I've been thinking of ways to make a year long ultimate league like the box office one we've got going on and I believe I have a few ways to do it. I wanted to gauge interest before anything happens and get some feedback on which way to go if any.
First off, I foresee the start date as November for a few reasons. It's about half a year after the BO league start date so we'd have different ideas of what will do well when. And it has slow months at the end of the season so we don't cut off major releases early. In all three scenarios we'd still have a salary cap even though we eliminated it for box office I think we'd need it for ultimate. We'd also have a set number of films on our slate. I don't know exactly how much/many money/film slots we'd have right now and we could debate that.
The first idea I had was to run it normally but with more slots, a bigger cap, and over a calendar year. Maybe 20-30 films, $500-800 cap. It borrows a little from the mini super leagues at the end of the year where you can use a film once and only get what it accrues during that three month season, but it would be one giant slate instead of two added together. We'd use the regular pricing scheme.
The second one would be a draft, but not like the Box Office one. We'd have mini drafts each month. Ideally 10 people per league so everyone drafts on every spot once (there are ten three month seasons in a year), but we could make it pretty fair even if it's not a ten person league. Every film would be able to get drafted three times (a May film could get drafted in March, April, and May for instance). Still the same deal as the first idea where you'd have 20-30 spots to fill a year with $500-$800 budget. In each draft you could select as many or few films as you want, 2 one month, 10 another, it doesn't matter. You just have to fill your spots/budget eventually.
The last one is like the second one but with an auction every month instead of a draft. My guess is it would be way too time consuming and complicated, but it can be done and I believe would be fun. We'd have an auction board that people would update and all bidding would close the time the first film of the month locks.
Let me know what you think.