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Date: 3/12/2025 5:20:27 PM
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Hello,

And welcome to the official forum thread of newly established Home-Grown League, also known as HGL! I will be your league Commissioner, and will provide some information and links here in the first posts of this thread.

Let's get straight to the point though, as I am thrilled and proud to announce, that now on March 12, 2025 we've finally come to the point when it's official - Season 1, first ever season for HGL, will take place during Buzzerbeater season 68!

16 teams will take part in Season 1 of HGL, representing 10 different nationalities.


1 season in HGL equals 1 season in Buzzerbeater, so season 2 of HGL will fully take place on season 69, and so on. Warm welcome to all participating managers, I'm glad to see you all to take part in the historical first season of HGL! List of participating teams and managers will be found from a post below (and here: (326589.4)).

In the case you're wondering what is 'homegrown team', or how we define it, explanation can be found from 'a Brief compilation of essential aspects', below (and here: (326589.5).
But in short, the clue really is in the name - homegrown team is a team that has in their roster only players that they have drafted themselves, and/or players from their original roster that Buzzerbeater gifted/gave to the manager in the very beginning when they first started playing Buzzerbeater.

HGL is not a league created by Buzzerbeater developers/owners, so it's not officially affiliated to Buzzerbeater (so in one sense it could be said that Buzzerbeater is just used as a platform in which this HGL takes place). HGL is a Pickup (PU) match based league for homegrown teams only, designed by myself and some of the managers of Buzzerbeater Homegrown teams-community. More info on the story/history aspect of HGL can be found from posts below, including FAQ post. Once again, thank you for all your valuable opinions and suggestions (and for the help and contributions special thanks to MrJ!) down the road, my fellow HGL managers!

If you are playing in HGL this season, please note that links to PU (Pickup) matches box scores will be sent to (and found from) another forum thread, here: (326590.1) (and not to other forums or to league Commissioners BBMail) to avoid overcrowding of this thread or BBMail.

So I'd politely (yet strictly) ask from you, that if you participate in the HGL, please follow all the other rules as well so that we don't have to start enforcing more and more stricter penalties in order to keep the league fair and fun for all.

In this forum thread most of the conversation around newly established Home-Grown League, HGL, will take place. You are of course welcome to keep on discussing on the other forum threads as well, such as in 'Homegrown teams II' (324689.1).

However, if you have any questions or problems specifically regarding this league and wish to find an answer yourself, you may try to find answers to some common questions from these first posts of this thread (and behind links provided in these posts) or from FAQ-post here: (link added later)

If questions or problems still persist after that, please send them to this official forum thread (and possibly also to my BBMail) in the first place, as it would likely ensure fastest reply times. While as a league Commissioner I do accept the responsibility for functionality (coordinating, communication, enforcing possible penalties for violations, etc.) for the league, I can't help but to mention that we have helpful and knowledgeable managers here in our HGL community, who are also very likely happy to answer your questions and try to help you resove problematic situations should they arise.

More information on HGL can be found from informative posts following this introductory post, in FAQ post (below), and also from separate informative posts written by Swan River Serpents manager MrJ and myself (links found throughout following posts).

Last edited by Wagner at 3/16/2025 6:59:14 AM

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Announcement 23.3.2025:

We are now ready to organize all regular season matches for HGL Season 1!

If you´re unsure about process, please read: (326589.6), (324689.633) or ask questions on official HGL threads.


Info on organizing HGL regular Season 1 matches:

Very important: If you are responsible for organizing a PU game, you need to schedule it for the time listed on this page (in front of your team name): (326590.2)!

1. MrJ has produced schedule (15 matches/team), here:(324689.513).
Schedule (with links to team websites) can be found also from post by T-Lit: (326590.21).
Please note:
A) use either above mentioned schedules with bolded text when organizing matches. In these schedules the team that has bolded name, is responsible for sending Pickup match challenge, and your opponent is responsible for accepting it.
(Do not use this, otherwise official schedule, here: (326590.5) when organizing matches.
B) note, that above schedules do not include match time.

For each team an Official Local Time is provided, which they use when sending PU match invitations. Found (before team name), here: (326590.2).
Use only this time given to your team specifically, and nothing else, when organizing Pickup matches!


