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Season 4, RS Round 4:
Friday, February 6th, 2026
Wagner College vs. Vilniaus „Vilkai“ 107-108
(137821558)

Last edited by Wagner at 2/7/2026 5:50:56 AM

My fellow HGL managers, I have good news for all of you, especially for those who are into stats and want to understand their teams' strengths and weaknesses from a statistical standpoint.

As we know, HGL Team Statistics were published (by me) on Season 1, and then only partially for Season 2 (on 6 first matches) and on Season 3 (2 first matches).

I plan to continue publishing those stats on this Season 4 as well.

As a disclaimer:
Because the statistics collection and statistics tables updating/organizing/stats post-editing process still remains very arduous process, I can't make absolute promises that I would be able to continue it throughout the Regular Season, that is still my clear goal (as I've already invested so much time in it, as you will see, so in poker terms I'm more or less 'pot committed' to this so that all the work doesn't go to waste).

In the past, one of the challenges that restricted the amounts of statistical categories in HGL Team Stats-post were the lack of shooting statistics.

I have now figured out a way, how I can add shooting statistics to HGL Team Stats-posts, which will change these stats and give them totally new dimensions.

This is great news in many respects.
Especially because:

1. Well, basketball is a scoring and defending game. And while additional statistical categories can definitely affect the game big time, in many instances shooting (or defending) quality is what ultimately decides the match winner

2. We can add many interesting and important, new-to-HGL statistical categories now that we have shooting statistics incorporated into a HGL Team Stats-posts. Wait for slightly longer, and you'll all see what I mean!

3. Now that I've seen the statistics myself (you'll see them soon too!), it does help me understand my teams' weaknesses and strengths in a more in depth way, that I never thought possible. (Having said that, of course one needs to remember that more younger the season when they look at stats, the more "unreliable" statistics still are because teams do not play against same strength opposition on each Round).

4. While this is not quite an NBA level statistics in terms of comprehensiveness, I wanted to show, what kind of statistics should be available in every basketball league out there - fantasy or real - including Buzzerbeater "regular leagues".

5. These should (probably) be the most comprehensive statistics available anywhere in the world in fantasy basketball manager-genre (in free to play-games) - I'd happily stand corrected though if one disagrees and proves me wrong.

6. Having in depth information from special/advanced stats on our hands, I think has potential to increase HGL teams' motivation to train better, and possibly make more informed/wise decisions on what to train and at what point in time.

So, first update on Season 4 HGL Team Stats should be 'out of the oven' very soon - stay tuned!

Homegrown Kings Win First HGL Game! (party)

Homegrown Kings def Club Trouville 119-112
(137821717)

Well, it finally happened! We got our first victory in the HGL and hopefully the first of many in the coming seasons.
Everything went right for the Kings in this game. We opened quickly winning the first half 56-44. As expected, Club Trouville soon rallied, winning the second half and coming home strong to narrow the gap. Club Trouville's FCP started to take its toll and even the X-man, usually so clean with the ball, finished with 4 TOs. However, the X-Man once again led all scorers with 31 points and 14 assists despite being unable to hit a single 3-point shot.

good game MrJ!

As I wrote earlier, I was planning to release HGL Team Stats for Season 4, with plenty of new-to-HGL (and new-to-BB!) statistical categories.

It has been my biggest undertaking in HGL to get all these ready for launch, but I'm glad to announce wait is now over!

45 statistical categories are now available in HGL Team Stats-posts 1-3 (links at the end of post)!

Most of them are completely new-to-HGL, and many of them are advanced level/special stats, so I think it's very much possible to make quite deep analysis of your team and your opponents' strengths and weaknesses when taking a look at these stats!

As you may not be familiar with some of the special/advanced statistics categories, and especially their abbreviations, I've made a separate glossary/legend/explanation post, here: (329502.15).

That should guide you through all these stats-posts. Please don't hesitate to ask, if you don't understand what some statistical category means. There are many of us here in HGL that like stats, and I'm sure also others than myself are happy to explain some stats categories in more thorough manner (than what has been explained in glossary, link above).

