I'll give it a go
You buy 15 players, each costing from 3.5 to 14, with 100 to spend
Before the season starts, you can make any number of changes to your players (transfers) without cost.
Each week of the season, you choose 11 of your 15 players to score points for that week. The amount of points they score are based how they perform for their team in the English Premiership that week. The exact number of points are explained on the site.
For example, Frank Lampard, a midfielder who plays for Chelsea, participates in a 2-1 win for them in one week. Lampard scores one of the goals, but also picks up a yellow card, playing the whole 90 minutes. If Lampard was picked as one of your players, he would score you 1 point for playing, 1 point for playing over 60 minutes, 5 points for scoring a goal, but lose a point for the yellow card, a total of 6 points. If he had been picked as your captain, he scores double.
If a player does not play for his team that week, the first of your substitutes score instead.
This continues for all 38 weeks of the season. You can transfer players in and out of your team as long as you can afford them. Every transfer beyond the first will cost you 4 points, and players will only start scoring points for you from the week AFTER you transfer them.
That should cover the basics. Will try to add something about general strategy when i've left work.
