Hello
Maybe I'm in for Season 5 .
Young HG team :)
Hello UKAndrius,
Thank you for your message!
You said maybe, so I'd like to ask couple of things.
How does your maybe translate into, say, percentages? Does it mean like you'd like to join with 30%, 50%, 70% or 90% probability?
So your best player (Stannard) seems to be a bought one, so I guess you plan to sell him?
Also Seymour is not drafted by you, so you plan to sell him also before you'd possibly join HGL?
Have you been reading through about 18 first post on this Official Thread, and about 12 first posts on HGL Scores Thread to get the idea of HGL rules and practices?
As for current participation announcements, all but one current HGL manager (M a k e, manager of Alanurmon Rikkaat) have announced about their willingness to continue on Season 5.
Then as for new teams for Season 5, San Fernando VR (VR 75) announced they'd be interested also in playing on Season 5.
Then obviously we could or might not receive any new requests on Season 5 participation. We have not for instance received a request from Hadár (Svätý Jur Snakers), who might or might not be willing to join. He is aware though, that usually the deadline for for announcing participation is at the end of Regular Season of each Season (while of course he has seen that in practice often teams have been accpeted later as well, if reasonably possible).
This addition of many teams would put us in a place where match amounts would increase a lot. We are already playing 17 Rounds in Regular Season.
I think about 20 teams in a league is starting to be very close to even somewhat comfortable/bearable maximum limit (which would create 19 Rounds of play per RS, right??), as already now there are 2 of 3 games weeks, which is a bit much per week (and as said, I don't think Season should be extended in terms of timeline).
So, let's say for purposes of an example that Alanurmon Rikkaat would decide they'd want to continue in HGL on Season 5 as well, and then San Fernando VR and your team would be accepted for Season 5. That would put us to 20 teams already. Let's then assume that Hadár would announce of their interest in joining, which would put us into a relatively uncomfortable and crowded setup of 21 teams, requiring 21 Rounds instead of 19 Rounds, if 20 teams would play. ((With this though, we would definitely be closing into a situation that demars (manager of Elan Demars) mentioned, "I think 3 games per week is too much")).
There are two "easy" solutions to this though:
A) let's use end of Regular Season as a strict timeline for accepting new teams (so if you're late for that, then wait for one more season to join)
B) let's make a play-in league/playoffs for 'new-to-HGL' teams (here meaning teams that are looking forward to joining HGL immediately for the next Season), which would take during the current Seasons' HGL Playoffs.
This (addition of new teams, up to 20) also creates another layer of challenges, as if there would be 20 teams playing, I feel like at that point there would be a need to allow 2 more teams into Playoffs, so 14 instead of 12. (I have a planned system for this sort of situation already, as our current system allows that with only one minor chage, but I haven't had time to take this into discussion, and that situation still stands currently in terms of being short on time).
This also is a borderline decision that
might (or might not?) require voting, and we can't (shouldn't) do that in a rush. Also, one could say it's a major change (while another person could say it's not), so it's also necessary to consider which percentage of positive votes (to favor the change) would be required for the change (of number of teams to Playoffs) to take place; would it be 50%, two thirds or more, or possibly 75% or more, etc.
It's also necessary to remember, that HGL is an all-manual-league and adding even one more team adds matches a lot.
Last edited by Wagner at 3/11/2026 6:42:20 AM