Season 8 Rules

Format

• There will be one division.
• The players will play each other four times, twice at "home" and twice "away".

Duration

• September 4 - December 31,  2009

Forfeits

• Players who do not complete their games before the deadline...
  • If they have played less than 75% of their games their record will be expunged.
  • If they have played at least 75% of their games all remaining games will be forfeited as a win to their opponents.

Commitment

• All players will commit to making at least two appearances at "league nights" per month.
• Players will play a league games rather than a friendlies on a "league night" if there are players they have outstanding games against present.
  Exception: if the same players have already played a league game earlier the same day.

Home and Away

• Goalkeepers
  • The "away" player must use a Subbuteo, Zeugo, or similar style of goalkeeper.
• First and Second choice teams
  • Every player will declare their first and second choice teams. The combination of base and figure colors will be different from each other.
  • If the "home" player decides that the "away" player's team is too similar to his, in either base or figure color, he will ask the "away" player to use his second team.
  • If the "away" player's second team, in the opinion of the "home" player, still clashes with his first choice team he has the following choices:
    1. Ask the "away" player to use his first team as the "home" player feels that it is less like his first team than the second team
    2. Ask the "away" player to use his second team as the "home" player feels that it is less like his first team than the first team
    3. The "home" player will use his second team
• When there is more than one pitch available and there is more than one league game going to be played the "home" payer who is lowest in the table has first pick on the pitch to use.  The second lowest "home" player has the second pick, etc.

Points

• Win = 3 points, Draw = 1 point, Loss = 0 point
• When two players have the same number of points they will be ranked by head-to-head results, and then by a shoot out.
• Goal difference will not be used.

League Cup

• The League Cup will be a knock out challenge cup (similar to the FA Cup).
• Each tie in each round consist of one game.
• The player who is lower in the league table will be considered the "home" team.  If both players have the same number of points the "home" player will be decided by a coin toss.
• If the score is level at the end of normal time extra time will be played.
• If the score is level at the end of extra time the game will be decided by shoot out.
• The draw for the first round will be made on the first night of the season.
• The draw for subsequent rounds will be made when all the ties of the previous round have been played.

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