Rules

Summary of fines/winnings:

Reward 1: Winners trophy.
Reward 2: Last placed trophy.
Reward 3: Cup winners trophies.
Reward 4: Manager of the season trophy.
Fine 1: If one of your players leaves the English Premier league(leaves for any reason, transfer, loan or retirement) = £5 fine
Fine 2: If one of your players appears on the front page of The Mirror, The Daily Star or The Sun (or their respective Sunday papers) for any non-footballing reason = £5 fine
Fine 3: Promotion of youth: If your player receives their first cap for their country(any country), everyone else has £5 fine chosen by the competitor who holds the debutant. We hope this will encourage people to invest in youth.
Fine 4: If a player goes on strike, the other competitors can choose one of their fines to pass over to that holder of the striking player.
Fine 5: OBT goal of the season – The holder loses a £5 fine.
Fine 6: OBT player of the season – The holder loses a £5 fine.
Fine 7: If your player appears in the PFA team of the season – The holder loses a £5 fine.
Fine 8: The last player's chosen scorer to score a goal in the premier league. (Your scorer must be chosen by the time the first game kicks off. If not chosen - £5 fine) = Dirty half pint
Fine 9: If your chosen scorer scores an own goal £10 fine for each offence.
Fine 10: The Marc Vivian Foe clause – If one of your players dies everyone else must have a dirty pint
Fine 11: For every red card received by the manager/head coach of a club that a competitor has a player of= £5 fine.
Fine 12: The against the spirt of the game clause – Any event that causes a player to receive a ban/club suspension of 4 or more consecutive premier league games = £10 fine.
Fine 13: If you have a player who’s manager/head coach leaves for any reason = £5 fine
Fine 14: The failure to return the trophy (or significant damage as agreed by the other Competitors) with the new winner's name professionally engraved onto the trophy = dirty pint, £50 penalty paid by the offender to the holder and you must repair the trophy or replace with a bigger value trophy.
Fine 15: The Ben Wild Echo fine – Posting an article to the Whatsapp channel that has been already posted. Two instances of this within 30 days or posted within 2 minutes of a message = £5 fine.
Fine 16: Losing to a lower placed league team in the OBT Cup = £5 fine.
Fine 17: Any unused loans, supplementary draft or transfer window transfers = Competitor loses a £5 fine.
Fine 18:Setting a new lowest gameweek record = Competitor gains a £5 fine.
Fine 19:Goals of the season with zero votes = Competitor gains a £10 fine.
Fine 20:Time limit to respond to Doodles and votes. £5 if no response with 72 hours, then another £5 for every 24 hours late.
Fine 21:All badges created and sent to the Admin before the Supplementary draft = Competitor gains a £5 fine if late, increase by £5 for every gameweek missed.

Competition Clauses

All: Where a fine of £5 or £10 fine is mentioned, these must be paid before the following year's draft and will be used as kitty money.
All: Where a dirty pint is mentioned, it consists of 5 shots (chosen by the other competitors), some cider and a mystery non-alcoholic mixer. (the mixer is to be chosen by the 2 competitors who did not choose a shot.)

Fine 1: You cannot replace the departed player until the next draft window. The replacement will count as 1 of your allotted transfers (you do not get an additional one).

Fine 2:If you get a hat-trick on a day then you get no fines for that day. Subsequent appearances (for same story or other) will count.

Fine 3: Must be for full international (not under 21 etc).

Fine 4: A player is on strike if he, his manager or chairman claim this is the case (with no evidence to the contrary). The strike is only confirmed if the player is not part of the next league matchday squad, i.e. either in the first 11 or on the bench as a substitute. Only league matches count.

Fine 5/6: Each Competitor must select a goal/player from one of their players for selection. All 8 Competitors will then vote on the best goal/player after the season has finished.

Fine 8: Must be in a Barclays premiership match. Must be chosen before the first match or receive £5 fine penalty - £5 penalty for each week unnamed

Fine 11: For example, if Pardew gets sent off, you pay £5 for every newcastle player you have.

Fine 12: Covers players and backroom staff. Only applies to events not already covered by these fines. There is a 14 day window for appeals to be heared and concluded. Failing that the allegations are treated as fact.

Fine 13: You pay a £5 penalty for each player you have whose manager/head coach leaves for any reason. If appointed just to end of the season, this is excluded from this fine.

