FANTASY SPORTS SYSTEM

摘要

A fantasy sports system, including a fantasy sports web site hosted by a fantasy sports server. A user may access the fantasy sports web site, over a network, to register a team to compete in a fantasy sports league. The user manages his/her team to compete against one or more other user-managed teams and at least one server-managed team in a fantasy sports league. The fantasy sports server may manage all aspects (e.g., drafting strategy, daily line-up setting strategy, add/drop strategy, etc.) of each server-managed team to compete against the user-managed teams and the other server-managed teams. For each league, the teams may compete against each other for a period of time (e.g., a full sports season or a partial sports season) to determine a winner of each league.

主权项

1. A computer system, comprising:
a data storage medium for storing information thereon; a database stored on the data storage medium, the database including data structures representing:
a plurality of players in a sports league and corresponding statistics and management data for each of the plurality of players;a plurality of computer- and subscriber-managed fantasy sports teams and corresponding roster and attribute data for each of the fantasy sports teams; anda plurality of fantasy sports leagues, each of the plurality of fantasy sports leagues comprising a plurality of fantasy sports teams, at least one of the plurality of fantasy sports teams being a computer-managed fantasy sports team and at least two other of the plurality of fantasy sports teams being subscriber-managed fantasy sports teams; a processor; a league operation software application to operate the processor so as to operate the fantasy sports leagues; and a computer team manager software application to operate the processor to:
draft players for each of the computer-managed fantasy sports teams among the plurality of fantasy sports leagues according to the statistics and management data;manage each of the computer-managed fantasy sports teams within the plurality of fantasy sports leagues according to the statistics and management data; andcompete each of the computer-managed fantasy sports teams with the subscriber-managed fantasy sports teams according to rules in the respective leagues.