How to play

Every gameweek you rank 5 players in the order you want them. That's your whole entry — you never pick one directly.

Nobody sees anyone else's list until the deadline, and you can reorder yours as often as you like until then.

Lists open 24 hours before the first match of the gameweek and lock 1 hour before kick-off.

There are no turns and no timers. Everyone is settled at the same moment.

At the deadline the league is resolved in priority order — whoever has the fewest points goes first, so trailing players get first refusal. Gameweek 1 is random.

Going down that order, you get the highest name on your list that nobody above you has taken.

You can never be left with nothing. With five members ranking five players each, the last person to resolve faces at most four taken names — so one of their five always survives.

The next free name on your own list becomes your backup automatically. It only plays if your main pick is injured before kick-off.

If your pick is simply left out of the squad, that's the risk you took — the backup stays on the bench. And because real picks come first, a heavily contested list can leave you without a backup at all.

Across the season you may only use 2 players from any one club and 12 in any one position. This is what stops you simply ranking the same superstar every week.

Both limits reset after Gameweek 19, so a second half of the season starts you fresh.

Every footballer gets a MyDraftPlayer match rating out of 10, calculated from what they actually did — minutes, goals, assists, clean sheets, cards, saves, defensive work.

In a league with friends

Your picks are ranked against each other, and points go by finishing position:

• 1st25
• 2nd18
• 3rd15
• 4th12
• 5th8

Ties split the positions they cover. Two players level at the top take (25 + 18) ÷ 2 = 21.5 each, and the next player drops to 15.

Score nothing — a benched footballer, or no list submitted — and you finish last and take whatever that position pays.

In the global league

No ranking against anyone. Points are your player's rating times 10 — a 7.4 rating is 74 points. Consistency wins rather than outdoing your rivals.

Everyone is entered automatically. There's no draft, so you can pick anyone still available — but once you use a footballer there, they're gone for the rest of your season.