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US 2018/0001215 A1Published application
Automatic Fantasy Sports Data Analysis Method and Apparatus
AssigneeYahoo! Inc.
InventorsMichael Lazarus, Maxim Sviridenko, Justin Thaler
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Abstract
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content generating, searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for automatic fantasy sports data analysis, including analysis of data to equalize player attractiveness in contestant composition of a fantasy sports team.
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A method comprising:
- receiving, at a computing device, a request to determine a plurality of fantasy salaries for use with a number of fantasy sports contests to be made available to users of an online fantasy sports system, the plurality of fantasy salaries corresponding to a plurality of athletes and a plurality of real world sports competitions on which each contest of the number is based;
- determining, at the computing device, a plurality of sets of factors for the plurality of athletes, the set of factors determined for an athlete of the plurality of athletes and used in a fantasy salary determination for the athlete comprising:
- a fantasy point projection factor, the fantasy point projection factor is an estimate of a number of fantasy points that the athlete is likely to score;
- a number of past performance factors, each past performance factor of the number representing a number of fantasy points scored by the athlete over a corresponding range of past real world competitions in which the athlete participated;
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- an ownership factor for an athlete of the plurality, the ownership factor representing a popularity of the athlete with users of the online fantasy sports system;
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- determining, using the computing device, a plurality of fantasy sports salaries corresponding to the plurality of athletes, the fantasy sports salary determination for the athlete of the plurality of athletes comprising a combination of the fantasy point projection factor, the number of past performance factors and the ownership factor in the set of factors determined for the athlete.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium tangibly encoded with computer-executable instructions, that when executed by a processor associated with a computing device, performs a method comprising:
- receiving a request to determine a plurality of fantasy salaries for use with a number of fantasy sports contests to be made available to users of an online fantasy sports system, the plurality of fantasy salaries corresponding to a plurality of athletes and a plurality of real world sports competitions on which each contest of the number is based;
- determining a plurality of sets of factors for the plurality of athletes, the set of factors determined for an athlete of the plurality of athletes and used in a fantasy salary determination for the athlete comprising:
- a fantasy point projection factor, the fantasy point projection factor is an estimate of a number of fantasy points that the athlete is likely to score;
- a number of past performance factors, each past performance factor of the number representing a number of fantasy points scored by the athlete over a corresponding range of past real world competitions in which the athlete participated;
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- an ownership factor for an athlete of the plurality, the ownership factor representing a popularity of the athlete with users of the online fantasy sports system;
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- determining a plurality of fantasy sports salaries corresponding to the plurality of athletes, the fantasy sports salary determination for the athlete of the plurality of athletes comprising a combination of the fantasy point projection factor, the number of past performance factors and the ownership factor in the set of factors determined for the athlete.
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A computing device comprising:
- a processor;
- a non-transitory storage medium for tangibly storing thereon program logic for execution by the processor, the program logic comprising:
- receiving logic executed by the processor for receiving a request to determine a plurality of fantasy salaries for use with a number of fantasy sports contests to be made available to users of an online fantasy sports system, the plurality of fantasy salaries corresponding to a plurality of athletes and a plurality of real world sports competitions on which each contest of the number is based;
- determining logic executed by the processor for determining a plurality of sets of factors for the plurality of athletes, the set of factors determined for an athlete of the plurality of athletes and used in a fantasy salary determination for the athlete comprising:
- a fantasy point projection factor, the fantasy point projection factor is an estimate of a number of fantasy points that the athlete is likely to score;
- a number of past performance factors, each past performance factor of the number representing a number of fantasy points scored by the athlete over a corresponding range of past real world competitions in which the athlete participated;
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- an ownership factor for an athlete of the plurality, the ownership factor representing a popularity of the athlete with users of the online fantasy sports system;
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- determining logic executed by the processor for determining a plurality of fantasy sports salaries corresponding to the plurality of athletes, the fantasy sports salary determination for the athlete of the plurality of athletes comprising a combination of the fantasy point projection factor, the number of past performance factors and the ownership factor in the set of factors determined for the athlete.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.