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Forget who’s the funniest or your favorite character. You’re building the friend group you’d actually want to be in. Who’s showing up for your move? Who do you want to do drafts with? Who do you actually want to hang out with? Chemistry matters more than star power.

The rules for this draft are simple: Draft the teams that you think will win the most games this NFL season. Your score at the end of the season will be determined by the total number of games your teams win. I will keep track of the standings and send you a prize at the end of the regular season if you win. 1 win = 1 point, regular season only.

Rings! Choose wisely…

Welcome to the Best Soda Draft: a carbonated struggle to determine the greatest soft drink of all time. Competitors will build rosters from an elite pool of gas station icons, regional legends, fast food exclusives, mall-food-court staples, and deeply questionable 1990s flavor experiments. Draft carefully: because once someone takes Cherry Coke or Mountain Dew Baja Blast off the board, panic tends to set in.

The 1980s gave us time-traveling DeLoreans, whip-cracking archaeologists, karate tournaments, killer robots, ghost hunters, talking mogwais, and at least three movies you swear are masterpieces because you first saw them on VHS at age 11. Draft the best movies of the 1980s. Pick the films that defined the decade, shaped pop culture, or simply remain endlessly rewatchable. Comedy, action, sci-fi, drama, horror, animation, cult classics, and Oscar winners are all fair game. One rule: don't draft a movie that's already been selected (this is a type-in draft vs. picking from a set board). Nobody wants to spend their pick triumphantly announcing *Back to the Future* only to discover someone chose it three rounds ago.

I've created a list of life's simple pleasures. Draft your favorites.

Science has solved nutrition. Your body is fine no matter what you consume. Water is gone. You drink only what you draft. Cereal milk is an earned privilege; glasses of plain milk are not a thing. This list of candy, drinks, chips, sweets, frozen treats, and "meals" is all that exists forever. This is your eternal menu. Draft accordingly.

America’s National Parks are cathedrals of geology, history, wilderness, and scale that define the country’s natural identity. In this draft, choose the parks that inspire awe, adventure, and obsession, from towering mountains and ancient forests to deserts, glaciers, and volcanic worlds that feel almost impossible to believe are real.

A nation is in crisis. And somehow the only people available to restore order are the emotionally unstable residents of Springfield. In this snake-style draft, players assemble the ultimate Simpsons administration by filling key U.S. government positions with everyone from competent workhorses like Lisa Simpson to catastrophic wildcards like Mayor Quimby, Lionel Hutz, or Ralph Wiggum. Winner is the one who assembles the most hilarious new government.

All Oscar nominated films from 1990-2019 are eligible. Pick you favorites. 8 rounds.

Greatest HBO Original series of all time. Excluding documentaries. Draft the best roster of your top-5 HBO shows of all time.

Which award is the best to win? In each match-up choose which award you personally would like to win the most. Assume you have unlimited wealth, so its not like the award would help you with financial gain. Choose based on your own framework for prestige.

We're taking the results of the "Best Movies of the 1980s" draft and making our choices face off in a bracket showdown. Which movie will come out on top? We'll see...

Thirty-two contenders, one buttocks, zero mercy — this is the tournament where recliners talk trash and dentist chairs pray for an early exit. Bean bags are peaking in the 2-seed while the Airplane Economy Seat limps in as the overwhelming 32-seed nobody drafted on purpose. May the comfiest cushion win, and may God have mercy on whoever seeded the kneeling chair this high.