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Already had 2 internacional centers for Spain u21 and played lot of matches. Spain won silver medal.
Had to sell one ( huge salary, more than 100k ) and kept the other one.
Now training another guard 19 years old U21 prospect and 2 more 18 years old guards.
Future looks good...

Already had 2 internacional centers for Spain u21 and played lot of matches. Spain won silver medal.
Had to sell one ( huge salary, more than 100k ) and kept the other one.
Now training another guard 19 years old U21 prospect and 2 more 18 years old guards.
Future looks good...

Great to see "new" managers to join the conversation as well! :)

So, if I checked it correctly from your transfer history, you've been running totally home-grown team for almost one calendar year (so about 4 BB seasons)? Can I ask that is this your first "run" as totally homegrown, or have you been part of the HG community for a long time (on and off as totally homegrown team)?

Your future sure does look bright, as you have some highly potential young players in your team (and I suspect there might be more to come, as you likely are in a somewhat optimal league level in terms of being able to draft high potential players without being subjected to the same level "drafting competition" with other managers, as you possibly would in top level league for instance).

Speaking of bright future (and your future plans), now that you are a HG team and are wtiting to this forum thread, may I ask whether or not you have also been following just quite recently established Home-Grown League (HGL) Official Threads (here: (326589.1), and here: (326590.1)? :)

I'm just gathering/forming a list of teams (found from here: (326589.154) who are interested in joining for Season 2 of HGL, which is scheduled to start on next Buzzerbeater season, and for which participating managers are doing some Pickup (PU) match organizing during this season's Buzzerbeater playoffs (match organization process will start approximately at the time when semifinal-stages are reached in everyone's own Buzzerbeater leagues).

So if you, Bonaro 72, or anyone with 100% homegrown team who plans to stay 100% homegrown for at least the full duration of next Buzzerbeater season, and who isn't yet playing in HGL this season would be interested in joining for Season 2, please let me know by BBMail or by sending message on an Official HGL Threads and I'll add you to a list of interested teams. :)
(Of course this goes with current HGL managers as well, but I believe all you are already aware of it after reading Official HGL Threads). So far we already have few new interested participants ready/willing to join for Season 2, but we haven't received an announcement from all current HGL managers whether or not they'd wish to continue playing in HGL on Season 2, so all this possibly affects the number of open positions for HGL Season 2.

Last edited by Wagner at 5/10/2025 7:09:31 PM

Oh golly we won another game in the swedish top division.
Now we feel confident we will not be boycotted.
Happened before twice for homegrown me.
Even if I then tried like a mad man.

Trust me I will not be able to stay for a second season.
I cannot buy players :)

Nice sir!
Keep at it.
We did not take that homegrown route.
We only pulled talent and trained talent for the seniors.

We have had NTs of course.
But focus has always been train allround and what is good for team.

And lol a homegrown team cannot sell talents :)

Oh golly we won another game in the swedish top division.
Now we feel confident we will not be boycotted.
Happened before twice for homegrown me.
Even if I then tried like a mad man.

Trust me I will not be able to stay for a second season.
I cannot buy players

Well done! And a 1-point win Exciting.

Hi!

I have a question—maybe someone will know the answer:

If I sold a homegrown player (i.e., a player I acquired from the draft) and then bought him back after a few seasons, would he still be considered homegrown, or just a local player?

Thank you all!

Hi!

I have a question—maybe someone will know the answer:

If I sold a homegrown player (i.e., a player I acquired from the draft) and then bought him back after a few seasons, would he still be considered homegrown, or just a local player?

Thank you all!

Yes, Asaf.K. He would still be considered HG.

Hi!

I have a question—maybe someone will know the answer:

If I sold a homegrown player (i.e., a player I acquired from the draft) and then bought him back after a few seasons, would he still be considered homegrown, or just a local player?

Thank you all!

Yes, Asaf.K. He would still be considered HG.

Yes, BB-Justin confirmed it seasons ago.

But You will loose the training exception … afaik you will loose the execption as well in the case you Sell the player to yourself (listing him and bid on him!).

A question:

Has any HG team won a Div 1 title...ever?

It occurred to me that this may have never been achieved. So, I went looking. So far, I have not found a HG team that has won a Div 1 title.

Hopefully, someone out there can correct me.

If this is true, it certainly makes things interesting.

Excellent question... Which right away led me to think of one Austrian team.

If cup competition titles would be count (I suppose you didn't mean to include them as you mentioned 'Div 1 title'), then at least Meidling Parrots could be count as one:
https://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/41696/history.aspx

If I calculated right, 8 wins in Österreich-Pokal-cup competition, and 5 runner-up seasons in cup.

On league (Österreich Bundesliga) on season 57 they were playing in finals, but lost the final series 0-2 to BV Mitterkirchen.

While I realize I'm at the same time taking this slightly into wrong rails as you were only asking about title winners, as a Finnish HG team I can't help myself to mention about most successful (AFAIK) Finnish HG team, Espoo Seals. So even though we're not talking about winning titles when one achieves a place in finals, Finnish team Espoo Seals was 10 points away from clinching a place in finals (in Finnish highest level league SM-Koris) on season 63, which I consider a major achievement for HG team considering it's quite competitive league to my knowledge. If I don't recall wrong, he also was a runner-up on cup competition on one season.

So these kind of achievements I think give all HG teams hope that excellent achievements are within a reach if you play your cards right, and that's one of the reasons why I brought this into conversation.. Another reason being, that I also can't recall any highest league level champion among HG community. I hope to be wrong on this though.

Anyway, it's sometimes quite arduous to compare the level of competition on different countries (which I guess would be necessary if we would for some reason like to "rate" the best HG achievements ever, which I know you weren't even looking forward to do here), and I guess we wouldn't have a chance to do that for past seasons even if we'd want to (say, compare for instance Austrian top league salary levels on season 57, and Finnish league salary levels on season 63).

Last edited by Wagner at 7/2/2025 6:45:29 AM