For players

Joining and playing

Someone has sent you a code. Two minutes from here to your first pick — it is free to play and there is nothing to install.

Getting in

Get the code
Whoever is running the competition has an invite code. If they sent you a link instead, the code is already in it — just follow the link and skip to the last step.
Enter it on the home page
There is a join box on the LMSLocal home page. Type the code in there.
Sign in, or sign up
An email address and a password. Nothing to install, and the same account works for every competition you join.

Go to the join box if you have your code to hand.

Joining closes when round one locks. After that the competition is shut and you will have to wait for the next one, so do not sit on the code.

The rules, briefly

One pick a round: Choose a single team you think will win their match.
It has to be a win: A draw counts against you exactly the same as a defeat.
Change it freely: Until the round locks you can switch teams, or clear your pick and come back.
No team twice: Until you have used them all, at which point they all come back.
Miss the deadline: Counts the same as a losing pick.

The full rules cover lives, regulation time and how a competition ends.

Making your pick

Press Play on the competition and choose your team. The deadline is on the screen while you do it.

Before the deadline

Your pick is yours alone — nobody else can see it, not even players who have already picked. Change it as often as you like.

After it locks

Everyone's picks appear on the standings, and yours is final. Then it is just the football.

Following how you are doing

Your dashboard

Which round it is
Whether you are still in
Lives remaining
How each of your rounds went

The standings

Who is left and on how many lives
What everyone picked, once the round locks
Who went out and when

When something goes wrong

You missed the deadline: It counts as a losing pick: you lose a life, or you are out if you had none left. Set yourself a reminder — the deadline is on your dashboard and again on the pick screen.
Your team’s match was postponed: There is no automatic void. The fixture stays unresulted and the round waits. What happens next is your organiser’s decision, so ask them.
You are down to your last life: Play it safe. This is the week to spend one of the strong teams you have been saving, not the week to be clever.
You are running out of teams: Everybody is. When you have used all of them they come back and you start again — but the rounds just before that are where competitions get decided, so look a few weeks ahead before you commit.

Ask your organiser first. They set the deadlines, enter or check the results and make the judgement calls, so most things are quicker to sort out with them than with us.

Know the rules cold

Most players go out on something they did not know rather than on a bad guess. It is a short read.

The full rules Player questions