Fantasy Aviva Premiership season 4 - Rules

FIXTURES

There will be 22 league games per season. These games will take place once a week. A thread will be put up for managers to name their teams on Thursdays, then on Fridays, managers will post the scores that they think will happen from these games (apart from games in which they are involved). An average of all predictions will be taken, and then one point added to each teams score for each prediction that had them as the winner, and that will then be the final score.
SQUADS

The maximum squad size is 55 senior players, and an academy of 20 players. A player is eligible to be a member of an academy if he is under the age of 21 years old on 1st September 2011.

If a team has more than 50 players or 16 academy players in their squad then they will be fined £1 million per player over the permitted amounts per day for the first seven days. If after 7 consecutive days a team still has more than the permitted number of players then the team will be fined £2 million per player per day, and fined 1 league point per player per day for the next seven days. If after this time a team still has more than the permitted number of players in their squad, the RFU (me) will remove players at it’s discretion to bring them back under the permitted numbers. There will be no right of appeal to players being removed.
TEAMS

When naming your team, not only should you put the starting XV and replacements, but also tactics that your team will employ. Results will be affected by the tactics described.

In addition, each team must have the following:-

At least 10 England qualified players in your matchday 23, and at least 5 of those must be in your starting XV.

At least 2 props and 1 hooker on the bench.

All players must be eligible (not injured or banned).

If you fail to submit a team for a match, then the other team will be automatically awarded a 28-0 bonus point win. If both teams fail to submit a team, then it will be scored as a 0-0 draw.
INJURIES AND BANS

Injuries in this game do NOT reflect real life, they will be generated by me.

Players banned in real life will be ineligible for selection in this game for the duration of the ban.

Inclusion of injured/banned players will result in them being replaced by players on the bench, and the bench not having eight players, which may result in punishment if it concerns the front-row.

Punishment for fielding an ineligible player will be loss of one match point for a first offence, two for a second offence and so on.
RETIREMENTS

There will no longer be compensation for retiring players.
TRANSFERS

- Domestic (other GP teams)

A team has been allocated a budget to use in the purchase of players. Domestic transfers (between GP clubs, regardless of nationality of player) should be negotiated between the respective managers, and then confirmed on the Domestic Transfer Confirmation Page.

-Foreign

To make a foreign transfer (i.e from any club outside of the GP, regardless of whether the player is English) a bid should be made on the Foreign Transfers Page, which will be either rejected if the amount offered is not deemed enough, or accepted, in which case the player can be moved into your squad. The amount of foreign transfers per team is limited and the amount each team has is on the foreign transfers page.

Player exchanges can be made domestically, but not internationally.

Foreign transfers will be restricted to 1 in season and 2 during the off season.

- Player Releases

Managers can choose to release players from their clubs, for which they will be offered compensation

Compensation will be

£2 million – current international
£1.5 million – former international
£1m – top flight experience
£0.5m – other

If another manager wants to pick a released player up, they will have to bid for him in the same way as for a foreign player.
SACKINGS

If you fail to submit a squad without prior warning on three successive occasions or five occasions over the course of a season, then you will be sacked. Ultimatum's may be delivered if teamsheets are not handed in on two consecutive occasions.
FINANCIAL REWARDS.

As of this season there will be no rewards for the result of an individual match, instead the managers will receive cash for predicting.

£1m for descriptive prediction
£0.5m for scores on the doors predictions

AP finishing positions.

Champions: 12m
Runners Up: 11m
Playoff Semi Finalist Losers: 10m
5th: 8m
6th: 7m
7th: 6m
8th: 5m
9th: 4m
10th: 3m
11th: 2m
12th: 1m

Heineken Cup

Losing Quarter Finalists - £4 million each
Losing Semi Finalists - £6 million each
Runners Up - £8 million
Champions - £10 million

Amlin Cup

Losing Quarter Finalists - £2 million each
Losing Semi Finalists - £4 million each
Runners Up - £6 million
Champions - £8 million

You want this as a sticky?

No thanks mate

Everyone is pretty clear on the rules and theres a link on the homepage

No worries mate! Good luck!!