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Yes … who want s to be second 🤪

In terms of...? ;P
It seems your sense of humor was too sharp for my dull tiredness this time xD

Sorry, i replied to the wrong post.

The Santa Eufemia Ducks (24340) are pretty strong 👍 impressive team.

Sorry, i replied to the wrong post.

The Santa Eufemia Ducks (24340) are pretty strong 👍 impressive team.

No problem... I thought I must be having one of those Beavis&Butthead-days as I didn't quite get your point.. ;D

Yes … who want s to be second 🤪

LOl. You will have to go to the bottom of the tablet to find my team! We will be bringing up the tail-end! :-)

Some great points, Wagner.

As for the whole schedule being done before the season starts? I probably wasn't clear but yes, absolutely. I visualise the schedule being listed later this season with something denoting the team within each matchup whose responsibility it is to 'challenge' the other team via the PickUP (PU) method.

I see that you have asked demars about whether it is easy enough to organise or randomise the matchups. Great.

I'm thinking that we could do the following:

1. Lock in 14 teams.
2. Have 1 division based on Team salaries for the first season. I know it's not perfect but it's probably accurate enough to begin with. We can change for 2nd season.
3. Start confirming those 14 teams - make sure they are still on board - have 100% HG rosters - will be ready to play at the start of Season 68 - get total team salaries (can be adjusted this season as necessary)
4. (CRUCIAL) We ask them to predict what their Team Salary total (Buzzer Manager is helpful here) will be by the start of Season 68. This will be difficult, there will by inconsistencies, but if we don't start somewhere, nothing will get done.
5. Using all of those predicted salaries we at least know what the league is going to look like whether we have rankings or not. (BTW, when I referred to rankings before, I meant the end rankings after LEague 1 was completed - which could be used to setup League 2)


We are going to have a lot of little problems along the way. However, until we lock in the number of teams for the first League, we can't really move forward.\

I suggest we start with 14 teams and that we conduct the first season's League ("The League" similar to how BB does its leagues. I think managers will find this easier and friendly to begin with.

So, 14 teams / 1 Division.

My reasoning:

If we begin Season 68 with 14 teams, they can each play each other over the first 13 weeks. We then have single game Semi-Finals for the top 4 teams. Then a single Grand Final for the final 2 teams. This will bring us to 15 weeks and the end of the regular season.

It would be during those last few weeks (The finals - 2 weeks) that we would lock up the League 2 participants and new schedule so that we can begin in League 2 in Season 69.

Thoughts? Problems?

@ Wagner.

Regaridng strict penalties...

I am 100% in aggreeance. We do not want teams starting or playing in the league who do not stay HG for the entire competition. It would ruin what we are trying to create.

To be a little clearer:

1 Division with 14 teams

All 14 teams play each other (13 weeks)

Semifinals played between top 4 teams (1v4) (2v3) Winners go to final. (1 week)

Final (1 week) Winner of two semifinals play each other. (1 week)

15 weeks total.

WE ALREADY HAVE 14:

Eliocroca CB (141176) Manager: LOPO confirmed
Wagner College (172501) Manager: Wagner confirmed
Les Gueux du Marais (86508) Manager: Coach Faz
Elan Demars (87312) Manager: demars confirmed
NakamichiDragons (34515) Manager: LA-flaterik123
Holy City Hoopers (23767) Manager: Gccsteel
Buckner Bandits (23579) Manager: T-Lit
Madrid Chotis (76877) Manager: Jotadoce
WiMaOlca (35977) Manager: WiMaOl
Rajdersi (237760) Manager: Paul George
Santa Eufemia Ducks (24340) Manager: GM-Enzo
Swan River Serpents (197075) Manager: MrJ confirmed
Lielupes Melnas Sirdis (146915) Manager: Moneta ???
Suuret Muinaiset (172657) Manager: cthulhu

Last edited by MrJ at 1/9/2025 9:21:54 PM

As for what day the PickUp (PU) games should be played...

While I said Monday would be ideal, I think a range (between Monday and Wednesday) might be better, giving managers more time to ensure they get their game played. Life happens sometimes. Having a range would be fairer.

Regarding the strictness of penalties imposed...

I strongly agree that any team that breaks their HG team and plays a non-HG player should receive a strict punishment as this League is 100% about being and playing HG.

With that said, while 99.99% of managers would not be affected by strict penalties regarding this, newer HG teams might make a mistake at some point. That is why I presented the consequences I did...for them.

However, we also want everybody competing in this League to be very clear that if you are not HomeGrown go home! (Maybe this should be my new forum signature! lol).

Seriously though, the one compromise we can't really make is teams breaking this golden rule.

