Red Carpet Rosters

Think fantasy football meets film awards season. If you’ve done fantasy sports before, instead of drafting quarterbacks, running backs, and wide receivers, you draft films, actors, actresses, and crew members. And instead of touchdowns and yards, your team gets points from nominations and wins at ALL the ceremonies in the film awards season. All you have to do is join a league and we take care of the rest!

But wait, I’ve never done fantasy sports before. Can you explain it for someone like me?

If you’ve never done fantasy sports before (which is totally okay!), think of it like this: you pick which films, cast, and crew you think will get your team a lot of points. The leagues start off by conducting a draft, where all the people in your league get together and pick players (i.e. films, cast, and crew members) which comprises your team. Once you select a particular player for your team, no one else can select that player. There’s a catch, though. Once someone else selects, say, Tom Hanks, you can’t have him on your team. Everyone takes turns selecting players until your entire team is filled. Then your team gets points based on how many total nominations and wins your players get.

So whichever team gets the most points wins?

Sort of. After the draft, the regular season begins. What’s unique about Red Carpet Rosters is a head-to-head matchup structure, just like any other fantasy sport. For a typical 10-team league, every team will play each other once in a head to head matchup. If you score more points than your opponent for that matchup, you win! Each regular season matchup will result in a win, loss, or tie for each team. The team who scores more points than their opponent and their opponent alone will win that matchup. The regular season will conclude after nine matchups.

What is the schedule of matchups?

The matchup schedule for the regular season is FINAL.

Matchup Dates
Matchup 1: 10/24/2023 – 12/01/2023 (39 days)
Matchup 2: 12/02/2023 – 12/11/2023 (10 days)
Matchup 3: 12/12/2023 – 12/16/2023 (5 days)
Matchup 4: 12/17/2023 – 12/20/2023 (4 days)
Matchup 5: 12/21/2023 – 12/23/2023 (3 days)
Matchup 6: 12/24/2023 – 01/03/2024 (11 days)
Matchup 7: 01/04/2024 – 01/05/2024 (2 days)
Matchup 8: 01/06/2024 – 01/11/2024 (6 days)
Matchup 9: 01/12/2024 – 01/22/2024 (11 days)
First Round of Playoffs: 01/23/2024 (1 day)
Semifinals: 01/25/2024 - 03/09/2024 (47 days)
Championship: 03/10/2024 (1 day)

Why do the matchups have uneven durations?

Unlike fantasy football where each matchup is the same duration (Thursday to Monday), Red Carpet Rosters matchups are of varying duration with a minimum of two days. Immediately after the Gotham Awards nominations, the first ceremony of the regular season and early in the season, awards are scarcer. In December it really picks up, then a lull over the holidays, and picks back up in January. To make sure that each matchup has comparable point potential, some matchups last longer than others, especially that first matchup. Be mindful of this when preparing for your matchup. The first matchup will last a few weeks whereas late season matchups may last only two days.

How is the overall winner of my league determined?

The six teams with the best records after the regular season will advance to the playoffs. These records will be used to seed the teams in the playoffs. If there is a tie in record between teams, total points scored will be used as the first tiebreaker and total industry award points will be the second tiebreaker. Then it’s a winner-take-all single-elimination playoff, where the last team standing is the league champion, no matter what their regular season record was, just like the playoffs in most other sports and fantasy sports.

“Playoffs? You kidding me? Playoffs??” -Jim Mora, 2001

That is correct. In our quest to make Red Carpet Rosters as much like other fantasy sports, we can’t NOT have playoffs! The first round of the playoffs is on January 24, 2023, Oscar nomination day.

After nine matchups in the regular season (starting October 25 with the Gotham Awards nomination), the six teams with the best record will then advance to the playoffs. The top two teams will receive a bye in the first round (i.e. Oscar Nomination Tuesday.) Regular season record will be used to seed the playoffs. The playoffs are single-elimination. Winner advances to the next round, regardless of prior regular season record.

The playoffs start with the Oscar Nominations and will only last one day. This single day will act as the first round of the playoffs. It is possible other awards will be announced unexpectedly on this day, and those points will also be included in the first round. For example, in the 2019-2020 season, Denver Critics announced their nominations (bold move Denver.) The second round of the playoffs will be all awards between the Oscar nominations and the Oscar ceremony. The championship will then be the Oscar ceremony alone.

What if there is a tie in the playoffs?

In case of a tie in a playoff matchup, the previous head to head winner will advance to the next round. If that previous matchup also resulted in a tie, total points in the regular season is the second tiebreaker.

I won the championship in my league. Do I get a prize?

The only prize that Red Carpet Rosters will give you is respect and admiration. Talk to all the people you beat and maybe you can convince them to give you a prize.