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Additional rules and penalties for violations, 4 of 4 (effective as of April 5th, 2025):

- In playoffs, the higher ranked team (home team) is always responsible of sending the challenge to PU matches.

- Due to the need to arrange match every week during playoffs, it is important that managers send challenge at the latest on Thursday (note: this time frame could be changed during Season 2), so that team accepting challenge has enough time to accept it.
Remember: last regular season match will take place on Monday at 14.30, or 02.30PM EET Normal Time, (15.30, or 03.30PM EET DST, Daylight Savings Time, a.k.a. Summer Time), so after that match:
A) during rest of season there will be 3 days time to send the Playoff match challenge (Mon->Thu; during Playoffs Sun->Wed)
B) there´s (about) 2 days time to accept match challenge (if it's been sent at the latest possible time, on Wednesday, it needs to be accepted on Friday at the latest, before your designated HGL match time).
However, the sooner you send a challenge (or accept it) the better, as it allows more time to set the lineups/tactics.

- To make organizing Playoff matches smoother, an away team has permission to challenge home team (while home team always remains officially responsible for challenging) if they want to speed up the match organizing process and are willing to use 1 extra token for sending challenge (remember: these tokens won't be replaced by HGL, and this is voluntary for an away team).

- In Playoffs designated match times remain same (as in HGL regular season; 14.30, or 2.30PM EET Normal Time, not DST), so the team sending the challenge (home team in playoffs) will choose correct time and court balance when sending Pickup game challenges. For correct time refer to same participating teams-listing on Official HGL Thread(s), that you used when organizing matches for Regular Season.

- If Playoff match is not played and it can be clearly proven which teams' fault this was, penalties will apply.; Level 2 penalty (0-50 forfeit loss) for the team committing the violation

- It remains to be decided on how HGL is going to deal with situations in where neither of managers admit or can't be proven to be the guilty part. It could lead to critical situations, in where neither of managers could be let to advance to next round of Playoffs, so team that either of them would've faced next round of Playoffs also would receive a free ticket to the next round.
If this would for instance happen to a team that has already secured place to 2nd round, they would reach semifinals (a.k.a. Medal games) without playing a second - that´s far from optimal.

- I will be very clear about this upfront; if we are going to make changes due to managers not willing to follow league practices/be committed enough, it will in first place happen through enforcing rules that are more strict (that therefore discourage violations from appearing, and aim to help to keep HGL running optimally), and not through changing this league and playoff system of 12 teams (or possibly more if league expands in future) reaching Playoffs-format. Format itself is very functional, and it will show it's worth as long as nobody tries to exploit/wreck the system (or become very uncommitted to HGL).

- There are "million" things one manager could do to screw up the league for many others, so please don't do those things that destroy the fun for others and smooth operation of the league. Having said that, I completely realize applying stricter penalties won't alone remove the need for commitment or trust.

- Please note, that while the clear goal is to finish the Season 3 of HGL with these rules only (together with rules published earlier on official HGL threads), as this is 3rd season and many things could occur that can't be predicted, league Commissioner reserves the right to make additions/changes to rules during season (by voting or by Commissioner's decision).

Last edited by Wagner at 10/5/2025 1:50:18 PM

TBA #13

As you may have noted, all participating teams of HGL will be required to send box score links for all of their regular season games to this HGL Scores Season 3 Official Thread before Season 3 starts.

First notes A)-F), and then instructions on how to complete the process.

Notes:
A)these score links will be added to one post per manager, that can then be edited throughout the season if needed.
Links will be added to one post/manager to avoid overcrowding of HGL Scores thread, and for being easily searchable.
B) links to every match box scores (from your post) will be copied to the official HGL Scores Thread's 'Schedule/scores'-post, so that each team has access to box scores of every match easily
C) in Playoffs, we will use that same box score post created by each team
D) please never delete box score post then created by you, we might need it a lot later in order to confirm things.
E) to see what filled box score post should look like: (326590.44). Please still read through instructions below before proceeding.
F) to create your own teams' box score post for Season 3, copy-paste everything to your own post (below * * * * * * *) from here: (328547.14)

Instructions on how to proceed with writing one post about your HGL box score links:
Remember: you can't finish this process completely before all HGL matches for regular season are organized properly and visible in your team schedule page.

(Season 1 info post: (326590.43)).