But now, please enjoy. Maybe same thing happens to you that happened to me - a light bulb moment - when you realize what parts of your team need developing, that you hadn't even realized. May this stats analysis even guide your training to some extent, if you so choose to... :)

As I said, I've put so many hours into this that I try to do it for the whole Season, so that the work doesn't go to waste, and we get the whole, balanced statistical picture when Regular Season has been played (as everyone has met everyone). But as this requires a lot of manual work, I can't guarantee publishing of posts (Seasons 2 and 3 teached me to be humble with my promises about stats). What I can guarantee though, is that they absolutely will not be published after each RS Round (maybe in every 3-6 rounds would be more realistic goal), as it takes lots of time also to sort tables and move them into posts.

But now, enough of talk; see for yourself how your team fares in different stats categories, here:

Season 4 Team Stats Post 1/3: (329502.16)
Season 4 Team Stats Post 2/3: (329502.17)
Season 4 Team Stats Post 3/3: (329502.18)

HGL 5. round, season 4:

Best collective performance of the evening

Point: 124 : Vilniaus „Vilkai“
Defense: 54 : KK Stihija
Tot. Rebound: 70 : KK Stihija
Off. Rebound: 26 : KK Stihija
Assist: 38 : Hårdboll
Steal: 9 : Alanurmon Rikkaat & Elan Demars
Block: 14 : KK Stihija

Personal best performances of the evening

Point: 45 : E. Karu (BC Eos)
Tot. Rebound: 20 : M. Kavazić (KK Stihija)
Off. Rebound: 10 : M. Kavazić (KK Stihija)
Assist: 13 : S. Aleksijević (KK Stihija)
Steal: 3 : J. Tuulinen (Alanurmon Rikkaat), L. Duval (Elan Demars), P. Flament (Vindicta), E. Pastor (BC Rajaleidjad), K. Roussillon (WiMaOlCa)
Block: 5 : D. Bukva (KK Stihija)

The shooter: T. Lacalle (Madrid Chotis): 7 Three points scored

The best performer: F. Vanazzi (Virtus Portici): Rating: 19

Now to deal with some of the backlog that has accumulated for me:

RS Round 2:
Friday, January 30th, 2026
BC Eos | 111 - 122 | BC Rajaleidjad
(138562135)

The first ever all-Estonian HGL matchup went for the BCR. A really close game until the 4th quarter, where BCR switched up a gear and created a comfortable lead they held onto until the end. Both teams showed similar success in shooting in general, while we had more success from behind the 3s. The 15-3 turnover ratio probably cost me the game in the end. Congratz, Trailblazer!


RS Round 3:
Monday, February 2nd, 2026
BC Eos | 107 - 86 | Freccia Azzurra
(137821308)

A game, where thanks to a great 1st quarter, we held a somewhat comfortable lead throughout the game. An aspect to highlight was our dominance in the rebounds, especially winning the offensive boards with 21-9. We showed some solid shooting and E.Karu and L.Rannala led us to the victory wit htheir 26 and 23 points scored respectively. Good game, ned!


RS Round 4:
Friday, February 6th, 2026
BC Eos | 112 - 118 | WiMaOlca
(137821408)

For me, surprisingly this game was much more close than I had anticipated. This week I was struggling with my game shapes, while WiMaOlca's were quite good. Originally I wanted to put up a fight and perhaps only lose by a small margin, in the end it was a three scored by WiMaOlCa's M. Bensala 10 seconds before the end in the 4th quarter to send the game to overtime. In OT we lost the grip to the game and even E.Karu's 46 points throughout the match were not enough to grant us the win. Gongratz, WiMaOl (I would have rather taken the result from the game that we had at the wrong match time)!


RS Round 5:
Sunday, February 8th, 2026
BC Eos | 88 - 104 | Virtus Portici
(137821879)

The game against the reigning champion, where the winner was clear really before the game even kicked off. Virtus Portici dominated the 1st quarter and left us no chance at all to lessen their lead. A positive thing to take from this match is the outside defense and the fact that we were able to hold the champions only to a 16,7% at 3p shots. E.Karu once again took the initiative and dished out 45 points in the game. Good win, SventraCanestri!

I have no issues of accessing the first posts of this thread. Maybe just a temporary glitch at your end?

Well, that's irritating, but I think, however annoying it is that you changed the correct tactics, it's still good if your initial ideas and predictions were correct... At least that's the case for me, as I also have had some cases, where I change from good or perfect tactics at the last minute, because I was having second thoughts