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TBA #18
(On Season 5, used for reminding managers on actions still required for Season 5 to start on time - this post reserved for Season 6 same or for other use)

HGL-PL (HGL-Promotion/Participation League) info for Season 6 of HGL:

On HGL Season 6, we will play a HGL-PL "short league", for teams that:
A) are not currently playing in HGL, but would wish to do so on either HGL Season 7 or 8 (played during BB seasons 74 and 75), and
B) are willing to remain completely homegrown teams throughout the whole duration of HGL-PL (see *1 below), and
C) are willing to organize HGL-PL Pickup (PU) matches based on official schedule that HGL will provide. This does require usage of tokens, and basic understanding on how this PU match process works. It will also require communication with HGL Commissioner (myself), to get possible problems sorted out quickly.

*1= on this Season 6 you are able to trade after HGL-PL has ended completely, as long as your team becomes HGL eligible before you might start in HGL (after possibly receiving invitation based on your success in HGL-PL).
This is due to the current facts:
- it's unsure if there's a place to HGL Season 6 available through this Seasons' HGL-PL, so it's probably decent to let managers become non-HG while waiting (especially worst teams of HGL-PL likely not receiving invitation for HGL for the next Season).
- we are still somewhat undecided on whether this HGL-PL ranking will also be used to determine which teams are being offered a place in HGL for Season 8 as well (in the case if managers would withdraw from the HGL voluntarily, or if HGL will adopt a relegation/promotion scenario; voting about that is under way), if no new teams announce their interest to participate to Season 8 after this Seasons' HGL-PL has started; or whether result of this first HGL-PL should be used only for ranking teams in an order in which they would be offered a place to HGL should some managers withdraw their participation commitment for Season 7.

Please also note:
A) you should only participate to HGL-PL, if you are actually intending to accept place in HGL for either Season 7 (in the first place) or on Season 8; it's not meant to be just 'a league to play few fun PU games without any purpose', and

B) it is not guaranteed, that this result would be used on next Season (8) selection/offering process, so if you're extremely low on tokens, you might want to consider if it's worth participating now.

Having said that, I want to emphasize, that teams are offered a place in HGL based on success of most recent HGL-PL.
Please take that into consideration.

Let me give you an example:

We'll play HGL-PL now on Season 6.
Result of it is guaranteed to be used at least for Season 7 replacement processes (team withdrawals with short notice but only before Season 7 starts).
It might also be used for Season 8's similar process; depends if there are new interested teams or not.

Let's take example teams that have and have not participated to this HGL-PL.

Imaginary teams that have participated to HGL-PL, and results:
Winner of HGL-PL: Team A $400K
2nd: Team B $460K
3rd: Team C $80K
4th: Team D $120K

Imaginary teams that have not participated to HGL-PL, but would theoretically be interested in HGL Season 7:
Most expensive top8-salary, Team E $800K
2nd most expensive top8-salary, Team F $600K.

Now to get to the point in this example, remember, that teams are offered "a cancellation/withdrawal" places to HGL based on success in most recent HGL-PL being played.
Therefore, if for example 3 teams would be for any reason withdrawing (or making an action causing a penalty that would make their team HGL-ineligible for the next Season), teams would be offered a place in order of A, B and then C.

Note, that teams having not participated to HGL-PL, with salaries of $800K and $600K, would be only 5th and 6th in order on this "invitation list" as they would have not participated to HGL-PL at all in that occasion.
I hope this explanation and example clears the idea behind HGL-PL.
See next post

Last edited by Wagner at 8/29/2026 7:06:55 AM

HGL-PL (HGL-Promotion/Participation League) info post 2/2 for Season 6 of HGL:

On this Season 6, HGL-PL is played either with round robin format (meaning every team faces each other once), playoff-format (single-elimination style matches), or combination of both, or with another format. I think round robin would be best format, especially unless there are very big number of participating teams, and/or if one participating team is miles apart from their competition. This is due to the fact that would provide most fair solution to all and also clear and easily defineable ranking order of teams.

((So to compile; in further Seasons, it's possible to use either round robin-format, playoff-format (one match to decide winner at each stage), or a mix of both (depending on number of teams willing to participate)).

The points that would speak in behalf of combining both systems in further Seasons, (first playoff among weakest teams, to see which team(s) will get access to actual HGL-PL round robin, etc.) are that we could keep the games as meaningful/as even as possible (and avoid most of those 65 point blowouts), and also if there would be plenty of teams, the token usage for round robin-format HGL-PL could become an issue to some)).

