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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

@
Moneta and
Paul George:

Corrections still need to be made to your box score posts; please proceed with correcting them as soon as possible, because Season 4 begins in about 1 day.

EDIT on January 26th at 2PM EET: all corrections have been made.

Last edited by Wagner at 1/26/2026 8:34:06 AM

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.

To quote myself, as nobody has answered to this. Has anyone checked all, or some of the matches to verify everything is correct?

Would someone be interested in writing some sort of HGL Season 4 preview on Official Thread?

The form can be chosen by you, so it could be almost anything you choose.
Or on the other hand it could follow "typical" sports preview format with
- mostly written text,
- reports and analysis of how possible recent roster changes have affected S4 outcome,
- expectations/predictions on
A) medal contenders on S4
B) who would be fighting for last Playoff-spots most likely
C) possible surprise-teams when compared to their salary (see Season 3 participating teams-post currently for salaries),
D) how many teams do you consider to be "middle-level teams", fighting for good positions on a good season (without injuries, good tactics etc.), but if games aren't going well for them, could be seeing themselves in a very bad position when Playoffs start
- some statistics (if you have them gathered/you could use some of Hadár's stats published on Scores-tread),
- reports/preview of new-to-HGL teams,
- analysis of success of certain teams (for instance, total Regular Season record in HGL, record during 2 last seasons in RS "2-year record; 2YR", or Season-by-Season RS win-loss records or RS winning-% of certain teams)
- etc.

I still have to finish multiple things, preferably before Season 4 starts, so I don't think I have time to write at least a lengthy preview post.

Last edited by Wagner at 1/25/2026 7:51:09 AM