Fine 14: If multiple Competitor fail to return the trophy, draft order for these players dictated by league positions (i.e. the League position of the previous season will decide who is last, second to last, third to last pick). If you cause significant damage ( as agreed by other competitors) then dirty pint and must fix.

Fine 15: Any echo is punished by an immediate £5 fine, if it is posted 2 minutes or more after the original post. Disputes will be settled by screenshots showing timestamps, sent to a neutral third party of the Commish's choosing (or of the admin's choosing if the Commish is accused).

Fine 18:Must be new, tieing does not activate fine.

Fine 20:Valid excuses (as agreed by the Group) will be accepted and avoid the fine.

League rules
Entry fee: £20 per person to be paid in advance of the draft. Once deducting trophy money, remaining balance to be used as kitty for end of season awards/fines.

The League
- We will use the following website scoring system [scoring section]:
https://fantasy.premierleague.com/rules/
- We must each pick
o 1 Goalkeeper
o 4 Defenders
o 4 Midfielders
o 2 Strikers
From the list available on The League website
- The winner is the Competitor with the most points at the end of Game Week 38. The loser is the Competitor with the least amount of points.
- In the event of 2 or more Competitors finishing on the same points, the Competitor who had the lowest draft order (in the original draft) is placed higher (e.g. Competitor A and Competitor B finish on the same points. As Competitor A picked before Competitor B in the original draft they would finish below Competitor B).
- The winner of the League receives 75% of the remaining entrance fee after purchasing the trophies.
- The last placed competitor receives 25% of the remaining entrance fee.

The Draft
- The draft cannot be held on a date before the player list is available.
- The draft order will be the reverse order of the previous year’s league positions (i.e. 1st is last, last is first).
- The draft order will dictate the order that each person chooses a player. Each competitor may pick any player from any club or position providing no one else has selected them and they have an available slot in their 1-4-4-2 team list.

Loans
A pool of players are selected from which any competitor can select a player from with the following conditions:
- The player being temporarily replaced doesn't play for 3 consecutive premier league games
- Only injuries or not being picked counts. i.e. suspensions don't count towards the 3 game count and being fit but being an unused substitute does.
- Can't cancel once started.
- Players can re-use the same player - albeit not at the same time
- Additions to the pool can only be done if a player leaves the english premier league. Additions to be made during supplementary draft/transfer window.
- Loan pool is drafted after the supplementary window and then completely re-drafted after the transfer window. If you have no loans left you are ineligible from picking players. The remaining loan pool is picked in order of loan drafters.
- Each player has 3 loans available over the course of the season. Each loan lasts 6 weeks.
- Loans can be applied for after the points from the final game(s) for a gameweek have been confirmed. Applications must be made before midnight 2 days before a gameday (e.g. if a gameweek starts on Saturday, the application must be made before Thursday Midnight UK time).
- 24 hours before the first game of each gameweek, those competitors that have made a loan application will have the option of taking up a loan. Competitors choose a player from the loan pool in turn following a reverse league table order.

Supplementary draft
- At a designated date in September each person has the ability to transfer out one of their players for another.
- The selection order of this supplementary draft is dictated by the reverse order of the league at the time of the draft (i.e. the Competitor who is last in the league has the first pick in the supplementary draft).
- The supplementary draft transfers will be active for all subsequent matches after the designated draft date.

Transfer window
- The transfer draft will take place in early February.
- Each person will have the ability to replace 2 of their players.
- The order of the Transfer draft is the reverse order of the league position at the time of the draft.

Misc.
- Each Competitor must have at least one of their players in the All Star game. They must be part of the selected eleven players.
- Competitors who took part in the OBT Cup qualification are excluded from the following year's qualification.

General matters
- Data is extracted from the Fantasy Premierleague website. We will accept that this data is correct.
- During the draft/supplementary draft/transfer window if your connection goes down you can submit your choice through the WhatsApp channel and it will be accepted providing the time has not expired.
- New fines can be proposed and existing fines/rules amended mid season providing they receive majority backing from the Competitors. The fines cannot be retrospective.
- Fines to be consumed on one designated day and in the presence of at least 2/3rds of the Competitors. (likely to be the draft for next season)
By taking part in the competition you are accepting these fines.