our regular Buzzerbeater league playoffs.

Preparations include for instance setting up Pickup matches for the whole duration of Season 2 before the season starts, and doing some other smaller tasks that are required from everyone for smooth operation of the league.

Of course, for joining teams it is advisable to familiarize themselves with the practices and rules of HGL well before that. However, as far as rules are concerned, we haven't had to enforce a single penalty so far, so while the rule set might seem like a lengthy one, as long as you stick with some of the most important quidelines/protocols/rules, you'll most likely be fine (being fine meaning being able to follow the rules by memory, at least half intuitively, after you have initially read and understood them).

Like I mentioned, you seem to have a strong team for HGL, especially before Rambrant and Grenhall are starting to lose their skills after couple of seasons... On the other hand, Torsson and Eriksson can still learn new skills, and there are some MVP and Hall of Famer potential young guys on your roster who do not practically have training limits! So are you already able to say if you'd be interested in joining already on the next season of HGL, Season 2?

Season 2 of HGL is currently planned/scheduled to start on next Monday after first official season 69 Buzzerbeater league match.

Hello all fellow HGL managers,
We have already played more than quarter of our first Regular Season games, and boy have we had some interesting matches! And for me personally, being a close score (after 48 minutes) is not the only thing that can make match interesting...

Speaking of interesting, I guess most of you already know that I like, or shall I even say love, stats.
So if there are more than Hadár and MrJ among us who like statistics and data, and in the case if some of you don't happen to read Official Scores Thread of HGL as actively as this thread, I'll add a partial copy of my earlier message that I sent on HGL Scores Thread, so that it'll reach everyone.
This recently updated team statistics post (that I refer here, and in quotation below) can be found from a familiar place, here: (326590.9).

And you might like to hear about the latest news: fresh batch of new special stats, all-new to HGL have just been made available on that same post - 8 new categories in total!
More on them later (as I'm now too tired to write a longer post), but I just list recently added categories here:
1. Scoring Margin
2. Scoring Offense
3. Scoring Defense
4. Total Rebounding % (rebounding rate)
5. Offensive Rebounding %
6. Team Assist/Turnover ratio
7. Team Steals+Blocks per Turnover-ratio
8. Team Steals+Blocks per Fouls-ratio

Last edited by Wagner at 4/20/2025 8:15:20 AM

Well, Hadar...

The magic number for our game tonight is 100.

If I lose by less than 100 it will be a victory for the Serpents.

I can think of a 100 different ways your team is going to inflict pain on my boys tonight.

I will get to see if anyone in my team can manage to score 10 points or 10 rebounds against you.

Good luck...

...as I am going to need it!

PS. Maybe I will play Patient. Maybe I won't. Either way, it won't matter.

Last edited by MrJ at 4/20/2025 10:18:32 PM

It's very likely that one of your players will score more than 10 points or have more than 10 rebounds. And it's also possible that I'll score less than 100 points.
We'll see how it goes. Good luck to you too ;)

Well, Hadar...

The magic number for our game tonight is 100.

If I lose by less than 100 it will be a victory for the Serpents.

I can think of a 100 different ways your team is going to inflict pain on my boys tonight.

I will get to see if anyone in my team can manage to score 10 points or 10 rebounds against you.

Good luck...

...as I am going to need it! :`-(

PS. Maybe I will play Patient. Maybe I won't. Either way, it won't matter. I-)

While you most likely won't be playing for a win tonight, and while you don't (only) sound too exciting about the beginning of this long HG journey (of course also understandable), luckily it's just exactly that - a beginning, and like you well said, you're only going to get better from now on. :)
And I like your enthusiasm, that you're already giving season MVP votes for your players for each match! Also, I'm glad to see you have some very potential young players in your roster - yes, currently with big training holes (as you mentioned), but those will likely be fixed in few (3-4?) seasons' time.

