Ultimate Leagues: How they work

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Unlike Box Office leagues, which is scored only on Box Office results, scoring is based on four criteria for the movies you pick for your studio:

- Total Box Office
- Per Theater Average (PTA)
- IMDb User Review Score
- Weeks in the Box Office Top 5

Box Office - Total U.S. and Canadian box office returns.

Per Theater Average (PTA) - Total gross box office returns in the U.S. and Canada, divided by the number of theaters the movie played in. Points are awarded to the top five PTA movies each week, with five points for having the top weekly PTA, four points for the second-highest PTA, three points for the third-highest PTA, two points for the fourth-highest PTA and one point for the fifth-highest PTA.

IMDb User Review Score - IMDb's users rank each movie on a one-to-ten scale. Your studio's total IMDb User Review Score equals the total of the IMDb User Review Scores for all the movies on your slate.

Top 5 - Each week, movies that finish in the top five on that week's box office chart are awarded points: Five for finishing first for the week, four for second place, three for third, two for fourth and one for fifth. Movies can accumulate Top 5 points over multiple weeks. For example, a movie that finished first in its opening week, third in its second week and fifth in its third week would receive a total of nine Top 5 points (5 + 3 + 1).

Budget
Your studio has a budget of $100, which you'll use to select up to eight movies to fill out your studio slate. Movie prices are based on their projected real-world performances -- A top-grossing movie like The Dark Knight will cost a healthy chunk of your budget, while a limited-release independent film (like Juno) could be a bargain. You can buy any combination of up to eight movies that will fit under your budget.

Your studio is ranked in each of these four categories from first to last and assigned points based on your position. For example, in an eight-person league, the studio with the highest total Box Office earns eight points, while the studio with the lowest Box Office earns just one point.

Total up your points across all four categories to get your studio's total score. For example, in an eight-person league, if you were first in Box Office (eight points), second in PTA (seven points), last in IMDb User Review Score (one point) and fourth in Top 5 (five points), your total score would be 21 (8 + 7 + 1 + 5). The maximum number of points possible is 32 (8 + 8 + 8 + 8 ), while the least possible is 4 (1 + 1 + 1 + 1).

Your studio's score will change throughout the season -- A rival studio might have a big release this weekend to take a lead in the Box Office category, but next week your critically-acclaimed new release could give you a bunch of points in the User Review category to re-take the lead. So scores will change throughout the season, and to help you keep track of where you stand, along the way we'll provide projected season totals so you can see where you'll place if the projections for your movies hold up. At the end of the season, the studio with the highest total score wins.