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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

Fresh league tables again have seen the light of the... night (again).

As for the light shining for my team personally, starting the Season at franchise low 0W-6L, it certainly is currently as bright as night.

However, some interesting scores (like scores-post reveals) on Round 6 as well, which I don't have time to review right now, but see for yourself: (331391.6).

Hi Wagner,

I am selling player (50847379).
On staurday after league game he will be gone.
He is last in top8 salary.

I need to cut salaries a little bit.

Fired this one
Gianluca Scardamaglio (55278590)
Salary: $ 2 411
19 yo

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.

Yes, like I mentioned, I've come to expect that total top8-salary in your case doesn't mean you wouldn't win... :)

However, now that league tables have been updated after RS Round 7, as VPO met one of the HGL giants, KKS, one huge winning streak came to an end, as KK Stihija was able to beat Virtus Portici by 16 points. This gives KKS big advantage for the rest of the Season, as now they have a lot more firm grip of the home court advantage until the very end of the Season 5 (but of course it's not still decided and many things could happen).

There's some calculation to do when we add all wins together that VPO was able to achieve during this winning run - a run, which won't be easily repeated.

For official HGL stats it might be good to differentiate (wins in a row) for example:
- RS wins in a row
- PO wins in a row
- total wins in a row.

Fired this one
Gianluca Scardamaglio (55278590)
Salary: $ 2 411
19 yo

Thank you for the information ned, I'll add him to the transfer-post bit later!
EDIT: Done.

Last edited by Wagner at 5/28/2026 5:30:29 AM

Hi Wagner,

I am selling player (50847379).
On staurday after league game he will be gone.
He is last in top8 salary.

I need to cut salaries a little bit.

Thanks Paul George, I'll add his transfer to the HGL Transfers-post a bit later (when I have bit time to update it everywhere it needs to be updated, etc. etc.).
EDIT: Done.

Last edited by Wagner at 5/28/2026 5:30:39 AM

League tables after RS Round 9 have now been updated. Very interesting games and scores during last two RS Rounds.

Sorry for delay this time. These 3 games weeks aren't my favorites TBH.

If you wonder why I've been logging in to BB and not having updated HGL league table when doing so, it's only due to not having enough time for that - I've had to set up some lineups/tactics during those logins. In other words, if I have 2, 5 or even 10 minutes time to spend in BB in some given occasion, there's absolutely no way I'd be able to do it with that time frame.

Let's take an example: now that I updated 2 RS Rounds to league tables and scores post (and made some copies where they are needed), it took about an hour (to do it carefully and properly - wrong scores are the last place where I want to make mistakes).

And, I'll respond to MrJ's message about player stats later (but in short; I think we all understand your delays and appreciate work put into HGL in the long run, no matter what the publication schedule would be), but with the same spirit I can share with all of you that I still haven't started gathering HGL team stats for this Season, so there's lots of work that should be started quite soon (so that it doesn't grow into a taller mountain, or rather an insurmountable object).

Last edited by Wagner at 5/28/2026 5:31:46 AM

@all current HGL managers, important question:

I'd invite all to state their opinion on whether or not a voting should be arranged about possible rule change in HGL (or whether you think it's totally appropriate/adequate to make a Commissioners' Decision on this rule change matter).

In this case I mean the possibility for new teams to have a chance to join HGL (by winning the worst team in HGL in HGL-RPF, HGL Relegation/Promotion Final match) even if no current teams would be withdrawing from HGL voluntarily after a given HGL Season. Discussion on this have been going on on HGL Thread(s) lately, as you all might have noticed.

So, this post itself is not yet a voting so no votes are/should be cast at this point about the actual possible change (yes/no), but I'd like to hear what people think if voting should be organized (it'd be kind of a big change, yes?) or not.



Also, as a second reminder, please inform me by RS Round 13 (if you still haven't done so) if you want to continue in HGL on Season 6 as well (unless you have given your "continuous commitment" on previous Seasons; it's still not bad idea to renew your commitment by writing though if you want to do so).
For the clarity, I will now specify that on this Season (as the practice has previously been to inform me by the end of Regular Season, and I suspect some managers have not noticed this changed requirement) you will not "lose" your place in HGL if you miss the RS Round 13 deadline, so that reason itself won't open places for new teams on next Season (6).
Having said that, everyone, please still inform me ASAP if you want to continue in HGL also on Season 6.

Last edited by Wagner at 5/28/2026 4:07:11 AM

I'll create this post on Season 5 Thread as well, so that we can easily update the list of teams interested in HGL.
This is an edited version of these earlier posts,
here:(329501.128),
(327516.86), and
(328546.32).

