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Thanks, Wagner. Yes, I am very happy with thew slow upward direction of my club.

We do seem to have somewhat opposite direction in that regard, at least when it comes to rate of positive development, or in my case it could even turn into a slow decline in worst case as I have plenty of 'oldies but goldies' in my team that are going to collapse big time soon in terms of salary - I wonder if Season 6 will be the first (of many?) Season(s) when your team is claiming the bragging rights for the HGL Season in our RS meeting.

Last edited by Wagner at 7/13/2026 1:57:24 AM

Semifinals are now wrapped up, and again, home teams were unbeaten.

Therefore, Medal Games on Season 5 look like this: (331391.9).

During Season 5 RS VPO beat RAJ by 2 points on neutral court.

And KKS beat VIV by 9 on neutral court, so current home teams (for S5 Medal Games) have already outperformed their opponents once this Season - will Season 5 be the first Season where both away teams would be able to surprise their opponents on Medal Games, or is the dominance of home teams going to continue in HGL?

Being favorites though is very relative, as all top 4 teams have an excellent HGL win-loss records on Season 5 (and respectable world rankings, 'WR'):

Final teams:
VPO 16 wins-1 loss (WR 794)
RAJ 15W-2L (WR 822)
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Bronze medal match teams:
KKS 14W-3L (WR 1765)
VIV 14W-3L (WR 913)

As we can see, we once again have top4 of the Regular Season in the Medal Games.
So Regular Season success seems to predict Playoff success quite well, however, top8 salary alone doesn't do it with same accuracy it seems, like you can see from here: (331392.52).

I know it's only 1 Season, so not too many assumptions should be made. But it's still refreshing to see (from an underdog's perspective, as my team qualifies as one) that salary alone doesn't guarantee success.


As for some additional "extra statistics", then possibly this could be interesting: (331391.178)), the price of win.
Meaning total salary of top8 players times weeks on HGL Regular Season, divided by wins during Regular Season.

Here are the results (with the reservation of not being double-checked for errors), price per win during RS:

Team $K/wk Wins Price/win
VPO 418 16 $209K
RAJ 493 15 $263K
KKS 566 14 $323K
VIV 463 14 $265K
EOS 613 13 $377K
LMS 628 13 $386K
ED 372 12 $248K
WMO 357 11 $260K
LGM 271 9 $241K
VDT 276 8 $276K
MAD 304 7 $347K
HB 425 6 $567K
WAG 357 5 $571K
BCR 412 4 $824K
HGK 208 2 $832K
FRE 173 2 $692K
ALA 183 0 ∞ (no wins)
TRO 304 2 $1.216M

Most cost-efficient teams of Season 5 in "price per win":
1. VPO – $209K/win
2. LGM – $241K/win
3. ED – $248K/win
4. WMO – $260K/win
5. VIV – $265K/win


Most expensive wins on Season 5 in "price per win":
1. TRO – $1.216M/win
2. HGK – $832K/win
3. BCR – $824K/win
4. FRE - $692K/win
5. WAG - $571K/win
(ALA - total salary cost per 8 weeks $1.464M - no wins)


Last edited by Wagner at 7/13/2026 3:28:17 AM

This is my teams' own box score post for HGL-PL on Season 5:

HGL-PL Round 1, Monday July 20th, 2026:
MLS-#BOR (139722933) 97-101

HGL-PL Round 2, Friday July 24th, 2026:
#TD-BOR (139757790) 76-106

HGL-PL Round 3, Sunday July 26th, 2026:
#SAN-BOR (139719056) 120-109

Last edited by bort at 7/27/2026 10:32:59 AM

This is my teams' own box score post for HGL-PL on Season 5:

HGL-PL Round 1, Monday July 20th, 2026:
MLS-#BOR [match=XXX]

HGL-PL Round 2, Friday July 24th, 2026:
#TD-BOR [match=XXX]

HGL-PL Round 3, Sunday July 26th, 2026:
#SAN-BOR (139719056)

Well done, bort - match time and day is correct.

If match is played on neutral court (I suppose you both checked that out), then it's 100% correctly done.

Please proceed to organizing other matches as well, as soon as possible, thank you.

If any problems/challenges or questions arise, please let me know.

M.L.S. REICH and Tassie Devils still haven't created their box score posts for their teams, and MLS has only been logged in on 11th. BBMail has been sent to all HGL-PL participants already on 11th of JUly, both on start of match organizing process and for a need to create a box score post.

Still no box score posts created, or as far as I understood from message of one manager, match offers sent either by Tassie Devils nor M.L.S. REICH (but I could have also mistaken in my interpretation).

