The rulebook

Full rules

Everything that decides a Boot Room season — the live auction, the snake draft, setting your XI, the scoring tables, transfers and the mid-season reset.

The auction

Build your 15-player squad by bidding against other owners in a live, real-time auction.

Starting budget: 1,000 per owner
Squad size: 15 players
Squad composition: 2 GK · 5 DEF · 5 MID · 3 ATT
Country cap: Max 3 players from any one country (squad + impact list combined)
Player pots: Players are graded into pots A, B and C by pedigree
Opening bid: 20
Bid increments: +10 up to 100, then +20 beyond 100

Players are nominated one at a time. You bid against everyone else; the top bid when the lot closes wins the player and is deducted from your budget.
You can’t outbid yourself — once you’re the top bidder you wait for another owner to raise before you can bid again.
A bid is rejected if it busts your budget, fills a position you’ve already completed, or breaks the country cap.
Budget is protected for the squad you still owe: every unfilled slot reserves the opening bid (20), so the system never lets you spend so much that you can’t finish a legal squad.

The snake draft

After the auction, owners take turns drafting impact players — your bench-strength reserves for transfers.

The draft runs over 4 rounds and the pick order reverses each round (1→N, then N→1, and so on) so nobody is permanently disadvantaged by drafting late.
Snake-draft picks are free — they cost no budget.
These players form your impact list. They’re not in your matchday squad until you transfer one in.
The country cap still applies across your squad and impact list combined.

Setting your lineup

Each round you field a starting XI of 11 from your 15-player squad; the other 4 sit on the bench.

Goalkeepers: Exactly 1 in the XI
Defenders: 3 to 5 in the XI
Midfielders: 2 to 5 in the XI
Attackers: 1 to 3 in the XI
Captain: Scores double points (×2)
Vice-captain: Inherits the armband if the captain doesn’t play

Set your XI, formation and captain before the round’s lineup deadline. Miss it and your previous lineup carries over.
Auto-subs: if a starter plays zero minutes, the highest-ranked eligible bench player who did play is automatically subbed in — but only if the swap keeps a legal formation.
Bench order matters: it decides which reserve is tried first for an auto-sub.
If your captain plays zero minutes, the vice-captain takes the ×2 instead.

Scoring — base points

Every player earns points per fixture from real match stats. Points depend on position.

Action	GK	DEF	MID	ATT
Playing 1–59 min	+1	+1	+1	+1
Playing 60+ min	+2	+2	+2	+2
Goal scored	+10	+6	+5	+4
Assist	+3	+3	+3	+3
Clean sheet (60+ min)	+4	+4	+1	0
Every 3 saves	+1	—	—	—
Penalty saved	+5	—	—	—
Penalty missed	−2	−2	−2	−2
Every 2 goals conceded	−1	−1	0	0
Every 10 CBIT (clearances + blocks + interceptions + tackles)	—	+1	+1	—
Yellow card	−1	−1	−1	−1
Red card	−3	−3	−3	−3
Own goal	−2	−2	−2	−2

Clean sheets only count if the player played at least 60 minutes.
Goalkeeper saves and the defensive-contribution reward are counted in batches at the thresholds shown (every 3 saves, every 10 CBIT), not per single action.
A player who plays zero minutes scores nothing for that fixture.
In a double-gameweek round, a player’s fixtures are added together for their round total.

Scoring — bonus points

On top of base points, each match awards bonus points to its three best performers.

Best performer: +3 bonus
Second best: +2 bonus
Third best: +1 bonus

Bonus is decided by a Bonus Points System (BPS) score computed from each player’s full stat line in that match — goals, assists, passing accuracy, tackles, interceptions, clearances, blocks, saves, cards and more.
The three highest BPS scores in each match win the +3 / +2 / +1 bonus. BPS itself is never added to your score — it only ranks performances to decide who gets the bonus.
Bonus is awarded per match, so a double-gameweek player can earn bonus in each of their fixtures.
Tap any player on the points screen to see their base items and bonus broken out fixture by fixture.

How the BPS score is built

BPS contribution	GK	DEF	MID	ATT
Playing 1–59 min	+3	+3	+3	+3
Playing 60+ min	+6	+6	+6	+6
Clean sheet (60+ min)	+12	+12	—	—
Goal scored	+12	+12	+18	+24
Assist	+9	+9	+9	+9
Pass accuracy 85%+ (min 30 passes)	+6	+6	+6	+6
Pass accuracy 70–85% (min 30 passes)	+3	+3	+3	+3
Match rating 8.0+	+6	+6	+6	+6
Match rating 7.0–7.9	+3	+3	+3	+3
Per shot on target	+2	+2	+2	+2
Per tackle	+2	+2	+2	+2
Per interception	+1	+1	+1	+1
Per clearance	+1	+1	+1	+1
Per defensive block	+2	+2	+2	+2
Per save	+2	—	—	—
Penalty saved	+15	—	—	—
Per goal conceded	−1	−1	0	0
Yellow card	−3	−3	−3	−3
Penalty missed	−6	−6	−6	−6
Own goal	−6	−6	−6	−6
Red card	−9	−9	−9	−9

Pass-accuracy bonuses need at least 30 attempted passes in the match, and only the higher band you reach counts (85%+ or 70%+, not both).
Tackles, interceptions, clearances, defensive blocks, shots on target and saves accumulate per action, so a busy defensive shift or a keeper with a flurry of saves climbs the BPS table fast.
Goals are weighted up the pitch — an attacker’s goal is worth far more BPS than a defender’s — which is why forwards tend to dominate bonus on scoring days.

Transfers

Swap one squad player for one impact-list player of the same position. Strictly limited.

Allowance: 1 transfer per phase — plus any unused group-stage transfer carries into the knockouts (up to 2 there). No paid extras.
Direction: A squad player out, an impact-list player in
Position: Must be like-for-like (a DEF can only be replaced by a DEF, etc.)
Cost: Free — there is no points penalty
Timing: The system applies it to the next open round automatically

Phase 1 covers the group stage. Your single Phase-1 transfer can be used in any group round.
Phase 2 covers the knockouts and stays locked until the mid-season reset opens it.
Carry-forward: if you don’t use your group-stage transfer, it rolls into the knockouts — so you can make two knockout transfers from the new impact list.
Once you’ve used all your transfers for a phase, the window closes until the next phase.

Mid-season reset

Between the group stage and the knockouts the league reshuffles to keep the back half competitive.

Release & refund: eliminated players (and any you choose to drop, per league setup) are released back to the pool and their value is refunded to your budget.
Mid-season auction: the freed-up budget is spent in a fresh auction on players still alive in the tournament.
Second snake draft: a new snake draft refills the impact list for the knockout phase.
Phase 2 opens: your knockout transfer (two, if you didn’t use your group-stage one) becomes available once the reset completes.

Winning

There’s no luck of the draw — just better squads, sharper lineups and smarter transfers.

Each round, your scored XI (captain doubled, auto-subs applied) produces a round total.
Round totals accumulate into a running league total across the whole tournament.
The owner with the highest running total when the final is scored wins the league.

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