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18th Team will join HGL immediately (for Season 4) to replace Svätý Jur Snakers (HAD).

Team is called BC Rajaleidjad (manager Trailblazer), abbreviation in schedules BCR (122619).

He will need to be a bit more active once the League starts.

We should tell him to set a standard lineup, he could repeat my mistake from Season 2 :D

18th Team will join HGL immediately (for Season 4) to replace Svätý Jur Snakers (HAD).

Team is called BC Rajaleidjad (manager Trailblazer), abbreviation in schedules BCR (122619).

He will need to be a bit more active once the League starts.

We should tell him to set a standard lineup, he could repeat my mistake from Season 2 :D

Yes, however, it's even more important to be active before the league starts. We have potentially very problematic match on Round 1, BCR-ALA, 2 new teams facing each other. It's also BCR's challenge responsibility, but maybe I need to ask ALA if they're willing to challenge.
I informed BCR manager that handling this match organization process needs some logins during this week. And still the box score post is missing. If you happen to see Trailblazer (BCR manager) in Discord or somewhere, please let him know we are slowly but surely starting to be in a rush.

And yes, pro-tip from you - once you have enough players and have set a deep starndard lineup, I think it's possible to avoid that kind of mistake. :)


EDIT:
now that I took a quick glance at the rules, a clear rule is determined for the situation you faced (too little amount of players in a roster):

"B) not dressing at least 3 healthy players or
dressing less than 3 players to a match in total (whether injured or healthy) for the match:
Level 3 penalty; ineligibility for the current season playoffs."

On the other hand, by a quick glance I didn't found a clear statement to say this would apply to a match that has not been organized at all, but instead it does state in the beginning:

"However, there are practically only 4 additional categories on how one will get penalized:
A) become non-homegrown team during any part of HGL season
B) play too small roster, or cause a forfeit by dressing less than 3 players
C) not arrange or accept a correct Pickup match on time, which would cause match to be cancelled/postponed and/or leave another manager insufficient time to set lineups for match [...]"

And as far as Playoffs matches are concerned, which is another story of course but possibly could be applied here as well(?), it states:

"- 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"

Again though, even though it's BCR's responsibility to challenge, we could be facing "who's the quilty part"-discussion, due to which I advice everybody to not get into any trouble, as that causes us and myself trouble. (As I've mentioned several times, I really don't want to make this a "prove it by screenshot"-league).

And for some situations, there is also no clear rule if nobody admits that they're guilty (even though always someone is, even though it includes interpretation to some extent especially as it's a special situation as new teams are concerned and as we are very much pressed in time), and I am emphasizing that very strongly in rules; please do follow the quidelines so that we aren't drawn into situations for where there are no rules and penalties set/in place.

Please correct me if I ignored some part in rules (that this possible incident is related to).
Luckily didn't have to visit rules-section all that often, so I can't remember every little detail without checking it out now and then.

Last edited by Wagner at 1/21/2026 6:55:17 AM

Wagner, do I understand correctly that there is no need to inform you about the transfers made during the HGL offseason (that is, before January 26th)?

Wagner, do I understand correctly that there is no need to inform you about the transfers made during the HGL offseason (that is, before January 26th)?

It's good and I would actually say really necessary practice to keep me informed, because at the end of the day, that's still officially part of the Season 3 transfers, as transfers need to be "tied" to some specific HGL Season in order to be able to keep it more simple in terms of following HGL teams rosters (and making season by season salary calculations more simple, etc.).
If I wouldn't register off-season transfers anywhere, then I'd have an incomplete transfers-listing.

So to clear things (especially season to season recurring top8-salary and age calculations) a bit, a practice has been adopted that Season 3 transfers begin from opening day of Season 3 Regular Season, and are registered as Season 3 transfers if they happen on 25th of January 2026 at the latest (because Season 4 begins on January 26th).

It is beneficial for all, that we can have a clear view on player transfers, and what is each teams' "transfer policy" and how their roster develops through such changes.

So to make sure kecal, your intention wasn't buying "non HGL eligible players" during offseason?

So I ask every manager to report all of their transfers to me - if you don't want to make a public announcement here on Official Threads, you may do so by sending me a BBMail (and the result will be that this particular player/transfer data will be "silently" moved into a transfer post, which some managers wouldn't likely even look at). I would however encourage to do that here in HGL Threads, as then it leaves "a note" of it which makes it even easier for me to update transfer posts later on.

