US 11,110,359 B2Granted

Fantasy sports system

OwnerDavid A. Thormanninventor

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Abstract

A method of scoring in a fantasy sports league comprising the steps of: providing a system server in communication with a sports data server and a weather data server; receiving a sports data source from the sports data server; receiving real time weather data from the weather data server; storing a score enhancing modifier that instructs the system server how to modify scores based on the weather data; receiving a fantasy lineup roster including a plurality of players, each participating in a real life competition; assigning the scores to each of the plurality of players based on the statistics derived from the real life competition; modifying the assigned score of a player in real time by the score enhancing modifier based on the weather data; and calculating a fantasy lineup score by aggregating the assigned, modified scores of each of the players.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method of scoring in a fantasy sports league comprising the steps of:

providing a system server in communication with a sports data server and a weather data server via a communications network;
receiving, in the system server, a sports data source from the sports data server, wherein the sports data source includes real time statistics derived from one or more real life competitions;
receiving, in the system server, real time weather data from the weather data server, wherein the weather data is related to weather conditions specific to each respective one of the one or more real life competitions;
storing, in the system server, a score enhancing modifier, wherein the score enhancing modifier instructs the system server how to modify one or more scores based on the weather data;
receiving, in the system server, a fantasy lineup roster including a plurality of players, each player participating in one of the one or more real life competitions, each player assigned to a playing position;
assigning, by the system server, the one or more scores to each of the plurality of players based on the statistics derived from the one or more real life competitions, wherein the assigned scores are segmented in a manner consistent with a plurality of segments within the one or more real life competitions;
modifying, by the system server, the assigned score of a player in real time by the score enhancing modifier based on the weather data specific to the one of the one or more real life competitions relevant to the statistics upon which that player's assigned score is based;
and
calculating, by the system server, a fantasy lineup score by aggregating the assigned, modified scores of each of the players assigned to a playing position.

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A fantasy sports system comprising:

a sports data server;
a weather data server;
a system server in communication with the sports data server and the weather data server via a communications network, the system server including:
a memory configured to store a set of instructions;
and
a processor configured to execute the set of instructions, wherein, when executed, the set of instructions cause the processor to:
receive a sports data source from the sports data server, wherein the sports data source includes real time statistics derived from one or more real life competitions;
receiving real time weather data from the weather data server, wherein the weather data is related to weather conditions specific to each respective one of the one or more real life competitions;
receiving a score enhancing modifier, wherein the score enhancing modifier instructs the system server how to modify one or more scores based on the weather data;
receive a fantasy lineup roster including a plurality of players, each player participating in one of the one or more real life competitions, each player assigned to a playing position;
assign scores to each of the plurality of players based on statistics derived from the one or more real life competitions, wherein the assigned scores are segmented in a manner consistent with a plurality of segments within the one or more real life competitions;
modifying the assigned score of a player by the score enhancing modifier based on the weather data specific to the one of the one or more real life competitions relevant to the statistics upon which that player's assigned score is based;
and
calculate a fantasy lineup score by aggregating the assigned scores of each of the players assigned to a playing position.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/506,866Filed 9 Jul 2019 · continuation
Priority: 6 May 2016
Published: US 2019/0366220 A15 Dec 2019
Granted: 7 Sep 2021
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification11 codes

A63F 13/828
Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode: managing virtual sport teams
A63F 13/46
Controlling the progress of the video game: computing the game score
A63F 13/65
Generating or modifying game content before or while executing the game program, e.g. authoring tools specially adapted for game development or…:…
A63F 13/798
Involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories: for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for…

Family

Application62/332,930Us provisional application · filed 6 May 2016
Application15/589,580Parent of this continuation · filed 8 May 2017
US 2019/0366220 A1Pre-grant publication · published 5 Dec 2019
US 10,343,074 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2017/0319970 A1Published application
US 11,110,359 B2This patent

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