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Well, I think that a 2 pts bonus for your (unbearable) fault would be a good compromise.
What do think about it ?

I'm sending you bottle of VSOP instead, as that was your preferred variety. ;P

Sorry again for messing that up, I'll try to find time at some point to fix that so that we could get perfectly correct stats at least starting from HGL Season 4 (if not earlier).

Last edited by Wagner at 5/11/2026 12:39:24 PM

Finally I got rest of those comparison posts published, of which data LA-LennuK. once again provided for us.

First salary comparison table, created by LA-LennuK., here: (331392.50) and further explanation (example) on next post after that.

Then Visual salary comparison tables for Season 5, created by myself (based on data LA-LennuK. provided for us).
As an all-new addition, I also added a visual salary comparison table without re-purchased players, both found from here in this post: (331392.52).

Please enjoy, and please let me know if you find any errors from that visual salary comparison post, or want further explanation on some aspect on any of these posts!

Just had a look at Homegrown Teams II-thread, first time since quite long time, and it reminded me once again of a strong French presence in HGL - France has 5 HG teams listed in LOPO_'s listing of homegrown teams, and 4 of them are participating to HGL... Cheers to that!
Only French team (at least who's listed - maybe even way more HG teams exist, than there are currently listed?) which still hasn't joined HGL seems to be BC Douce.

Spain would theoretically have chance to even that record, as 5 Spanish teams seem to be listed.

In Italy, 2 out of 4 HG teams have joined HGL so far, and so on.

But I immediately noticed not all teams that we already know to be HG are even listed, so my wild guess is that also some HG teams exist which we're not even aware of...

Last edited by Wagner at 5/12/2026 7:01:09 PM

League tables after S5 RS Round 4 have been updated.

Most of the games were blowouts (or at least served a limited amount of suspense) in terms of scores/who's going to win.

However, 3 games stand out for me, all for different reasons.

ED vs. RAJ match was at least surprise to me, given RAJ's very strong performances on recent Seasons (and we or at least I also know RAJ's team always seems stronger than top8-salaries suggest!), so ED has officially now published "a storm warning" after showing at least two very strong performances this Season (VPO and this one at least, even though they didn't quite reach W in VPO game).

TRO vs. HGK match provided some punches delivered either way; HGK won 1st quarter by 8, TRO 2nd by 8 (making it an even game at the half-time), HGK 3rd by 2 and then TRO took over by winning 4th by no less than 10, and took first league points of the young Season to South America from sold-out (6000 spectators) Alert Bom Descanso center-arena.
Interesting point was that they were able to do this even though their second best performer (in rating) and court scoring leader, opening PF, H.Calloia ($41K), was fouled out after spending only 33 minutes on the court. On the other hand, their tied-second best performer (rating also 14.0) on the other hand was a substitute for bigs, Neither team were especially careful with the ball, totaling 30 turnovers. TRO had a 13 rebounds advantage, which must've given them some advantage in this quite even match.

WMO vs. EOS:
No surprises here (in terms of result; remember, EOS has gotten a lot stronger from last Season!) or a close fought match, but WMO made an interesting choice by dressing only 5 players (even though as far as I know, they had 12 available), almost forcing a Lucky Fan to the court as their M. Bensala totaled 5 personal fouls.

Anyone else willing to take a look at yesterday's or today's games (review/preview)?

+1 Wagner.

Well, we both kind of 'knew' what the other team was likely to play and set our defenses accordingly...despite neither of us taking that extra step of setting official predictions.

The fact that they played a RnG offense but were limited to 4 from 19 from downtown at 21% shooting is a win for us.

Chucarro's boys lost to us last season by 7 points and beat us yesterday by 8 points. This season, they got their revenge. It is the start of a long rivalry I believe.

Well done, Chucarro for your win. I look forward to meeting you again next season!

Yes, looking forward to all these long term rivalries, including this one!

It's too bad BB doesn't recognize these in official matches in any way, so that you can't choose only them from player statistics-page (to see performances in PU matches). Then again many of us (although not myself usually) play also other PU matches than only HGL matches, so more advanced selection would need to be enabled in BB menu (pick only matches from the player stats-page that you want to add to stats compilation of a player) in order to be able to differentiate HGL matches from other Pickup matches statistics wise.

21% beyond the line (for your opponent) certainly was something worth celebrating, it's good habit of picking also something positive from match that you can build on!