2. Before team sends or accepts match challenge, it is important to check out specifics of a match.
That means 3 things:

A) is day correct in a sent challenge? (check your own HGL schedule to confirm! Here: (326590.21), or here: (326590.5))
B) is time correct? (check your own team specific Official Local Time for HGL matches, link next one below).
Remember: if you are team sending challenge, you need to use designated time given to your team as a match time, found in this table: (326590.2)
If you are team that accepts challenge, match should take place at time that your team should play it's matches, your local time)
C) is court balance neutral (for regular season match)? If not, do not accept the match invitation. Matches played with wrong court balance do not count!
In such case, contact manager who has sent wrong challenge, and/or write a reminder on an official HGL thread, here: (326590.1), and/or send me a BBMail.

3. Send Pickup match invites to all teams, in which matchups your team name is bolded.
Schedule, here: (326590.21) or here:(324689.513).
To access each teams page easily, check T-Lit's post: (326590.21)
Again, please be very careful with all the specifics (day, time, neutral court balance) when you send invitations.

4. Accept all correct invites sent to you.
Check out:
A) should I be receiving this match invitation from this team? (HGL schedule provides answer). If not, don't accept it and contact manager by BBMail, send post to official HGL thread or BBMail to me.
B) If challenge comes from team that is supposed to send you a challenge, are all match specifics (day, time, neutral court balance) correct?

5. Check (and double check!) your BB schedule after whole process is completed.
Note:
A) not all managers accept invites quickly
B) you should have 15 regular season matches arranged for HGL Season 1
C) if you play also other Pickup matches than those for HGL, make sure you won't count them as being one of the 15
D) confirm that match dates and times show up correctly in your team schedule.
There has been problems with arranging PU matches, especially if they overlap some other match.
So we ask you to not play other than HGL Pickup matches so that they start just before HGL match, or so that they overlap it.

6. If all B), C) and D) from previous ('5.') are correct, let us know that all your matches are properly organized. I'll keep an updateable list of confirmed teams. Contact us on forums or send me BBMail, if problems arise.

Last edited by Wagner at 3/24/2025 8:17:25 AM

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Date: 3/12/2025 5:21:17 PM
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HGL Season 1 League table:

Team W L PTS +/- F
BIG 0 0 0 0 0
BUC 0 0 0 0 0
ED 0 0 0 0 0
HEY 0 0 0 0 0
HCH 0 0 0 0 0
LGM 0 0 0 0 0
LMS 0 0 0 0 0
(D) 0 0 0 0 0
RAJ 0 0 0 0 0
SED 0 0 0 0 0
SUM 0 0 0 0 0
HAD 0 0 0 0 0
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SRS 0 0 0 0 0
TRO 0 0 0 0 0
WAG 0 0 0 0 0
WMO 0 0 0 0 0

15 rounds played in regular season of HGL.
12 best to playoffs; 4 best will earn a place to a second round of playoffs automatically.

W=Wins, L=Losses, PTS=points, +/-=scoring difference, F=forfeit losses.
2 points for a win, 1 for a loss and 0 for a forfeit.

Team abbreviations:
BIG = Big Chillers
BUC = Buckner Bandits
D = Madrid Chotis
ED = Elan Demars
HAD = Svätý Jur Snakers
HCH = Holy City Hoopers
HEY = Heywood Big Dogs
LGM = Les Gueux du Marais
LMS = Lielupes Melnas Sirdis
RAJ = Rajdersi
SED = Santa Eufemia Ducks
SRS = Swan River Serpents
SUM = Suuret Muinaiset
TRO = Trouville BBC
WAG = Wagner College
WMO = WiMaOlca

Please note, in the order of significance:
A) If teams are tied in points, team with less forfeits will be higher ranked, and
B) Teams tied for regular season points are officially ranked based not on scoring differential, but rather based on the result of their current season regular season match (winner of that match will be a higher ranked team).
League table will/might not reflect this correctly before the last regular season match (Round 15) scores have been revealed, after which Official Regular Season Rankings (ORSR) for Season 1 of HGL are being released, and playoff matches for that season will be organized based on aforementioned ORSR.
"In the order of significance" (above) means, that comparison is made in this order, if teams are tied in points.

PS. As you can see, Buzzerbeater text editor is utterly useless for tables such as this, and disagrees to accept previous formatting that text/table has had (completely ignores word or excel formatting), or even refusing to add spaces that I add between the numbers. For instance I hit space about 25 times between the uppermost lines' ("BIG") last and second to last zero, and while in this BB text editor it shows there's a considerable amount of space, in the actual post it seems as though I would've hit the space one time.

Tips are appreciated if you guys are more experienced with these league table/formatting/BB text editor issues, as I hope we don't have to live with these kind of messy tables for too long... I tried to resolve this issue with team abbreviations on the league table (as with the full names it looked absolutely ridiculous), but this certainly isn't ideal either.