1. Go to your official BB schedule page, which is found from https://www.buzzerbeater.com/team/XXXXXX/schedule.aspx
(where X is your team number)
2. Click "Tactics/match instructions"-link (between team names) on your HGL match that you wish to link. (It is the link what you use to set up your lineup and tactics for the match).
3. Once you enter on tactics/line up setting page, match number of that Pickup (PU) match is revealed to you in the browser's address line. It looks like this: https://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/XXXXXXXXX/tactics.aspx and number in place of this XXXXXXXXX is your match number.

Now at this point, you have two ways to proceed, described below as 4A (that all managers used during Season 1) and 4B.
Choose a preferable way for you and please stick with it for the whole season.
Method 4A would be preferable.

In your box score-post on HGL Scores Season 2 Official Thread, you enter links for 15 matches.
For each game include Round number, a day game is played on, and name of your opponent (like in my box score post).

So to your post, link the box score in either way:

4A):By following above instructions you are on the match tactics page already, so copy/make note of the number of the PU match (visible at web browsers' address line). Then on this thread update it to your box score link post, and do so by using 'a basketball button' on the page into where you write text to be sent to forum; that is located above the text frame. Pressing a button will automatically create a string of text such as '[match=XXX.XX]', and as you replace XXX.XX with your match number, the box score link will be automatically created. It will create a functional link to a match box score, which will look like this: (132386153).

4B) by a direct web page link to box score, such as: https://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/XXX/boxscore.aspx (in where XXX represents the match number). You can simply access this by visiting above mentioned match tactics page. By following above instructions you are on the match tactics page already, so Pickup match number is visible to you. If you choose to use this 4B-method, you can copy-paste https://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/XX/boxscore.aspx-link to your season box scores link 15 times (one for each match) on every line, and then for each line replace XX with your Pickup match number.

5. Do this with all matches

Last edited by Wagner at 10/5/2025 9:12:54 AM

TBA #14

HGL Transfers-post, combined post of Seasons 2 and 3:
(due to character limitations on Season 2 post; used to be a combined post with salary benefit-calculations so it was not possible to get all Season 2 transfers to fit in Season 2 post).

Note: HGL teams' transfers in this post have been checked/list updated April 12th, 2026 at 3PM EET=last update.


Abbreviations:
T+ purchased,
T- sold,
D- fired player
PACT+ player acquired by completing BB tutorial.


Transfers on HGL Season 2 (from June 19th to October 20th, 2025):

BC Eos:
T+ Aug 14th,2025: Taavi Ummelas, 23yo, $10230/week
PACT+ Sep 3rd,2025(?): Erki Külvet, 24yo, $11298/w

Rajdersi:
T- July 10th,2025: Dariusz Pachowski, 18yo, $2866/week
T- Aug 24th,2025: Konstanty Poświatowski, 25yo, $26630/w

Virtus Portici:
T+ July 16th,2025: Guido Lasalandra, 36yo, $35551/week
T- July 17th,2025: Sergio Pinga, 18yo, $3222/w
T+ Sep 10th,2025: Fabio Vergnasco, 21yo, $5137/w
T- Sep 27th,2025: Fabio Vergnasco, 21yo, $5137/w
T+ Oct 18th,2025: Cristiano Cabras, 22yo, $4134/w
T+ Oct 18th,2025: Giuseppe Di Puccio, 33yo, $9355/w

Madrid Chotis:
T- Oct 18th,2025: Vitorino Macías, 19yo, $5414/week

Freccia Azzurra:
T- Oct 15th,2025: Calogero Fabbricatore, 26 yo, $15695/week
T- Oct 19th,2025: Santo Arecchia, 31yo, $16477/w

Svätý Jur Snakers:
T- July 11th,2025: Magnus Hlivják, 19yo, $5816/week

KK Stihija:
T- July 13th,2025: Mustafa Bešić, 31yo, $181953/week
T- Oct 16th,2025: Bogdan Cikor, 18yo, $ 2676/w
T- Oct 16th,2025: Štef Pušić, 20yo, $3793/w

Lielupes Melnās Sirdis:
T- July 30th,2025: Margeris Kaneps, 18yo, $3665/week
T+ Sep 19th,2025: Teovalds Dambekalns, 21yo, $30664/w
T- Sep 29th,2025: Romualds Smilgis, 19yo, $2768/w
T- Oct 17th,2025: Rihards Grosbahs, 18yo, $2846/w

Suuret Muinaiset:
T- July 16th,2025: Per Edfeldt, 32yo, $21232/week
T- July 19th,2025: Jaakko Yrttiranta, 19yo, $5977/w

Club Trouville:
T- Oct 6th,2025: Manuel Modernell, 27yo, $15314/week



Transfers on HGL Season 3 (from October 20th 2025 to January 25th, 2026):
Note: HGL teams' transfers in this post have been checked/list updated April 12th, 2026 at 3PM EET=last update.

