Just throwing this out there, but has anyone ever tried a rotisserie model league, similar to a rotisserie baseball or fantasy football league but with models?
Here is the wiki entry for rotisserie baseball
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotisserie_League_Baseball
Fantasy baseball is a game whereby players manage imaginary
baseball teams based on the real-life performance of baseball players, and compete against one another using those players'
statistics to score points.
Here is a rough outline of the game. The idea would be that each player (member) would draft a "team" of models in a league of 10-12 teams. Each model can only be on one team, in a league. Each team would have about 10 models or so (but could be more). Maybe the models would be divided up by geographic origin or age to make it more interesting (see below). As the real models got covers, runway shows, editorials, campaigans etc the teams would accumulate points. Each league would have its own commissioner running things to ratify scoring, trades, etc.
To make it more interesting I think the teams would be made up of models from certain categories maybe something like this:
Model 1: Eastern European
Model 2: South American
Model 3: British Empire (UK, Aus, S Africa, Canada, etc)
Model 4: Western European (not UK)
Model 5: Asian, African etc
Model 6: a fresh face - brand new model
Model 7: 2nd fresh face
Model 8: wildcard - model from any category
Model 9: wildcard
Model 10: wildcard
To do this you'd probably just define which models go in which category before the draft. Maybe you'd want the team size to be larger.
After the draft, when a model did some work the team would get points based on it. Maybe 1 pt for a runway show and 20 pts for a cover. These could be broken down even further by the prestige of the work -bonuses for the biggest shows etc.
As the game progressed, the team managers would have the option of making trades and adding/dropping models as they saw fit.
A lot of rules would have to be defined -
scoring
the frequency team changes could be made
the game's time limit
this is just an idea I'm throwing out there to see if there'd be interest. It would take some effort to get off the ground, but I think it would be a pretty fun thing to try.