Last Man Standing rules

Each gameweek, pick one Premier League team to win. If they win, you're through. If they don't, you're out. You can't use the same team twice. The last player standing wins.

• Pick one team to win each gameweek.
• No repeats. Once you've used a team, it's gone for the rest of the competition.
• Win = you're through.
• Draw or loss = you're out.
• No pick by the deadline = you're out.
• Postponed match = you're through.
• Rollover: if everyone left would go out in the same gameweek, nobody is eliminated. Everyone still in carries on and the pot rolls over.
• The winner is the last player standing.

When two players are left, they can agree to split the pot or play on until one is left. On EliminX the organiser confirms a split from the admin area, and both players are shown as joint winners.

The pick deadline is the official Fantasy Premier League deadline for each gameweek, usually just before the first match kicks off. Picks stay hidden until the deadline passes, so nobody can copy.

Scores come from the official Premier League feed and update live. EliminX settles the gameweek automatically 15 minutes after the last match finishes, which leaves time for any late score corrections. The organiser can correct a score if the feed is ever wrong.

Plenty of groups tweak the classic rules. Agree any of these before you start:

• Draws count as through instead of out, for a gentler game.
• Buy-backs: let players knocked out early rejoin once, before a set gameweek.
• Pick a team to lose in the later rounds, to shake things up.
• Restart with a fresh round when a winner is crowned.

EliminX settles games using the standard rules above, so the organiser handles any house rules by hand.