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HGL-PL (HGL-Promotion/Participation League) info for Season 6 of HGL:

On HGL Season 6, we will play a HGL-PL "short league", for teams that:
A) are not currently playing in HGL, but would wish to do so on either HGL Season 7 or 8 (played during BB seasons 74 and 75), and
B) are willing to remain completely homegrown teams throughout the whole duration of HGL-PL (see *1 below), and
C) are willing to organize HGL-PL Pickup (PU) matches based on official schedule that HGL will provide. This does require usage of tokens, and basic understanding on how this PU match process works. It will also require communication with HGL Commissioner (myself), to get possible problems sorted out quickly.

*1= on this Season 6 you are able to trade after HGL-PL has ended completely, as long as your team becomes HGL eligible before you might start in HGL (after possibly receiving invitation based on your success in HGL-PL).
This is due to the current facts:
- it's unsure if there's a place to HGL Season 6 available through this Seasons' HGL-PL, so it's probably decent to let managers become non-HG while waiting (especially worst teams of HGL-PL likely not receiving invitation for HGL for the next Season).
- we are still somewhat undecided on whether this HGL-PL ranking will also be used to determine which teams are being offered a place in HGL for Season 8 as well (in the case if managers would withdraw from the HGL voluntarily, or if HGL will adopt a relegation/promotion scenario; voting about that is under way), if no new teams announce their interest to participate to Season 8 after this Seasons' HGL-PL has started; or whether result of this first HGL-PL should be used only for ranking teams in an order in which they would be offered a place to HGL should some managers withdraw their participation commitment for Season 7.

Please also note:
A) you should only participate to HGL-PL, if you are actually intending to accept place in HGL for either Season 7 (in the first place) or on Season 8; it's not meant to be just 'a league to play few fun PU games without any purpose', and

B) it is not guaranteed, that this result would be used on next Season (8) selection/offering process, so if you're extremely low on tokens, you might want to consider if it's worth participating now.

Having said that, I want to emphasize, that teams are offered a place in HGL based on success of most recent HGL-PL.
Please take that into consideration.

Let me give you an example:

We'll play HGL-PL now on Season 6.
Result of it is guaranteed to be used at least for Season 7 replacement processes (team withdrawals with short notice but only before Season 7 starts).
It might also be used for Season 8's similar process; depends if there are new interested teams or not.

Let's take example teams that have and have not participated to this HGL-PL.

Imaginary teams that have participated to HGL-PL, and results:
Winner of HGL-PL: Team A $400K
2nd: Team B $460K
3rd: Team C $80K
4th: Team D $120K

Imaginary teams that have not participated to HGL-PL, but would theoretically be interested in HGL Season 7:
Most expensive top8-salary, Team E $800K
2nd most expensive top8-salary, Team F $600K.

Now to get to the point in this example, remember, that teams are offered "a cancellation/withdrawal" places to HGL based on success in most recent HGL-PL being played.
Therefore, if for example 3 teams would be for any reason withdrawing (or making an action causing a penalty that would make their team HGL-ineligible for the next Season), teams would be offered a place in order of A, B and then C.

Note, that teams having not participated to HGL-PL, with salaries of $800K and $600K, would be only 5th and 6th in order on this "invitation list" as they would have not participated to HGL-PL at all in that occasion.
I hope this explanation and example clears the idea behind HGL-PL.
See next post

Last edited by Wagner at 8/29/2026 7:06:55 AM

HGL-PL (HGL-Promotion/Participation League) info post 2/2 for Season 6 of HGL:

On this Season 6, HGL-PL is played either with round robin format (meaning every team faces each other once), playoff-format (single-elimination style matches), or combination of both, or with another format. I think round robin would be best format, especially unless there are very big number of participating teams, and/or if one participating team is miles apart from their competition. This is due to the fact that would provide most fair solution to all and also clear and easily defineable ranking order of teams.

