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My fellow HGL managers, I have good news for all of you, especially for those who are into stats and want to understand their teams' strengths and weaknesses from a statistical standpoint.

As we know, HGL Team Statistics were published (by me) on Season 1, and then only partially for Season 2 (on 6 first matches) and on Season 3 (2 first matches).

I plan to continue publishing those stats on this Season 4 as well. But that's not all, so please keep on reading.

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As a disclaimer:
Because the statistics collection and statistics tables updating/organizing/stats post-editing process still remains very arduous process, I can't make absolute promises that I would be able to continue it throughout the Regular Season, that is still my clear goal (as I've already invested so much time in it, as you will see, so in poker terms I'm more or less 'pot committed' to this so that all the work doesn't go to waste).
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In the past, one of the challenges that restricted the amounts of statistical categories in HGL Team Stats-post were the lack of shooting statistics.

I have now figured out a way, how I can add shooting statistics to HGL Team Stats-posts, which will change these stats and give them totally new dimensions.

This is great news in many respects.
Especially because:

1. Well, basketball is a scoring and defending game. And while additional statistical categories can definitely affect the game big time and/or decide the outcome and winner of the match, in many instances shooting (or defending) quality is what ultimately decides the match winner

2. We can add many interesting and important, new-to-HGL statistical categories now that we have shooting statistics incorporated into a HGL Team Stats-posts. Wait for slightly longer, and you'll all see what I mean!

3. Now that I've seen the statistics myself (you'll see them soon too!), it does help me understand my teams' weaknesses and strengths in a more in depth way, that I never thought possible. (Having said that, of course one needs to remember that more younger the season when they look at stats, the more "unreliable" statistics still are because teams do not play against same strength opposition on each Round).

4. While this is not quite an NBA level statistics in terms of comprehensiveness, I wanted to show, what kind of statistics should be available in every basketball league out there - fantasy or real - including Buzzerbeater "regular leagues".

5. These should (probably) be the most comprehensive statistics available anywhere in the world in fantasy basketball manager-genre (in free to play-games) - I'd happily stand corrected though if one disagrees and proves me wrong.
45 categories in total - yes, you read correctly.

6. Having in depth information from special/advanced stats on our hands, I think has potential to increase HGL teams' motivation to train better, and possibly make more informed/wise decisions on what to train and at what point in time.

So, first update on Season 4 HGL Team Stats should be 'out of the oven' very soon - stay tuned!

Last edited by Wagner at 2/7/2026 7:31:12 AM

I had to give up of gathering 100 own draftees.
I fired 21 players, none of them in my top8-salary envelope.
Let's see if it's worth crowding the transfers post by all those, but if someone especially demands/strongly recommends, I'll add them there of course (and might do that anyway at some point).

As I wrote earlier, I was planning to release HGL Team Stats for Season 4, with plenty of new-to-HGL (and new-to-BB!) statistical categories.

It has been my biggest undertaking in HGL to get all these ready for launch, but I'm glad to announce wait is now over!

45 statistical categories are now available in HGL Team Stats-posts 1-3 (links at the end of post)!

Most of them are completely new-to-HGL, and many of them are advanced level/special stats, so I think it's very much possible to make quite deep analysis of your team and your opponents' strengths and weaknesses when taking a look at these stats!

As you may not be familiar with some of the special/advanced statistics categories, and especially their abbreviations, I've made a separate glossary/legend/explanation post, here: (329502.15).

That should guide you through all these stats-posts. Please don't hesitate to ask, if you don't understand what some statistical category means. There are many of us here in HGL that like stats, and I'm sure also others than myself are happy to explain some stats categories in more thorough manner (than what has been explained in glossary, link above).

But now, please enjoy. Maybe same thing happens to you that happened to me - a light bulb moment - when you realize what parts of your team need developing, that you hadn't even realized. May this stats analysis even guide your training to some extent, if you so choose to... :)

As I said, I've put so many hours into this that I try to do it for the whole Season, so that the work doesn't go to waste, and we get the whole, balanced statistical picture when Regular Season has been played (as everyone has met everyone). But as this requires a lot of manual work, I can't guarantee publishing of posts (Seasons 2 and 3 teached me to be humble with my promises about stats). What I can guarantee though, is that they absolutely will not be published after each RS Round (maybe in every 3-6 rounds would be more realistic goal), as it takes lots of time also to sort tables and move them into posts.

But now, enough of talk; see for yourself how your team fares in different stats categories, here:

Season 4 Team Stats Post 1/3: (329502.16)
Season 4 Team Stats Post 2/3: (329502.17)
Season 4 Team Stats Post 3/3: (329502.18)

Sorry to see your dream go away, and yet happy to see you competing in HGL!

Sorry to see your dream go away, and yet happy to see you competing in HGL!

Thank you kecal. Yes, it was truly disappointing as it takes a long time to get to this point. But what can you do - I'm not going to sell my best players to achieve that goal, especially as I consider in many cases selling prices being way too low (given the time and paid salary to develop such player from the beginning), as it would also mean relegation and I might have to give up my other goal that's connected to my roster if I'd be relegated.

