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@ all HGL managers:
Last Regular Season Round has now been played, and Official Regular Season Rankings (ORSR) have now been cemented for the Season 3 Playoffs.

I have corrected league tables (on both Scores and Main threads) to reflect correct standings between teams.

Actual ORSR table is found from the Season 3 Playoff post, here: (328547.7).

Please note, that now it's time for teams that ranked from 5th to 12th to start organizing Playoff matches; please do that as soon as possible, because First Round of Playoffs is played already on this Sunday, 14th of December!

Official match time will be your local equivalent of 3.30PM EET (which is the same time that you see your HGL matches being played this Season when you take a look at your Buzzerbeater schedule).


It's also important to remember, that:

A) All matches are played either on home or away court, so no neutral court matches in Playoffs!

B) home team (higher ranked team) is responsible for sending PU match challenge, and lower ranked team is responsible for accepting challenge with correct match details
Match details means that match day, time and court balance are appropriate, which in this case means that better ranked team will play on their home court; if these match details are not correct, do not accept match challenge, but instead contact manager in question (and me if it seems necessary/preferred by you) by BBMail, and we'll solve the situation together.

C) Please keep on adding your Playoff match links as soon as match has been organized (so that I can verify it and copy-paste it to official HGL schedule), and scores of matches to your team's own Season box score post.


So let's get started with this match organizing process for HGL Season 3 First Round of Playoffs,
here is the schedule (home team name is in bold text):

Rank #5 ED vs. #12 SUM *Waiting for a match link!*

Rank #6 HB vs. #11 WAG *Waiting for a match link!*

Rank #7 WMO vs. #10 LGM *Waiting for a match link!*

Rank #8 LMS vs. #9 VIV *Waiting for a match link!*

Interesting Playoffs ahead on Season 3 for sure!

As an additional motivation and challenge (in this case especially to all underdogs, including myself!) I'd like to mention, that so far in 2 seasons we've played 24 Playoff contests, and only in 1 (!) occasion away teams have been able to break the home court magic (Rajdersi beat Hårdboll on Season 2 Bronze match on away court)!

So it'll be interesting to see, if this Season in HGL continues the home court trend, or if more than one of us underdogs are able to cause an upset to home fans!
(Maybe some of us underdogs just need to take a part of next years´ team budget and rent, say, 20-30 buses or rent few charter aircrafts, fill them with our away team fans and make them make some noise on away court, yes)? ;)


So here's a further breakdown on wins on different Playoff Rounds (to compare home/away team success on each Round of Playoffs) on different Seasons:

First Round point differences in HGL Playoffs from the view point of a higher ranked team=home team
(number of upsets in this Playoff Round/average home team win in points in all Rounds´matches):

Season 1: 17, 29, 13, 11 (0 upsets/average home team win: 17,5 points)
Season 2: 16, 14, 31, 14 (0/18,75p)


Second Round (quarter-finals) point differences in HGL Playoffs from the view point of a higher ranked team=home team
(number of upsets in this Playoff Round/average home team win in points in all Rounds´matches):

Season 1: 20, 36, 16, 3 (0 upsets/18,75 points)
Season 2: 36, 31, 13, 19 (0/24,75p)


Third Round (semi-finals) point differences in HGL Playoffs from the view point of a higher ranked team=home team
(number of upsets in this Playoff Round/average home team win in points in all Rounds´matches):

Season 1: 18, 26 (0 upsets/22 points)
Season 2: 15, 35 (0/25p)


Fourth Round (Medal games) point differences in HGL Playoffs from the view point of a higher ranked team=home team
(number of upsets in this Playoff Round/average home team win in points in all Rounds´matches):

Season 1: 6, 12 (0 upsets/9 points)
Season 2: 15, -12 (1 upset/1,5 points)


As we can see from that compilation, it's been a rocky road for away teams for sure!

In these 2 Seasons, 1 upset win only and in the case of matches in where higher ranked teams have won, only in 2 occassions in 24 Playoff match attempts (which equals to 8,3% of matches), away teams have been able to lose by less than 11 points (Elan Demars by 3 in Season 1 semis´, and Santa Eufemia Ducks by 6 in Season 1 Bronze match), so I feel like for away teams there's still lots of room to improve on that.

Anyway, good luck for everybody on First Round Playoff matches, and let's get them organized as soon as possible (and don't forget to provide match link as well when you have organized it)!

Last edited by Wagner at 12/9/2025 6:33:12 AM