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Hi all.
I didn't deserve it, but I got promoted to the spanish 3rd division for the first time.
I lost to the winner in the semi finals, 134-136, but I got promoted I don't know why.
By the way, my team was the best with only one loss durng the whole season.
I got a good team, quality players in all the positions on the court, we'll see if I can stay int this division, my real chances.
Also received without paying attention to the draft a nice prospect, 18 year old. Maybe I'll train him.

Good luck all, greetings from Gran Canaria, Spain.

It's been a while since writing to this thread, which has been important thread to many of us HG managers in many respects, for a long time.

It's the one forum thread that we used to flood with HGL (used to be called 'BBHG' on the working table) discussion, before establishing the Official HGL Threads.

Speaking of which, we're now playing HGL Season 5, and due to all current managers having already confirmed their participation to Season 6 as well, it's unlikely we'd be able to expand from 18 teams at least as for now.

However, as we've experienced many times, there can be surprising last minute withdrawals (or lack of communication, which forces us to replace the manager in question), or even some crucial penalties that would cause team being ineligible during the next HGL Season.


Therefore I've now created a HGL-PL (HGL Promotion/Participation League). I'll copy-paste below what has already been published on Home-Grown League (HGL) Season 5 Official Thread, so that all others who still haven't informed of their interest on playing in HGL in the future (teams that are not on this list here: (331392.83) can check it out and consider if they'd also feel like participating to HGL-PL, which starts really soon and is an all-manual, Pickup (PU) match based short league:


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@all current and especially potential future HGL managers, read through carefully:

I established posts for HGL-PL (HGL-Promotion/Participation League), here:
(331392.19),
(331392.20), and
(331392.21).

I also sent BBMails to all currently HGL eligible (or nearly eligible; San Fernando VR) teams on this post that I now replied into (which is teams interested in HGL participation-post).

In other words, contacted teams were:
BC Homegrown
San Antonio Gladiators
Svätý Jur Snakers
Tassie Devils
San Fernando VR.

I gave them 10 days to respond whether they want to participate to HGL-PL, and like everybody can see, that's the first and foremost way of being selected to the HGL should new places open for one reason or another.



The BBMail I sent will be copied below, so that basically everyone (also all non-HGL managers, that have not yet informed of their interest towards HGL) will see it, and can react to it, should they be interested in possibly being able to join HGL on Season 6 and/or 7 (mostly for Season 6 at least, only if there would be surprising withdrawals or penalties that will cause current teams to become ineligible for S6).



Here's the BBMail I wrote to all interested managers, and everyone new to HGL whose team will be 100% HG (Home-Grown) during the whole duration of HGL-PL can also join HGL-PL, if they fulfill as well all the other requirements mentioned in above 3 links:

Hi,
I'm HGL (Home-Grown League) Commissioner.
I now contacted all eligible teams who've shown interest in participating to HGL in future.

All current 18 HGL teams have confirmed they want to participate on HGL Season 6 (it'll take place on BB season 73).
Therefore maximum limit of teams will very likely remain at 18 teams on HGL Season 6, so likely no direct/open route to Season 6 will be available through HGL-Promotion/Participation League success unless some manager(s) withdraw from HGL.

We'll anyway play round robin-type of league/playoffs/combination of both (TBD) between non-HGL teams.
If someone withdraws from HGL, places in HGL for next Season(s?) would be offered to teams based on their success in recent HGL-PL (and results might be used for possible Season 7 offers too).

Please let me know in 10 days if you want to participate to HGL-PL; please only participate if you'd be willing to participate to actual HGL Season 6 and/or 7.

More info:(331392.19)&2 following posts.

Last edited by Wagner at 6/9/2026 4:28:32 PM

Please, don't count on me.

Please, don't count on me.

I see. I sent you BBMail about it, so let's discuss it there a bit further, if you have time.

As for an update on HGL-PL situation that I recently wrote a post about, currently only 1 team (Tassie Devils) has announced their interest to participate to first ever HGL-PL (played during this BB season).

I'm also waiting for final participation confirmation from another manager.

Despite what I said earlier, while this is still totally unsure (as I have not been able to contact one of our current HGL managers), situation has likely changed into the direction, that we might have 1 place open on HGL Season 6 due to manager withdrawal. As I mentioned, this is still not confirmed though, so don't take this as a promise - just an info about possibly/likely changed situation already beforehand.



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So this is a second reminder for all managers, who plan to have totally Home-Grown team during whole next Buzzerbeater season, that please inform me now, if you are interested in participating to HGL-PL (which means you'd be interested in participating to HGL Season 6, played during next BB season).
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Places to HGL, for currently non-HGL teams, will be dealt based with their success in most recent HGL-PL.

As another remiinder, HGL-PL is a short league, which is:
A) free to participate, and will only cost you a token or few, and
B) is likely played with round robin format, meaning that everybody will face every team once in neutral court (if round robin is chosen as format - playoffs court balance is still undecided, should playoff-format be chosen), and
C) it is required that your team is already fully HG team during your participation to HGL-PL.

