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5. Do this with all matches.

6. Ready.

One of the easiest methods, that creates a standard for the league and for box score reporting, would be to use this official schedule as a starting point, here: (326590.5).

For illustration (and usability) purposes I copy-pasted a schedule from that post (found from below).
You are free to copy-paste this league schedule information (below) to your new HGL Scores Season 1 Official Thread-post, which includes links to your all regular season matches.

After each line (on the table below) add:
A) Names of both teams playing in match, or
B) 'v.' or 'vs.', and name of opposition (for example Trouville BBC, or official abbreviation TRO, if you don't have energy to write the whole name).

In addition you of course need to add box score link to the match after team name(s).
Instructions for that provided here: (326590.42) (close to the end of post, at 'So to your post, link the box score in either way').

Regular Season 1 match days:

RS Round 1: Monday, April 7th, 2025
RS Round 2: Friday, April 11th, 2025
RS Round 3: Monday, April 14th, 2025
RS Round 4: Friday, April 18th, 2025
RS Round 5: Monday, April 21st, 2025
RS Round 6: Friday, April 25th, 2025
RS Round 7: Monday, April 28th, 2025
RS Round 8: Friday, May 2nd, 2025
RS Round 9: Monday, May 5th, 2025
RS Round 10: Friday, May 9th, 2025
RS Round 11: Monday, May 12th, 2025
RS Round 12: Friday, May 16th, 2025
RS Round 13: Monday, May 19th, 2025
RS Round 14: Friday, May 23rd, 2025
RS Round 15: Monday, May 26th, 2025

Sorry, no accusation, but what I really don't understand is, why the entire organization is spread across multiple threads: (326590.42) and (326589.26)?!

There are multiple reasons, which I think I have written about in a lengthy manner in this thread earlier.

It is three times the same post … that is not nescessary.

But as you can see, there is lots of information available on both threads (and more to come), and these forums are not ideal for handling lots of information.

One more reason to keep it together and not spread it up.

It is three times the same post … that is not nescessary.

But as you can see, there is lots of information available on both threads (and more to come), and these forums are not ideal for handling lots of information.

One more reason to keep it together and not spread it up.

You see, this is at the development stage, in the sense that it is finding it's form.
Good example is what I wrote about just a while ago figuring out how we should implement sending box score links (not 120-240 posts, which was the original idea). Everything affects everything, and this especially to HGL Scores thread.

As for three times the same post - I will let you keep your opinion on that. However, for me that also means extra work so I don't do it for fun. I do it because we must get some important information through on time to participating managers, and practices (on where to go with what information) are still just forming. BBMail is usable in some instances, but it's ridiculously limited use makes it a tool which you want to use as little as ever possible (especially when having to inform large number of managers).

On thoroughness of instructions, there could be multiple views. But personally I don't like things done half-assed. And I might not be master in condensing things. But league essentials need to be out there (like I said, something is also still missing from official threads in terms of information). It is not beneficial nor enough, nor sensible, that info on how league works is only in my head and then managers would need to ask about every other thing from me separately.

I would also like to quote MrJ here, to present another point:

Secondly, despite the fact that I am on BB pretty much every day and reading every post that is posted, the sheer volume of 'information' now has me struggling to:

1. Know which thread I should be reading for particular information/instructions; and
2. Which thread i should post in as there is so much cross-over now

Make no mistake, I share this same problem. Like I said, this is also growing pain, and we are (hopefully) growing out of this thread. However, I have seen that most managers still conversate here instead, even though that I've multiple times said in messages that I hope we'll transfer our conversation to official threads. For that reason, I have also sent essential messages also to this thread. As mentioned million times, forums are mediocre at best as a means to keep everyone informed on key aspects, changes and such, as it simultaneously accommodates regular conversation which may bury important information. Good example was the 10 day stretch on this forum - someone said there were about 220 messages sent during 10 days. Good luck everyone trying to find information from there... :) (I had also some posts during that 'run' that would need to be checked out later, but it takes lots of time to find them and I have plenty of more essential things to do - good example of forum usability, especially when we are talking about other than first page that's visible in a thread).