As for other games of Round 5 tonight (well, this morning in The Americas, and afternoon in Europe), we're likely/potentially going to have quite many interesting ones, in terms of a close score.
There's most potential for that in:
- WAG v. SUM (Salary Ranking #8 v. SR4),
- TRO v. RAJ (SR10 v. SR6),
- LGM v. WMO (SR9 v. SR5),
- ED v. D (SR7 v. SR11), and especially
- HCH v. BUC, in which teams rated 13th and 14th in Salary Rankings will meet.

Speaking of Buckner Bandits, I finally updated your top 8 salaries to posts on both official threads - Top 8 salary for BUC is now $98K.

Good luck to everyone for Round 5 games - after this already one third of Regular Season has been played!

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If I lose by less than 100 it will be a victory for the Serpents.
[...]
PS. Maybe I will play Patient. Maybe I won't. Either way, it won't matter. I-)

While I partly took your quotation out of context here in this reply, I just wanted to add, that maybe there are also other things that can be thought as a 'victory', if you so choose to. If I may mention, maybe if you could climb/get better on some statistics categories during the season, maybe that would also be considered a some kind of win.

Understandably, having a team with lowest top 8 salary, it's not easy to do well on different stats categories.
But I wanted to mention, that given fact above, you're not doing that bad on certain team stats categories:
- Forced turnovers 11,0 (8th in HGL; highest value 14,8, lowest 6,3)
- Steals 7,5 (4th!; H9,3, L2,8)
- Blocks 4,5 (10th; H9,8, L2,5)
- Steals and Blocks per Fouls committed 0,80 (8th; H1,87, L0,45).

Of course, there's still lots of work to do, but you will get there eventually... :)

[...]
If I lose by less than 100 it will be a victory for the Serpents.
[...]
PS. Maybe I will play Patient. Maybe I won't. Either way, it won't matter.

While I partly took your quotation out of context here in this reply, I just wanted to add, that maybe there are also other things that can be thought as a 'victory', if you so choose to. If I may mention, maybe if you could climb/get better on some statistics categories during the season, maybe that would also be considered a some kind of win.

Understandably, having a team with lowest top 8 salary, it's not easy to do well on different stats categories.
But I wanted to mention, that given fact above, you're not doing that bad on certain team stats categories:
- Forced turnovers 11,0 (8th in HGL; highest value 14,8, lowest 6,3)
- Steals 7,5 (4th!; H9,3, L2,8)
- Blocks 4,5 (10th; H9,8, L2,5)
- Steals and Blocks per Fouls committed 0,80 (8th; H1,87, L0,45).

Of course, there's still lots of work to do, but you will get there eventually...

Thanks, Wagner. I had noticed those stats. Let's see where things fall by the end of the 1st HGL season.

Thanks, Wagner. I had noticed those stats. Let's see where things fall by the end of the 1st HGL season.

Yes, we shall see... Nevertheless, development of your team is practically inevitable, and at least those end of season-stats function as a good comparison for forthcoming seasons. Also, it will be easier for you to handle weekly minutes (and therefore game shape) with 11 player roster next season...

Thanks, Wagner. I had noticed those stats. Let's see where things fall by the end of the 1st HGL season.

Yes, we shall see... Nevertheless, development of your team is practically inevitable, and at least those end of season-stats function as a good comparison for forthcoming seasons. Also, it will be easier for you to handle weekly minutes (and therefore game shape) with 11 player roster next season...

Yes, my GS issues are already a problem despite a Level 7 Massage Doctor. Looking forward to an 11-player roster.

On the positive side of things, running this 8-man roster is great prep as my second team, Westopian Tigers will be going 100% HG next season with 9 players. So, this is good practise.

On salaries it might not have looked like a close game, Lielupes Melnās Sirdis have absolutely jumped me in our game tonight and are giving me a workout in this first quarter. Hopefully my lads can turn it around but so far the higher salaries aren't counting for much at all.