RS Round 8: Friday, August 8th, 2025 ED 88-87 KKS (135191600)
Extraordinary game !
KKS is one of the best team (2 players for 300k of salary), my best player was out, so i sent a "Aleluja Team" with Princeton offense. This old strategy of mine, was used when I was thinking I was about to lose, but I wanted to minimize the gap.
The boxscore shows that KKS is everywhere better than my team, except for the 3 pointers, which I nearly never use, cos my team has not good outside shooters for a long time.
But I won ! By a 3 pointer at the very last second, a real BuzzerBeater :D
Wow, what an impressive win against one of top3 HGL teams, and while you have a strong team yourself, it's surely one of biggest surprises of HGL history so far (to me at least) especially considering your best player was out!
Sometimes this "Aleluja"-strategy that you mentioned works, and I've often used it myself with that similar mindset/situation.
Having said that, I´m of course neutral manager in this position, but as you all know (who have been reading my posts), for me underdog surprises are the thing in sports (and in BB) that gets me excited and that's why I often times tend to report/make note especially on surprising results (if they occur).
And while best teams in (say, Top8-)player salaries in most times get the win (especially if many enough matches are played), this win by ED serves as a prime example on why I think it´s so essential to keep the HGL Playoff format as a single elimination tournament, so that underdog surprises remain more likely.
I mean as we saw already, on Season 1 HGL Playoffs match favorites (higher ranked teams in a matchup) were very strong in their matches (and of course having a home court advantage helps, but that´s something to reward them for their Regular Season success) so I think they definitely don't need any extra help in form of a long(er) Playoff series, such as best of 3 or best of 5-format. If single elimination tournament is good enough for NCAA, it's good enough for HGL as well. ;)
Last edited by Wagner at 8/9/2025 6:02:08 AM