Last edited by Wagner at 3/24/2025 7:31:51 AM

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Date: 3/12/2025 5:21:26 PM
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Total of 16 teams will take part to Season 1 of HGL:

Match time (local time) | Team name (number) ABBREVIATION ||Country|| Top 8 salaries, Team manager

GMT+2/0=02.30PM Wagner College ||FIN|| (172501) WAG ||FIN|| $K Manager: Wagner
GMT+1/-1=01.30PM Les Gueux du Marais (86508) LGM ||FRA|| $K Manager: Coach Faz
GMT+1/-1=01.30PM Elan Demars (87312) ED ||FRA|| $K Manager: demars
GMT-5/-7=07.30AM Holy City Hoopers (23767) HCH ||USA|| $K Manager: Gccsteel
GMT-5/-7=07.30AM Buckner Bandits (23579) BUC ||USA|| $K Manager: T-Lit
GMT+1/-1=01.30PM Madrid Chotis (76877) (D) ||SPA|| $K Manager: Jotadoce
GMT+1/-1=01.30PM WiMaOlca (35977) WMO ||FRA|| $K Manager: WiMaOl
GMT+1/-1=01.30PM Rajdersi (237760) RAJ ||POL|| $K Manager: Paul George
GMT-3/-5=09.30AM Santa Eufemia Ducks (24340) SED ||ARG|| $K Manager: GM-Enzo
GMT+8/+6=08.30PM Swan River Serpents (197075) SRS ||AUS|| $K Manager: MrJ
GMT+2/0=02.30PM Lielupes Melnas Sirdis (146915) LMS ||LVA|| $K Manager: Moneta
GMT+2/0=02.30PM Suuret Muinaiset (172657) SUM ||FIN|| $K Manager: cthulhu
GMT+10/+8=10.30PM Heywood Big Dogs (196315) HEY ||AUS|| $K Manager: Deano25
GMT+1/-1=01.30PM Svätý Jur Snakers (172088) HAD ||SVK|| $K Manager: Hadar
GMT-5/-7=07.30AM Big Chillers (31968) BIG ||USA|| $K Manager: BigChill
GMT-3/-5=09.30AM Trouville BBC (115547) TRO ||URY|| $K Manager: Chucarro

Again, you all are warmly welcome to HGL on my behalf!

(Top 8 player salaries will be added to list later, after more important aspects of the league have been finalized).

Forfeits and enforced penalties for teams on Season 1 of HGL due to violations, if any:
Currently none.

Transfers ("T+/-") and dismissals ("D-") of players of participating teams (including salaries of players) during Season 1 of HGL:

None known/reported yet.

(T+ means team has purchased back their formerly owned player,
T- that they have sold player, and D- that they have fired a player).

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Date: 3/12/2025 5:21:39 PM
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Here's a brief compilation of the most essential aspects of the league, part 1/3:

Please note a rule change (below, text bolded) on Official HGL match start times.

Definition of a homegrown team used in HGL:

- As for definition of 'homegrown team', we use the definition by LOPO , the manager of CB Eliocroca, who to this date updates the original list of homegrown teams (list of teams found here: (324689.1)) and welcomes you to apply for the list, if you are a homegrown team!
So in short, with no exceptions:
A) no Utopian teams will be accepted to the league, and
B) you must have only players that were originally given to you (at the beginning when you started playing Buzzerbeater), or were drafted by you. You also may have purchased back some of your own draftees (if they have been previously bought by other teams), and still be counted as a homegrown team

- It's of utmost importance to remember, that it's necessary to be totally homegrown team in order to be able to participate in HGL. If you wish to participate in the league in the future, we also expect you to remain homegrown at least for the duration of the whole season(s) during which you wish to participate in HGL. Please be aware that strict penalties/sanctions will apply to teams that don't comply with this very essential rule of HGL

League system:

- Most thorough presentation of league system can be found from these 5 lengthy posts of mine here, this one being the first of 5: (324689.240) . However, if you first just want to take a quick look to get the idea, check out post by MrJ (link below) and/or keep on reading this post further

- TLDR; Brief compilation of league system used in HGL is found from post by MrJ that compiles my lengthy messages, here: (324689.248) (but short compilation also follows below)

- We'll have a lineup of 14 teams to participate for the first season of HGL

- All regular season games will be played on neutral court, and all playoff games on either home or away court (no exceptions!)

- The time window for organizing all regular season matches (at once) takes place between "draft deadline day" (Buzzerbeater announces this; found from your team overview page) and the first league match of a Buzzerbeater season (that will take place at following Saturday)

- First regular season match of HGL will take place on first Monday after regular Buzzerbeater league has started (on other words, 2 days after the start of BB league, as first league match of Buzzerbeater is played on a previous Saturday).

