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Just letting you know that at the beginning of the season I fired two of my drafted players, E. Karu (55930360) and V. Stavrov (55930365).

Ok, thanks for info GM-LennuK, I need to update this information to transfers-post whenever I have suitable chunk of time, and also add VPO's transfer (Resnati) to that transfer post.

Now I'll prioritize releasing your new salary and age etc. comparison tables.

Last edited by Wagner at 8/15/2026 5:11:40 AM

GM-LennuK has once again created and calculated us some salary and age stats that are current for Season 6, so with the permission of GM-LennuK I will publish them here on HGL Thread.

I'll possibly add formatting (bolded text) to these later, but I don't have time for it right now. I prioritized releasing them quickly anyway.

Please note that currently on Participating teams-posts on both HGL Threads salary and age numbers still refer to Season 5 values, so see these values by GM-LennuK in this and following posts if you currently want to see fresh data.

Here's the data created by GM-LennuK:


Team: Salary S5 -> Salary S6 (in 1000 $) | Salary change (%) | Age S5 -> Age S6 (y) | Age change (y)

Wagner College (WAG): 357 -> 346 | -3,1% | 30,4 -> 29,4 | -1,0
Les Gueux du Marais (LGM): 271 -> 310 | +14,4% | 30,1 -> 31,1 | +1,0
Elan Demars (ED): 372 -> 405 | +8,9% | 30,3 -> 31,3 | +1,0
BC Eos (EOS): 613 -> 684 | +11,6% | 24,3 -> 25,3 | +1,0
Vilniaus „Vilkai“ (VIV): 463 -> 527 | +13,8% | 27,3 -> 28,3 | +1,0
Madrid Chotis (MAD): 304 -> 341 | +12,2% | 27,6 -> 28,6 | +1,0
WiMaOlca (WMO): 357 -> 386 | +8,1% | 27,9 -> 28,9 | +1,0
Rajdersi (RAJ): 493 -> 540 | +9,5% | 28,5 -> 28,1 | -0,4
Freccia Azzurra (FRE): 173 -> 222 | +28,3% | 23,5 -> 24,1 | +0,6
San Fernando VR (SAN): 111 -> 135 | +21.6% | 25,3 -> 24,3 | -1,0
Lielupes Melnās Sirdis (LMS): 628 -> 698 | +11,1% | 25,0 -> 26,0 | +1,0
Alanurmon Rikkaat (ALA): 183 -> 186 | +1,6% | 24,9 -> 25,9 | +1,0
Virtus Portici (VPO): 418 -> 439 | +5,0% | 29,8 -> 30,8 | +1,0
KK Stihija (KKS): 626 -> 594 | -5,1% | 28,4 -> 25,9 | -2,5
M.L.S. REICH (MLS): 158 -> 185 | +17,1% | 26,9 -> 26,5 | -0,4
Vindicta (VDT): 276 -> 327 | +18,5% | 26,5 -> 25,4 | -1,1
Homegrown Kings (HGK): 208 -> 242 | +16,3% | 24,6 -> 23,8 | -0,8
BC Rajaleidjad (BCR): 412 -> 414 | +0,5% | 29,0 -> 29,3 | +0,3



Last edited by Wagner at 8/13/2026 5:38:22 AM

More stats created by GM-LennuK, with his explanations/clarifications of this table included
(Again, bolding text needs to wait for a bit further) :


"Here comes the overview of the salaries, as at the beginning of the last season. This time around no team completed any purchases of players that would've benefited their salary changes."

Team: Full salary (1000 $), (salary without transfers in S5), [overall salary without transfers]

Wagner College (WAG): 346, (346), [346]
Les Gueux du Marais (LGM): 310, (310), [310]
Elan Demars (ED): 405, (405), [405]
BC Eos (EOS): 684, (684), [513]
Vilniaus „Vilkai“ (VIV): 527, (527), [501]
Madrid Chotis (MAD): 341, (341), [341]
WiMaOlca (WMO): 386, (386), [386]
Rajdersi (RAJ): 540, (540), [540]
Freccia Azzurra (FRE): 222, (222), [222]
San Fernando VR (SAN): 135, (135), [135]
Lielupes Melnās Sirdis (LMS): 698, (698), [489]
Alanurmon Rikkaat (ALA): 186, (186), [186]
Virtus Portici (VPO): 439, (439), [117]
KK Stihija (KKS): 594, (594), [594]
M.L.S. REICH (MLS): 185, (185), [185]
Vindicta (VDT): 327, (327), [327]
Homegrown Kings (HGK): 242, (242), [179]
BC Rajaleidjad (BCR): 414, (414), [414]


"Just a refresher, the first salary (in bold text) is the actual salary of the top-8 players of the respective teams. The second salary (in round brackets) is the salary of top-8 players that were not purchased by the team during the previous season (here S5) or between the previous and the current season. As I mentioned above, for season 6 this salary is identical to the first salary for all teams. The third salary (in italic text and squared brackets) is the salary of top-8 players in each team that have never been transferred (sold and bought back) since they were drafted."

