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Congrats Deano

- HEY vs. WMO (HEY 5-1, $520K. WMO 5-1, $328K) --> 108 - 107

A bit unlucky, and my point-gard, second salary of my team, was sorely missing for injurie, it was too much to challenge Deano

It was a tight game, I think you’ll get me next time.

TY !!!
It's nice to be in first place in some statistics. (^)

You are actually going to have very strong Top 2 players in your team within couple of seasons if (and likely as?) you keep on giving Jaunkamps and Skucs more training time! Also Muižzemnieks, a 19 yo. MVP, sounds like something that could have a potential to become a big factor in the future! :)

Having created that table, it also serves me as a proper wake up call (read: cold shower), as I'm one of the oldest teams in HGL and my "younger generation" just don't (mainly) have what it takes to train them up to the very high TSP... So it's more or less inevitable/matter of time, that'll I'll likely be sinking in HGL rankings (let's say, at least in terms of salary rankings and in Regular Season success) after my 30yo+ players will start their steep skill decline in couple of seasons... :/

It was a tight game, I think you’ll get me next time.

As far as statistics go, I'm not looking forward to today's match statistics after extremely likely being run over by a freight train called Santa Eufemia Ducks (Top 8 salary $637k) as it's very likely going to be the ugliest loss of my HGL history xD But at least it's a good measure of current level...

As far as Top8 salaries go, Round 8 seems more uneven with bigger underdogs around this time (Heywood Big Dogs not being one of the big underdogs though).

Salary wise, I'd expect LGM-TRO to be the most even match of the Friday; LGM 4 wins and 3 losses with 222K Top8 salary, and TRO currently at 1 win and 6 losses with $216K salaries. Good luck to everyone for Round 8!

Hello all,
We're more than halfway through the Regular Season 1 of HGL, so here's some comparison on how teams have fared so far, compared to their "salary rankings". I have, however, used current Top 8 salaries of teams (rather than pre-season salaries) but they haven't changed considerably for any team.

In table below, current league position in league table is mentioned first, and then preseason salary ranking and current Top 8-salary (bolded in brackets) mentioned next, followed by team name and current regular season record (so practically league table position copy-pasted there; wins-losses-points-scoring difference-forfeit losses).

Please note that in creating this table, if some teams are tied in wins and have already played against each other this season, I have not manually checked out which team won their meeting so therefore this league table might not reflect absolutely correct positions for teams tied in wins.


1. (2nd; $637K) SED 8 0 16 337 0
2. (1st; $639K) HAD 8 0 16 244 0
3. (3rd; $520K) HEY 7 1 15 164 0
4. (7th; $280K) ED 6 2 14 169 0
5. (5th; $328K) WMO 6 2 14 163 0
6. (4th; $371K) SUM 5 3 13 115 0
7. (6th; $305K) RAJ 5 3 13 76 0
8. (9th; $222K) LGM 5 3 13 31 0
9. (8th; $270K) WAG 4 4 12 59 0
10. (11th; $211K) D 3 5 11 -42 0
11. (13th; $148K) HCH 3 5 11 -70 0
12. (14th; $98K) BUC 2 6 10 -161 0
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13. (10th; $216K) TRO 1 7 9 -85 0
14. (12th; $196K) LMS 1 7 9 -94 0
15. (15th; $59K) BIG 0 8 8 -453 0
16. (16th; $55K) SRS 0 8 8 -453 0

Like you can see, not all has gone totally as expected (well, salary isn't perfect tool to compare team strengths, but it's likely the best one that's openly available to all as I'm sure not all of us are willing to reveal their Top8 players skill numbers for instance...). But it's worth noting, that given the number of "uneven matches with big underdog", and how they are randomly organized to team schedule makes this sort of listing fair/equal for all teams only at the end of the Regular Season. So please remember to take it with a grain of salt - it's there for "entertainment purposes" so to speak as not all teams have yet faced all teams.

As far as other comparisons are concerned, it's going to be interesting to find out how much Top 8 salary development has taken place for each team from Season 1 to Season 2!

Speaking of which, @ all managers playing in HGL:
We have already played almost two thirds of Season 1 Regular season, so I'd urge all managers currently playing in HGL, and all managers considering future participation to let me know by the end of Regular Season 1 (played on May 26th, 2025) if they wish to continue in HGL in the Season 2 as well, so we can start making plans and arrangements if number of teams for Season 2 of HGL will change - thank you!