Updateable listing of HGL teams that have confirmed their willingness to participate for Season 6 of HGL, which is played during BB season 73:

Team name (manager name), day of announcement

1. Wagner College (Wagner), (May 4th,2025) ++
2. Les Gueux du Marais (Coach Faz), (May 4th,2025) ++
3. Elan Demars (demars) ++
4. Lielupes Melnās Sirdis (Monēta), (May 4th,2025) ++
5. Homegrown Kings (MrJ), (Feb 13th) ++
6. Madrid Chotis (Jotadoce), May 18th,2026
7. Vilniaus „Vilkai“ (kecal), May 18th,2026
8. WiMaOlCa (WiMaOl)
9. Club Trouville (Chucarro), (May 6th,2025) ++
10. Freccia Azzurra (ned)
11. Rajdersi (Paul George), May18th,2026
12. BC Rajaleidjad (Trailblazer), May 18th,2026
13. BC Eos (LennuK.), (Oct 24th,2025) ++
14. Virtus Portici (SventraCanestri), (June 13th,2025) ++
15. KK Stihija (Pihija), (Oct 24th,2025) ++
16. Vindicta (Jioshoo)
17. Hårdboll (Spela)
18. Alanurmon Rikkaat (M a k e)

++=Participates also to further Seasons (in addition to Season 6) = ""AC/Automatic Commitment" given earlier; contact me if you want to withdraw your AC.

Teams playing in HGL Season 5, who have confirmed they WILL NOT participate to Season 6 of HGL:
None.

Possible new team additions/new candidates for Season 6 of HGL:
(Teams, who might be interested in participating to Season 6 of HGL (which takes place during next BB season).

Svätý Jur Snakers (Hadár) (May 16th, 2026)
Tassie Devils (Tazdevil) (March 15th, 2026)

Other possibly interested teams (possibly joining HGL later but currently preferred starting season hasn't been announced):

1. BC Homegrown (Dutch Farmer), original interest announced April 15th, 2025 ((324689.730))
2. San Antonio Gladiators (Enigma), June 25th, 2025
3. Social Security Kings (IKnowZip), July 30th, 2025 *IEP;7*
4. London Rams (UK Andrius) (Feb 28th, 2026) *IEP;9*
5. San Fernando VR (VR75) (Feb 22nd, 2026) *IEP;1*

*IEP*=Ineligible player(s) on June 7th, 2026.


If you´re still not playing in HGL but wish to do so in the future, please let me know either by responding to this post or sending me a BBMail. When you do so, I'll add you to a list based on your preferred starting season.
However, this applies to current and new teams (currently not playing in HGL).
In other words, if you are already playing in HGL, please inform me of your interest to continue playing on next Season of HGL by the Regular Season Round 13 (June 8th, 2026), thank you.

Personally I'd like being able to guarantee a place for current teams playing in HGL for the next HGL Season as well, should they wish to continue playing, but we need to restrict the amount of accepted new teams (due to sensible league size restrictions).

When I think of it, if and as we have "too many" interested new teams wanting to join HGL (and simply couldn't accept all - currently 'soft cap' would be around 18 teams per Season, but that's still slightly under discussion; expect for now that it's not going to rise from there), we might need to simultaneously try to give some possibility for currently non-HGL teams to enter HGL if they prove to be better than worst team of HGL in that given Season.

In order to do that, then I think some kind of play-in type short league/playoffs structure (that'd take place during Season 5 HGL Playoffs), HGL Promotion League (HGL-PL) between these interested teams would be preferable in that case to determine participation rights for new teams (or in this case, an order in which teams would be offered a place on Season 6 should current HGL managers withdraw.

Last edited by Wagner at 6/6/2026 6:20:43 PM

League tables updated after RS Round 10.

Very interesting and partly also dramatic (big comebacks on 4th quarters, big scoring night especially in match between two French sides, etc.!) Round we had, and after this no teams remain undefeated as RAJ was able to beat until then undefeated KKS. KKS on the other hand still has everything in their own hands, but KKS-VIV (both now at 9-1) can prove to be very interesting and even decisive - should both teams (KKS+VIV) plus VPO win all of their other matches that are remaining and it seems that could be decisive match on RS victory - if VIV and VPO are tied, VPO wins; but if VPO and KKS are tied, KKS wins.

Having said that, some teams disagree it would be decisive one. And I've truly enjoyed the surprise elements and even matches this Season, and there are many very high quality teams breathing just behind the teams with only 1 loss currently (KKS, VPO, VIV).
Out of them LMS (8-2) and EOS (7-3) have highest budgets, while RAJ (8-2) and ED (6-4) have proven many times over that they can cause upsets against higher salary foes.
Also LGM's current record of 7W-3L is fantastic given their $271K salary (although it must be admitted that their schedule gets harder at the end - at least 5 of the remaining matches will be challenging in terms of finding a win, but almost anything is certainly possible and they have already proven that they can beat teams that have higher salary than theirs).

Last edited by Wagner at 5/29/2026 5:45:45 PM