Last edited by Wagner at 5/16/2026 8:58:42 AM

WMO vs. EOS:
No surprises here (in terms of result; remember, EOS has gotten a lot stronger from last Season!) or a close fought match, but WMO made an interesting choice by dressing only 5 players (even though as far as I know, they had 12 available), almost forcing a Lucky Fan to the court as their M. Bensala totaled 5 personal fouls.

my bad, i am on holidays with a sports event and I haven’t taken time to complete the basic roster, it was not a choice ;) but it wouldn't have changed the result ;)

WMO vs. EOS:
No surprises here (in terms of result; remember, EOS has gotten a lot stronger from last Season!) or a close fought match, but WMO made an interesting choice by dressing only 5 players (even though as far as I know, they had 12 available), almost forcing a Lucky Fan to the court as their M. Bensala totaled 5 personal fouls.

my bad, i am on holidays with a sports event and I haven’t taken time to complete the basic roster, it was not a choice ;) but it wouldn't have changed the result ;)

Happy holidays to you WiMaOl!
You're right - difference in points was big, so it wouldn't have turned around the boat this time. But luckily you had chosen at least 5 players to your roster, of which nobody was injured - otherwise it would've become a forfeit loss (due to dressing only 4 healthy players, while having more of them available, to put in short).

This is actually why I mentioned about it - if one knows they possibly have restricted access to BB in future, then it might be best, to be on the safe side if injuries occur that you hadn't had time to reach to, to choose more than 5 players to your default roster.

Anyways, once again, have a good holiday!

New league tables have seen the light of day... Oh, it's 2.30AM, so no, not really - but you got the point.

Very interesting matches again, especially:

WAG-HB 108-115:
The local competition was drawn before 4th, and then HB pressed pedal to the metal and I was left wondering how strange it feels to start Season at 0-5. Not massive differences other than HB's 10 extra rebounds, but my Linkova fouling out after spending 38 minutes on court didn't help my chances. (To be fair though, HB's leading scorer fouled out as well).

VPO-EOS 105-92:
"Do. Not. Hack. Di Natale - or anyone else from VPO, for that matter!" was heard from the sidelines, as VPO's A. Di Natale was perfect from the line (15/15) - however, rest of the team didn't fall short either, as they shot 22 of 22.
This wasn't the decisive difference in the sense that EOS also scored clinically 18/19 from the charity stripe - but it's still terribly difficult to operate with "hack the Shaq"-strategy, if you've fell behind to begin with, if opponent automatically gets 2 points every time you foul them.
Interesting take? EOS dominated rebounds 61-41, but turned the ball over 16 times (VPO 5), so there went the advantage gained in boards.

MAD-BCR 99-98:
A proper nail biter here - BCR led by 5 before 4th quarter, but very strong performance by MAD gave them a sweet victory over challenging BCR squad. Points behind 3 point arc: MAD 36, BCR 6. BCR totally dominated on boards (59-38), but it simply wasn't enough to win our only Spanish representative in HGL.

LGM-HGK 115-101:
HGK is starting to find a gear, where it can properly challenge mid-class teams, so lots of progress has taken place during couple of seasons. This time also the difference was only 4 points (to LGM's advantage) before 4th quarter, but then the French side beat Australians by 10 during the last 12 minutes of the game.
As for clinical free throw shooting, N. Grévin's (LGM) performance leaves no one cold - 19 out of 19 from the charity stripe. I can'r recall ever seeing more clinical FT performance by any sinble player in BB... (I might have, but honestly can't remember at least). Also their P. Ferréol dished out RS Round 5 high 15 assists - this wasn't HGL record, but "not too bad" either!


Last edited by Wagner at 5/17/2026 7:51:02 PM

VPO-EOS 105-92:
"Do. Not. Hack. Di Natale - or anyone else from VPO, for that matter!" was heard from the sidelines, as VPO's A. Di Natale was perfect from the line (15/15) - however, rest of the team didn't fall short either, as they shot 22 of 22.
This wasn't the decisive difference in the sense that EOS also scored clinically 18/19 from the charity stripe - but it's still terribly difficult to operate with "hack the Shaq"-strategy, if you've fell behind to begin with, if opponent automatically gets 2 points every time you foul them.
Interesting take? EOS dominated rebounds 61-41, but turned the ball over 16 times (VPO 5), so there went the advantage gained in boards.

I think I won for two reasons:
- I used motion against a 2-3 defense;
- I had 14 team steals, a great number.

My total salary is 481k, but yesterday I played without a 48k starter, so my salary for the game was 433k. Eos, on the other hand, had a total salary of 633k.

It's incredible. They have 50% more than my salary. I don't know how I won, seriously, it's not just rhetoric.


Last edited by SventraCanestri at 5/19/2026 4:47:33 AM