Old Ruts Fantasy Football 2008
RULES

Old Ruts Fantasy Football is back for a third 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 27th 2007 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
Goalkeeper saving a penalty (not in shoot-outs)
5 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 16th December and closes Saturday 29th December (there are no matches on Saturday 22nd 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 29th.

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.

POS PLAYER £m Last season's points
GLK
Phil Lines
3.0  
GLK
Wayne Alderman
2.5 73
GLK
Roland Heal
2.0 53
GLK
Nick Wells
2.0  
GLK
Craig Wellstead
1.0 26
POS PLAYER £m Last season's points
DEF
Marc Hawley
5.0 107
DEF
Neil Marshall
5.0 98
DEF
Richard Lines
5.0 88
DEF
Richard Hayward
4.0 65
DEF
Darren Noonan
4.0 63
DEF
Scott Hawley
4.0 61
DEF
Lawrence Ennis
4.0  
DEF
Michael Lines
3.0  
DEF
Josh Allen
3.0  
DEF
John Wood
2.5 53
DEF
Mark Kerwick
2.5 50
DEF
Phil Rea
2.5 39
DEF
Pete Day
2.0 18
DEF
Jamie Shawki
1.5 6
DEF
Gary Langton
1.5 5
DEF
Tim Ardley
1.0 0
DEF
Dan Poulter
1.0 -1
DEF
Scott Stoney
1.0 -5
DEF
Graham Noot
1.0  
POS PLAYER £m Last season's points
MID
Kevin Foster
6.0 139
MID
Steve Berry
6.0 133
MID
Steve Nash
5.5 105
MID
Nick Raggett
5.5 96
MID
Alan Whiter
5.0 88
MID
Andy Flanagan
5.0 86
MID
Luke Creates
4.5 81
MID
Ed Reynolds
4.0 68
MID
Simon Minihane
4.0 67
MID
Graham Winter
4.0 66
MID
Leon Trowbridge
4.0 65
MID
Nigel Watford
4.0 65
MID
Dan Mahoney
3.5  
MID
Erol Yilmaz
3.0 62
MID
Daragh Corrigan
3.0  
MID
Ryan Brown
2.5 53
MID
Steve Nicola
2.5 39
MID
Paul Beaumont
2.5 34
MID
Rob Goldsmith
2.5 33
MID
Jeremy Capper
2.0 25
MID
Troy McGuigan
2.0  
MID
Jeroen Strating
2.0  
MID
Lewis Kelly
2.0  
MID
Rowan Matthews
2.0  
MID
Dwayne Mitchell
2.0  
MID
Dan Larkin
1.5  
MID
Jimmy Wilkes
1.5 16
MID
Dan Cousins
1.0  
MID
Greg Lucey
1.0  
MID
Darren Knott
1.0 4
MID
Simon Hithersay
1.0 0
POS PLAYER £m Last season's points
STR
Neil Whyte
6.0 121
STR
Lee Poulter
5.5 105
STR
Dave D’Rozario
5.5 101
STR
James Fenton
5.0 82
STR
Paul Hull
5.0 40
STR
Scott Ryder
4.5 78
STR
James Bone
3.5  
STR
Adam Clark
2.5 29
STR
Billy Finnis
2.5  
STR
Ollie Hicks
2.0  
STR
Ryan Stephens
2.0  
STR
Mario Crassas
1.5  
STR
Nigel Reilly
1.0  

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

PRIZES

We have 24 teams entered at a cost of £10 each, meaning the football section pockets £120 and the remainder is split as follows:

1st - £65
2nd - £35
3rd - £20

Good luck!

Steve Nicola

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