FANTASY RULES

Your XI

Eleven players, no bench, one goalkeeper, from a fixed set of formations. You have 1000 to spend and every player costs their salary. A player can only be picked once in a week.

Deadlines are per player, not per week

There is no single weekly deadline. Each player locks five minutes before his own game kicks off. So you can keep editing the rest of your team long after your early-game players are frozen. Two managers holding the same player can even have different deadlines for him, if they picked him for different games.

When a club plays twice in one week

Some weeks a club plays two games. Those players carry a 2 in the player list.

• When you add one, you choose which game he plays for. Each game has its own projection: a different opponent, and often different expected minutes.
• He scores in that game only. If he plays the other one too, it earns you nothing.
• You can only have him once. Picking him for the first game does not let you also pick him for the second.
• You can change your mind with CHANGE GAME, up until five minutes before the first of his two games kicks off.
• If you don't choose, for example when your team carries over from last week, he is picked for his first game. You can still switch with CHANGE GAME until five minutes before it kicks off.
• Treat the two games as two different players. What he does in the game you did not pick has no bearing on you at all.

Once his game has finished

When the game you picked him for ends, he is done: he keeps his points and stays in your team for the rest of the week. He cannot be sold, moved to another slot, or re-picked for his club's other game. Done players show in purple; players whose game is merely under way show in grey and unfreeze for nobody until it is over.

When a club has no game

If a club is not playing that week, its players cannot be picked.

If a game is postponed or called off

• Called off before your player locks: the pick is released. Swap him out as normal, or move him to his club's other game if it is still on.
• Called off after he locks: that slot is freed anyway. You get back the one choice you had already spent, but the replacement has to be someone whose own game has not kicked off yet.
• If nothing eligible fits your budget and position, the slot scores zero. There is no compensation.

If a game is abandoned part-way through

Whatever your player had scored when it was called off, he keeps, and the pick is done. We do not void it and re-score it later: the replay is usually weeks away, and a result that changes after you have seen where you finished is worse than an odd-looking score you can understand at the time. When the game is eventually replayed it belongs to whichever week it lands in, and scores normally.