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You can count Aleksijević as sold already, since offer was made for him and he's good as gone.

I'm not sure if we're supposed to report all transfers or only top 8, but I sold my draftee from this year also, Kosta Karić.

Added one new player trough draft, Milorad Georgijev.

Now I have 7 HOF potential players on roster, I really leared how to scout well :D

I noticed he has offer on him, but didn't state his name as previously we had problem on HGL Thread, as message was removed because that was considered by BB-Staff as "player advertising" as one manager reported of future sales when the player sale was still open.

Wow, that surely is quite admirable achievement with those HOF's... I'd also like to know what's your secret. :D

@ all HGL managers: All transfers need to be reported so that I can update top8-salaries and add sold, re-purchased and fired players to HGL transfers-post (and consider them more easily in seasonal Salary Benefit-post), thank you.:)

I had even more HOFers in past, that I sold.

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Had many MVPs too.

My draft tactic is this: first I spend 10 points on Group demonstration where every 1 and 2 stars players are scouted. Among them, there are usually 5 to 10 five star prospects. I scout them all (5 star prospects, to be clear), and then I just scout from the beginning and continue until the draft day, scouting every 5 star prospect twice. I always spend every point.

I invest 10 k weekly, so 3 scouting points per week.

I always put 5 star potential players at the top, no matter which other attributes they have, are they 18 or 19 YO, how tall they are etc. I manage to get HOFer or MVP potential players often that way.

Last edited by Pihija at 5/10/2026 2:59:32 PM

You also do Group demonstration? That's the best move you can do since you spend only 10 points and scout about 20 players.

In my opinion, MVP potential player is almost as valuable as HOF because it is rare for trainee to reach his full potential unless you are NT farm team.

I had even more HOFers in past, that I sold.

(50810780) (43624723) (50810805)

Had many MVPs too.

My draft tactic is this: first I spend 10 points on Group demonstration where every 1 and 2 stars players are scouted. Among them, there are usually 5 to 10 five star prospects. I scout them all (5 star prospects, to be clear), and then I just scout from the beginning and continue until the draft day, scouting every 5 star prospect twice. I always spend every point.

I invest 10 k weekly, so 3 scouting points per week.

I always put 5 star potential players at the top, no matter which other attributes they have, are they 18 or 19 YO, how tall they are etc. I manage to get HOFer or MVP potential players often that way.

Thank you for sharing this Pihija, I think it's great to get new perspective on ways to get maximum reward for as little (scouting points used) as possible. And what's also a relief in some sense, is that you'll be able to get those with such a modest invest in drafting points (10K instead of 20 or 40K) - again, probably very optimized move from you, based on your experience that works for you. :)

Can I ask that do you use all drafting points always, absolutely no matter what your drafting position is, and what kind of drafting positions you've usually had when being able to acquire such high potential players?

And do you (after Group Demonstration, and "2 point interviews" related to those 5-potential prospects) usually scout like all "grey 5 ball prospects", or also 4 and then ball prospects, if you have enough points (not that many 5-potential prospects among previously revealed players, so your seasonal points "last longer") left on that seasons' draft?

My problem on recent years has been lousy drafting positions, as I can't afford to being relegated. Playing on second highest level (in Finland) makes sure there are always active and knowledgeable managers around in your league (that have had worse league record on recent seasons, ensuring them better drafting position), so being able to draft at 8th or 12th (or somewhere around that range) doesn't often leave you any decent draftees to acquire.

Last edited by Wagner at 5/11/2026 11:33:35 AM

Season 5, RS Round 3:
Monday, May 11th, 2026
Wagner College vs. Madrid Chotis 89-102
(138830709)

Match against "debatedly" 3rd most efficient defense in HGL (Season 4 team stats: Opponents' effective FG shooting) after VPO and KKS, I knew to expect hard afternoon against my Spanish fellow HGL-manager, Jotadoce. Still after 3 RS matches having been unable to break 90 point mark even once is disappointing for sure, but of course I want to give credit to strong defenses I've faced so far.
My bigs, Kaleva and Arminen still had not "woken up" for this HGL Season 5, and continued their atrocious shooting performance, combining 5/28 (17,9%!) shooting from the field (and my teams' FG% was only 34,7%).
6 point game still 3:20 left in the game clock gave some hope to me, but M.Bagunyá's (probably Round 3 high) 22 rebounds on the other hand didn't, nor did the eventual 13 point loss to MAD. Win of the better defense and rebounds, I'd say.
So 0W-3L is the record after 3 RS Rounds, and opponent is not getting any easier as I'll face VIV next, so I might well be looking at grim 0-4 record on the Friday evening, to start the Season 5.

