Systems and methods for providing fantasy sports contests with wagering opportunities

A system for implementing a fantasy sports contest application operative to provide to a user the ability to access fantasy sports contests and wagering opportunities, the system comprising:

• means for causing to be displayed fantasy sports contest information comprising information associated with a fantasy sports contest in which the user participates;
• means for generating an interactive menu for creating a wagering contest by selecting from a plurality of wagering contest attributes in the interactive menu, wherein the plurality of wagering contest attributes available are determined by the information associated with the fantasy sports contest and wagering rules of the fantasy sports contest;
• means for, in response to the creation of the wagering contest, transmitting to other users participating in the fantasy sports contest in which the user participates an option to place a wager in the created wagering contest;
• means for receiving wagers that have been place in the created wagering contest;
• and
• means for processing the wager.

A system for providing to a user the ability to access fantasy sports contests and wagering opportunities, the system comprising:

• a fantasy sports contest application configured to:
• direct a display device to display to the user fantasy sports contest information received from one or more servers comprising information associated with a fantasy sports contest in which the user participates;
• generate an interactive menu for creating a wagering contest by selecting from a plurality of wagering contest attributes in the interactive menu, wherein the plurality of wagering contest attributes available are determined by the information associated with the fantasy sports contest and wagering rules of the fantasy sports contest;
• in response to creation of the wagering contest, transmit to other users participating in the fantasy sports contest in which the user participates, an option to place a wager in the created wagering contest;
• receive wagers that have been placed in the created wagering contest related to the fantasy sports contest;
• and
• process the wager.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium for a fantasy sports contest application, the machine-readable medium having machine program logic recorded thereon for:

• causing to be displayed on a user equipment device, fantasy sports contest information comprising information associated with a fantasy sports contest in which the user participates;
• generating an interactive menu for creating a wagering contest by selecting from a plurality of wagering contest attributes in the interactive menu, wherein the plurality of wagering contest attributes available are determined by the information associated with the fantasy sports contest and wagering rules of the fantasy sports contest;
• in response to the creation of the wagering contest, transmitting to other users participating in the fantasy sports contest in which the user participates, an option to place a wager in the created wagering contest;
• receiving, on the user equipment device, wagers that have been placed in the created wagering contest;
• and
• processing the wager.