Situations in which we could use "a mixed league format" for HGL-PL could be for example if there is one team that is so much better than all else, so that other teams could play either round robin or preferably playoffs-matches against each other, and then this one clearly most expensive team would face them in a single playoff-match, to decide ranks 1 and 2 of HGL-PL on that Season.
However, this would make it harder to create ORSR (Official Regular Season Rankings) for HGL-PL than playing round robin, so in that sense round robin would also be preferable.

Ranking similar to Official Regular Season Rankings (ORSR) used in HGL will be created after the HGL-PL has finished, and the result of most recently played HGL-PL is used when inviting teams to further Seasons of HGL, in the case (now or then) current HGL team:
- decides to withdraw voluntarily
- causes a penalty through their actions (or being inactive/non-communicative in important matters especially during critical times of the Season) that will cause them to lose their place in HGL for the next Season.

Note though, that replacements won't be done in a middle of any given Season (after first Regular Season match of HGL has been played on each Season).

See next post for HGL-PL (that is played during HGL Season 6)
- participating teams,
- schedule, and
- league table.

Last edited by Wagner at 8/29/2026 7:17:08 AM

TBA #21
((HGL-PL (HGL-Promotion/Participation League)
Schedule and League Table post for Season 6 of HGL))

Season 6 HGL-PL interested participants:

1. Agliana Angels (Italy, manager lollo32). Top8-salaries approximately $275K.
2. Svätý Jur Snakers (Slovakia, manager Hadár). Top8-salaries:
3. Torrelles Corsaris (Spain, manager Brucehum). Top8-salaries:


@all HG managers, or someone who is willing to make their team HG:
Please send me BBMail or contact us on HGL Threads, if you are interested in participating to HGL-PL on Season 6 (played during BB season 73.

If you want to learn more about HGL-PL schedule for now, take a look at Season 5 post here: (331392.21)

Last edited by Wagner at 9/14/2026 5:50:04 AM

TBA #22
(You need to create an own HGL-PL box score post for Season 6 for your team, by responding to this message/post)

TBA #23
(On Season 5 used as a reminder post for HGL teams; for Season 6 this post will be reserved for same, or alternatively for HGL-PL use)

Schedules and my box score post have now been published on HGL Scores Season 6 Official Thread.

Please create an own box score post for your team, by responding to this post: (332268.22).

Like normally, you edit it as needed, and add match links to it when matches have been created by you and your opponents.
Again, if you have # in front of your team name in schedule posts (17 Rounds of matches), it's your responsibility to send the correct Pickup match challenge.

As usual, some essential instructional posts and posts including team links and official match times can be found already (links below), even though Season 6 Threads are still under construction:

What everyone who participates to Season 6 of HGL needs to do now-post: (332268.19).

Announcement 29.7.2026: We're ready to organize all Regular Season matches for HGL Season 6-post: (332268.2).

Links to participating teams-pages for easy match challenging, and official HGL match times for each team: (332268.18).

I have now sent a match offer/request to all of you, and this is the correct match time for HGL Season 6.
Send and accept Pickup matches only at this same time you see our match (vs. Wagner College) match taking place.

Everybody playing on HGL Season 6, please proceed to match organizing process immediately, as we have only 12 days until Season 6 starts.

If you have questions, please send me BBMail or ask them on HGL Threads.

Hi everyone, I tried to send invitations through my phone, yet every single one got wrong. I strongly suspect there's some bug involved, for the mistake is consistent: 14.30 (Italy's, where I'm now, time) turns into 16:30. I may try once again, yet I strongly ask everyone to check my invitations twice.

kecal

The craziest thing, I was double checking for my invitations to be 14:30 Italy time, then they somehow turned out as 16:30, and now I see them as 14:30, once again. Travelling across time zones seems to be a complete mess!

The craziest thing, I was double checking for my invitations to be 14:30 Italy time, then they somehow turned out as 16:30, and now I see them as 14:30, once again. Travelling across time zones seems to be a complete mess!

These kind of problems with manager in question traveling out of their teams' own time zone have actually been reported by other managers as well earlier. We had some speculation earlier with some of the managers why this might happen, but I can't recall what was the "most probable cause" that we ended up with - for now it's safe to just simply agree with what you said; it's unfortunately a complete mess when you happen to travel.

It's good that you sent everyone heads up though, that your match offers might be wrong.

However, I suspect some might not read that and just accept offers as they think "it must be correct time as he sent the offer to me" (which of course is not the right procedure from a team accepting the challenge, like everyone should already know).

Like MrJ also asked, is it possible to delay sending/accepting your match offers ever so slightly, so that you would've already had time to return to your home country by then? Of course you are not forced to respond to such private kind of question, but that was also the most surefire solution I could come up with with such a short notice.

Last edited by Wagner at 8/1/2026 10:04:58 AM