So I sent them another reminder by BBMail, reminding everyone that all matches need to be organized prior to beginning (so that I can check match specs). I noted everyone that this is an urgent process and match organizing window is open only a short while (which they must've noticed already, but sometimes it's necessary to repeat), and teams risk being disqualified from (or forfeiting matches in) HGL-PL should they not organize matches in time.

And as I have probably restricted access to BB tomorrow, I guided them here on Official HGL Threads if they have any urgent questions.

It's fine if you don't have an answer for them, but I guess I've opened up the rules of HGL-PL deep enough so that many of us could guide them in general HGL-PL questions and match organizing process, especially as we're generally sticking with HGL practices that we're all familiar with (and that'll get every HGL-PL participant ready for HGL as well as possible simultaneously, as they're already learning important steps going through this process).

Last edited by Wagner at 7/14/2026 11:00:23 AM

Thanks Wagner, great to see confirmation from you as I wasn't too sure whether I had set it all up correctly.

I have invited MLS for our Round 1 match (on neutral court) and still waiting for response. Also waiting for match invite from TD for Round 2. Thanks

Hello all,

I am making my team (137833) HG. In 4-5 days the process should be finished. Hope to be able to play in HGL in season 7!!

I started playing in 2023, then almost exactly one year ago, I left the game. I have now come back. I usually like to play HG in other games, and although I started with a normal rebuild (thus my extra 5 players), I saw the posts about the HGL and went: that's great! Let's do this now (turn HG).

Best wishes all

Thanks Wagner, great to see confirmation from you as I wasn't too sure whether I had set it all up correctly.

I have invited MLS for our Round 1 match (on neutral court) and still waiting for response. Also waiting for match invite from TD for Round 2. Thanks

It is necessary to reorganize this Round 1 match.

Like I think I already mentioned, this Round 3 match for your is organized at correct time, 15.30 EET DST.

Round 1 match MLS-BOR starts at 16.30, which is obviously wrong time (as 15.30 is correct).

So quick reorganizing of that match 1 hour earlier is needed. Of course still Round 2 match is missing as well, which needs to be added immediately when it's created.

I have no idea how I can challenge San Fernando as I'm no longer a premium member.

Or can I??

Hello,

I have been contacting you about HGL-PL duties that need to be completed way before HGL-PL starts on next Monday.

You still have plenty of things that are required to be done:

- You haven't organized all HGL-PL matches (or at least provided match links - I can not see any of them!). This needs to be done well before HGL-PL starts!

- You haven't created your box score post for HGL-PL to Home-Grown League (HGL) Season 5 Official Thread.
Again, read my previous BBMails to find out instructions.

- when you organize matches, note that it needs to have same time of the day as your Round 1 match against San Fernando VR; all other times are not valid match times, so organize it exactly at the same time.

Act immediately correcting all these details, or your risk your team being disqualified from HGL-PL, or receiving forfeit losses in HGL-PL, which eventually would put you in lousy league table position should you be the only team to forfeit matches.

Thanks Wagner, great to see confirmation from you as I wasn't too sure whether I had set it all up correctly.

I have invited MLS for our Round 1 match (on neutral court) and still waiting for response. Also waiting for match invite from TD for Round 2. Thanks

Thank you for your response and update on situation. This is very good practice to keep me up to date.

As you still have few things that are required to be done, I'll compile them here:

- You haven't organized all HGL-PL matches (or at least provided match links - I can not see any of them!). This needs to be done well before HGL-PL starts. This is the inconvenient side of an all-manual league - I have no access to any of "inside data of BB/view under the hood", so while I have no motivation to suspect what you wrote isn't true, I have no way of confirming which is the case. This is why it's best to avoid confusing situations altogether, as we don't want to make HGL-PL either "a prove it by screenshot"-type of league.
So let's just organize matches as quickly as possible. I understand it's highly frustrating for the manager who has completed their part of the story, but can't fulfill their duties while other managers are not doing their part of the job.

- when you organize matches, note that it needs to have same time of the day as your Round 3 match against San Fernando VR; all other times are not valid match times, so organize all exactly at the same time.
In other words, for instance Round 1 match needs to be reorganized to start 1 hour before current match time (match number 139721682)!

Act immediately correcting all these details, or your risk your team possibly receiving forfeit losses in HGL-PL, which eventually would put you in lousy league table position should you be the only team to forfeit matches.
Again, this is the same problematic situation (to prove who is the faulty manager if matches haven't been organized/links provided) as we face in HGL each Season, but by not letting things slip we've kept the damage at bay so far.

@ Everybody playing in HGL-PL please note:
Match links provided after match has been started never count!
It will be decided whether or not rematch would be done at later time in that occasion (if match isn't organized in time), or whether both teams would receive forfeit loss if it couldn't be proved whose mistake it was due to, that match wasn't organized/link provided.


Last edited by Wagner at 7/17/2026 10:42:56 AM