As for usage purpose of threads, Scores thread is not planned for 'everyday HGL conversations' in the first place (however, this principle might become more flexible as we will implement 16 box score posts/season practice instead of 200+ score posts/season), and Official HGL thread serves as a platform for that.

As for what information should be looked from which official thread, one can check out the first about 11 posts on each official HGL thread to see, which kind of information they contain. That's a clue what kind of content to look for. They have not been changed in major way since the publication in terms of changing into another thread - new content has been published though, of course. Some posts are published on both, due to being essential or because I have not decided whether they should remain on both or not.

We are close to a start, everyone. (y)

Yes, Season 1 is closing in, and I do want to remind all HG managers also on this thread that only 6 out of 16 have confirmed they have arranged all their matches for regular season: (326589.9)

Other thing that every manager participating in HGL needs to do after that essential process is finished, is creating and editing your season box score post on HGL Scores Season 1 Official Thread before Season 1 starts. Please note that we are just about a week away from start, so it would be wise to start finalizing this process, everyone!

Instructions for that found from these two posts (that I now also copied to another Official Thread),
here(326590.42),
and here (326590.43).

If you want to see how your box score link post should at least approximately look like, then after reading through previously linked informative posts, please check out this post: (326590.44), which is actually the same as my post just below.

Last edited by Wagner at 3/29/2025 11:51:15 AM

@all HGL participating managers:
you need to provide a similar kind of list (as below) before Season 1 on this HGL Scores-thread (326590.42).
As I don't know if all HGL managers still read official thread actively, I sent it here on Homegrown teams II-thread too.
Instructions on how to easily create this box score link listing is found on messages (326590.42) and (326590.43).


Here are box score links to my HGL Season 1 matches:

RS Round 1: Monday, April 7th, 2025 WAG vs. Trouville BBC (133877471)
RS Round 2: Friday, April 11th, 2025 WAG vs. Big Chillers (133878039)
RS Round 3: Monday, April 14th, 2025 WAG vs. Svätý Jur Snakers (133878241)

RS Round 4: Friday, April 18th, 2025 WAG vs. Heywood Big Dogs (133877473)
RS Round 5: Monday, April 21st, 2025 WAG vs. Suuret Muinaiset (133879673)
RS Round 6: Friday, April 25th, 2025 WAG vs. Lielupes Melnãs Sirdis (133879391)

RS Round 7: Monday, April 28th, 2025 WAG vs. Swan River Serpents (133876945)
RS Round 8: Friday, May 2nd, 2025 WAG vs. Santa Eufemia Ducks (133878043)
RS Round 9: Monday, May 5th, 2025 WAG vs. Rajdersi (133879373)

RS Round 10: Friday, May 9th, 2025 WAG vs. WiMaOlCa (133877161)
RS Round 11: Monday, May 12th, 2025 WAG vs. Madrid Chotis (133877544)
RS Round 12: Friday, May 16th, 2025 WAG vs. Buckner Bandits (133877017)

RS Round 13: Monday, May 19th, 2025 WAG vs. Holy City Hoopers [match=XXX] *Waiting for challenge!*
RS Round 14: Friday, May 23rd, 2025 WAG vs. Elan Demars (133876981)
RS Round 15: Monday, May 26th, 2025 WAG vs. Les Gueux du Marais (133880138)

Last edited by Wagner at 3/29/2025 11:54:24 AM

It's strange that you didn't notice. But mistakes happen, we're only human. One thing is clear, you have to play in HGL without them.....

As I have now decided that nothing is stopping me from going HG, I have no choice but to sell them.

There is a third option: don’t sell the players and in the HGL matches play with 8 and that’s it. This way, you can train these players in other matches. It’s easily verifiable if you comply or not with putting them in