Happy to see you competing in HGL as well, and I hope HGL has grown into you so much that you decide to continue on next season as well!

Speaking of that, as usual, I ask everyone to let me know by the end of this Regular Season, that do they wish to continue in HGL on Season 5.

Some managers have given their continuous announcement of participation, so for them it's not absolutely necessary to inform me of that.

But on the other hand, sometimes it could be the case that one has forgot they have given that kind of commitment, so in that sense it'd make sense that everybody would let me know.

Last edited by Wagner at 2/9/2026 6:13:35 PM

Season 5 for me

Season 5 for me, as well!

I'm in for season 5!

Count me in too for season 5

I'll create this post on Season 4 Thread as well, so that we can easily update the list of teams interested in HGL.
(This is basically edited post of these earlier posts, here: (327516.86) and (328546.32).)

Updateable listing of HGL teams that have confirmed their willingness to participate for Season 5 of HGL, which is played during Buzzerbeater season 72:

Team name (manager name), day of announcement

1. Wagner College (Wagner), (May 4th, 2025) ++
2. Les Gueux du Marais (Coach Faz), (May 4th, 2025) ++
3. Elan Demars (demars) ++
4. Lielupes Melnās Sirdis (Monēta), (May 4th, 2025) ++
5. Homegrown Kings (MrJ), (Feb 13th) ++
6. Madrid Chotis (Jotadoce), Feb 10th, 2026
7. Vilniaus „Vilkai“ (kecal), Feb 10th, 2026
8. WiMaOlCa (WiMaOl), Feb 10th, 2026
9. Club Trouville (Chucarro), (May 6th, 2025) ++
10. Freccia Azzurra (ned), Feb 12th
11. Rajdersi (Paul George), Feb 13th
12. BC Rajaleidjad (Trailblazer), Feb 15th
13. BC Eos (LennuK.), (Oct 24th 2025) ++
14. Virtus Portici (SventraCanestri), (June 13th, 2025) ++
15. KK Stihija (Pihija), (Oct 24th 2025) ++
16. Vindicta (Jioshoo), Feb 25th, 2026
17. Hårdboll (Spela), Feb 25th, 2026
18. Alanurmon Rikkaat (M a k e), March 8th, 2026

++=Participates also to further Seasons (in addition to Season 5) = ""AC/Automatic Commitment" given earlier; contact me if you want to withdraw your AC.

Teams playing in HGL Season 4, who have confirmed they WILL NOT participate to Season 5 of HGL:
None.


Possible new team additions/new candidates for Season 5 of HGL:
On this "Possible new team additions"-list I'll be from now on keeping a list of teams, who are interested in participating to Season 5 of HGL (which takes place during next BB season).

San Fernando VR (VR75) (Feb 22nd, 2026)
??London Rams (UK Andrius) (Feb 28th, 2026)??


Other possibly interested teams (likely/possibly joining HGL later but currently preferred starting season hasn't been announced):

1. BC Homegrown (Dutch Farmer), original interest announced April 15th, 2025 ((324689.730))
2. San Antonio Gladiators (Enigma), June 25th, 2025
3. Social Security Kings (IKnowZip), July 30th, 2025


If you´re still not playing in HGL but wish to do so in the future, please let me know either by responding to this post or sending me a BBMail. When you do so, I'll add you to a list based on your preferred starting season.
However, this applies to current and new teams (currently not playing in HGL).
In other words, if you are already playing in HGL, please inform me of your interest to continue playing on next Season of HGL by the start of current Seasons' HGL playoffs, thank you.

Basically, personally I'd like to guarantee a place for all current teams playing in HGL for the next season as well, should they wish to continue playing in it, and I added "day of announcement" above mainly in the case new teams join and if we would need to restrict the amount of accepted new teams (due to sensible league size restrictions) and if we would then use 'day of announcement' as a critical decisive factor in deciding which new teams would be allowed to join.

This, however, hasn't been locked in as a selection method for new teams, as so far HGL has accepted HG teams based on 'first come, first serve'-basis. And when I think of it, if we have "too many" interested new teams wanting to join HGL (and simply couldn't accept them all - currently 'soft cap' might be somewhere around 18-20 teams per season, but that's still under discussion and we might be able to remove that soft cap in the future), then I think some kind of play-in type short league/playoffs structure (that would take place during Season 4 HGL Playoffs) between these teams would be preferable in that case to determine participation rights for new teams.

Last edited by Wagner at 3/11/2026 5:49:46 AM

Season 5 for me (y)

Thank you WiMaOl, kecal, Jotadoce and LennuK. for your excellent decisions - each are easily worth +1, and I'm very glad to see you all on Season 5 as well!

I started to collect HGL Season 5 participants to this post, here: (329501.128).

51 Regular Season Rounds in HGL history so far, during which 414 matches have taken place (if my calculations are correct; 120+120+120+54, right?).

So 500th Regular Season HGL match will be played on Season 4 RS Round 16, unless I'm mistaken.

Looking forward to "some" more matches... :)

Last edited by Wagner at 2/10/2026 4:01:28 AM