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From: Wagner

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Date: 8/31/2025 4:57:49 AM
Wagner College
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Please add my main team among the 'possibly interested teams', as I intend to be HGL-available at the start of the next season, but I need to get through the draft first.

Thanks for your message!
Just to make sure, as to me there's some contradiction. Because 'possibly interested teams'-listing means you have not stated you prefer to start on Season 3 and there's another listing for such teams - decision on Season 3 participation should be made soon. On the other hand, you mentioned you'd prefer to start 'next season', which is Season 3 in HGL

So, would you be inte to participate to Season 3 already, which is just around the corner and we lock teams for Season 3 as soon as possible. Also match organizing process for it will start in coming weeks, quite likely after HGL season has finished, or during the last stages of the Playoffs.

Season 3 in HGL will begin 2 days after "regular BB league" (Season 70) has started.

Right now I have added you here: (327516.86), shall I move your team to "Season 3"-listing?

You may reply to this post or send me BBMail.

Last edited by Wagner at 8/31/2025 5:00:11 AM

From: kecal

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327516.156 in reply to 327516.155
Date: 8/31/2025 7:43:21 AM
Vilniaus „Vilkai“
III.13
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Second Team:
Iron Dogs
As I'm not yet fully HG at the moment, and I will have to wait until after the draft, I did not want to take somebody else's place.

But, if a decision is needed, write me in for the Season 3 of HGL, please! Thank you.

From: Wagner

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Date: 9/1/2025 1:12:44 PM
Wagner College
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HGL Season 2 Playoffs' First Round match schedule and Official Regular Season Rankings (ORSR) have now been published in a Playoff-post, here: (327517.7).

Please start organizing matches as soon as possible!
As soon as your opponent has accepted a match offer with correct details, please send match link to your teams' own box score post so that I can copy it to an Official Playoff post (link above).

Team with better ORSR-ranking is always responsible for sending challenge (for example, I need to send challenge to LGM as my ranking is 8th and his ranking is 9th) and all Playoff matches are played on either teams' home court, not neutral court.

Playoff matches are played on Sundays, and match time will remain exactly the same as during Regular Season.
First Round is played on Sunday, September 7th, 2025.

Same thing as always, be careful with match specifics, matches with wrong details won't count.
And given that I can't verify court balance (home/neutral) before match has started, we could be in trouble if someone isn't being careful, so please don't be that person.

4 best teams of Regular Season will get free (read: earned) ticket to Second Round, but all teams ranked from 5th to 12th in ORSR, lets start organizing First Round matches ASAP!
When you send challenge, remember to press button Challenge! (in your language), and check immediately from "Friendly matches"-page that challenge has been sent!
It's a typical mistake that manager just clicks "Done" after setting day and time, and assumes challlenge has been sent; it has not been sent, before manager presses Challenge!-button.


Last edited by Wagner at 9/1/2025 1:25:27 PM

From: LennuK.
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327516.158 in reply to 327516.1
Date: 9/3/2025 6:18:09 AM
BC Eos
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Köplased
Hey all, I realized today that I hadn't completed the BB tutorial back when I started with this account and so I finally did it and through it got a new player (55180719) on my roster. I will keep him at first, as I still haven't filled out my salary cap and figure out at the end of the season, if I actually need him going forward. It is almost the end of the HGL season and statistically the changes are minimal, but still here are the updated ones: with him, my top-8 salary once again increases by 1k to 252k in total and my average top-8 age raises from 23,3 y to 23,8 y.

From: MrJ

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Date: 9/3/2025 6:49:14 AM
Swan River Serpents
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Westopian Tigers
Hey all, I realized today that I hadn't completed the BB tutorial back when I started with this account and so I finally did it and through it got a new player (55180719) on my roster. I will keep him at first, as I still haven't filled out my salary cap and figure out at the end of the season, if I actually need him going forward. It is almost the end of the HGL season and statistically the changes are minimal, but still here are the updated ones: with him, my top-8 salary once again increases by 1k to 252k in total and my average top-8 age raises from 23,3 y to 23,8 y.


What a wonderful surprise, LennuK. And remember, these 'star' players, if kept on the team, seem to perform better than their skill-sets suggest.

Nice win!

PS. I still have my original 3 star players. Regis still scores more than he should for his skills.

Last edited by MrJ at 9/3/2025 6:50:30 AM

Home Grown; for teams who like a challenge!
From: LennuK.

To: MrJ
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Date: 9/3/2025 7:11:38 AM
BC Eos
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Köplased
Yeah, it came as a real surprise! I noticed that my salaries were 11k higher than they should be, with an unknown name on my roster. Only then I made the connection to the tutorial, as I already enjoyed getting 20K out of that and had forgotten that I didn't receive one player back then

Thanks for the tip though, that he might be more useful than I first would have thought. He would actually be the second "star" player in my roster, maybe I should give them some more game time in that case.

