Old Ruts Fantasy Football 2007
RULES

Old Ruts Fantasy Football is back for a second season. It is closely modelled on the Sun's Dream Team using Ruts players instead of Premiership stars. Each manager will get £40m to pick a team of 11 Ruts players (given fictitious transfer values) in a 4-4-2 formation only.

ELIGIBLE MATCHES

Each player will score points in any first, reserve or third team game (league and cup only, friendlies do not count) between the start date of Saturday October 7th 2006 and the end of the season.

SCORING

Playing a match (including coming on as sub)
2 points
Scoring a goal
5 points
Clean sheet (keepers/defenders)
5 points
Clean sheet (midfielders)
2 points
Man of the Match (as nominated by the managers)
5 points
Hattrick (or more)
5 points bonus
Conceding more than one goal (keepers/defenders)
-1 point per goal
Booking
-1 point
Sending off
-3 points
(note: two yellows in a game incurs a total of -3)

TRANSFER WINDOW

The Transfer Window opens Sunday 17th December and closes Friday 29th December. During this time you can bring in up to three players and must transfer out the same number. So you can make one, two or three changes. Your changes must not take you over your £40m budget or break your 4-4-2 formation. When you bring in a new player you do not get the points he has scored so far. Likewise, points scored by players you transfer out are frozen and remain on your overall score. Your new players will start scoring for you from Saturday December 30th.

PLAYER VALUES

The following values have been determined mainly by how many points players scored in the Fantasy League last season. Also their availiability and form so far this season has been factored in.

PLAYER
POS VALUE (£m)
Craig Wellstead
GLK 2.0
Wayne Alderman
GLK 2.0
Matt Burton
GLK 2.0
Roland Heal
GLK 2.0
Matt Bramley
GLK 1.0
PLAYER
POS VALUE (£m)
Richard Lines
DEF 5.0
Darren Noonan
DEF 5.0
Tom Hughes
DEF 4.0
Marc Hawley
DEF 4.0
Phil Rea
DEF 4.0
Neil Marshall
DEF 4.0
Duncan Fraser
DEF 3.5
Richard Hayward
DEF 3.0
Matt Crowley
DEF 2.5
John Wood
DEF 2.5
Piers Capper
DEF 2.5
Mark Kerwick
DEF 2.5
James Rogers
DEF 2.5
Graham Winter
DEF 2.5
Gary Langton
DEF 2.0
David Cundy
DEF 2.0
Tim Ardley
DEF 1.5
Scott Stoney
DEF 1.5
Danny Poulter
DEF 1.5
Craig Lyle
DEF 1.5
Peter Day
DEF 1.5
Dave Crisp
DEF 1.0
PLAYER
POS VALUE (£m)
Steve Berry
MID 6.0
Luke Creates
MID 6.0
Steve Nash
MID 5.5
Alan Whiter
MID 5.0
Kevin Foster
MID 4.0
Nick Raggett
MID 4.0
Steve Andrews
MID 4.0
Andy Flanagan
MID 3.5
Darren Knott
MID 3.5
Rob Goldsmith
MID 3.5
Jimmy Wilkes
MID 3.0
Ed Reynolds
MID 3.0
Simon Minihane
MID 3.0
Stuart Hawley
MID 3.0
Nigel Watford
MID 2.5
Scott Hawley
MID 2.5
Simon Hithersay
MID 2.5
Ryan Brown
MID 2.5
Paul Beaumont
MID 2.5
Jeremy Capper
MID 2.0
Steve Nicola
MID 2.0
Russell Nixon
MID 2.0
Erol Yilmaz
MID 2.0
Craig Vermeulen
MID 2.0
Leon Trowbridge
MID 1.5
Matt Blomeley
MID 1.0
Jamie Shawki
MID 1.0
Dave Watson
MID 1.0
PLAYER
POS VALUE (£m)
Paul Hull
STR 7.0
Adam Clark
STR 7.0
Steve Rowlands
STR 6.0
James Fenton
STR 5.0
Scott Ryder
STR 4.0
Dave D'Rozario
STR 3.5
Neil Whyte
STR 3.5
Mark McDowell
STR 3.5
Nick Munroe
STR 3.0
Michael Bolton
STR 2.5
Reece Smith
STR 2.5
Courtney Sewitt
STR 2.5

Last season's stats:
Full Individual Scores Top Individual Scorers Managers Final Table

PRIZES

We have 22 teams entered at a cost of £10 each, meaning the football section pockets £110 and the remainder is split as follows:

1st - £60
2nd - £30
3rd - £20

Good luck!

Steve Nicola

PS - The webmaster's decision on ANY matter to do with this competition is final!