BC Eos:
D- Oct 29th, 2025(?): Erki Külvet, 25yo, $11251/week

Club Trouville:
T-: Jan 24th, 2026: Raul Cabarcos, 18yo, $3930/week

Freccia Azzurra:
T- Oct 27th, 2025: Andrea Canepa, 27yo, $47090/week
T- Nov 8th, 2025: Loris Provenzale, 27yo, $47429/w
T- Nov 8th, 2025: Alfonso Amici, 29yo, $9009/w
T- Dec 12th, 2025: Ivan Bergo, 30yo, $86786/w

KK Stihija:
T-: Jan 23rd, 2026: Dženan Rahimić, 19yo, $4174/week
T-: Jan 23rd, 2026: Zeid Skapur, 19yo, $2236/w

Suuret Muinaiset:
T- Nov 25th, 2025: Eemil Thulé, 32yo, $15906/week
T- Dec 26th, 2025: Antti Sadinkangas, 22yo, $76772/w
T- Dec 26th, 2025: Antero Sarka, 23yo, $64850/w
T- Dec 26th, 2025: Teijo Mäkipää, 30yo, $58686/w
T- Dec 26th, 2025: Ilmari Haavisto, 25yo, $77286/w
T- Dec 26th, 2025: Markku Waris, 29yo, $57856/w
T- Dec 26th, 2025: Per Bernhardsson, 29yo, $53706/w
T- Dec 26th, 2025: Teemu Kyyriäinen, 27yo, $23916/w
T- Dec 26th, 2025: Teemu Kärki, 31yo, $40401/w

Vilniaus „Vilkai“:
T+ Nov 1st, 2025: Justas Telepniovas, 39yo, $9440/week
T- Nov 5th, Ąžuolas Plošciauskas, 19yo, $3827/w

Virtus Portici:
T+ Oct 22nd, 2025: Renato Serra, 30yo, $104587/week
T- Oct 24th, 2025: Filiberto Solinas, 18yo, $2623/w
T- Nov 14th, 2025: Cristiano Cabras, 22yo, $4134/w
T- Dec 19th, 2025: Renato Serra, 30yo, $104587/w
T-: Jan 23rd, 2026: Gianpiero Perona, 19yo, $4255/w
T-: Jan 25th, 2026: Matteo Verdone, 20yo, $9746/week

WiMaOlCa:
T- Dec 3rd, 2025: Adile Michel, 35yo, $42983/week
T- Dec 4th, 2025: Fabien Hurel, 37yo, $47547/w
T- Jan 8th, 2026: Wandifing Goundo, 21yo, $8440/w


Last edited by Wagner at 4/12/2026 10:50:53 AM

TBA #15 (What everyone who participates to Season 2 of HGL needs to do now-post)


Season 3 HGL Threads (main and scores thread) have now been set up, so HGL related conversation will mainly take place in those Threads from now on.

What everyone who participates to Season 3 of HGL needs to do now:

1. At least briefly check out your season schedule (posts 5 and 6 on Season 3 Scores Thread, link at the end of post); I didn't notice anything special/faulty in it, but having another eyes to check it too doesn't harm.
(Note: Basically we should be good to go, as I re-used Season 2 Schedule by editing it as little as possible considering we have 1 joining team, but anyone possibly spotting any problems please let me know. I did however change challenge responsibilities of a HGL joining team VIV from 0 to 12, as SRS had 0 challenge responsibilities on Season 2, as BUC used to have 12 responsibilities/regular season).

