What it is, how it works, and every rule — in that order.
Imagine a knockout competition where you are the one being knocked out.
Every week, you pick one Premier League team you think will win. That is the whole move. If they win, you survive to next week. If they draw or lose, you are out of the competition.
The twist that makes it hard: you cannot use the same team twice all season. Pick Arsenal at home to a promoted side in week one and that is Arsenal gone forever. By November everyone is sweating over Brentford away.
It is also called a survivor pool, a knockout pool or an eliminator — same game, different name.
Every gameweek, pick ONE team to WIN their match.
A knockout competition between friends. Each week every player picks one team they think will win. If your team wins, you go through to the next week. If they draw or lose, you are out. You cannot pick the same team twice in a season, so the easy picks run out fast. The last player left wins.
Yes. Last Man Standing, survivor pool, knockout pool and eliminator are all names for the same format. It is common in American football offices and has grown popular with Premier League fans.
In this version, yes. Your team has to win. A draw eliminates you exactly like a defeat, which is what makes picking a big favourite away from home so dangerous.
No pick at the deadline counts as a loss — you are eliminated. In practice this is how most players go out, which is why the app emails you a reminder before each deadline.
At the deadline, not a second before. Until then everyone sees only whether you have picked, never who you picked.
Yes — plan the whole season if you like. Future picks stay editable until each gameweek's own deadline. Only the current week seals.
Moved before the deadline: your pick is flagged invalid and you must pick again. Moved after the deadline: free pass — you survive the week and the team returns to your available list.
Only your team's first fixture counts. The second one is ignored entirely, however it ends.
An optional league rule that lets an eliminated player buy their way back in, once per season. The window opens the moment you die and closes at the next gameweek's deadline. You come back with your used teams still used — including the one that knocked you out.
If nobody rebuys, the pot splits equally among that final group. If two or more players are still alive after GW38, they split it too.
It works from about four players and gets better the bigger it is — twenty or more makes for a proper survival story, because the pool thins week by week.
Person to person — the app never touches money. Money is optional and off by default. If your league turns it on, the admin sets the fees, shows you where to send, and marks who has paid. The pot is maths, not a wallet.
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