Assisting a user-participant during a fantasy league draft
AssigneeAdvanced Sports Media, LLC
InventorTheodore Kasten
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Abstract
In a fantasy league draft, a programmatic determination is made to present a list of a set of players based on a set of constraints to a user-participant prior to and during the fantasy league draft. This list may inform the user-participant of which player to choose in each round of the draft. In one or more embodiments, the user-participant is enabled to target and/or avoid one or more positions in each round of the fantasy league draft.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method for assisting a user-participant during a fantasy league draft, wherein the fantasy league draft provides for a plurality of user-participants to form a fantasy league by selecting players from a professional sports league, the fantasy draft being set by rules which implement multiple rounds, wherein during each round, each of the plurality of user-participants makes a selection of a player from the professional sports league for their respective fantasy league, wherein the method comprises:
- determining a set of players for the user-participant to select, based on a set of constraints based on the rules, the set of constraints including (i) a total number of players to be selected by the user-participant in the fantasy league draft, (ii) a minimum number of players that are to be selected in the fantasy league draft for each position in a set of player positions, and (iii) a maximum number of players that can be selected in the fantasy league draft for each position in the set of player positions;
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- presenting the set of players in a list to the user-participant, wherein the list identifies, for at least some of the players in the set, a round in the fantasy draft during which that player should be selected.
A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for assisting a user-participant during a fantasy league draft, wherein the fantasy league draft provides for a plurality of user-participants to form a fantasy league by selecting players from a professional sports league, the fantasy draft being set by rules which implement multiple rounds, wherein during each round, each of the plurality of user-participants makes a selection of a player from the professional sports league for their respective fantasy league, the instructions, when executed by one or more processors, causing the one or more processors to:
- determine a set of players for the user-participant to select, based on a set of constraints based on the rules, the set of constraints including (i) a total number of players to be selected by the user-participant in the fantasy league draft, (ii) a minimum number of players that are to be selected in the fantasy league draft for each position in a set of player positions, and (iii) a maximum number of players that can be selected in the fantasy league draft for each position in the set of player positions;
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- present the set of players in a list to the user-participant, wherein the list identifies, for at least some of the players in the set, a round in the fantasy draft during which that player should be selected.
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