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Thank you for your confirmation on my reasoning of correct HGL Season 2 starting day (14th of July, 2025)!

So based on that, I just made a new calendar (match days) for HGL Season 2, which everyone can copy-paste to their own Season 2 box score posts, that they create once Official Scores Thread for Season 2 is created. Please note, that in HGL we will not combine box score posts from different seasons, so it's better to wait until new Season 2 Thread is created by me.

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@all participating managers: you need to provide a similar kind of list (as below), a.k.a. your team's own box score post before Season 2 on Season 2 HGL Scores-thread. For new-to-HGL managers nstructions on how to easily create this is found on previous messages, (326590.42) and (326590.43).

But to put it in short, you're free to copy-paste this into your HGL Season 2 box score post (preferably when Official Season 2 Scores Thread is published, and after I've reserved about 11 first posts from that Thread for official use), and then just change your team name to replace 'WAG', and add match box score link (match number) instead of 'xxx' (at [match=xxx]) to all Regular Season matches when matches have been organized.

Eventually you'll need to keep on adding scores of the matches to your own box score posts during the whole season when matches have been played.

I'd like everyone to follow this sort of structure (in your own box score posts) to keep it easier for me to interpret. You may edit it in some ways if you want, like some of you guys have done on Season 1, but please keep all essential information in it and preferably formatting of the post relatively same (as below).


So, here are finally match days for Season 2 of HGL, and you may copy-paste everything below this sentence to your own Season 2 box score post once Season 2 Thread is created. :


Here are box score links to my HGL Season 2 matches and match scores:

RS Round 1: Monday, July14th, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]
RS Round 2: Friday, July 18th, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]
RS Round 3: Monday, July 21st, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]

RS Round 4: Friday, July 25th, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]
RS Round 5: Monday, July 28th, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]
RS Round 6: Friday, August 1st, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]

RS Round 7: Monday, August 4th, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]
RS Round 8: Friday, August 8th, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]
RS Round 9: Monday, August 11th, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]

RS Round 10: Friday, August 15th, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]
RS Round 11: Monday, August 18th, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]
RS Round 12: Friday, August 22nd, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]

RS Round 13: Monday, August 25th, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]
RS Round 14: Friday, August 29th, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]
RS Round 15: Monday, September 1st, 2025 WAG vs. [match=xxx]


HGL Season 1 Playoffs:
(For Playoffs: home team name bolded; home team responsible for sending match challenge)

PO Round 1 (teams ranked 5th-12th): Sunday, September 8th, 2025

PO Round 2 (quarter-finals): Sunday, September 14th, 2025

PO Round 3 (semifinals): Sunday, September 21st, 2025

PO Round 4 (championship and a bronze matches): Sunday, September 28th 2025


Abbreviations used for Playoffs scores:
AQR2 = Automatically Qualified to Round 2 of Playoffs
(this abbreviation is used by Top 4 teams of Regular Season, during First Round of Playoffs when they did not play a match)

NQP = Not Qualified to Playoffs
(teams ranked from 13th to 16th positions on Regular Season, who did not qualify for Playoffs, use this abbreviation)

*DNP* = Did Not Play/Did Not Participate (on this Playoff Round)
(teams can use this abbreviation instead of entering their score of the round, if they have not played this Round match due to losing in the previous Playoff Round, and therefore being out of this season's Playoffs permanently)

As for re-using Season 1 league schedule, it once again got more arduous as for some reason formatting that MrJ and T-Lit used when sending official Season 1 schedule to threads, isn't recognized by my text editing program (while simultaneously, copy-pasting other text from BB forums does include essential formatting such as bolded text).

This creates another layer of challenge/work, as theoretically I could check out the Season 1 schedule and bold everything in it manually. But due to teams changing from Season 1 to Season 2 it's not as simple as just changing couple of names, because I couldn't then use replace function in text editing software to change team names, as it would likely remove/mess up bolding when replacing names (as there's no option to make replaced text automatically bolded or non-bolded), which is essential information in HGL league schedule.

Yes, maybe possible to use search and highlight function and then correct/change everything manually, but automated processes are preferred as they minimize risk for errors - humans after all make most of the errors when accomplishing manual tasks.

Also, if I'd bold everything in text editing software and eventually would get it done that way, of course, surprise surprise, BB text editor doesn't then recognize these bolded texts but I have to manually press ´B´ in BB text editor and cut-paste team name in schedule post manually for 120 times, while at the same time referencing another file about which was the team responsible for sending challenge (a.k.a. bolded team).
We could of course change the practice so that team responsible for challenging would be marked with # or something similar, but it wouldn't remove most problems. Frustrating and arduous at the very least.

Ideas are welcome, if you know how to retain formatting... I've tried to solve it without success. This was written also to give an example, how unexpectedly small hiccups and/or changes can change/affect something in a big way..

Last edited by Wagner at 6/20/2025 9:32:31 AM

Congratulations Hadár, manager of Svätý Jur Snakers for clinching the first ever HGL championship title!

Santa Eufemia Ducks certainly gave SJS a run for their money in the final, and match was up for grabs almost till the end. Santa Eufemia Ducks´ player Fariña unfortunately lost the ball to Ondrej Zlevský when there was only 22 seconds to go and SED trailing by 6, so that pretty much nailed the match as Svätý Jur Snakers wasn't doing too bad from the charity stripe today (19 out of 22). Also difference in rebounds was somewhat significant, favoring SJS 51 to 37.

Also congratulations to GM-Enzo and Deano25 for Silver and Bronze medals, respectively! Having said that, WiMaOl can definitely also be proud of his performance against an opponent with superior Top8-salaries, well done!

It happens to be the case, that medals from HGL Season 1 were distributed to 3 different continents, so can we talk about league being pretty international, or what? :)

Speaking of Bronze match, that was also quite exciting, teams being only 4 points apart before the start of 4th. It was still a 5 point game when there was 4:30 remaining in a game clock, but as Heywood Big Dogs were able to dominate on the glass (49-34 advantage to HEY) and beat WiMaOlCa by 8 in the last quarter, Bronze medals travel to Australia on Season 1.

Thank you very much everyone for participating on HGL Season 1, and I'm already looking forward to Season 2 - work for that is under way and announcements about it are being done soon, so stay tuned! :)

Last edited by Wagner at 6/22/2025 11:27:26 AM

You summed it up nicely. The final was tough and close. I'm glad I won the first season and I'm already looking forward to the second season.

You summed it up nicely. The final was tough and close. I'm glad I won the first season and I'm already looking forward to the second season.

Thanks Hadár! And I'm very glad to see you on Season 2...
Special thanks for your special statistics throughout the season, not too many leagues in whole BB (well, I guess only the BB league you´re playing in and HGL) receive such a nice bonus in form of stats - for someone who loves stats such as myself that's always a treat!

While the All-Time HGL Stats/Records-post is still very much lacking, I updated some of the records to it including All-Time Medal Table, and it can be found here if someone has already forgot: (326590.15).

Last edited by Wagner at 6/22/2025 2:20:16 PM

Thank you and it will be my pleasure to do these statistics next season as well.

Thank you and it will be my pleasure to do these statistics next season as well.

That would be already worth more than +1, but that's all I can give for that. So thank you already beforehand. :)

Congratulations, Hadar!

A great first season.

Congratulations!! You deserve the gold!

Thank you. You were a worthy opponent. I wasn't sure I would win against you. We played 2 beautifully balanced matches together.

Thank you. I was pleased with the overall victory.