Fantasy

Rules

How a FilmDraft season works, from the draft to the final standings.

#The draft

Each league drafts live in a snake order: the order is drawn at random two hours before, and every other round runs in reverse.

The pool follows the league’s release setting, the same one that decides when a film counts. In a league that counts the US release, a film can be drafted if it hasn’t opened in the US by draft day, even if it’s already out abroad; a film already out abroad with no US date can’t be. In a league that counts the first release anywhere, a film can be drafted if it hasn’t opened anywhere. Either way, a festival screening doesn’t count as opening, and a canceled film, or one already dated after the season, is not in the pool.

A film with no release date yet can be drafted too, by hand or from your queue, at your risk: if it slips out of the season, it scores nothing. Autopick never takes one for you: once your queue is used up, it takes the dated film with the best Letterboxd score, then the most popular. A mid-season fall draft adds a few more films to every roster.

#Scoring

Eleven categories

Letterboxd

Average rating across your released films.

Rotten Tomatoes

Average Tomatometer.

Metacritic

Average Metascore.

Oscars

Nominations, announced in January.

Golden Globes

Nominations, announced in December.

Spirit Awards

Nominations, announced in December.

Razzies

Nominations. Fewest ranks first, among players with films out.

Opening weekend

Summed across your films.

Domestic gross

Summed across your films.

International gross

Summed across your films.

Head to head

Your win rate in matchups.

LetterboxdAverage rating across your released films.

Rotten TomatoesAverage Tomatometer.

MetacriticAverage Metascore.

OscarsNominations, announced in January.

Golden GlobesNominations, announced in December.

Spirit AwardsNominations, announced in December.

RazziesNominations. Fewest ranks first, among players with films out.

Opening weekendSummed across your films.

Domestic grossSummed across your films.

International grossSummed across your films.

Head to headYour win rate in matchups.

Only films that have opened count. Each league’s commissioner picks what opened means: the first release anywhere, or the US release. In each category, the players who have something there are ranked: first place is worth one point less than the number of players, and each place below one point less. A zero earns nothing, so an awards category scores no one until its nominations are out. Standings update once a day, after the daily score refresh. Last updated Oct 15, 7:17 AM ET.

For example, in a 16-player league, first place in a category earns 15, second 14, and so on down; a zero earns nothing. Eleven categories, so 165 is a perfect season.

#Head to head

Six periods, two months each

Jan / Feb

Period 1

Mar / Apr

Period 2

May / Jun

Period 3

Jul / Aug

Period 4

Sep / Oct

Period 5Now

Nov / Dec

Period 6

Each period you face one opponent. The films each of you has released in those two months are compared across ten columns, Razzies fewest first, and whoever wins more columns wins the matchup. Equal columns is a tie. A period is scored once, when it ends, and that result is final.

#Disputes

Questions and complaints go to your commissioner.