Fantasy sports transition score estimates

摘要

Techniques for fantasy sport score reporting include progressively updating an estimated score for a team of fantasy players. A fantasy football team includes athletes that play for professional football teams. Performance of the athletes in their real life games earns each athlete points, which aid the fantasy teams with which they are associated. In a game between the two fantasy teams, an initial estimated score is provided, based on information about the athletes' past performances. As real life games are played by the athletes, how well certain athletes performed, and therefore portions of the estimated score, become known. As the information becomes known, the estimated score is refined. Thus, as real life games progress, estimated fantasy point information becomes a progressively better estimate of the actual/eventual fantasy game score. Ultimately, the estimated score is completely replaced with an actual score.

主权项

1. A method, comprising:
under control of one or more processors configured with executable instructions: determining, by the one or more processors, one or more topics of interest to a user based at least in part on a fantasy sports account of the user; sending, by the one or more processors, an estimated score of a fantasy game to a user interface, wherein the fantasy game is based at least in part on the one or more topics of interest to the user; iteratively replacing, by the one or more processors, estimated scores of athletes used to calculate the estimated score of the fantasy game based at least in part on actual fantasy scores of the athletes, thereby creating a refinement of the estimated score of the fantasy game, wherein iteratively replacing estimated scores of players comprises:
extrapolating a fraction of a performance of an athlete to replace an estimated score of the athlete; andupdating the fraction used periodically as a sporting event involving the athlete progresses; sending, by the one or more processors, the refinement of the estimated score of the fantasy game for display on the user interface; and sending, by the one or more processors, a final score of the fantasy sports game, to be served by one or more network connections, upon conclusion of participation of all athletes of the fantasy sports game.