Author: John
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Draft Strategy Using Last Year’s Results as a Guide
It’s Red Carpet Rosters draft time! And this year is a strange one. I’m not going to call it a down year. After all, how can it be down when both Hundreds of Beavers and The Substance released to theaters this year? However, it is a year with virtually no clear frontrunners in any category.…
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Oscars Betting and the New York Times
I had the great fortune of being featured in a New York Times article about my experience with Oscars betting! Next year, look to this site to see more suggestions on betting picks as I will release them much more periodically to go with the planned new features of the site! https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/business/oscars-betting.html
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Oscar Wins Over/Under Contest for Red Carpet Rosters
The 96th Academy Awards are on Sunday, March 10, and if predicting the winners in each category sounds too daunting, here’s a little contest for you. https://forms.gle/XTwzuqYrdJWAeqrM8 The rules are simple. Each Oscar-nominated feature film has an “O/U” with a number by it. All you have to do is pick whether that film will get…
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Waiver Suggestions before Matchup #5
We didn’t really learn a whole lot from Matchup #4 in terms of waiver suggestions that we didn’t already know. All the prior waiver advice is still valid. And your league may even have some additional valuable picks from impatient owners who dropped players who have underwhelmed but still are good enough to own. Instead,…
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Waiver Suggestions before Matchup #4
We’re at the point of the regular season where the waiver wire offers some pretty slim pickings. I don’t like to repeat myself often, but my last waiver wire advice does still water as well as the one before that, albeit less so. In other words, if there are unowned players who either have appeared…
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Waiver Suggestions before Matchup #3
Matchup #2 is all but in the books, and in hindsight, this matchup should’ve been shorter. But when the matchup schedule was finalized, we didn’t know when the AFI was going to announce their top ten films of the year, not to mention nomination announcements from regional critics groups such as Las Vegas Film Critics…
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Waiver Suggestions Before Matchup #2
We are wrapping up Matchup #1, the quirkiest of all the matchups in the regular season because it skews VERY heavily to documentaries, indie films, and music. I won’t take too deep of a dive into the ceremonies…I mean, you have Google…but I do want to highlight some things we’ve learned from the various awards.…
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Early Betting Picks and Gotham Nominations Reaction
Welcome to Red Carpet Rosters Podcast, your hub for film awards fantasy advice, betting advice, some history, and the Academy Awards themselves. I am your host, John Richards of RedCarpetRosters.com, and welcome to this short bonus episode where we highlight early betting picks! If you followed me last year, you came out like gangbusters! On…
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Draft Strategy on Red Carpet Rosters Podcast
Parts 1 and 2 of the Season Two Premiere of the Red Carpet Rosters Podcast takes a deep dive into draft strategy, including tiers, sleepers, busts, draft and stashes, and more! Take a listen.