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Ah, I understand, you're not a rosbeef !!

Let me explain an ol' story of ours !
Every french knows that british, especially English, people call us Frogs ("froggies") cos' we eat frogs (we used to, but it's hard to find french people nowadays eating frogs). It seems that is only for english or british people.

(BTW, we call english "rosbeef", cos' they're red as everybody * knows.

* everybody = every french people, especially playing rugby**
** rugby = a sort of sport that NO non-british people, excepted french froggies, knows

PS : english soldiers were (IRL !) called "lobsters" by american people when it was war time (Independance war) -> https://inf.news/en/history/eaa9189579dc0b72dd0960bc0452b1...

*** yes, it was humour :D

Lots of ***'s (stars) in your message, probably more than in my team roster ;P

I see now your point and joke, I was totally unaware of this froggies-nickname thing!

Last edited by Wagner at 8/23/2026 9:24:13 AM

Scores have been updated to schedule, but league tables have not been updated on the part of today's and last Friday's games yet.
Sorry for delays. IRL there are multiple things that take lots of time, concentration and energy currently. It's very hard to concentrate on BB due to that right now. Hence the silence on HGL threads on my part.

And these 3 match weeks have never been my favorite anyway.

Anyway, I'll see if I'd be able to update league table after these 2 missing games, or if we need to wait after tomorrow's game (3rd game in 4 days!) have been played (so that I'd update 3 rounds at a one go).

On the topic of statistics...

...unfortunately, I just don't have the time to keep doing the seasonal Leaders in the various categories. It requires a lot of time to process every game of every round for the entire season. As a result, I am giving notice to everyone now that I cannot keep doing it going forward.

Keeping stats on my own team is enough atm.

I have taken on a Coaching role in domestic Basketball competition, starting in a month or so, and know it will take a lot of my time. That on top of being a school teacher, doing my GM role, helping out a little with the Aussie U21 NT...I have had to make some cut-backs to what I can realistically do.

I apologise for not being able to do this indefinitely.

Thanks for letting us know.
No problem whatsoever.
I also have huge challenges in terms of being able to collect HGL Team Stats (45 categories), and while I already did all the "base work" needed for Season 6 stats collection, frankly, it infortunately remains to be seen if it's realistic.

Problem is, the bigger the mountain of uncollected stats becomes, the more "uninviting" project it'll become and harder it is to get starting doing it. However, it's not just because "I don't feel like doing it", I don't have time for it right now and IRL things are stealing way too much attention at the moment (to justify using the last bits of energy, if there is something left, to stats collection right now).

Wagner, I've bought back my old drafted player (50779071), yet I don't think he will get much HGL playing time. Will also get rid of a couple of younger players, will write an update later, when the player movement stops.

Quick update on Benjaminas Us – after crashing out of the cup early, and experiencing salary issues due to a changed formula, I decided to sell him, for the second (and last?) time. Effective today ~at 6pm.

Wagner wrote:

Scores have been updated to schedule, but league tables have not been updated on the part of today's and last Friday's games yet.
Sorry for delays. IRL there are multiple things that take lots of time, concentration and energy currently. It's very hard to concentrate on BB due to that right now. Hence the silence on HGL threads on my part.

And these 3 match weeks have never been my favorite anyway.

Anyway, I'll see if I'd be able to update league table after these 2 missing games, or if we need to wait after tomorrow's game (3rd game in 4 days!) have been played (so that I'd update 3 rounds at a one go).

League tables have now been updated to present standings after 6 Rounds of play. Life is not good at the moment, so like I mentioned, it's very hard to take time for BB at the moment, so hence the delays in updates.
Somebody please remind me at some point to update wages and ages to participating teams-posts (and all transfers on S6), I occasionally happen to remember those are not yet done, while not häving time for that now...

Interesting scores and standings, and if I'd have to pick one team whose performance has been great especially considereding when comparing earlier HGL Seasons, they might be awarded "Outstanding perrformance award" or "Fighting spirit prize", like in sumo), I could mention WMO, as they have beat very strong teams of EOS and KKS.
Of course there are some other relative/moderate surprises in scores of other teams too.
Also SAN, a new-to-HGL team, was able to find a historical HGL opening victory in their relatively evenly fought match against ALA.
As for other convincing and even maybe slightly surprising wins, we know how strong VIV is, so VDT did a great job by beating VIV by 5 on R5.

