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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.

MrJ wrote:

League Leaders (Top 5) / HGL Season 5 / Round 2[...]

Some revealing information for those who are looking...

Wagner wrote:

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.

MrJ wrote:

I did not use a set percentage in Season 4 when compiling the stats and, having just had a quick look through, those League Leaders all play almost every game.

This season and going forward, so that everyone knows what that line is, I will make it this: For a player to be eligible to be awarded a League Leader award, they must have played in 12 of the 17 games. This equates to 70.59% of games. I think this is fair. Therefore, to be clear, if a player only plays 11 games for the season, they cannot qualify for a League Leader award.

I will add this information to the Round 3 Update being posted today...as well as other relevant information.

Thanks for clarifying this, and yes, it's definitely fair (amount/decision) I think.
Plus, it's certainly excellent to know already beforehand what's the limit.

Not that I'd have any real opportunities to be at the top position on any of the categories, but there's still possibility to get to the Top20-lists at the end of the Season.

Does this limit of yours also apply to some potential/possible special awards (in potentially restricting manner), or 'only' to typical stats categories?

Thanks, Wagner.

In hindsight, I think I will just do the Top 3 in each category each week. It will allow more characters in a post too so I can make any necessary comments (while reducing my workload minutely). I have been quite unwell for a week, so just getting back into it.

And yes, too early to see who our LLs will be...but some interesting observations already.

Your stats, your call, MrJ. Whatever makes it manageable enough for you (and reduces your workload to decent/doable) is probably a good decision in terms of longevity (you being able to keep on doing the work, without it interfering your real life too much).

The only downside is that then people don't know if their player would be, say, 5th or 8th on the list, and if they should try to play him maximum minutes in order to get better stats ranking at the end of the Season in given stats category... Now that I see Kaleva being second on Dennis Rodman award-table, I guess I'll have to give him an extra bonus clause to his contract: +$100 for every HGL offensive rebound after his 5th OR on the match, for the rest of the Season... It might prove to be costly for my team, but hey, what wouldn't you do for DR reward? ;)

But as you probably understood, while that note remains "realistic", it takes nothing away from what I just said - whatever choices you want/need to make in order to be able to keep on publishing these player stats (including if you want/need to release them with lesser frequency than after each Round, should that considerably lessen your workload, etc.), are good choices.

So many of us (I'd like to believe) enjoy stats and find them very interesting, so we're happy to be able to get access to them - so thank you (already partially beforehand).


That's too bad to hear.. I hope you'll feel better again in no time!

Last edited by Wagner at 5/13/2026 7:03:01 AM