So by the time the last couple of picks take place, let me elaborate on the Banned List Round.
THE BANNED LIST ROUND
The next round is what we will call the Banned List Round. In this, all managers will get one chance per round to get a player from The Banned List.
This is how it works.
In Round 10, all managers will nominate two players, one they want to pick and one they want to block from The Banned List. The player you choose to block will be blocked from that Stage (there will be stages instead of Picks in this round), and if anyone else picks that player, even if he was the only one to pick him he will be blocked.
Basically you get your player IF :
1. No one else has picked him.
2. No one else has blocked him.
Now, there are a couple of guidelines on who you can block :
a. You cannot block the player you have picked in the same stage.
b. You can only block and pick a player once.
Now I will explain the concept of a "Stage". There will be 3 stages, that is Stage 1, 2 and 3.
In Stage 1, everyone will send me the player they want to pick and the player they want to block. After the results are revealed, the players who were blocked due to duplicate picks or manager blocks will go back into the pool and there won't be another Banned List or something. So even if a player was blocked in Stage 1, he can still be picked in Stage 2.
Now, managers who get their players in Stage 1 will not "pick" any player in the next two stages, however they can still "block" a player in the next two stages. Same goes for those who get a player in Stage 2, they can only "block" in the next stage but not "pick".
Now, you can only attempt to pick a player once, same as block. Once you have "picked" or "blocked" someone in Stage 1 you cant pick or block him again in Stage 2 or 3.
So say if you pick Nesta in Stage 1 and fail due to one of the two reasons, you cannot go for him again in the next two stages.
Same goes for Block, if you blocked say Maldini in Stage 1, you cannot block him in any future stage. So plan your picks and blocks carefully.
At the end those who manage to get a player at the end of the round will be able to swap him with any player in their existing 12 man squad.
The end squads will all be of 12. That is the reason we are swapping the player picked in this round instead of adding it, to have the same squad size for each manager.
Questions/Doubts, please raise them.
