Rules
Twenty clubs, one table each, and exactly how the points come out of it.
The bet
Everyone puts in £20 before the season and predicts the full table, first to twentieth. The highest score in May takes the lot. Second gets nothing. Two players level at the top split the pot between them.
7 players in for 2026/27, so £140 is in the middle.
Points for each club
Every club is scored on its own, on how far it ends up from where you put it.
- 3Spot on
- 2One place out
- 1Two places out
- 0Three places or more
Only the distance counts. A club that finishes two places above where you put it and one that finishes two places below are worth the same 1.
Getting the champion right
What your first pick scores if they go on to win the league.
That 6 replaces the 3; it is not an extra 3 added somewhere else. It also only fires on an exact hit — if the champions finish second or third in your table you get the ordinary points for being that close, with no doubling.
The two tens
Name the top four and you get 10 points. The order you put them in makes no difference, but it is all or nothing: three of the four is worth nothing at all.
The bottom three works the same way — 10 points for the right three in any order, nothing for two of them.
Both can land in the same table, so there are 20 points sitting in them. They are what the two lines drawn across your table are about.
The most anyone can score
- Placings
- 60
- Champion
- 3
- Top four
- 10
- Bottom three
- 10
- Perfect table
- 83
Nobody is going to get 83. Every club in the right place, the champions called, both lines drawn correctly.
Christmas swaps
At Christmas everyone gets three swaps. One swap exchanges the positions of any two clubs in your own table and moves nothing else. Send yours to the admin and they will put them in.
Your original table stays on your page beside the amended one, so everyone can see what changed. Scoring uses the amended table.
When the score counts
The money is settled on the final table in May. Everything on this site before then is what you would score if the season ended today, so it moves every weekend.
It moves during games, too. The league table counts a fixture from kick-off, which means scores here swing while matches are on — and swing back when a goal is chalked off.
Clubs the league has level
The Premier League leaves clubs that are level on points, goal difference and goals scored in the same position as each other. This game needs one club per place to measure against, so where the league has them level the order between them is settled alphabetically. It only matters if they are still level in May.