Rules

N.B. These rules are subject to change up to and including 12 August, one week prior to the Premiership season commencing.

  1. Entry into the iDreamFootball.com English Premiership Fantasy Game is free.
  2. Dreamteams must be selected from the squads published on the site at the time of the selection.
  3. Dreamteams may only be altered online at www.idreamfootball.com. Dreamteams will be given 1 transfer per match week allocated every Monday following a week in which there have been matches. Transfers operate on a "use them or lose them" basis and do not carry over from one week to the next. The weekly transfer allocation may fluctuate for periods during the season - announcements of such fluctuations will be made in our weekly email newsletter and on our website. Prior to Dreamteam registration transfers are unlimited.
  4. Entries which do not comply with competition terms and conditions may be ruled invalid. Entries are classified as subscriptions to the full functionality of www.idreamfootball.com. They are not entries to a competition prize pool and do not have any claim at any time to any financial return.
  5. Each new Dreamteam is awarded a total of £100,000,000 worth of virtual money at the start of the English Premiership season. This amount may vary during the tournament.
  6. Each fantasy Dreamteam will have 1 Goalkeeper, a minimum of 3 Defenders, 3 Midfielders and 1 Forward. You may have no more than 4 players from any one club on your Dreamteam at any one time.
  7. The following formations are permitted: 3-4-3, 4-3-3, 4-4-2, 5-4-1, 5-3-2, 3-5-2
  8. Points will be awarded the day following matches as follows:
    ACTION GK DF MF FW
    goal +8 +6 +5 +4
    clean sheet +5 +4 0 0
    man of the match +5 +5 +5 +5
    assist +4 +3 +2 +2
    appearance (incl. subs) +1 +1 +1 +1
    conceded goals -1 -1 0 0
    short sub appearance 0 0 0 0
    own goal -1 -1 -2 -2
    yellow card -1 -1 -1 -1
    straight red card -3 -3 -3 -3
    Key GK - goalkeeper  DF - defender  MF - midfielder  FW - forward

    Substitutes must play for at least 30 minutes of a match to be awarded appearance points. A player given a red card as a result of a 2nd yellow card will be awarded a total of -2 points for the red card, whereas a straight red card will score -3 points.

    Scores will be bound to the match reports of the Organiser's Data Provider and will only be altered on a unilateral decision by the Organiser. The final scores will be those as calculated at the end of the English Premiership season taking into account all match reports and documentated alterations. The Organiser's decision on scoring is final and no formal correspondance will be entered into, although the online forum allows for a transparant discussion of score issues between the organiser and all registered users.

  9. Recording of Dreamteams
    Dreamteam compositions will be recorded 30 minutes prior to kick-off of the first match on a matchday and only those records will be used to attribute points relating to matches. Although changes are allowed at all times, only the recorded Dreamteam compositions will stand for each match on a matchday. Dreamteam compositions will be recorded at the following times (all times are English local time):
    Matchday Time Matchday Time
  10. If any player retires or fails to take part in the English Premiership, for any reason, no points will be awarded and no replacements can be nominated on paper entries by those who have selected the player concerned.

  11. Winners - The overall winners will be the managers of the most successful Dreamteams - i.e. the Dreamteam which has amassed the most points after the English Premiership season ends.

    In the event of a tie the player with the greater bank balance within the game will be considered the winner. If this does not resolve a tie the first prize may be shared between winning Dreamteam managers. Overall winner(s) will be required to take part in publicity activity related to this promotion.

    Details of prizes will be announced before the start of the season on 19 August 2006.

  12. Entrants must keep a record of their entry details - these cannot be re-supplied.
  13. The organisers reserve the right to reject Dreamteam names considered to be offensive or inappropriate. As detection of abusive names occurs, the organisers will rule the Dreamteam invalid.
  14. Only results of completed matches will count in the Dreamteam competition.
  15. The organiser's decision is final and no correspondance will be entered into.
  16. The organiser reserves the right to rule a Dreamteam or set of Dreamteams invalid when strong suspicion exists that a user has knowingly broken the playing rules, or has attempted to alter Dreamteam data by any means other than those provided for within the game.
  17. In the event of data corruption the organiser reserves the right to restore the data to the latest valid back-up available and calculate the scores as permitted by such back-up.
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