((So to compile; in further Seasons, it's possible to use either round robin-format, playoff-format (one match to decide winner at each stage), or a mix of both (depending on number of teams willing to participate)).

The points that would speak in behalf of combining both systems in further Seasons, (first playoff among weakest teams, to see which team(s) will get access to actual HGL-PL round robin, etc.) are that we could keep the games as meaningful/as even as possible (and avoid most of those 65 point blowouts), and also if there would be plenty of teams, the token usage for round robin-format HGL-PL could become an issue to some)).

Situations in which we could use "a mixed league format" for HGL-PL could be for example if there is one team that is so much better than all else, so that other teams could play either round robin or preferably playoffs-matches against each other, and then this one clearly most expensive team would face them in a single playoff-match, to decide ranks 1 and 2 of HGL-PL on that Season.
However, this would make it harder to create ORSR (Official Regular Season Rankings) for HGL-PL than playing round robin, so in that sense round robin would also be preferable.

Ranking similar to Official Regular Season Rankings (ORSR) used in HGL will be created after the HGL-PL has finished, and the result of most recently played HGL-PL is used when inviting teams to further Seasons of HGL, in the case (now or then) current HGL team:
- decides to withdraw voluntarily
- causes a penalty through their actions (or being inactive/non-communicative in important matters especially during critical times of the Season) that will cause them to lose their place in HGL for the next Season.

Note though, that replacements won't be done in a middle of any given Season (after first Regular Season match of HGL has been played on each Season).

See next post for HGL-PL (that is played during HGL Season 6)
- participating teams,
- schedule, and
- league table.

Last edited by Wagner at 8/29/2026 7:17:08 AM

((HGL-PL (HGL-Promotion/Participation League)
Schedule and League Table post for Season 6 of HGL))


Please note, especially if you're more or less a random visitor unfamiliar with HGL, that this is not the actual HGL (Home-Grown League) schedule/scores/league table post, but HGL-PL is rather a short league/playoff/combination of both depending on a Season.

The scores, schedules and league table of actual HGL can be found from HGL Scores Season 6 Official Thread, here: (332268.1).

HGL-PL is played in order to be able to determine in which order teams are being offered places to HGL on next Season should there be any voluntary withdrawals of current managers (at the last minute, as has often been the case), or severe penalties given to teams that would make some current team(s) being ineligible for next HGL Season.


Season 6 HGL-PL interested participants:

1. Agliana Angels (Italy, manager lollo32). Top8-salaries $257532
2. Svätý Jur Snakers (Slovakia, manager Hadár). Top8-salaries: $752561K
3. Torrelles Corsaris (Spain, manager Brucehum). Top8-salaries: $27800

Teams that have confirmed they will not participate to HGL-PL on Season 6:
1. borteam (Italy, manager bort)

Teams that have been asked about willingness to participate to HGL-PL on Season 6, but as they have not yet replied at all, they will not participate to HGL-PL on Season 6:
1. Tassie Devils (Australia, manager TazDevil)

Teams that had initially shown interest and gave their commitment to participate, but quit communicating/replying, so they will be removed from Season 6 participating teams-list:
1. Calatrava (Spain, manager RubenRC)




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Participating teams (and name of manager) to HGL-Promotion/Participation League (HGL-PL) on Season 6,
and their local match time on Season 6, team abbreviations and team links:

- 02.30 PM/14:30 Svätý Jur Snakers (Hadár); HAD (172088)
- 02.30 PM/14:30 Agliana Angels (lollo32); AGL (152141)
- 02.30 PM/14:30 Torrelles Corsaris (Brucehum); TOR (137833)


Information on match organizing and schedule of HGL-PL on HGL Season 6:

Important: Official match time is the same on HGL-PL, as it is on HGL;
on Season 6 that is your local equivalent of 03.30PM aka. 15.30 Eastern European Time, Daylight Savings Time (EET DST), matches organized at wrong times will not be accepted as results!

Note: all matches that will be organized before HGL-PL starts (just as in HGL).

