Fantasy sports team league
OwnerSteven Gotkininventor
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Abstract
In a fantasy sports team league, a player salary cap is established and a draft is conducted by enabling players to select teams or team characteristics from a list of game matchups. Each team or team characteristic is assigned a cost and a point value based on each team's chance of winning. The players are required to keep a total cost of the selected teams below the player salary cap. After the game matchups have been played, the point value for each winning team or team characteristic selected by each of the players is awarded.
Claims9
A method of administering a fantasy sports team league, the method comprising:
- (a) establishing a player salary cap;
- (b) conducting a draft by enabling players to select teams or team characteristics from a list of game matchups, each team or team characteristic being assigned a cost and a point value based on each team's chance of winning, wherein the players are required to keep a total cost of the selected teams below the player salary cap;
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- (c) after the game matchups have been played, awarding the point value to the players for each winning team or team characteristic selected by each of the players.
A computer system for administering a fantasy sports team league, the computer system comprising:
- at least one user computer running a computer program that requests and processes information according to registration information input by a player;
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- a system server running a server program, the at least one user computer and the system server being interconnected by a computer network, the system server administering the fantasy sports team league by (a) establishing a player salary cap, (b) in conjunction with the at least one user computer, conducting a draft by enabling players to select teams or team characteristics from a list of game matchups, each team or team characteristic being assigned a cost and a point value based on each team's chance of winning, wherein the players are required to keep a total cost of the selected teams below the player salary cap, and (c) after the game matchups have been played, the system server awarding the point value to the players for each winning team or team characteristic selected by each of the players.
A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium for administering a fantasy sports team league, the computer program being executed by a computer processor to perform the steps of:
- (a) establishing a player salary cap;
- (b) conducting a draft by enabling players to select teams or team characteristics from a list of game matchups, each team or team characteristic being assigned a cost and a point value based on each team's chance of winning, wherein the players are required to keep a total cost of the selected teams below the player salary cap;
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- (c) after the game matchups have been played, awarding the point value to the players for each winning team or team characteristic selected by each of the players.
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