US 11,229,851 B2Granted

Fantasy league management

AssigneeFront Office Media LLC

InventorsPaul Gabrail, Andrew Strigle, Benjamin Murphy

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Abstract

One or more techniques and/or systems for managing a fantasy league are disclosed to incorporate one or more reality factors, equity lines, luxury tax, and/or revenue sharing policies into administration of the fantasy league. A reality factor may influence real life scenarios between at least one of a real player, a real team, and/or a real league, for example. Accordingly, the reality factor may be applied to at least one of a corresponding fantasy player, fantasy team, and/or fantasy league to create a fantasy rule configured to enable a fantasy environment (e.g., the fantasy player, fantasy team, fantasy league, and/or relationships thereof) to more closely emulate the real player, real team, real league, and/or corresponding relationships.

Claims18

Dependent claims

A system for managing a fantasy league, comprising:

a processing unit;
and
memory for storing instructions which when executed by the processing unit perform a method, the method comprising:
evaluating a set of articles about a real player of a real league to determine trade information associated with the real player and to determine an impact number, wherein:
the set of articles are used to estimate an impact of the real player on attendance at a real game in the real league, and
the impact number is a function of the impact of the real player on attendance at the real game;
creating a set of one or more fantasy rules for a fantasy player in the fantasy league based upon the trade information, wherein the fantasy player represents the real player in the fantasy league;
applying the impact number to the fantasy player in the fantasy league based upon the set of articles;
adjusting a payroll of a first fantasy team when the fantasy player is associated with the first fantasy team based upon the impact number;
receiving a trade request for the fantasy player to trade the fantasy player from the first fantasy team to a second fantasy team;
evaluating the trade request against the set of one or more fantasy rules to determine whether the trade request satisfies the set of one or more fantasy rules;
and
initiating the trade of the fantasy player from the first fantasy team to the second fantasy team responsive to determining that the trade request satisfies the set of one or more fantasy rules.

10 more elements

A system for managing a fantasy league, comprising:

a processing unit;
and
memory for storing instructions which when executed by the processing unit perform a method, the method comprising:
evaluating a set of articles about a real player of a real league to determine trade information associated with the real player and to determine an impact number, wherein the impact number describes a percentage of revenue of a real team, to which the real player is member, that is attributable to the real player;
creating a set of one or more fantasy rules for a fantasy player in the fantasy league based upon the trade information, wherein the fantasy player represents the real player in the fantasy league;
applying the impact number to the fantasy player in the fantasy league based upon the set of articles;
adjusting a payroll of a first fantasy team when the fantasy player is associated with the first fantasy team based upon the impact number;
receiving a trade request for the fantasy player to trade the fantasy player from the first fantasy team to a second fantasy team;
evaluating the trade request against the set of one or more fantasy rules to determine whether the trade request satisfies the set of one or more fantasy rules;
and
initiating the trade of the fantasy player from the first fantasy team to the second fantasy team responsive to determining that the trade request satisfies the set of one or more fantasy rules.

8 more elements

A system for managing a fantasy league, comprising:

a processing unit;
and
memory for storing instructions which when executed by the processing unit perform a method, the method comprising:
evaluating a set of articles about a real player of a real league to determine trade information associated with the real player and to determine an impact number;
creating a set of one or more fantasy rules for a fantasy player in the fantasy league based upon the trade information, wherein the fantasy player represents the real player in the fantasy league;
applying the impact number to the fantasy player in the fantasy league based upon the set of articles;
adjusting a payroll of a first fantasy team when the fantasy player is associated with the first fantasy team based upon the impact number, wherein adjusting the payroll of the first fantasy team comprises:
averaging the impact number of the fantasy player with impact numbers of one or more other players associated with the first fantasy team to determine a factor in a head-to-head scoring between a matchup of the first fantasy team and a second fantasy team;
and
using the head-to-head scoring to determine a winner of the matchup, wherein the payroll of the first fantasy team is adjusted based upon whether the first fantasy team is the winner of the matchup;
receiving a trade request for the fantasy player to trade the fantasy player from the first fantasy team to a third fantasy team;
evaluating the trade request against the set of one or more fantasy rules to determine whether the trade request satisfies the set of one or more fantasy rules;
and
initiating the trade of the fantasy player from the first fantasy team to the third fantasy team responsive to determining that the trade request satisfies the set of one or more fantasy rules.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/672,961Filed 4 Nov 2019 · division
Priority: 2 Sep 2011
Published: US 2020/0061476 A127 Feb 2020
Granted: 25 Jan 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A63F 13/828
Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode: managing virtual sport teams
A63F 13/55
Video games, i.e. games using an electronically generated display having two or more dimensions: controlling game characters or game objects based…
A63F 13/58
Controlling game characters or game objects based on the game progress: by computing conditions of game characters, e.g. stamina, strength,…
A63F 13/812
Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode: ball games, e.g. soccer or baseball

Family

Application13/224,870Parent of this continuation · filed 2 Sep 2011
Application14/222,899Parent of this continuation · filed 24 Mar 2014
US 8,678,930 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 25 Mar 2014
Application15/418,992Parent of this division · filed 30 Jan 2017
US 9,555,325 B2Parent of this continuation · filed 31 Jan 2017
US 2020/0061476 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Feb 2020
US 10,463,976 B2Parent of this division
Application15/418,992Parent of this continuation
US 2013/0060361 A1Published application
US 2014/0206455 A1Published application
US 2017/0136366 A1Published application
US 11,229,851 B2This patent

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