Matches will be organized by each participating team using Pickup (PU) matches, and are played on neutral court only!

HGL-PL will be played using Round Robin-format, meaning each team faces each other once during Regular Season, "RS"; Playoffs will not be played on Season 6.
There are 3 participating teams and 2 matches per team; 1 team will rest during each Round.

For clarification of team abbreviations below, see confirmed teams-listing above; you can use team link to access team page and send your opponent a PU match invitation.


Schedule for HGL-PL on Season 6:

Note: # sign in front of team name means it's their responsible to send Pickup match challenge!

HGL-PL Round 1, Friday, October 16th, 2026:
#HAD vs. TOR (140704540) 150-46

HGL-PL Round 2, Monday, October 19th, 2026:
#TOR vs. AGL (140709552) 57-125
*Note: SPARE match link used, +1h to original time (original was not played on neutral court)*

HGL-PL Round 3, Friday, October 23rd, 2026:
#AGL vs. HAD (140703505) 87-102


League table and ORSR of HGL-PL on HGL Season 6:

Team W L PTS +/- F
HAD 2 0 4 119 0
AGL 1 1 3 53 0
TOR 0 2 2 -172 0


W=Wins, L=Losses, PTS=points, +/-=scoring difference, F=forfeit losses.
2 points for a win, 1 for a loss and 0 for a forfeit.

Equal wins->HGL tie-breaker rules apply.

Last edited by Wagner at 10/24/2026 4:18:53 AM

@ all HGL-PL teams on Season 6:

Svätý Jur Snakers (Hadár); HAD (172088)
Agliana Angels (lollo32); AGL (152141)
Torrelles Corsaris (Brucehum); TOR (137833)

You need to create an own HGL-PL box score post for Season 6 for your team, by responding to this message/post.

You can copy-paste everything below the line of stars (********************************) that you can find below, to your box score post.

Process is simple: you just exclude (remove) that match on every round in which you don't play in, and then provide a match link to your post when you have created that match challenge.

In other words, when you have organized a match, you go to your team schedule, click on a match, and then see the address line of the browser and note the match number, and then in below "[match=XXX]" you replace XXX with the correct match number.

On that one Round when your team is not playing, you can add either
A) abbreviation *DNP*, or words
B) My team did not play on this Round.

Remember: I will verify all matches before they are played, so it is of utmost of importance of everyone providing match links to their own box score posts before HGL-PL starts.
But I can not verify court balance before match starts, so be very careful to only organize matches on neutral court only!

When the matches have been played, you also edit it to include all match scores in written numbers (you can see my actual HGL box score post on Season 5, to get an example of it, here: (331391.22).


So reply to this post by copying everything below that line of stars to your teams' own box score post, and edit it as needed:
***************************************************

This is my teams' own box score post for HGL-PL on Season 6:

HGL-PL Round 1, Friday, October 16th, 2026:
#HAD vs. TOR [match=XXX] *Add score here in numbers when match has been played*

HGL-PL Round 2, Monday, October 19th, 2026:
#TOR vs. AGL [match=XXX] *Add score here in numbers when match has been played*

HGL-PL Round 3, Friday, October 23rd, 2026:
#AGL vs. HAD [match=XXX] *Add score here in numbers when match has been played*

Note: # sign in front of team name means it's their responsibility to send Pickup match challenge!


Last edited by Wagner at 10/8/2026 11:05:59 AM

TBA #23
(On Season 5 used as a reminder post for HGL teams; for Season 6 this post will be reserved for same, or alternatively for HGL-PL use)

Visual Top8-salary comparison table of Season 6 HGL-PL participants;
one line represents $20K of weekly salaries:

------------------------------------- $752K Svätý Jur Snakers (HAD)
------------ $257K Agliana Angels (AGL)
- $27K Torrelles Corsaris (TOR)


So, HAD does have more than 27 times (27,9) higher top8-salary than TOR, of which top8 earns $27K worth of weekly salaries. Am I exaggerating if I talk about David vs. Goliath here? ;)

When we compare HAD to AGL, they have almost 3 times (2,92) as big top8-salary as what AGL has.

