Fantasy Sports System
OwnerDavid A. Thormaninventor
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Abstract
Fantasy sports systems and methods comprising receiving a fantasy lineup roster including a plurality of players, each player assigned to a playing position and one or more of the plurality of players further assigned to one or more alternative positions, assigning scores to each of the plurality of players based on statistics derived from one or more real life competitions, receiving a notification of at least one substitution event, each substitution event associated with one of the players and also associated with a substitution segment within the one or more real life competitions, and calculating a fantasy lineup score by aggregating the assigned scores of each of the players assigned to a playing position.
Claims20
A method of scoring in a fantasy sports league comprising the steps of:
- receiving a fantasy lineup roster including a plurality of players, each player assigned to a playing position and one or more of the plurality of players further assigned to one or more alternative positions, each alternative position being a backup to a playing position or another alternative position;
- assigning scores to each of the plurality of players based on statistics derived from 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;
- receiving a notification of at least one substitution event, each substitution event associated with one of the players and also associated with a substitution segment within the one or more real life competitions;
- and
- calculating a fantasy lineup score by aggregating the assigned scores of each of the players assigned to a playing position;
- wherein, the step of calculating a fantasy lineup score further includes substituting the assigned score for the player assigned to the alternative position that is the backup to the playing position for which the notification of the substitution event relates for all segments within the one or more real life competitions that occur after the substitution segment associated with the substitution event occurs.
A fantasy sports system comprising:
- a memory configured to store a set of instructions;
- and
- a processor configured to execute the set of instructions, wherein the set of instructions cause the processor to:
- receive a fantasy lineup roster including a plurality of players, each player assigned to a playing position and one or more of the plurality of players further assigned to one or more alternative positions, each alternative position being a backup to a playing position or another alternative position;
- assign scores to each of the plurality of players based on statistics derived from 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;
- receive a notification of at least one substitution event, each substitution event associated with one of the players and also associated with a substitution segment within the one or more real life competitions;
- and
- calculate a fantasy lineup score by aggregating the assigned scores of each of the players assigned to a playing position;
- wherein, when one of the players assigned to a playing position is associated with a notification of a substitution event, the step of calculating a fantasy lineup score further includes substituting the assigned score for the player assigned to the alternative position that is the backup to the playing position for which the notification of the substitution event relates for all segments within the one or more real life competitions that occur after the substitution segment associated with the substitution event occurs.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.