All about Fantasy: Leagues, Players and Stats

• Find and click the "Regenerate your <previous year> leagues" button on the League list page. This will generate a list of your Leagues that can be regenerated.

• Select a League to view the settings of the league as well as any applicable notifications (this League name is already in use, etc).

2. Open Leagues

• If you regenerate a previous year open League, the new League MUST be an open League. You can’t change it to a head-to-head league.

• If you regenerate an Open League you can only change the following settings (all other League settings are hidden):

  • League Name

  • League Privacy

  • League Start date

Head to Head Leagues

• If you regenerate a H2H league if it will assume the default settings, regardless of prior year settings your League had.

• Choose whether you want your League to be:

  • Head to Head or Open

  • Private or Public

  • Default (unselect the check box)

• Create the League and move to Step 3 (Send invites)

3.

• All the participants of your old League will be pre-populated in the Name & Email fields. You can remove anyone you don't want.
  Open leagues with 20+ users will not list all email addresses. Simply click the "Invite All Button" to invite all players from last season.

• The league is then created.

• Once the league is (re)created it will no longer appear on the "Regenerate A League" page.

Head to the My Team page (it's the default load page) and do the following.

• Click on an empty player slot. The Player Pool will show you a list of valid options for that position.

• Click on the player you want to add to the empty position.

You must fill all 21 empty slots to make a valid team.

There are many options to filter the Player Pool to find the best-choice player and you can search for specific players.

Alternatively you can Auto Pick your team and work backwards to adjust it to the squad you want. Drop a player by clicking the 'bin' or 'D' icon, then add the player(s) you want.

Open Bench refers to your team's reserves bench being free from positional restriction.

In addition to the 13 on-field players, your squad has eight (8) players that make up the Reserves Bench. Reserves Bench players are NOT locked to a specific position.

• Four (4) Interchange (INT): The points of these players are added to your team's total. The four interchange players and the 13 players on the field are often referred to as the Starting (or Scoring) 17.

  Four (4) Emergencies (EMG): The points of these players do not count to your team's score unless the player is used as an auto-emergency substitution for a Starting 17 player that does not play.

The bench players are ranked 1 to 8 and this determines a player's priority order for auto-emergency substitution. You can adjust the order of your Reserves Bench by clicking a player's substitution (the (S) button) on the website or the up-arrow & down-arrow buttons in the App. This 'substitution' process is subject to the same lock-out rules as all other player actions, meaning locked bench players can’t be moved.

If your Team is not complete before this time, your team will be auto-filled with our smart auto-fill feature at 2:00 am (AEDT/AEST) on the day of the first match of the upcoming NRL round. If this happens you will be notified by email.

To create a valid team, you must select exactly:

• 3 Fullbacks/Wingers,

• 2 Centres,

• 2 Halves,

• 1 Hooker,

• 2 Edge Forwards,

• 3 Middle Forwards;

• 8 Reserves made up of:

  • 4 Interchange players (numbered 1 to 4); and

  • 4 Emergency players (numbered 5 to 8).

You will need to select your Team within the initial $9.8 million Salary Cap. Players who are listed as being available for multiple positions can be selected in either position.

Here are some of the updates you will notice with regard to players and scoring:

• Once the first match has started, live scores are shown in light green.

  Completed scores are shown in dark green.

• A Captain's score is shown as doubled unless the chosen captain does not play (DNP), in this case the vice-captain's score is shown as doubled.

• Projected score is shown for players if the round has started, but, they are not yet locked out. Projected scores are shown in the "Coach" purple and only show for active Coach subscribers.

• The ellipsis (...) that allows users to make actions on a player changes to a lock icon when a player becomes locked out.

• For players who do not play (DNP), their entire player cell will be slightly greyed out.

• In Fantasy (classic) Interchange (INT) player's (1-4 positions) scores are counted so they mimic on field players.

• Emergency (EMG) player's (5-8 positions in Fantasy and per user selection in Draft) scores are not counted by default, but, these players are subject to potential auto-emergency substitution (see the auto-emergency rules elsewhere in this FAQ). Before full lockout, EMG players' entire player cell is greyed out and their live score will show (in light green) and final game score (in dark green). From full lockout, auto-emergency substitution will occur (see the auto-emergency rules elsewhere in this FAQ). If an EMG score is to be counted, the player's cell will no longer be greyed out.

Should any of the players in a team's Starting 17 not take the field (DNP), a player from the Reserves Bench will be automatically substituted in, based on the following criteria:

1. Auto-emergency calculation (the replacing and covering of players) occurs from full lockout (i.e. from the start of the last game of the round).

2. The highest-ranked eligible player from the Reserves Bench (numbered 1 to 8) will substitute for a DNP player from the Starting 13, unless that bench player is a dual-position player (DPP) required as cover for a another DNP player. This process can happen for up to four (4) DNP players.

3. Once it has been calculated which Reserves Bench (1-8) players will be the automatic emergency replacements, the remainder of the Reserves Bench will 'shuffle up' in order to cover bench positions 1 to 4. This 'shuffling' will be highlighted.

4. If there is no player on the Reserves Bench with the same position as the DNP, there is no eligible auto-emergency player and no auto-emergency substitution will be made and the team will score 0 for the DNP position.

5. An eligible DPP can only auto-substitute for one DNP player.