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Respect! I started today with my new team to be the first (that I know off) Dutch fully homegrown team. I hope I can stay patient enough 😉

Well, at least you've made it yourself hard to change playing strategy (being homegrown) with your team name selection, so brilliant choice ;)

It's always great to get managers from completely new countries to join our HGL community!
Actually I was once again taking a look at LOPO_'s list of homegrown teams couple of weeks ago, and then I cast a wish that I hope we'll get managers from completely new countries to join... and here we have you, representing one more HG country. :)

Speaking of joining, like you may have noticed, I already mentioned in my previous message to Hårdboll about Home-Grown League (HGL) that has been established just a while ago. If you have been following this thread for a long time, some aspects of it might be familiar to you already. The Official Thread of HGL, should you be interested in finding more information about it, can be found here: (326589.1). (We also have a separate official HGL Scores Thread, but most essential things have been positioned there on that main thread).
So if you have time, I would also like to ask you to take a look at it, so that you'd see if it would be something you'd be interested in joining in coming seasons! :)

Thanks! I looked at it and I'm interested in joining after a few seasons. Keep up the good work!

Last edited by Dutch Farmer at 4/15/2025 1:05:07 PM

My first game (134074404) with this team is a memorable one with my 18-year old PG having a triple-double 😀

Thanks 😀

We are back in the swedish top division.
Homegrown for life!

Nice 👍

Thanks! I looked at it and I'm interested in joining after a few seasons. Keep up the good work!

Great to hear, thanks for taking a look at it! Like you noticed, we have participating teams with top 8 salary budgets between $639K and $55K (like you can see from this list created by MrJ, here: (326589.52), so salary itself hasn't been decisive factor in terms of being invited to play in HGL.
And like you likely noticed, we use a league system where 75% of teams reach playoffs, so you don't have to have a top team to be able to enjoy post season play. For instance a team with 13th highest top 8 salaries is paying $148K for their top8, and 12th team (12 best reach playoffs) $196K. However, when you train efficiently, you can accomplish big things in 2-4 seasons... so just stick with it, keep on learning, and enjoy the ride... I would like to assure you it's going to be exciting one, and much more rewarding than if you'd buy your way into success. :)

In the case if we'll have more interest towards HGL in the future, then if we couldn't expand the league in a major way, we'd have to look at different possibilities on how to decide who gets to participate, and there are lots of options how that could be decided...
For instance it could be decided based on
- the order of announcement of interest (this could potentially leave high salary teams out though, if they would announce their interest as one of the later teams), or
- playing a Play-in playoff series between interested teams, or
- playing a short league between interested participants (some predetermined amount of teams would clinch a place in HGL for next season),
- some kind of combination of these, etc.

But that'd be positive problem anyway. I can't recall if I've written it on a rule set of HGL, but my idea has always been that you can't lose your position in HGL, if you just don't break major rules and are willing to continue.
At least not without lack of success in some kind of Play-in/Playoff/Relegation League etc. (that I mentioned before), if there is so much interest towards HGL that we couldn't accept all willing participants in any given season. We hope that all managers would be happy with HGL and would keep playing in it for years to come, but of course in reality, sometimes some managers might decide to not continue in HGL, and places can then be filled with new teams (possibly without having to go through "Play-in" playoffs/-league etc.).

Meanwhile, we're glad to have you onboard, and please keep on participating on conversations here on this thread - and 'Home-Grown League (HGL) Season 1 Official Thread' also welcomes you and all interested managers to not only read, but also to participate in conversation whether or not you are currently playing in HGL! :)

Last edited by Wagner at 4/15/2025 6:46:43 PM

My first game (134074404) with this team is a memorable one with my 18-year old PG having a triple-double 😀

Nice work, Dutch Farmer and it is great to see yet another HG team.

Have you played BB before? If not, this particular forum is a great place to have any questions you have answered. as there is a wealth of BB knowledge here.

As others have already said..."Welcome aboard!"

@ Wagner, it will, as you say, be a good problem if we have to expand the HGL in coming seasons.

Thanks! Happy to be here. Yes I have played BB before and I have good experience in training players for the U21 and NT. For me the most important thing is to be patient and have fun 😀

Last edited by Dutch Farmer at 4/16/2025 1:26:59 AM

Thanks! Happy to be here. Yes I have played BB before and I have good experience in training players for the U21 and NT. For me the most important thing is to be patient and have fun 😀

Good to know. Welcome back. I, too, have recently returned.

Good luck this season.

Thanks! Good luck to you too buddy!