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League table update finished a while ago, and while Round 5 offered only 1 thriller (WAG vs. SUM, equalizer attempt in the air 35 seconds to go in the game clock), we had some movement of teams in the league table.

On Round 5 for instance HAD again showed why he is the defending champion of HGL, serving HB their first loss of the season and therefore leaving only 2 teams (HAD, VPO) with perfect 5-0 record.

Mid-table is still (as one could expect) very close, 6 teams having almost same win-loss record (all of them between 3W-2L and 2W-3L).

So there are 5 teams with 5-0 or 4-1 record, 6 teams with 3-2 or 2-3 record, and finally 5 more teams with 1-4 or 0-5 record.
But it's a young season still and many changes in league table can and will happen, and as schedule (that has been originally provided by MrJ, and re-used from Season 1) has been created with a random schedule generator, apart from my teams' schedule I haven't checked out how "projected likely wins/losses" from first and second part of season are expected to take place in the case of each team, in other words how easy or hard are each teams' first and second part of the Regular Season in terms of expected win-loss record.

Anyway, there should be interesting matches ahead this Friday, for instance HB vs. SUM (somewhat equal in salaries and 1 win apart from each other), LMS vs. WAG (same story as in HB vs. SUM).

Also in TRO vs. D it´s going to be interesting to see how even that match will be, as they are almost equal in top8-salaries (with TRO having $8K edge) but D has been able to find a way to a winning record (3-2), while TRO are still searching for the first win of the young season (at 0-5).

While ED is definitely a respectable and strong team, it'll be also interesting to see how EOS can challenge them with $56K lower salaries - as stated before, it's somewhat big difference, but we´ve seen stranger things in the past than 56K underdog winning. And AFAIK, this is the first ever meeting between these teams (unless, of course, they've played some pickup or friendly matches between each other), so that always delivers some added interest to a matchup.

What kind of goals you all have for Season 2 of HGL?

Last edited by Wagner at 7/29/2025 4:44:16 AM

Some great information, Wagner.

However, there is only one match that everybody in the HGL is waiting for, popcorn in hand...

...the clash of the titans...a battle between giants...

...when in the final round of the season, the mighty Svaty Jur Snakers (defending HGL Champions) meet...

...the Swan River Serpents! )


Tickets are on sale now...

...you do not want to miss this. So, get your tickets while you can!

Last edited by MrJ at 7/29/2025 5:07:14 AM

Season's goals :
- try to come back on the forum (I'm still back from holidays, it should help)
- try to have more time to prepare games
- try to reach #5 or #6 this season.

The last round of the regular season will be very difficult, but I will try to win

What kind of goals you all have for Season 2 of HGL?

I haven't set any goals. I'll see what the season brings.....

Some great information, Wagner.

However, there is only one match that everybody in the HGL is waiting for, popcorn in hand...

...the clash of the titans...a battle between giants...

...when in the final round of the season, the mighty Svaty Jur Snakers (defending HGL Champions) meet...

...the Swan River Serpents! :o)


Tickets are on sale now...

...you do not want to miss this. So, get your tickets while you can!

You´re absolutely right, I don't want to miss it! Besided, I love traveling so what's better than to get to travel the world and see HGL live... ;D But I´d have one question - does the ticket price include flights to the destination, as I suppose it´ll be played at the surprise location that's revealed to the public not earlier than right before the match starts? ;P

Yes, its definitely a secret...but flights are included.

The last round of the regular season will be very difficult, but I will try to win

I applaud your optimism.

EDIT: Social Security Kings from USA (IKnowZip as their manager), who were originally intending to join starting from Season 3, are not HGL eligible currently and do not intend to become an eligible team at least not by the start of HGL Season 3, so I´ll remove his team from the listing of teams wishing to start next season.


I've now updated a post that lists current HGL teams, as well as those wishing to participate in the future.

I'll copy-paste it to this Season 2 thread as well so that it's way easier to find (and update when needed).

Please remember to inform me early enough (by the start of HGL Playoffs would be again a good deadline) if you are already playing in HGL and wish to continue on Season 3 as well.
Only Hadár and myself have confirmed participation to Season 3 so far, so if you are already confident you will want to keep on playing, please let me know rather sooner than later.

So next post will be about the updatable list of teams, who are playing and have been showing interest towards HGL.



Last edited by Wagner at 8/2/2025 7:08:33 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 this Buzzerbeater season (S69):

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).

*Currently no new-to-HGL teams have announced of their interest/preference to start on Season 3*



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), original interest announced April 15th, 2025 ((324689.730))
2. San Antonio Gladiators (Enigma), June 25th
3. Social Security Kings (IKnowZip), announced July 30th, 2025




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 8/2/2025 7:57:12 AM

I'm in for season 3. Thanks for organizing!