Anyone else have noticed any scores on this Season 6 that have surpsised them even a little bit?

I am also quite busy in RL at the moment. I hope all is well for you, Wagner.

As for the results, I think you have called it well.

Yes, based on what you wrote earlier, it's quite hectic for you at the moment. Good luck with your IRL (if my memery serves me?) basketball project, that should be interesting to put it mildly.
No, not all is well, very far from that frankly. But thank you for the wishes anyway.

Thanks, have anyone else seen some (possibly other than the ones I mentioned) results they've been at least somewhat surprised to see (during this Season 6)?



Last edited by Wagner at 8/27/2026 3:40:47 PM

Wagner, I've bought back my old drafted player (50779071), yet I don't think he will get much HGL playing time. Will also get rid of a couple of younger players, will write an update later, when the player movement stops.

Quick update on Benjaminas Us – after crashing out of the cup early, and experiencing salary issues due to a changed formula, I decided to sell him, for the second (and last?) time. Effective today ~at 6pm.

Thanks, I need to add that later to transfers-post later. At least your team is one of the teams having transfers on Season 6 already, so I don't need to create another reminder (just check out the post in where I had marked/edited earlier all teams that have had transfers during S6).

Last edited by Wagner at 8/27/2026 3:42:43 PM

No, not all is well, very far from that frankly. But thank you for the wishes anyway.

I'm just some random internet stranger, but I wish you all the best Wagner. I hope it's nothing health related, everything else is less important and manageable. And even if it is health related problem, that's also often solvable, just try to keep your head up.

As for surprising results, today we will have KKS - VPO match, it should be interesting.

Wagner wrote:

No, not all is well, very far from that frankly. But thank you for the wishes anyway.

Pihija wrote:
I'm just some random internet stranger, but I wish you all the best Wagner. I hope it's nothing health related, everything else is less important and manageable. And even if it is health related problem, that's also often solvable, just try to keep your head up.

As for surprising results, today we will have KKS - VPO match, it should be interesting.

Pihija, your words mean a lot more than some internet strangers' words, so thank you, your words are appreciated...
It is good to notice that there are some people who try to give some support/encouraging words (just as yourself now, and GM-MrJ earlier).

I'll try to keep my head up.. It's just also that I'm not sure at all how to solve/remedy these things (and/or get over them without them having too strong of a negative impact).

I mean in life things often do have an avalanche effect, and it seems to apply to good and bad. For example meaning that certain negative things can start to affect many other things, which then start affecting many other things, and the negative circle is ready (compared to situation without initial negative news).

I understand it sometimes also boils to your attitude and how you perceive and/or start correcting things (problems), but on the other hand there is often times a situation in where the only clear way of "solving" things properly (without it starting to have a long term negative impact on many things) is to solve it ASAP in concrete, practical and measurable level (so not only through "processing" it through mentally, but actually getting things corrected in practical level/life), so that it could be "forgotten"/so that one can "get over it" (really for the lack of better expressions here) quickly enough without it starting to have as big of an impact to the future (compared to scenario where you're not able to correct situations, that theoretically could be corrected).


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As for HGL results, yes, KKS-VPO on each Season is definitely one of the top matches of whole RS.
This time around, in this once again defense orientated match (it is no surprise when these practically top2 defensive teams of HGL meet!) "The Italian Freight Train" (VPO) was able to pull themselves to 15 point victory.
Like mentioned, while both teams have offensive capability as well, shooting percentages from the field were being left somemwhat low due to high quality defense.

And, another RS Round, another nailbiter match for LGM; on last Round they beat my team (WAG) on overtime, and this time around they were able to find a way to victory against VDT by 1 tiny point - that's all what it takes though, to get a decisive edge over VDT at the end of the RS, should they end up in equal wins situation.

On league table, that has now been updated after Round 7 of play, it seems like small separation has already taken place;
top8-teams are at 5 wins-2 losses or better (8 teams within 2 wins of each other), while teams between 9th and 14th positions have 3 or 2 wins each (so only 1 win separating these 6 teams).