Social wagering for live sporting events

Non-transitory computer-readable storage media encoded with a computer program including instructions executable by a processor to create a social wagering application for live sporting events comprising:

• a) a software module configured to allow a user to create, update, and manage a user account;
• b) a software module configured to allow the user to choose a favorite sporting team and to follow one or more other sporting teams wherein a sporting team comprises two or more players;
• c) a software module configured to allow the user to choose from in-play or upcoming sporting events of a selected sporting team to play a social wagering game;
• d) a software module configured to divide the whole playing period of the chose sporting event into sub-periods and to allow the user to choose players as selected game-players for each sub-period;
• e) a database storing scoring rules parameters comprising player-events occurred during sporting events and positive or negative scoring points for each player-event, wherein scoring points are varied for players playing at different positions;
• f) a software module configured to award points to the user upon the chosen game-player's all positive and negative scoring player-events during each sub-period, and to calculate the user's total points for the whole chosen sporting event based on the sum of awarded points to the user of all sub-periods;
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• g) a software module configured to rank the user among all users of the chosen sporting event based on the total points, and to award the user one or more of prizes, experiences and wagering tokens based on the user's ranking.

A computer-implemented method of creating a social wagering application for live sporting events comprising:

• a) providing, by a computer, an interface configured to allow a player to create, update, and manage a player account;
• b) providing, by the computer, an interface configured to allow the player to choose a favorite sporting team and to follow one or more other sporting teams wherein a sporting team comprises two or more players;
• c) providing, by the computer, an interface configured to allow the player to choose from in-play or upcoming sporting events of a selected sporting team to play a social wagering game;
• d) providing, by the computer, an interface configured to divide the whole playing period of the chosen sporting event into sub-periods and to allow the user to choose players as selected game-players for each sub-period;
• e) retrieving, by the computer, information from a database storing scoring rules parameters comprising player-events occurred during sporting events and positive or negative scoring points for each player-event, wherein scoring points are varied for players playing at different positions;
• f) providing, by the computer, an interface configured to award points to the user upon the chosen game-player's all positive and negative scoring player-events during each sub-period, and to calculate the user's total points for the whole chosen sporting event based on the sum of awarded points to the user of all sub-periods;
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• g) providing, by the computer, an interface configured to rank the user among all user of the chosen sporting event based on the total points, and to award the user one or more of prizes, experiences and wagering tokens based on the user's ranking.