3rd statistics post of Season 6, created by GM-LennuK:


"Here come the top-5 categories as in the previous seasons:"

Top 5 teams of top-8 players’ salaries in Season 6:
1. LMS (698K)
2. EOS (684K)
3. KKS (594K)
4. RAJ (540K)
5. VIV (527K)

Top 5 of oldest teams (based on top-8 average ages) in Season 6:
1. ED (31,3 y)
2. LGM (31,1 y)
3. VPO (30,8 y)
4. WAG (29,4 y)
5. BCR (29,3 y)

Top 5 of youngest teams (based on top-8 average ages) in Season 6:
1. HGK (23,8 y)
2. FRE (24,1 y)
3. SAN (24,3 y)
4. EOS (25,3 y)
5. VDT (25,4 y)

Top 5 of teams that increased the top-8 players’ salary most between Season 5 and Season 6 in absolute salary:
1. EOS (71K/11,6%)
2. LMS (70K/11,1%)
3. VIV (64K/13,8%)
4. VDT (51K/18,5%)
5. FRE (49K/28,3%)

Top 5 of teams that increased the top-8 players’ salary most between Season 5 and Season 6 in relative salary:
1. FRE (28,3%/49K)
2. SAN (21,6%/24K)
3. VDT (18,5%/51K)
4. MLS (17,1%/27K)
5. HGK (16,3%/34K)

Top 5 of teams getting younger (or less old, based on top-8 average ages) between Season 5 and Season 6:
1. KKS (-2,5 y)
2. VDT (-1,1 y)
3./4. WAG & SAN (-1,0 y)
5. HGK (-0,8 y)


"As no top-8 transfers benefiting the salary were done, I did not distinguish some of these categories as last season by "including transfers" and "excluding trtansfers"."

And 4th (and final for now) statistics/comparison post for Season 6, created by GM-LennuK:


And finally here cone the updated power rankings for the new season:


Team "power/value" in S6:

1. EOS: 27,0 [K & per y]
2. LMS: 26,8
3. KKS: 22,9
4. RAJ: 19,2
5. VIV: 18,6
6. VPO: 14,3
7. BCR: 14,1
8. WMO: 13,4
9.ED: 12,9 (better in later decimals)
10. VDT: 12,9 (worse in later decimals)
11. MAD: 11,9
12. WAG: 11,8
13. HGK: 10,2
14. LGM: 10,0
15. FRE: 9,2
16. ALA: 7,2
17. MLS: 7,0
18. SAN: 5,6


Note/explanation (from previous Seasons) on "power/value"-comparison by LennuK.:

I tried to think of other interesting parameters other than just salary and age, which would be interesting to monitor over the seasons. So, I looked into the relationship between the ages and salaries directly [...]
So, I looked at the parameter of top-8 salary sum divided by the top-8 average age to get a general parameter or a “power” ranking showing the salary to age ratio (in 1000$ per year of the average age), which could probably even be termed “value” of the players on the roster of a specific team. This by no means determines the actual value of the players in the top-8 of different teams, but is interesting to look at, when considering that a high salary and a young age are associated with a player that is actually valuable; hence the higher the described ratio is, the higher the “value” of a player would/should be. If you think such information could be interesting too, here comes the list of the HGL teams in Season 3 in the order of more to less “valuable” players in the top-8 considering their salary to age ratio.

Last edited by Wagner at 8/13/2026 5:47:39 AM

Thank you, gentleman. Great stats. Interesting information as we start the new season!

Yes, GM-LennuK is (also) a gentleman, so we should thank him once again for doing this work.

Definitely interesting information, which unfortunately reveals that my team is ranked #17 out of 18 on relative salary development (which I've "warned" you guys of on many seasons ago, that it's about to happen).

(Also having team finances at -331K and having already been played my home game of the week doesn't really cheer me up either).

GM-MrJ wrote (on HGL Scores-thread):
@ Wagner.

One of my players became available so I repurchased him. It is unlikely you will see him in the HGL, but just thought I'd let you know.

Lachy Walshe (55339210) $7041 salary.

Thanks for info.
I need to update this to Season 6 transfer post, along with EOS and VPO transfers.

Last edited by Wagner at 8/15/2026 5:17:58 AM

As for HGL league table update after RS Round 2, I'll have to do it slightly later, as I don't have time to finish it now (calculating it and keeping records - not even stats - for each Round actually takes longer than one might think).

I have only one secret : Defense!
All my players are defenses, they have outside and inside defense.

A player's salary increase if one of the key skills for his position is very high (19 or plus).
,but if you build 5/6 defensive players, you have a great advantage.
This is only possible if you buy back players from the others team who have trained them in skills you can't currently train.

As Wagner says, next season the 32 defense will lose his effort.
I've been using the 131-man defense for 2-3 seasons now and hope it holds up.

Finally, I think it's best if I don't keep my roster, because it's not as strong as you'd expect.

Thank you for sharing it

I hope that you will find a way of keeping the core of your players and adding more talent. We need strong competition!