2. Create an own box score post for your team, just like during Seasons 1 and 2.
As an idea for your convenience (and to retain preferred standard for HGL) you can respond to this message (328547.14) and from that post of mine copy-paste everything below * * * * * * * to your own box score post (and only change your team name/abbreviation, opponent name for each Regular Season round, and add match links to it as soon as matches for Season 3 have been organized by you and your opponents).
If you need a memory refresher on how your box score post for the season works/how you edit it once you have box score links to add, you can read this post: (328546.13).

3. Familiarize yourself with match organization process if it's new thing for you or if you need a refresher (guide currently available on 'Announcement'-posts on both Official Threads) and ask questions (if needed) preferably before you'll start the process.

4. Start organizing HGL Regular Season matches (sending and accepting Pickup match challenges, 15 per team during Season 3)

As you all have likely noticed (when being on this Thread), you'll find Official Season 3 HGL Threads from here:
Home-Grown League (HGL) Season 3 Official Thread: (328546.1)
HGL Scores Season 3 Official Thread: (328547.1)

Last edited by Wagner at 10/5/2025 10:13:03 AM

TBA #16

Progress of match organizing process, updateable team list for Season 3:

Wagner College *GTG*
Les Gueux du Marais *GTG*
Elan Demars *GTG*
BC Eos *GTG*
Freccia Azzurra *GTG*
Madrid Chotis *GTG*
WiMaOlca*GTG*
Rajdersi *GTG*
Vilniaus „Vilkai“*GTG*
Hårdboll *GTG*
Lielupes Melnas Sirdis *GTG*
Suuret Muinaiset*GTG*
Virtus Portici *GTG*
Svätý Jur Snakers *GTG*
KK Stihija *GTG*
Club Trouville *GTG*

Current situation (20.10.2025): all teams have corrected requested changes on their own box score posts, so all are good to go for Season 3.


Abbreviations used on the table above:
(BP:OK)= own box score post for Season 3 created
S3S:OK= season 3 schedule; all match links sent to own box score post (which are not yet verified by league Commissioner)
*GTG*= team good to go for Season 3, because all above done, plus league Commissioner has confirmed/verified that match days and times are correct.

Last edited by Wagner at 10/20/2025 5:21:19 AM

@everybody:

Off-season process (match organizing for HGL Season 3) has now started, and while new Official Season 3 threads are still under construction, all essential information should be found from those new threads.
(If not, please refer to Season 2 threads for information, as everything in terms of preparation for next season will practically remain the same as during Season 2).
[..]
Official designated match times for each team on Season 3 will remain the same as during Season 2 (because Daylight Savings Time is still observed in EET time zone, when Regular Season Round 1 on Season 3 starts).

As you all have likely noticed (when being on this Thread), you'll find Official Season 3 HGL Threads from here:
Home-Grown League (HGL) Season 3 Official Thread: (328546.1)
HGL Scores Season 3 Official Thread: (328547.1)

Let's start sending and accepting Season 3 matches soon, so that we'll get everything done in time! Please ask questions on Season 3 threads (or by BBMail, if necessary - threads might provide you a quicker answer though), if you're unsure about something.

By quoting myself (from HGL Season 2 thread) I want to remind everyone participating to HGL Season 3, that please proceed immediately with creating your own box score post on (above mentioned) HGL Scores Season 3 Official Thread.

We have only 12 days before Season 3 starts, and only 7 out of 16 teams have currently created an own box score post (as you can see from here: (328546.16).

All Regular Season matches need to be organized (and verified by myself, or some volunteers - last time I think Hadár, LennuK. and maybe MrJ helped with this project?) well before October 20th, so please proceed with Season 3 match organizing process immediately if you haven't started it yet..

Following actions needed from managers well before Season 3 starts (on next Monday):

EDIT: all requested preparations/box score edits finished by all managers.

Last edited by Wagner at 10/20/2025 5:19:33 AM

Most critical HGL Pre-Season tasks have been accomplished now.

I first made sure no "illegal" transfers had taken place since Season 2 beginning.

Then already couple of days ago finished checking teams´own box score posts, just didn't update this post at that time: (328546.16) (but now it's been updated).

Now also Season 3 Regular Season schedule creation/editing is finished, starting from this post and followed by another schedule post: (328547.5).
If someone wants to make a second check (for faulty links/information), one may do that (and of course I'd be thankful of that), but having said that, I don't expect anyone to do this project. I've tried to do also schedule related things as carefully as possible (and boy, did it take time once again... I'm trying to figure out ways to automate some of the tasks, but it's challenging in this "all-manual league"), so I'm pretty confident everything should be correct.