Last edited by Wagner at 6/17/2026 6:37:39 AM

@ all currently Home-grown teams that are not yet playing in HGL, but are interested in participating to next HGL Season:

This is (more or less) a final call on HGL-PL (HGL Promotion/Participation League) participation!

HGL is, if someone is still unaware of it, a Pickup match based league, in where we all organize Regular Season matches manually before each Season starts based on schedule provided by HGL.
HGL main Thread for HGL Season 5: (331392.1)
HGL Scores Thread for HGL Season 5: (331391.1)

Teams that are "on the queue/waiting list" to HGL, are first and foremost being offered a place to HGL based on their success in most recent HGL-PL.

HGL-PL doesn't "eat up" too many tokens from your team either (likely 1-3), as it seems not too many teams are participating to first ever HGL-PL.

Why I am "repeating" my earlier post about announcing your HGL/HGL-PL interest, is because it seems likely we actually have at least one place open to HGL Season 6 (played during next BB season), as probably we are going to have to dismiss one current HGL team from our current roster of 18 teams.

So please let me know by sending me BBMail as soon as possible, if you want to participate first to HGL-PL (which is starting soon - please be prepared for that!), and then of course to HGL as well.

The formerly announced deadline (for informing about your interest to participate to HGL.PL) has already passed, but I'm still keeping it open for now.

It will not likely be communicated here on this forum Thread though when "HGL-PL participation announcement-time window" will be actually closed, so if you're interested, let me know before it's too late, as it can close any day/week now.

Currently 4 teams (team, manager, team abbreviation and link, top8-salary) have announced their interest to participate to first ever HGL-PL:
Tassie Devils: (38697) (Top8-salaries $174K)
San Fernando VR: (77070) (Top8-salaries $111K without HGL-ineligible player)

- Tassie Devils (Tazdevil); TD (38697) (Top8-salaries $174K)
- San Fernando VR (VR75); SAN (77070) (Top8-salaries $111K without HGL-ineligible player)
- borteam (bort); BOR (46607) (Top8-salaries $108K)
- M.L.S. REICH (impero); MLS (39615) (Top8-salaries $157K)

Note, that you have to have 100% Home-Grown roster when HGL-PL starts, otherwise you can't participate in it.
San Fernando VR has promised to sell/fire their HGL-PL ineligible player, Bolourchian, before HGL-PL starts.

As you can see, there's still plenty of room in HGL-PL for new teams, so please let me know ASAP if you would like to participate in it! There are also no "monster teams" (say, +$500K top8-salaries) this time around, so all "mid-class" home-grown teams might well have a good chance to win the first ever HGL-PL.

Last edited by Wagner at 7/11/2026 8:31:16 AM

Wagner wrote:
@ all currently Home-grown teams that are not yet playing in HGL, but are interested in participating to next HGL Season:

This is (more or less) a final call on HGL-PL (HGL Promotion/Participation League) participation!

[....]

It will not likely be communicated here on this forum Thread though when "HGL-PL participation announcement-time window" will be actually closed, so if you're interested, let me know before it's too late, as it can close any day/week now.

Currently 4 teams (team, manager, team abbreviation and link, top8-salary) have announced their interest to participate to first ever HGL-PL:

- Tassie Devils (Tazdevil); TD (38697) (Top8-salaries $174K)
- San Fernando VR (VR75); SAN (77070) (Top8-salaries $111K without HGL-ineligible player)
- borteam (bort); BOR (46607) (Top8-salaries $108K)
- M.L.S. REICH (impero); MLS (39615) (Top8-salaries $157K)

Note, that you have to have 100% Home-Grown roster when HGL-PL starts, otherwise you can't participate in it.
San Fernando VR has promised to sell/fire their HGL-PL ineligible player, Bolourchian, before HGL-PL starts.

As you can see, there's still plenty of room in HGL-PL for new teams, so please let me know ASAP if you would like to participate in it! There are also no "monster teams" (say, +$500K top8-salaries) this time around, so all "mid-class" home-grown teams might well have a good chance to win the first ever HGL-PL.

@all Home-Grown (HG) managers, that have possible interest towards Home-Grown League (HGL):

HGL-PL interest announcing-window for all teams have now been closed, and Pickup match organizing window/process for first ever HGL-PL (played between July 20th and July 26th, 2026) has been now opened.

Teams are free and welcome to inform me of their interest to play in HGL (and in HGL-PL) in future.
If more interested teams will be present on next BB season, we will play another HGL-PL on HGL Season 6 (BB season 73).

As a repeat/reminder, you can find more information about HGL-PL from
here: (331392.19),
here: (331392.20), and
schedule/league table from here: (331392.21).

So if you're interested in participating HGL and HGL-PL in future, please don't hesitate to contact me either by BBMail or by sending a message on Official HGL Thread of a given Season, currently on Season 5 Thread, here: (331392.1)



Last edited by Wagner at 7/12/2026 7:52:40 AM