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Some revealing information for those who are looking...

By the way, just out of interest, if and as it seems you'll be publishing these all Season long (instead of once at the end of RS), have you already decided what kind of "cutter" are you going to use, as for qualifying to the list at a given time during Season (enough matches played in order to be qualified)?

I can't recall exactly what was for instance NBA's stats policy when I viewed those at the end side of current NBA RS (of course I don't mean you'd need to follow that, but mentioned just as an example) for qualifying to stats, but if my memory serves me it was somewhere around 55-65% mark...

EDIT:
Memory doesn't always serve well: apparently in NBA it's minimum of 70% of all matches.

Apparently in Euroleague for example, this data is not public (what's the minimum requirement).

In NCAA basketball this seems to be bit more complex, but if we only take a look at an option of minimum amount of matches played, it would appear to be minimum of 75%. (Having said that, there seems to be certain exception to this rule, so called projection rule).

In ACB (Spain), BBL (Germany), LBA (Italy) and VTB United League (East Europe) the limit as far as I know is not public, but apparently is somewhere around the lines of 50-60% of matches.

In NBL (Australia) seemingly limit is min. 50% of matches, or projection rule (like in NCAA).

So these limits apply to average-statistic categories such as PTS, REB, AST, STL, BLK.


As for qualifying to shooting percentage statistics (which isn't essential in this case as you don't publish those), different limits (minimum shot attempt-amounts) seems to be applied at least in Finnish Korisliiga (but as far as I understood, practically all over Europe), which would seemingly be about 100 FGA, 50 3P FGA or 50 FTA (per 32 matches).

Sorry if there are mistakes in these - just a result of quick search.



Last edited by Wagner at 5/12/2026 10:52:14 AM

I had even more HOFers in past, that I sold.

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Had many MVPs too.

My draft tactic is this: first I spend 10 points on Group demonstration where every 1 and 2 stars players are scouted. Among them, there are usually 5 to 10 five star prospects. I scout them all (5 star prospects, to be clear), and then I just scout from the beginning and continue until the draft day, scouting every 5 star prospect twice. I always spend every point.

I invest 10 k weekly, so 3 scouting points per week.

I always put 5 star potential players at the top, no matter which other attributes they have, are they 18 or 19 YO, how tall they are etc. I manage to get HOFer or MVP potential players often that way.

I use the same draft strategy as you ;)

But I've been playing in the Italian second division since season 53, so I've always had a terrible pick.
And in the two seasons I played in the first division, I had a second-round pick, but I wasn't lucky with the players' skills; they were MVPs and legends, but with obvious bad skills.

Not many RS Rounds with some nailbiters, it seems, and this time proved to be no exception.

What a fine fought battles between VIV and LGM, and RAJ and VPO.

VIV vs. LGM 105-102:
LGM actually led by 1 before 4th quarter, but VIV won 4th by 4 and match by 3. How big part did it play, that LGM's starting PG N. Grévin was sent to shower already after spending 37 minutes on the hard floor? He was after all LGM's best rated (14.5) player with quite nice production (16p/5r/4a) as well, and like mentioned, VIV won 4th quarter by 4. LGM's substitution PG did play nice match in terms of match rating (13.5), but was on lower game shape (8vs.9) and has $12K lesser salary.
VIV's starting lineup playmaker (PG), M. Radomskis, did truly "deliver", as he dished 12 assists and sunk 20 points in this one.

VPO vs. RAJ 65-63:
More sweaty palms this afternoon for VPO fans, right after VPO's manager SventraCanestri had (re-?)confirmed his team being already in reconstruction stage (of some kind at least). RAJ actually led by 5, but lost 4th by 7, so undefeated VPO is still exactly that. RAJ was able to get as close to what KKS was able to do on Season 4 (in his meeting vs. VPO), while RAJ did fall more short in his Season 4 match against VPO. Where I'm trying to get here is that it's interesting to see how for instance KKS-VPO match will play out on Season 5, although now that KKS got rid of about $80K of weekly salary, that might slightly weaken their team temporarily.
Tight defense in this match as was expected, both teams scoring more or less at around 30% mark (FG%).
Maybe VPO's 6 more offensive (rebound) opportunities, 4 more blocks, quite optimal offensive strategy (drive to the basket vs. 3-2 zone and no predictions from RAJ) paved the way for VPO's win?
As for interesting player stats, RAJ's starting PF, P. Robaszkiewicz, had a terrible shooting night, 2 out of 20, but 17 rebounds make up for it partly.
While same could partly be said about VPO's starting PG, G. Frosini, he posted a very interesting stats line for PG:
2 points (FG: 0/8), 1 assist, 24 rebounds and 7 blocks!

It was a game I thought I'd lose, but I was very lucky. VPO was down the entire game, right up until the final minutes.

