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ok for me for the token too, i can challenge all the game if you need

I have no problem with the proposed change. I just hope it doesn't make organizing the tournament more difficult for Wagner, who already has a lot of work to do.

There's also and additional challenge with my team finances, which has been created by my attempt on creating a team with 100 own draftees. I'm in the verge of reaching 99 (after next draft), but I´m more than half a million in debt right now, so I'm in deep waters currently.

I can't even recall how bankruptcy calculations/procedure goes, even though I've fought with that in the past.

Any good tips are appreciated on how to solve this the best way (other than selling players, at least many, as that would effectively ruin my goal of 100 draftees - of course selling any of my best players would also make me considerably weaker in the regular BB league, and as I can't afford to be relegated next season, selling my best players isn't really a good option either). Just shared this with you guys, as obviously I can't let my team get into a bankruptcy as it would ruin it all, but also it's a long time goal and it's not good to let go of that if not absolutely necessary... sometimes also you can't seem to see the apparent solution yourself, so that's also why I shared this with you guys.

Last edited by Wagner at 1/5/2026 8:56:25 AM

I hope that you would get 1 (or even 2) gems from the draft, who you could sell, so that you would still be able to compete in the regular league but still get some good income. Would that be realistic regarding your league position and draft tokens available?

After 2 weeks under 500 K€, all your players will be on sale

i don't know how to solve that, my first idea is .... that you have too much players ... so difficult to find a good way which match with your finance and with your 100 draftees goal

Last edited by WiMaOl at 1/6/2026 12:34:20 AM

Maybe try to:
1. Check staff salary-after many weeks salaries are very high, you can go with some minimal staff for few weeks
2. Think about arena's infrastructure = level reduction (I think you recieve back some of the money back but I have never do that.

I agree with you, managing an HGL project is more important than a medal.

I have a proposal: teams like mine, who buy and sell drafted players but are also coached by others, have an advantage over those who decide not to trade.
I suggest creating a parallel postseason, in addition to the traditional tournament, for only the teams that don't trade.

Let me explain:
Regular Season matches will be the same for all teams.
At the end of the regular season, the traditional tournament continues as usual, while the teams that don't trade also compete in single-elimination matches.
I don't know if this would create additional work for the commissioner, but I think it would be interesting for those who don't trade to win a medal, too.

I hope that you would get 1 (or even 2) gems from the draft, who you could sell, so that you would still be able to compete in the regular league but still get some good income. Would that be realistic regarding your league position and draft tokens available?

In terms of draft tokens, yes... But league position this season (picking as 12th team) would require a miracle. Usually in a league with no bots and many experienced managers, no gems are left at that point... But thank you for your message, I appreciate any attempts to help. :)

Maybe try to:
1. Check staff salary-after many weeks salaries are very high, you can go with some minimal staff for few weeks
2. Think about arena's infrastructure = level reduction (I think you recieve back some of the money back but I have never do that.

Thank you for your response..
I've considered both options... Problem with first is that as I'm only climbing maybe 10-50K towards plus per week after massive rearrangement, it can take 10-20 weeks to reach levels where I can buy acceptable level new staff. And having 1 level coach as HG team is dreadful... Also, having lousy doctor as a HG team who hasn't afford to lose best of his players for a long time, without the possibility of upgrading the doctor if needed (due to being on minus in $), isn't a tempting option...

Also I don't have trustworthy knowledge, if I would even lose money by firing my PR (now level 4 at $16K), because level of attendance income is dramatic in terms of what's left under the line after cost and income are being calculated...

As for suggestion 2., I have some of those to sell. You will lose 50% of the purchase value if you do that, I have done that before. However, I'd prefer to save it as a last option, because I couldn't wreck my whole team by having all players listed...

After 2 weeks under 500 K€, all your players will be on sale

i don't know how to solve that, my first idea is .... that you have too much players ... so difficult to find a good way which match with your finance and with your 100 draftees goal

I wonder if any of you know for sure, that is the practice still in use, that you get a BBMail from BB staff to inform you, that if you don't correct situation in 2 weeks, that will happen, and only after that 2 weeks "timer" would activate, and after that further 2 weeks (from the sending of official BBMail) they all would be listed at the price of $1?

I agree with you, managing an HGL project is more important than a medal.

I have a proposal: teams like mine, who buy and sell drafted players but are also coached by others, have an advantage over those who decide not to trade.
I suggest creating a parallel postseason, in addition to the traditional tournament, for only the teams that don't trade.

Let me explain:
Regular Season matches will be the same for all teams.
At the end of the regular season, the traditional tournament continues as usual, while the teams that don't trade also compete in single-elimination matches.
I don't know if this would create additional work for the commissioner, but I think it would be interesting for those who don't trade to win a medal, too.

Thank you for your response, it's interesting to hear your take on this. It's a very complicated subject (if we want to consider all aspects of it), but I do agree/feel that teams that do trade players do have an advantage over teams that don't trade.

This is partly why I created "a salary benefit"-comparison (a separate post, that hasn't yet been calculated and published for Season 3), so that people can check which teams are receiving "salary/training benefit" that way.

And all this also depends on where we draw a line (or would draw a line, if it would need to be determined which team is "buying and selling team").
For instance, demars's and my team are technically teams that have re-purchased player(s) in their teams, but their salary is $226-227 per week, and our salary benefit number is therefore standing at minus $.

I haven't had enough time to think that suggestion of yours (if it would work as is), but in a couple of days that I've had time to think about it now and then, my initial thought is that if we would divide teams into "trading" and "non-trading" teams, it would be better also to have separate Regular Seasons for both kind of teams, and not only separate playoffs (also because otherwise non-drafting teams would face "drafting teams" during RS as well, and results of those matches would likely affect who would be allowed to enter playoffs in the first place).

This on the other hand would create numerous challenges, including that
1. there wouldn't be even number of teams in such leagues, as there aren't that many "trading teams" in HGL currently
2. how do we define "trading team" fairly (one option being a salary benefit-value, but even that's not 100% perfect)
3. it would create somewhat confusing (at least to me) double playoff-system; I'll explain better what I mean below. Having separate leagues altogether of course wouldn't have this confusing aspect built in it (at least from my point of view, however, it would create more work and be problematic from the standpoint of unequal league sizes and matches/season values)
4. yes, it would add some more work if "separate, parallel Playoffs" would run simultaneously.

I assumed that you meant, that let's say out of 16 teams 4 were "trading teams", and based on ORSR-rankings, best "non-drafting teams" would be "let to play" in "a separate Playoffs for non-trading teams". So in this case all teams would be allowed to play in playoffs, as 12 participate to playoffs.
But for the sake of an example, what if there would be 5 teams that would be counted as "drafting teams" and we'd have 16 teams in HGL - there would be only 11 participating to Playoffs, in which case our playoff system couldn't be utilized as is. (Yes, I guess technically it would be possible to implement an another rule that states how in that case playoff participants would be determined.)

But while this reply might seem like a very direct, this is just my style (especially if I don't have time to "soften" things), and like I said, it's nice to see you've also noticed there's a difference in a difficulty level, depending on how beneficially you sell and buy back your previously owned players... :)

My suggestion was clearly an idea, but I don't know how many teams are making trades and how many aren't.

I have a question: how many teams in HGL have at least one re-signed player on their roster and how many don't?