[Beanie]

1. BETS
Each player can bet once per week, in the form of a single, double or treble. The Bet thread will appear from early midweek & players are then requested to post their bets. All bets must be placed before the earliest selected games kick off time, or at the latest 3pm saturday. NO LATER. All bets are in the form of 1-X-2, no other bets are accepted. Post your bets as follows to aid the admins:

Watford v Preston (1) 1.90 20pnt single

2. ODDS
All odds are taken from the Paddy Power book, the list of odds will not be posted on The Daily Punt. It is the players perogative to check the Paddy Power website & select the odds & post them up with the selection in the relevant thread. The odds in the book may obviously change during the week, but you take the selected odds @ the time of the post. The administrators, not to mention the other players are around enough to notice when a price sticks out, & Tipp-Ex or the Racing Post will settle any odds queries.

3. LIST OF FIXTURES

Anything that Paddy Power offers on football, we will accept, providing it kicks off in the window of 6pm friday & 10pm sunday British time, nothing outside of this window will be accepted. If you cannot find a game on the Paddy Power site & it is not listed in the list below, that game cannot be selected. In the case of internationals or a strange week ie xmas, the rules for that week will be announced in advance.

Any changes from this, ie International weeks will be advised at the time but the Internationals will be included, as will the FA Cup, but we will clarify on Mainland European cups as we go. All games are settled @ 90 mins play. If Paddy Power choose not to offer a book on a certain match within a division, neither will we....I am thinking in particular of the end of season Italian draws @ Evens.

4. COMPETITION DURATION
From the starting date of August 11th, the divisions will commence, being organised from last seasons finishing positions. From then on seasons will run in 10 weekly intervals, as follows:
Aug 11th - Oct 13th
Oct 20th - Dec 22nd
Dec 29th - March 1st
March 8th - May 10th

If a tie should occur in a relegation/promotion position, after 2 decimal places, it will be decided as a play off in the following weeks midweek fixtures, at the discretion of the admins.

5. POSTPONED OR ABANDONED MATCHES
If a player bets on a match which is postponed or abandoned at any time that match will be disregarded from the bet. For example a double would then become a single etc same as the bookies would treat the bet.

If a player is unfortunate enough to have any or all of his selections postponed or abandoned, he will not be affected by the minimum play rule. Substituting matches which are postponed is not allowed if the bet has already started ie in a double, one game has finished before the other is postphoned, unless it is a single & the game has yet to kick off.

6. EDITING OF BETS
If you make a mistake when posting a bet eg with the odds, you should show the correction in a separate post. Under no circumstances are selection changes to be made. Any bet altered will be declared void.

7. BANK
The start bank of each player is 200 points, & all bets will be made in points. A maximum bet in each week is half of the players available bank, no more, be it single, double or treble. The minimum bet in each week (excepting no bets, see below) is 10 points, unless half the remaining bank is less than 10 points, this is to deter a player landing a big treble on week 1 & betting 1 point bets from then on.

8. MINIMUM PLAY RULE
As some would argue that a no bet is as strategic as a winning bet, each 10 week season will be allowed 2 no bets.
In the interests of fair play, however (ie.someone getting a treble in week 1 & not betting again) the following stipulations will apply:
3 no bets in 10 weeks - player cannot be promoted & will remain in the same division unless relegated
4 no bets in 10 weeks - player will be relegated 1 division regardless of finishing position
5 no bets in 10 weeks - player will be removed from the competition but may rejoin in the bottom division if he so wishes

9. FINAL 2 WEEKS EACH SEASON
If the player feels it is necessary, he may send his final 2 bets to the administrators by PM. This will be pointed out closer to the time.

[Monty H.]

Sorry for nagging, but is there some real money in this?

[Swooperman]

By posting this, are you offering Beanie ??

[rcgills]

Originally Posted by Swooperman

By posting this, are you offering Beanie ??

I think he might have been. Quick, someone edit the date so it looks like Beanie just posted this recently, rather than in December 2006

Edit - And Monty, yes there is real money in this for the winners, I think, if sponsorship has been sorted out, which I think it has.

[Beanie]

[MickeyPaul]

£200 per season courtesy of Paddy Power

[Swooperman]

Rules have now been edited to include the correct dates, & the competition starts on this saturday, the 11th