Naturally, I'm in for Season 2, and also willing to continue as a league Commissioner should HGL managers approve that!


Last edited by Wagner at 5/4/2025 7:42:49 AM

Referring to my previous post on this thread, I'll start another post so that we can easily keep up/update the list of interested teams.

Updateable listing of HGL teams/managers that have confirmed their willingness to participate for Season 2 of HGL, which is played during next Buzzerbeater season:

Team name (manager name), day of announcement

1. Wagner College (Wagner), May 4th, 2025 +
2. Les Gueux du Marais (Coach Faz), May 4th
3. Elan Demars (demars), May 4th
4. Lielupes Melnās Sirdis (Monēta), May 4th
5. Svätý Jur Snakers (Hadár), May 4th +
6. Madrid Chotis (Jotadoce), May 5th
7. Swan River Serpents (MrJ)
8. WiMaOlCa (WiMaOl), May 5th
9. Club Trouville (Chucarro), May 6th
10. Suuret Muinaiset (cthulhu), May 9th
11. Rajdersi (Paul George), May 13th
12. Hårdboll (Spela), *NEW* (first announce of interest on April 20th/latest confirmation on May 5th, 2025)
13. BC Eos (LennuK.), *NEW* (interest announced May 5th, 2025)
14. Virtus Portici (SventraCanestri), *NEW* (interest announced June 13th, 2025)
15. KK Stihija (Pihija), *NEW* (interest announced June 14th,2025)
16. Freccia Azzurra (ned), June 13th *NEW*

+=Participates also to Season 3.


Teams playing in HGL Season 1, who have confirmed they WILL NOT participate to Season 2 of HGL:
1. Holy City Hoopers (Gccsteel), May 5th
2. BigChill (BigChillers), May 6th
3. Heywood Big Dogs (Deano25), May 12th
4. Santa Eufemia Ducks (GM-Enzo), (committed to S2 on May 12th)>*Withdrawn from Season 2 (on June 30th)*
5. Buckner Bandits (T-Lit), committed May 5th *Dismissed from Season 2*



Possible new team additions/new candidates for Season 3 of HGL:
On this "Possible new team additions"-list I'll be from now on keeping a list of teams, who are interested in participating to Season 3 of HGL (which takes place during next Buzzerbeater season).

1. Social Security Kings (IKnowZip), announced July 30th, 2025



Other possibly interested teams (likely/possibly joining HGL later but currently preferred starting season hasn't been announced by manager):
1. BC Homegrown (Dutch Farmer), April 15th, 2025 (exact preferred starting season not yet confirmed by Dutch Farmer; as for future participation I'm referring to this post: (324689.730)
2. San Antonio Gladiators (Enigma), June 25th




If you´re still not playing in HGL but wish to do so in the future, please let me know either by responding to this post or sending me a BBMail. When you do so, I'll add you to a list based on your preferred starting season.
However, this applies to current and potentially new teams (currently not playing in HGL).
In other words, if you are already playing in HGL, please inform me of your interest to continue playing on next Season of HGL by the start of current Seasons' HGL playoffs, thank you.

Basically, personally I'd like to guarantee a place for all current teams playing in HGL for the next season as well, should they wish to continue playing in it, and I added "day of announcement" above mainly in the case new teams join and if we would need to restrict the amount of accepted new teams (due to sensible league size restrictions) and if we would then use 'day of announcement' as a critical decisive factor in deciding which new teams would be allowed to join.

This, however, hasn't been locked in as a selection method for new teams, and when I think of it, if we have "too many" interested new teams wanting to join HGL (and simply couldn't accept them all), then I think some kind of play-in type short league/playoffs structure (that would take place during Season 2 HGL Playoffs) between these teams would be preferable in that case to determine participation rights for new teams for the Season 3.

Last edited by Wagner at 7/31/2025 9:36:01 AM

I wish to continue participating in the HGL next season

May the fourth be with me for a second consecutive year in HGL (will we start a poll to change the name of the league (until MY proposition wins, of course) ?)

I'm in for Season 2.

Why do you want to change the name? I think the current name HGL is fine. There is no need to change it.

It was just something we call in french "humour".

(the last sentence was also "humour")






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