Informing of player transfers is especially important, if:
- Player is one of your top8-salary players
- You are firing a player - please note that I do not see those "transfers" (firing) through your teams' transfer history-page

Last edited by Wagner at 1/23/2026 4:00:24 AM

No, I didn't buy a non HGL eligible player. Biggest change, not counting my (weak) drafts, was retiring a 39 year-old Justas Telepniovas.

No, I didn't buy a non HGL eligible player. Biggest change, not counting my (weak) drafts, was retiring a 39 year-old Justas Telepniovas.

Alright, thank you for information. :)
I need to update it here ((328546.14)) later on, when I do checks on team rosters from that 11th of January to 25th of January.

Basically, with this practice of everyone informing me of all of their trades/firings, I hope to be able to skip these kind of checks, but when I created Season 2 and 3 transfers-post, I realized how little amount of trades were published when they took place - or frankly, at all.

Hey, right up that alley, I'm trying to reduce my salary, so I retired my 21-year old player Martin Murumaa (54781225). He used to be in the top-8 of my salaries in season 3, should I calculate a new top-8 salary for season 3? The difference would be approx. -2K$.
I'm also still waiting for the first financial update to be sure, what the weekly income will be, it might be that I will remove some further players from the roster at the beginning of the season.

Hey, right up that alley, I'm trying to reduce my salary, so I retired my 21-year old player Martin Murumaa (54781225). He used to be in the top-8 of my salaries in season 3, should I calculate a new top-8 salary for season 3? The difference would be approx. -2K$.
I'm also still waiting for the first financial update to be sure, what the weekly income will be, it might be that I will remove some further players from the roster at the beginning of the season.

Thank you for letting me know, and can you please keep me updated on further changes on your roster should they occur.

If it's easy for you to do that, then you can do it (but it hasn't so far been made mandatory for anyone to do that themselves). I just suspect it could take some work now that player salaries have been updated to reflect Season 71 levels, especially if some players have moved in/out of that top8-salary envelope(?)...

So what I'm trying to say here, that I couldn't demand that from you as it's not demanded of others either, but of course I appreciate all such efforts of thoroughness. However, I guess we all have somewhat limited time to use for BB and therefore for HGL as well, so you need to evaluate whether or not your time would be better used (instead of calculating if it´s like -2 or -3K difference, if that's about the range what you can already say with confidence without further calculations) when possibly calculating Season 4 top8-salaries and their ages (should you want to undertake this project also for Season 4?).

@all:
Season 4 is starting very soon, and only 8 out of 18 managers have Good to go-status on a pre-season progress following post, here: (329501.16).

So if you are not GTG in that list, please correct your box score post immediately. I think all managers have been contacted, who had and still have problems with their box score posts, but if you haven't been contacted and are not GTG on that list, there's probably a reason for it so check out your box score post in that case.

I released a Season 4 schedule filled with match links, on Scores thread.

If someone wants to double-check that all the links are correct, I'd appreciate it.

I guess we could just skip this minor change, as for the new season's calculations, we will use the data from the beginning of the season anyway. I will do my best to provide the latest stats for season 4 on next Monday, when we have our first gameday.

I guess we could just skip this minor change, as for the new season's calculations, we will use the data from the beginning of the season anyway. I will do my best to provide the latest stats for season 4 on next Monday, when we have our first gameday.

Yes, there is plenty of calculations to be made on Season 4, so maybe it's good to forward your time and energy towards that. And as this process that you were willing to take care of is totally voluntary, please don't take too much pressure of it being ready exactly on Monday - in every case, whether or not it will be ready on Monday - your help is much appreciated.

Some people might not come to think of it, but I'm perfectly aware how much work there can be to compile such (or other kinds of) statistics, so if it has to be postponed by, say, 1 or 2 weeks, due to you simply not having time for it, we can definitely live with that.

Speaking of help, has anyone checked out every single match in schedule, that are all details correct (correct teams facing each other at correct days and times, 02.30PM EET)?
I still "only" added match links in those RS schedule posts, and tried to be as precise as possible, but didn't have time to run a double-check to those 2 finished posts.

@demars: please accept ned's (FRE) challenge as long as it's details are correct, because that match has not been organized at correct time at all, as far as I know. (Also other corrections to your box score post are needed, of which I've contacted you so please make those as well).

Last edited by Wagner at 1/24/2026 6:19:47 AM