Gamehelpfinalchance

Game Setup

Each player receives 1 Player Overview card and 1 pencil (1). Place 1 Standings card in the center of the table (2). Choose one League card according to the mode you wish to play and place it to the left of the Standings card, so that the eight rows match (3): Fantasy mode. Fantasy teams with strengths assigned randomly. History mode. Teams from epic leagues of the past, with specific pre-assigned strengths. Prepare the League deck according to the mode chosen (4): Fantasy mode. Shuffle the 32 Team cards and draw 14 random cards to compose the League deck, without peeking. You will have an overview of the strengths in play during the set-up procedure. History mode. Take a number of Team cards for each color according to the strenghts shown on the League card, to compose the League deck. After that, shuffle the remaining Team cards and draw one random Team card to add to the League deck, without peeking at it: you should have now 14 cards in the League deck. Leave enough space on the right of the League deck, to place the revealed cards (5). Deal 4 Team cards to each player, to hold secretly in their hand. Return any remaining cards to the box: they will not be used during this league (6). Prepare the final 3 matchdays. Randomly draw 3 Matchday cards out of the 7 available: these will be the 3 final matchdays of the season. Place them face up in a stack (players may look at the 3 cards any time), then place the 2 Goal cards on the left and on the right of the Matchday cards stack (7). Return the unused Matchday cards to the box. Create the initial standings as if the first part of the league had already been played. Shuffle the League deck. Draw the first 10 cards and assign 1 point to the team shown on each card by coloring the corresponding leftmost dots on the Standings card. Do not peek at the 4 remaining cards. Shuffle the League deck again. Draw the first 10 cards and this time assign 3 points to the team shown on each card. After this process, a total of 40 points should have been assigned. Players write the team’s initial standings points in the white boxes of their Player Overview card, then write the team winner quotations in the yellow diamonds following these rules: Team(s) with the most points: these teams get a quotation of 3 stars. All the other teams: the quotation for these teams to win the league is a number of stars equal to the points difference with the leading team(s), multiplied by 5. If a team has 9 or more points difference with the leading team(s), then write a “/” in the yellow diamond of the corresponding team: that team can’t win the league. Place all the Goal markers in a general stock, next to the Matchday cards (8).