AGL, on the other hand, has 9,5 times higher weekly salary than TOR.

So we're definitely having the biggest differences of all times, I don't think we've ever seen anything like this even in HGL. Interesting to see how these matches will turn out!

Last edited by Wagner at 10/11/2026 6:54:32 PM

Schedules and my box score post have now been published on HGL Scores Season 6 Official Thread.

Please create an own box score post for your team, by responding to this post: (332268.22).

Like normally, you edit it as needed, and add match links to it when matches have been created by you and your opponents.
Again, if you have # in front of your team name in schedule posts (17 Rounds of matches), it's your responsibility to send the correct Pickup match challenge.

As usual, some essential instructional posts and posts including team links and official match times can be found already (links below), even though Season 6 Threads are still under construction:

What everyone who participates to Season 6 of HGL needs to do now-post: (332268.19).

Announcement 29.7.2026: We're ready to organize all Regular Season matches for HGL Season 6-post: (332268.2).

Links to participating teams-pages for easy match challenging, and official HGL match times for each team: (332268.18).

I have now sent a match offer/request to all of you, and this is the correct match time for HGL Season 6.
Send and accept Pickup matches only at this same time you see our match (vs. Wagner College) match taking place.

Everybody playing on HGL Season 6, please proceed to match organizing process immediately, as we have only 12 days until Season 6 starts.

If you have questions, please send me BBMail or ask them on HGL Threads.

Hi everyone, I tried to send invitations through my phone, yet every single one got wrong. I strongly suspect there's some bug involved, for the mistake is consistent: 14.30 (Italy's, where I'm now, time) turns into 16:30. I may try once again, yet I strongly ask everyone to check my invitations twice.

kecal

The craziest thing, I was double checking for my invitations to be 14:30 Italy time, then they somehow turned out as 16:30, and now I see them as 14:30, once again. Travelling across time zones seems to be a complete mess!

The craziest thing, I was double checking for my invitations to be 14:30 Italy time, then they somehow turned out as 16:30, and now I see them as 14:30, once again. Travelling across time zones seems to be a complete mess!

These kind of problems with manager in question traveling out of their teams' own time zone have actually been reported by other managers as well earlier. We had some speculation earlier with some of the managers why this might happen, but I can't recall what was the "most probable cause" that we ended up with - for now it's safe to just simply agree with what you said; it's unfortunately a complete mess when you happen to travel.

It's good that you sent everyone heads up though, that your match offers might be wrong.

However, I suspect some might not read that and just accept offers as they think "it must be correct time as he sent the offer to me" (which of course is not the right procedure from a team accepting the challenge, like everyone should already know).

Like MrJ also asked, is it possible to delay sending/accepting your match offers ever so slightly, so that you would've already had time to return to your home country by then? Of course you are not forced to respond to such private kind of question, but that was also the most surefire solution I could come up with with such a short notice.

Last edited by Wagner at 8/1/2026 10:04:58 AM

@all HGL managers:

I hope you've all got your match organizing process "rolling" already - we don't have all that much time at all to get all matches organized (and then inspected for correctness, which actually takes way more time than you might think), so let's get things rolling (in the case someone hasn't really even started the match organizing process)!

On a lighter note, now that you've visited HGL teams' team "websites" (when sending PU challenges to teams), as some of us HGL managers are Supporters, us HGL teams do have quite a selection of nice/stylish logos (and banners), don't you guys think? :)
I guess everyone's got their own favorite of all available HGL participants' logos, but I'll just repeat myself here - many of them look quite nice!
In some way it would be cool to organize voting for best logo, but on the other hand it's extremely subjective thing, and it might make someone feel gutted if they wouldn't succeed in it (the voting).

Last edited by Wagner at 8/1/2026 12:47:27 PM