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Hello My Imaginary Friends and TV Lovers,

For the past 6 years I’ve hosted and run a TV Draft / Pool. It’s like a football or hockey pool but with new television shows.

How It Works

1. Get a bunch of friends over to your house and watch all the trailers for this year’s new network television shows. (List below)
2. Everyone pays $5. (You can use pretend money or no money at all)
3. Divide the amount of shows by the amount of people. (There are 41 this year)
4. Put everyone’s name in a hat, chip bowl, or other receptor.
5. Pick a name from the receptor and that person gets first pick. Record what that person chooses and have them pick the next name.
6. Reverse the order of people who picked. (First goes last, last goes first)
7. Repeat steps 5-6 until everyone has an equal number of shows picked.
8. Give updates monthly for how well the shows are doing. I recommend TV Line, TV By The Numbers, Is My Show Cancelled, and TV Eh? for checking what is and what isn’t cancelled. Although Wikipedia works well too.
9. At next year’s Draft give this year’s First place 50% of the money collected, Second place 30%, and Third place 20%.

The Points

Points are awarded by how many episodes air and if it’s renewed. All points are tied to the category of the show.

The Shows

There are enough shows this season that you could easily play 3-10 people. More if you let 2 people choose the same shows.

Good Luck,
Éric