TellyDraft is a fantasy game for reality TV fans. Create or join a league, draft contestants from the current season, and build a roster you can root for all season.
As episodes air, your contestants earn and lose points for what happens on the show. At the end of the season, the league member with the most points wins.
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Leagues are groups of people playing together. From your dashboard, you can join a public league or create a private league. Pick the option that fits how you want to play. There is more information on each below.
Private leagues are for friends, family, co-workers, or anyone else you want to invite. You choose the league name, share the invite link, and decide when it is time to draft.
When you create a private league, you become its commissioner. Commissioners manage invitations, choose the draft mode, and start the draft.
Your league dashboard includes an invite link to send by text, email, or however your group communicates. Anyone who opens the link can accept or decline the invitation.
League members start receiving points once the draft ends. If the show begins before the draft is finished, points from before the draft ended do not count. However, in the event you want points from before your draft ended to count, the league commissioner has the option to backdate points.
If the draft finishes after the season begins, the commissioner may be able to choose Backdate Points in the league settings. This retroactively adds points from the start of the season for all members in the league.
Public leagues are for fans who want to play with new people. Join the queue and we’ll place you in the next available league with other TellyDraft players.
You can join up to three public leagues per day. Public drafts have a 12-hour pick timer. If someone does not make their pick in time, the system makes a pick for them so the draft can keep moving.
League members start receiving points once the draft ends. If the show begins before the draft is finished, points from before the draft ended do not count.
Drafts are the process during which each league member picks a roster of contestants who earn points for them throughout the season.
In an exclusive draft, members pick one contestant at a time. The draft order is randomized by default (although this can be overriden by the commissioner), then reverses each round in a snake draft. Once someone selects a contestant, no one else can select them. The draft ends when there are no eligible contestants left.
Public leagues use exclusive drafts. Trades and swaps are available only in exclusive-draft leagues.
When your group is ready, select Start Draft from the league dashboard. Before confirming, you can review the draft order for an exclusive draft.
Wait until everyone has responded before starting. Once a draft begins, you cannot invite new members.
Your contestants earn and lose points based on what happens in the show. Each show has a unique set of achievements and scores.
League members start receiving points once the draft ends. If the show begins before the draft is finished, points from before the draft ended do not count. Private leagues can override this by backdating points, public leagues cannot.
In an exclusive draft, a trade is a way to acquire a contestant you did not get in the draft.
From the Trades page, choose Propose Trade, then select the contestants you are offering and the contestants you want in return. Contestants who have already been eliminated cannot be traded. The other league member can accept or decline your proposal.
When a trade is accepted, the contestants move to their new rosters. Points earned before the trade stay with the previous roster; points earned afterward count for the new roster.
If a contestant in a pending trade is eliminated, the trade is canceled automatically.
In an exclusive draft, a swap drops a contestant from your roster so you can try to add an undrafted contestant or one who joined the season after the draft.
A swap is not guaranteed as several members can request the same contestant. Thus, requests are processed in priority order, so the league member higher in the priority order gets the contestant. The priority order is initially set as the reverse of the draft order, and as each member makes a successful swap, they move to the back of the line, and everyone else moves up.
If you are currently first in the priority line, your swap will be immediately processed. If you are further back in line, your swap will be processed either when everyone in front of you in line has made a swap or at the end of a week. The "end of the week" varies depending on the show. Big Brother weeks typically end after an eviction. Survivor weeks end before the start of a new episode.
In addition to leagues, we offer several higher level "community picks" that allow you to make predictions and share your opinion with the wider TellyDraft community. These picks do not effect scoring.
While Winner Picks are open, you can predict who will win the season. After you submit, you can see how the community ranks each contestant based on everyone’s picks.
While First Boot Picks are open, you can predict the first contestant to be eliminated. After you submit, you can see the community’s predictions ranked by average vote.
Each week, you can rank the season’s contestants from your favorite to least favorite. Rankings cannot be changed after you submit. The Popularity page combines everyone’s rankings to show the community’s weekly favorites.