How it worksTHE RUNDOWN

The whole season, explained.

Here’s how a season fits together, what a flight is, and what you run yourself if you’re the commissioner.

2026 · this season

This year at a glance

A snapshot of the current calendar. It’s generated from the real Bravo airing schedule, so it shifts from year to year.

F1F2F3AprJulOctJan

The bars overlap. Bravo airs shows continuously, so flight windows run into each other. A full-season league plays the overlapping flights at the same time, each with its own roster and matchups, all feeding one cumulative total.

Flight 1Jan 8 to Jul 15

The Valley: Persian Style, Summer House, The Valley, Real Housewives of Rhode Island

Flight 2Apr 5 to Sep 30

Real Housewives of Atlanta, In the City, Below Deck Mediterranean, The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys, Next Gen NYC

Flight 3Jul 9 to Mar 31

Real Housewives of Orange County, Real Housewives of London, Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Real Housewives of New York, Below Deck

Step 1 · Pick a format

Your season

When you start a league you choose how much of the year you’re in for. Either way, it’s head-to-head against your friends every week.

Single flight

One draft, one stretch of shows, one champion. In and out in a few weeks. Great for a first run or a single show cycle.

Full season

Play all three flights the year has, in one league with the same teams. You draft a fresh roster each time a new batch of shows premieres, and because those batches overlap you’ll often be running two (sometimes three) flights at once. Every flight’s points and record stack into a single cumulative race to a year-end title, no new league needed.

Step 2 · The building block

What's a flight?

A flight is one draft plus one scoring window, built around a cluster of Bravo shows that air around the same time. Three things worth knowing:

  • Everyone shares them. Flights are league-wide. Every league playing 2026 Flight 1 drafts from the same cast pool on the same calendar: the same playing field, everywhere.
  • Whole shows, never split. A flight holds entire show seasons start to finish, so a show is never cut off mid-run. That means flight windows can overlap on the calendar, totally normal.
  • Built from the schedule. Unscripted groups the airing calendar into flights automatically. Some years have more flights, some fewer.
Step 3 · Build your team

Drafts & Rosters

You draft from the cast of that flight’s shows. Roster size isn’t a fixed number. It flexes to how much cast the flight has, so a stacked flight gives you a deeper bench than a quiet one.

In a full-season league you draft again each time a new flight opens, so a mid-year premiere is a fresh shot at a title contender.

Step 4 · Rack up points

Scoring

Each flight runs in real, seven-day weeks tied to when episodes actually air. When an episode drops, the rubric scores it automatically and files the points into the week it aired.

Points come in four tiers. Big swings are the rare ones worth waiting for, like a slap, a thrown drink, or a hot mic. Episode drama is the week-to-week texture: a heated argument, a blindside, storming off, hosting the party. Everyday moments are the small, steady points that keep a quiet week from ending at zero, like phone drama, a toast, or getting talked about behind your back.

The fourth tier costs you. Anything that defuses a story is worth negative points: apologizing sincerely, playing peacekeeper to shut a fight down, plugging your tequila line mid-scene, or refusing to film at all. Drafting a calm, reasonable cast member is a real risk.

Win your week, win your matchup. Win the chat.

For commissioners

You run it. We keep the calendar.

Starting a league makes you the commissioner. Here’s the split:

You choose
  • The league name & who’s in
  • Max teams
  • Single flight or full season
  • When to open the draft
  • The final say on every scored event
Unscripted handles
  • The flight calendar & windows
  • Which shows go in which flight
  • The draft-eligible cast pool
  • Roster size for each flight
  • Filing each episode into the right week
  • Scoring it automatically as recaps publish

That’s the whole game. Someone’s about to get fired. Go draft them.