US 8,475,249 B2 · Fantasy sport auction draft application roster preview grid

Abstract

Methods and system for presenting a plurality of attributes of a plurality of players from a plurality of teams that are part of a league includes obtaining a plurality of attributes of the plurality of players and the plurality of teams. The plurality of attributes of the plurality of the players and of the teams is populated in one or more databases along with any updates to these attributes. The databases are queried to retrieve updated plurality of attributes of the plurality of players and the plurality of teams. A roster grid is generated for the plurality of teams for rendering at a client in substantial real time. The roster grid displays the updated status of the plurality of attributes of the plurality of players and the plurality of teams simultaneously in a clean, concise and effective manner.

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A method for managing information for presentation during a fantasy sports draft, comprising,

obtaining attributes of professional players;
generating a roster grid for a plurality of fantasy teams, the roster grid identifying each of the positions to be filled for each of the plurality of fantasy teams, the roster grid including cells that align at intersections of each of the fantasy teams and each of the positions to be filled, the cells having a visual indicator settings to identify when and which particular ones of the positions have been filled to a particular level;
presenting a player that is to be auctioned to managers of the plurality of fantasy teams;
adjusting, based on a position of the player that is to be auctioned, the roster grid by highlighting the cells that correspond to the position of the player that is to be auctioned;
and
adjusting the visual indicator of a cell that correspond to the player that was purchased during the auction, wherein the method is executed by a processor.

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A method for managing information for presentation during a fantasy sports draft, comprising:

obtaining attributes of the players from one or more sources, the attributes defining statistics of professional players;
querying league rules for a league in which the players are members, the league rules defining minimum requirements related to the players that has to be satisfied by each team formed in the league during the draft;
and
generating a roster grid for the league for rendering at the display, the roster grid includes a plurality of cells that are configured to present attributes of the players and the teams that are members of the league, the roster grid having visual indicators for each cell, each row and each column that are dynamically adjusted during the draft to provide visual indication of status of the one or more teams and the one or more players during the draft, the roster grid includes a static portion and a dynamic portion, cells in the static portion of the roster grid populated with the minimum requirements defined by the league rules and the cells in the dynamic portion of the roster grid populated with the attributes of the players and the teams during the draft.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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