A season-long game about opening weekends
Bet on the weekend. Blind.
You get $100 of fake money and twenty-odd Fridays. Everything else is box office and reviews.
Opening box office ($M)multiplied byTomatometerequalsYour score
Your commissioner posts the week’s films
Everything opening wide this Friday.
You bid, and nobody sees it
Sealed until the deadline. Bid on one film or all of them.
The top bids take ownership
Several people can own the same film, and each earns its full score.
Monday, the weekend scores
And you find out whether that $14 was brave or stupid.
Steal of the century
188.40points, for a $2 bid
Somebody in a real league did this with Top Gun: Maverick, and has not shut up about it since.
Priciest whiff
$24on a film that scored 1.98
There is a prize for this. It is not a nice prize.
Thirty-three seasons of this
It ran on a spreadsheet until now. Start a league, or take the full rules first.