I think if we play nine more games, the score will be 6 RAJ wins and 4 VPO wins. My players were also in terrible shape, so I didn't think I'd win.

Congrats to Rajdersi, I'm sure he'll go a long way this season.

The king's throne is shaking, but my Bosnian friend KKS doesn't want to take my place... I'm looking for my replacement, and for now, Coach Paul George is the leading candidate.

Last edited by SventraCanestri at 5/12/2026 12:59:18 PM

I don't spend this much each season. This season, where I will likely get 1st or 2nd pick, it is worth it. I am making $150k profit per week after spending $40k on the draft and everything else. I certainly can't do this every season.

Look at my current situation:

Typical Weekly Net Income: $ -163 173

And that is after I sold Aleksijević, it was -240k. Fan boycott from last season combined with less income in second league makes for a fun problem to have

RIP BRO

Last edited by SventraCanestri at 5/12/2026 1:01:14 PM

Wagner wrote:

Not many RS Rounds with some nailbiters, it seems, and this time proved to be no exception.

What a fine fought battles between VIV and LGM, and RAJ and VPO.
[...]

VPO vs. RAJ 65-63:
More sweaty palms this afternoon for VPO fans, right after VPO's manager SventraCanestri had (re-?)confirmed his team being already in reconstruction stage (of some kind at least). RAJ actually led by 5, but lost 4th by 7, so undefeated VPO is still exactly that. RAJ was able to get as close to what KKS was able to do on Season 4 (in his meeting vs. VPO), while RAJ did fall more short in his Season 4 match against VPO. Where I'm trying to get here is that it's interesting to see how for instance KKS-VPO match will play out on Season 5, although now that KKS got rid of about $80K of weekly salary, that might slightly weaken their team temporarily.
Tight defense in this match as was expected, both teams scoring more or less at around 30% mark (FG%).
Maybe VPO's 6 more offensive (rebound) opportunities, 4 more blocks, quite optimal offensive strategy (drive to the basket vs. 3-2 zone and no predictions from RAJ) paved the way for VPO's win?
As for interesting player stats, RAJ's starting PF, P. Robaszkiewicz, had a terrible shooting night, 2 out of 20, but 17 rebounds make up for it partly.
While same could partly be said about VPO's starting PG, G. Frosini, he posted a very interesting stats line for PG:
2 points (FG: 0/8), 1 assist, 24 rebounds and 7 blocks!

SventraCanestri wrote:

It was a game I thought I'd lose, but I was very lucky. VPO was down the entire game, right up until the final minutes.

I think if we play nine more games, the score will be 6 RAJ wins and 4 VPO wins. My players were also in terrible shape, so I didn't think I'd win.

Congrats to Rajdersi, I'm sure he'll go a long way this season.

The king's throne is shaking, but my Bosnian friend KKS doesn't want to take my place... I'm looking for my replacement, and for now, Coach Paul George is the leading candidate.

Almost true HGL classic (match) in terms of how much excitement and drama it provided, and especially because even though it's "just" a RS match, how long winning streak was at stake.

Also "in my papers" (predictions) would read that RAJ will go long this Season (whatever that'll exactly mean, remains to be seen), but medals are far from being delivered... And speaking of RAJ, what makes it remarkable (again), is that he is only 4th in HGL salaries, with 493K, KKS (still), EOS and LMS ahead of them - difference to HGL salary leader LMS being as much as $135K/week. LMS vs. RAJ could be one of the most interesting matches of RS this Season by the way.

While KKS's top8-salaries dropped to 566K after yesterdays' player sale, having an experienced and skilled manager at the helm certainly still makes them a very strong medal contender.

And speaking of skilled managers, EOS, whose top8-salaries are ranked #2 in HGL (at $613K), surely have their say on where medals should travel to, come the Playoff time.

This might even become the most even and exciting HGL Season ever, what becomes to the unpredictability (who of the many top teams wins which medal, and can someone outside the mentioned 4 teams cause an upset and get to the medal games - what do you guys think?
Plus of course VPO always needs to be considered, team, which is kind of "automatically" included to 'medal contenders' in my papers, even though they're 'only' 7th in salaries and are trying to downplay their chances... ;D

Last edited by Wagner at 5/12/2026 3:25:55 PM

The king's throne is shaking, but my Bosnian friend KKS doesn't want to take my place... I'm looking for my replacement, and for now, Coach Paul George is the leading candidate.

Not that it's terribly important, but I'm your Herzegovinian friend :D I live near Mostar.

RIP BRO

I will manage this season (I hope :D), this is my current situation:

Total cash reserves: $ 2 508 821

With some earnings from cup and BBM, plus end of Fan Boycott, I hope to be at approximately +1M at the end of the season.

Hi !
Kirilenko Award is missing..



... a legend of my club whose initials are L.D.