HGL 3. round, season 5:

Best collective performance of the evening

Point: 131 : Elan Demars
Defense: 63 : Virtus Portici
Tot. Rebound: 62 : WiMaOlCa
Off. Rebound: 19 : Club Trouville
Assist: 33 : KK Stihija, Elan Demars & Hårdboll
Steal: 10 : Rajdersi
Block: 14 : Virtus Portici

Personal best performances of the evening

Point: 39 : V. Skucs (Lielupes Melnās Sirdis)
Tot. Rebound: 24 : G. Frosini (Virtus Portici)
Off. Rebound: 9 : M. Bensala (WiMaOlCa)
Assist: 12 : M. Radomskis (Vilniaus „Vilkai“) & I. Ðurbuzović (KK Stihija)
Steal: 4 : A. Di Natale (Virtus Portici) & Ž. Naumović (KK Stihija)
Block: 7 : G. Frosini (Virtus Portici) & M. Kavazić (KK Stihija)

The shooter: J. Kunttunen (Wagner College), J. Tuulinen (Alanurmon Rikkaat) & V. Skucs (Lielupes Melnās Sirdis): 5 Three points scored

The best performer: M. Kavazić (KK Stihija): Rating: 18,5

Not many RS Rounds with some nailbiters, it seems, and this time proved to be no exception.

What a fine fought battles between VIV and LGM, and RAJ and VPO.

VIV vs. LGM 105-102:
LGM actually led by 1 before 4th quarter, but VIV won 4th by 4 and match by 3. How big part did it play, that LGM's starting PG N. Grévin was sent to shower already after spending 37 minutes on the hard floor? He was after all LGM's best rated (14.5) player with quite nice production (16p/5r/4a) as well, and like mentioned, VIV won 4th quarter by 4. LGM's substitution PG did play nice match in terms of match rating (13.5), but was on lower game shape (8vs.9) and has $12K lesser salary.
VIV's starting lineup playmaker (PG), M. Radomskis, did truly "deliver", as he dished 12 assists and sunk 20 points in this one.

VPO vs. RAJ 65-63:
More sweaty palms this afternoon for VPO fans, right after VPO's manager SventraCanestri had (re-?)confirmed his team being already in reconstruction stage (of some kind at least). RAJ actually led by 5, but lost 4th by 7, so undefeated VPO is still exactly that. RAJ was able to get as close to what KKS was able to do on Season 4 (in his meeting vs. VPO), while RAJ did fall more short in his Season 4 match against VPO. Where I'm trying to get here is that it's interesting to see how for instance KKS-VPO match will play out on Season 5, although now that KKS got rid of about $80K of weekly salary, that might slightly weaken their team temporarily.
Tight defense in this match as was expected, both teams scoring more or less at around 30% mark (FG%).
Maybe VPO's 6 more offensive (rebound) opportunities, 4 more blocks, quite optimal offensive strategy (drive to the basket vs. 3-2 zone and no predictions from RAJ) paved the way for VPO's win?
As for interesting player stats, RAJ's starting PF, P. Robaszkiewicz, had a terrible shooting night, 2 out of 20, but 17 rebounds make up for it partly.
While same could partly be said about VPO's starting PG, G. Frosini, he posted a very interesting stats line for PG:
2 points (FG: 0/8), 1 assist, 24 rebounds and 7 blocks!

Last edited by Wagner at 5/11/2026 12:21:16 PM

Can I ask that do you use all drafting points always, absolutely no matter what your drafting position is, and what kind of drafting positions you've usually had when being able to acquire such high potential players?

Yes, I always use all the points.

As for drafting position, here they are:

Benjamin Paša - 6th pick
Živojin Naumović - 3rd pick
Milorad Georgijev - 1st pick
Amar Dervišhalidović - 38th pick
Dinaid Bukva - 16th pick
Marin Pribanović - 15th pick
Miran Kavazić - 5th pick

So, the chances are better when I'm relegated from the first league, but I had succes even in league 2 :D

And do you (after Group Demonstration, and "2 point interviews" related to those 5-potential prospects) usually scout like all "grey 5 ball prospects", or also 4 and then ball prospects, if you have enough points (not that many 5-potential prospects among previously revealed players, so your seasonal points "last longer") left on that seasons' draft?

I go from the beggining and scout as many as I manage until draft. But from my experience, you may as well scout them on random, since usually your first scout's estimation is worth nothing at all.

My problem on recent years has been lousy drafting positions, as I can't afford to being relegated. Playing on second highest level (in Finland) makes sure there are always active and knowledgeable managers around in your league (that have had worse league record on recent seasons, ensuring them better drafting position), so being able to draft at 8th or 12th (or somewhere around that range) doesn't often leave you any decent draftees to acquire.

From my experience, users don't invest too much in the draft since they probably think it's worthless. In my current league, I invest 10 k/pw, and the average is 5 937, so I'm already in good position.

I just looked, and your league had 1 HOF potential player drafted last draft, and he went 32nd: (55694066), so there's always a good chance.

You had at least 3 MVP potential players chosen after your 1st pick.