The goal

Score the most points across the EPL season. Each month you pick one real Premier League club and score from its actual results that month. Ten months, August to May.

Scoring

• W Win — 3 points
• D Draw — 1 point
• L Loss — 0 points

Only the final result counts — goal difference, clean sheets and player stats are irrelevant.

Picking your club

• One club per month, ten different clubs across the season.
• Never twice: a club you have used is gone for the rest of the season.
• Never shared: you cannot take a club someone earlier in this month's order has already taken.
• If nothing is left for you — every club either used up or taken this month, which happens in bigger leagues late in the season — you pick from the bottom five of the current EPL table instead. That list ignores the two rules above; otherwise it would be empty.
• But never a third time: a club you have already used twice this season is dropped from that list. The list just gets shorter — a sixth club is not added to replace it.

Pick order

• August: by last season's final standings — the champion picks first, then down the table. (The reverse of every other month, where the lowest scorer picks first.) New managers join the back of the queue in the order they joined.
• September onwards: fewest season points picks first; the leader picks last.
• Ties: whoever picked later last month picks earlier this month.

Deadlines

• The times are worked out fresh each month, from how many managers are picking and how much room there is between the last match of this month and the first of the next. More managers or a tighter gap means tighter slots. The commissioner announces the schedule in advance.
• Picking opens the day after the previous month's last match, so a long break genuinely buys everyone more time (up to ten days ahead; two days is the fallback when the break is short or unknown). Slots land in waking hours — a wide window tends to mean 12:00 for the first manager, 14:00 for the next, and so on.
• Picking hours are 10:00 to 18:00, and slots are round: 4 hours, 3, 2, 1h30 or 1 hour each. The schedule takes the longest that fits the month — a tight month steps down a rung rather than landing you with 93-minute slots.
• The ladder is built backwards from the last 18:00: the final manager closes then, the one before them a slot earlier, and so on back, dropping to the previous day's 18:00 whenever a step would fall before the working day. The days nearest kick-off are full; the first day carries whatever is left over.
• The season's first draft opens earlier than the rest — August has no previous month to measure from, and pre-season is a long break rather than an unknown one, so picking opens five days before the deadline instead of two.
• Ordinary slots finish at 18:00 the evening before the first match. The six hours from there to midnight are left free on purpose — that's the window for anyone who missed their turn.
• Miss your slot and you move to the back of the queue for that month. Everyone behind you moves up and keeps the time they were given; latecomers share out that evening window between them, so each has a real deadline of their own. Nothing else happens — losing your place is the whole penalty.
• Nobody's lateness costs you your own time. The moment someone's slot closes they stop holding up the queue — you can pick straight away without waiting for them.
• Still unpicked by 00:00 before the first match: a club is assigned automatically — the highest-placed club in the current EPL table that is still available to you. If nothing is available, it takes the highest of that bottom five, and it will not hand you the same club a third time either.
• Before the season starts there is no current table, so last season's final one is used instead. Relegated clubs aren't in this season at all, and promoted clubs rank below everyone who was in that table — so August's first automatic pick is last season's champion, if nobody has taken them already.

Postponements

• Lost games: if your club's match is postponed out of the month, those points are simply gone.
• Double rounds: if postponed matches land in a later month, whoever holds that club then gets the extra games — and can score twice in one round block.

Money

• 5,000 KZT every month, due before the month's first match.
• 10,000 KZT per strike, due before the next draft.
• Refusing to pay a strike puts you out of the prize pool — it does not release you from the monthly fees.

Strikes

A strike goes to the manager whose club scored the fewest points that month. If two or more tie for lowest, nobody gets a strike. There is no limit on strikes in a season.

Winning

Most points across the season takes it. Level on points, the manager with fewer strikes wins. Level on both, the prize is shared.

The prize fund

• 3rd place — 50,000 KZT
• 2nd place — 100,000 KZT
• Winner — everything that is left

Paid out at the end of the season. A shared place splits that share.

Force majeure

Owner or manager changes, forfeits, UEFA or Premier League sanctions — none of it is grounds to undo a pick.