So with this, while I have plenty of background tasks to finalize (of which not all will be completely finished before Season 3 starts, but they do not prevent Season from starting), we're almost ready to go for Season 3.
Spela and SventraCanestri, please correct your box score posts before Season starts, thank you. :)

Does anyone feel like writing some predictions/preview on HGL Season 3?
LennuK. (BC Eos) once again provided us (well, so far only to me, as the intention is to make similar kind of comparative post as was published during Season 2) some great salary, age and "team strength" information (which I still didn't have time to compile into a post), so that developmet information of course would be helpful in such preview, but I'm not sure if I have time to do that prior to season as there are still more essential tasks to finalize (and I don't have tons of time to use for BB currently).

Last edited by Wagner at 10/20/2025 5:18:08 AM

Season 3 is just behind the corner as there's approximately 24 hours to go before season starts!

Most preparations for Season 3 by me have been completed, and those that have not (and will be completed later) won't prevent Round 1 to be played.

Top8 players' average salaries and ages have now been updated to both Official Threads (to "Total of 16 teams will take part to Season 3 of HGL"-posts).

LennuK. (from BC Eos) has once again done a big favor by providing me (and therefore us) some fresh salary and age information, which I used in aforementioned posts, and will use in my later posts during Season 3 (later I'll create similar comparison table as during Season 2, so that it's easily comparable from season to season).

If you visit one of those two (similar) "participating teams" post, you´ll see that some interesting changes have taken place, in terms of salary and age.

Changes, which would be even more apparent when viewing top- and comparison tables made by LennuK. I sent him a BBMail today to ask for his permission to publish those, and if his answer is positive, I'll publish them (almost) as is/as they've been provided, to get even clearer idea of recent changes. Also, LennuK. has provided us an interesting new comparison category, team "power"/"value", which I might also publish if he grants me permission to do so in this case (or if not, he may of course publish it himself).
(All aforementioned info have been sent by BBMail, so I want to respect and wait LennuK.'s opinion on this before publishing them).

Anyway, what kind of goals do you guys have for HGL Season 3?

Last edited by Wagner at 10/20/2025 5:18:24 AM

Hello Wagner !

i'll try to do the same -> 9-10 wins and playoffs.
Then, who knows.

i saw last season, that the levels tend to be more similar. I'm not sure that it will be an advantage for my team, especially because my 2 best players have turned 35...
BUT, my two future stars have turned 25, and I have to train them at a very highler level than my two actual stars... It should be better and bitter this season for my team.

Hello Wagner !

i'll try to do the same -> 9-10 wins and playoffs.
Then, who knows.

i saw last season, that the levels tend to be more similar. I'm not sure that it will be an advantage for my team, especially because my 2 best players have turned 35...
BUT, my two future stars have turned 25, and I have to train them at a very highler level than my two actual stars... It should be better and bitter this season for my team.

Thanks for your response, demars!
That's very well and interestingly said - better and bitter - maybe I should quote you later on, by using that in RL situations, as it's a spot on comment (that I've never heard before) for some situations. :D

HGL team levels are pretty high (in terms of top8-salary), and nothing is guaranteed when you fight for those better higher or lower mid-table positions. For instance while my team has improved from Season 2 in salaries, I'm still only 12th in top8 HGL salaries, but my goal is of course to finish higher than that, as past has proven it's possible to exceed "probabilities".
I also share the same problematics with your team in terms of most of my best players getting old (and being one of the oldest teams in HGL), so I definitely see your point. It'd dreadful to see players declining, while simultaneously not being able to train new players with similar speed ((or having as much potential than the older players, that they´re supposed to replace later in the opening lineup, which effectively restricts A) the overall level of the future team compared to current one, and/or B) due to potential limitations it at least restricts the player types that you´re able to train/make of them)).

For example we´re almost at the same level in wages, but whenever I meet your team, it feels as though you are bit of a favorite in that match. Having said that, and having set the favorite position to your team, I hope to find a way to victory in our meeting this season... ;)

Anyway, good luck for the season for you demars (and of course to all other managers as well), and I hope you have enough nitros ready waiting in the counter besides you, given that you're going to have as many nailbiter matches on Season 3 as you had on Season 2!