From: demars

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Date: 9/3/2025 9:42:52 AM
Elan Demars
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I say : CHEATINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where is the damn commissionner ???????????

I can't believe that such treachery could happen in this magnificent league of virtuous managers. When I came here, one says that I would only meet chivalrous players, with a high level of dignity.

Instead of that, what do I find ? STAR players arriving after the all-start game ?
Why such a painful disapointment ?
Why such an enormous disillusion ?
Why do I live any more ?

Ahhhh, mad world !


(I've learned many new english words today !)

Last edited by demars at 9/3/2025 9:43:20 AM

From: Wagner

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Date: 9/3/2025 5:04:29 PM
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As I'm not yet fully HG at the moment, and I will have to wait until after the draft, I did not want to take somebody else's place.

But, if a decision is needed, write me in for the Season 3 of HGL, please! Thank you.

I see your point now, and that's very considerate of you kecal, I appreciate that kind of attitude so thank you!

I have now added you to a list of teams interested in starting on Season 3, here: (327516.86).

Especially as MrJ has promised to create us a new random schedule (with his automatic league schedule creator), that wouldn't create a problem in terms of accepting new team(s) for HGL Season 3...

Opposing views are being listened as well if some current managers have them, of course, but I don't think adding 1 team would create a negative impact in practically any area (apart from not retaining the standard of having 16 teams and perhaps statistics not being similarly comparable from season to season), but on the other hand this is the great part of this kind of "open league" that HGL is, that it can also be flexible if needed/so chosen.

I also added a + sign after name of Hårdboll, as he announced on September 3rd that he'd wish to continue playing in HGL during Season 3. Great decision, Spela!

Last edited by Wagner at 9/3/2025 5:05:43 PM

From: Wagner

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Date: 9/3/2025 5:09:39 PM
Wagner College
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I say : CHEATINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where is the damn commissionner ???????????

I can't believe that such treachery could happen in this magnificent league of virtuous managers. When I came here, one says that I would only meet chivalrous players, with a high level of dignity.

Instead of that, what do I find ? STAR players arriving after the all-start game ?
Why such a painful disapointment ?
Why such an enormous disillusion ?
Why do I live any more ?

Ahhhh, mad world !


(I've learned many new english words today !)

I'm here demars, but so sorry I can't help because I can't see, I see only stars! (pun intended) ;P

From: Wagner

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Date: 9/3/2025 5:11:59 PM
Wagner College
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235235
Hey all, I realized today that I hadn't completed the BB tutorial back when I started with this account and so I finally did it and through it got a new player (55180719) on my roster. I will keep him at first, as I still haven't filled out my salary cap and figure out at the end of the season, if I actually need him going forward. It is almost the end of the HGL season and statistically the changes are minimal, but still here are the updated ones: with him, my top-8 salary once again increases by 1k to 252k in total and my average top-8 age raises from 23,3 y to 23,8 y.

Thanks for your message LennuK.!
Even though changes are minimal as you said, I really do appreciate that kind of eye for detail (and helpful attitude of yours) that you re-counted your averages after such change. :) I'll try to remember to update that change to all necessary places soon enough (but not right now)..

From: Wagner

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Date: 9/3/2025 5:18:02 PM
Wagner College
II.2
Overall Posts Rated:
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HGL Season 2 Playoffs' First Round match schedule and Official Regular Season Rankings (ORSR) have now been published in a Playoff-post, here: (327517.7).

Please start organizing matches as soon as possible!
[..]
4 best teams of Regular Season will get free (read: earned) ticket to Second Round, but all teams ranked from 5th to 12th in ORSR, lets start organizing First Round matches ASAP!


All 4 First Round Playoff match links can now be found from Official Playoff post, here: (327517.7)

Thanks for every team doing the work on First Round match organizing process for organizing matches properly!
Lets's keep up the good work and concentration until the very end of the Season 2, as we want to continue same good streak - no Playoff matches have ever been left unplayed or had to be re-matched due to negligence.

Similarly, I give applause to all of you, as I didn't notice any match with incorrect details (court balance is the only thing I can't verify before match has been played so that's what I mean here) during whole Regular Season - nice work everybody, once again (so 2 perfect seasons in a row now)!
Here we can see what we can accomplish if we are committed working together (and do things as well as we can) to make HGL as good as it can be, and this is an example that everybody has a role in it/quality of everybody's actions make difference, because a manual league like HGL is formed of small things/pieces, such as organizng each match separately...

Last edited by Wagner at 9/3/2025 5:24:54 PM

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