Onsite fantasy sports game using onsite and network-based data collection and processing

A network-based method of providing a facility-specific fantasy sport game environment, comprising:

• with an onsite game system at an onsite facility, inputting player data for a plurality of game players that defines a set of game element selections for a set of sporting events held within a game period;
• transferring the player data from the onsite facility to a game management system over a communications network;
• during the game period, operating the game management system to generate game results for the game players by processing data for the set of sporting events and the transferred player data, to generate a leaderboard including the game results, and to transfer the leaderboard to the onsite facility over the communications network;
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• with the onsite game system, displaying the leaderboard on a display device at the onsite facility.

A system adapted for supporting operating fantasy sports games onsite at particular facilities, comprising:

• a game management system linked to a communications network, the game management system comprising memory and a game management mechanism generating an input sheet for a fantasy sports game for a game period and storing the input sheet in the memory, the input sheet defining a set of game elements for a set of sporting events occurring during the game period;
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• a plurality of onsite game systems located at a plurality of geographically dispersed facilities and linked to the communications network, each of the onsite game systems adapted for receiving the input sheet, inputting player data for game players based on a plurality of the input sheets received from game players at the facilities, and transferring the player data to the game management system;
• wherein the game management mechanism generates game results for each of the onsite game systems at each of the facilities based on data for the set of sporting events and on the transferred player data and transfers the game results to each of the onsite game systems over the communications network.