- 2 matches per week will be played during regular season. First match of the week on Monday, and second on Friday, and 1 match per week during playoffs. Playoff matches will take place on Sundays every week.

- Please note a change to rules as of March 20th, 2025:
All matches in HGL start at 14.30 (aka. 2.30PM) Eastern European Time, EET (GMT+2).
Teams are provided a time in participating teams list (before their team name), which they use all season long when sending invitations to Pickup (PU) matches. Please remember to use only this time given to you, and nothing else, when organizing Pickup matches


- Out of 14 teams 12 teams (about 85% of teams) proceed to playoffs, and 4 best will be automatically awarded a place to the quarterfinal round (second round of playoffs).

- All playoff matches are decided in 1 match, so whole playoffs is a single elimination tournament (just like in NCAA basketball)

- All teams reaching semifinal stage are guaranteed a medal game, either gold or bronze medal match.

- In addition to basic rules mentioned throughout these informative posts, certain rules and penalties for violations are being enforced in HGL; more information/link to rules and penalties section will be provided here as soon as details have been decided


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Here's a brief compilation of the most essential aspects of the league, part 2/3:

Pickup (PU) matches:

- All matches in HGL will be played as PU (Pickup) matches, so participating teams need to have enough Pickup tokens saved for the season so that they will be able to send PU challenges to opponents. For the season, theoretically it is enough to own 8 tokens in order to be able to participate (but we do recommend having saved 15 or more). Remember: you can always gather more during season by not playing other PU matches during HGL season, but all 15 regular season matches are organized at once before the season starts (no exceptions!)

- If you're not familiar with how PU matches function and how to organize them, you may want to check out a post written by MrJ, here: (326327.1). However, basic information on what is necessary to know about PU's and how they are utilized in HGL also follows as you keep on reading

- All regular season matches will be organized (sending and accepting PU match invitations) during one time window before regular season starts, and for playoff matches (for teams still in competition) every single week during playoffs

- It is of utmost importance to understand and remember, that every participating team arranges their own Pickup (PU) matches and also take care of sending box score links to appropriate forum, (here: (326590.1)) and are fully responsible in complying with these important rules which ensures the optimal functionality of the league. In other words it means managers are responsible for sending and accepting correct Pickup (PU) game requests.

- When sending and accepting PU challenges, it's important to remember that all regular season games will be played on neutral court, and all playoff games on either home or away court (no exceptions!). Please do not accept match with incorrect details as it won't count if played with wrong court setting!

- Managers need to confirm on this forum thread when they have fully completed organizing matches for the regular season, and therefore can see all regular season matches on their team schedule/fixtures page. For the first season of HGL with 16 participants, this means 15 regular season (PU) matches in total.

- Matches are arranged (PU match invitations sent and accepted) based on the official league schedule that is sent to this or on 'HGL Scores Season 1 Official Thread'-thread before season starts (in practice this will take place approximately between season draft deadline and first Buzzerbeater match of the season).

- One team is always responsible for sending the PU game challenge, and name of team responsible for sending challenge is bolded to a league schedule, so team with that marking besides their team name abbreviation knows it's their responsibility to send a challenge for that match.

- If you haven't received a PU match challenge/request from your opponent that you should have received, please send message here on this this thread. You may also send me BBMail so we all try to sort it out so that match will be played in time. (Sometimes it's worthwile to double check schedule to ensure if you have mistaken and it was after all your responsibility to send challenge).

- Every team sends their box scores Pickup games to another forum thread dedicated to scores of the HGL , here: (326590.1). Please note, that if you see the box score of your match is already been sent to forum by your opposing team, there is no need to do it again. (If you see it being sent to wrong thread, please send it to the correct thread).

- If you also want to play other Pickup (PU) matches in addition to HGL matches, it is important that:
A) you save enough tokens for HGL playoffs (1/week), as non-Supporters get 1, and Supporters 2 tokens each week.
B) you send only HGL match box scores to the 'HGL Scores Season 1 Official Thread'.

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TBA #7 (Penalties/violations and rest of rules; added here when finalized).

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TBA #8 (More info/possibly rest of rules and penalties)

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TBA #9 (FAQ 1/1 or 1/2)

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TBA #10 (Possibly for FAQ 2/2, or for other purpose)

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TBA #11 (Possibly league team stats for the season, team records, HGL league team and/or player records/highest achievements, etc.)

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