RULES:

1. A team must be 100% Home-Grown.
What is a Home-Grown Team? (326328.1)
2. A team must field a minimum of 5 players in a Matchup.

Maybe you have noted this somewhere already (or are in a different page with me and some others about it), but I didn't notice anything about mentioning that this league would be meant only for homegrown teams that compete with their main teams. You are technically correctly stating what homegrown team is, however, that's not what the original definition of homegrown teams by LOPO (who has established the list of homegrown teams, and whose definition I personally agree with).
So would you find it suitable to mention somewhere, that we are looking forward to creating main team only homegrown league here (or have I got it wrong that you're also looking forward to create that kind of league, and not a blended league)?

Personally I strongly think that if Utopian homegrown teams want to play homegrown league, an own league should be established for them, and "normal" BB main teams and Utopian teams should not be blended into same homegrown team league in any circumstance.

Having to dress minimum of 5 players per match is a good idea in my opinion. You can achieve that in 2 seasons if you're desperate to get playing quickly, so that's not too big of a demand. ;D

You are correct, Wagner!

Even though you and I have disagreed in the past (few months ago) about the Utopian teams being included...I strongly agree now that the Main Teams should only be included in our League.

The page I created explaining HomeGrown is just that. Information for people on what HG means.

For our League, however, we will not be accepting Utopian teams. :-)

To be a little clearer:

1 Division with 14 teams

All 14 teams play each other (13 weeks)

Semifinals played between top 4 teams (1v4) (2v3) Winners go to final. (1 week)

Final (1 week) Winner of two semifinals play each other. (1 week)

15 weeks total.

WE ALREADY HAVE 14:

Eliocroca CB (141176) Manager: LOPO confirmed
Wagner College (172501) Manager: Wagner confirmed
Les Gueux du Marais (86508) Manager: Coach Faz
Elan Demars (87312) Manager: demars confirmed
NakamichiDragons (34515) Manager: LA-flaterik123
Holy City Hoopers (23767) Manager: Gccsteel
Buckner Bandits (23579) Manager: T-Lit
Madrid Chotis (76877) Manager: Jotadoce
WiMaOlca (35977) Manager: WiMaOl
Rajdersi (237760) Manager: Paul George
Santa Eufemia Ducks (24340) Manager: GM-Enzo
Swan River Serpents (197075) Manager: MrJ confirmed
Lielupes Melnas Sirdis (146915) Manager: Moneta ???
Suuret Muinaiset (172657) Manager: cthulhu

UPDATED LIST with current number of players including team salaries.

Eliocroca CB (141176) Manager: LOPO confirmed
-16 players / $434k Salaries / 1 player on Transfer Market
Wagner College (172501) Manager: Wagner confirmed
-87 Players / $227k Salaries (30 players) / 0 players on Transfer Market
Les Gueux du Marais (86508) Manager: Coach Faz
-13 Players / $311k Salaries / 0 Players on Transfer Market
Elan Demars (87312) Manager: demars confirmed
-17 Players / $311k Salaries / 0 Players on Transfer Market
NakamichiDragons (34515) Manager: LA-flaterik123
-15 Players / $605k Salaries / 0 Players on Transfer Market
Holy City Hoopers (23767) Manager: Gccsteel
-13 Players / $154k Salaries / 0 Players on Transfer Market
Buckner Bandits (23579) Manager: T-Lit
-16 Players / $114k Salaries / 2 Players on Transfer List
Madrid Chotis (76877) Manager: Jotadoce
-14 Players / $208k Salaries / 0 Players on Transfer Market
WiMaOlca (35977) Manager: WiMaOl
-12 Players / $323k Salaries / 0 Players on Transfer Market
Rajdersi (237760) Manager: Paul George
-11 Players / $308k Salaries / 0 Players on Transfer Market (Didn't include non-HG players)
Santa Eufemia Ducks (24340) Manager: GM-Enzo confirmed
-12 Players / $728k Salaries / 0 Players on Transfer List
Swan River Serpents (197075) Manager: MrJ confirmed
-7 Players / $57k Salaries / 0 Players on Transfer List (Didn't include non-HG players)
Lielupes Melnas Sirdis (146915) Manager: Moneta ???
-9 Players / $138k Salaries / 0 Players on Transfer Market
Suuret Muinaiset (172657) Manager: cthulhu
-12 Players / $362k Salaries / 0 Players on Transfer Market

Clearly there is some serious differences between the top salaries (728k) and the bottom (57k). 2 Divisions in the second year of the league will likely be needed to create more competitive games.

Last edited by MrJ at 1/9/2025 10:48:11 PM