Method and system of ranking participants in a betting competition

摘要

A method of ranking participants in a competition comprises: a) presenting to a participant data representing one or more sporting events with each sporting event involving two or more individuals or teams; b) obtaining from a participant a predicted score for each team for each sporting event; c) storing the predicted scores in a data memory; d) assigning a maximum numerical rating to each participant; e) obtaining actual scores for each team for each sporting event; f) storing the actual scores in a data memory; g) retrieving one or more predicted scores and one or more actual scores for each participant h) comparing the retrieved predicted scores with the retrieved actual scores for each participant and i) reducing the maximum rating for each participant by a penalty based on differences between the retrieved predicted scores for the participants and the retrieved actual scores. A system for ranking participants in a competition comprises: j) a display arranged to present to a participant data representing one or more sporting events with each sporting event involving two or more individuals or teams; k) a data entry component arranged to obtain from a participant a predicted score for each team for each sporting event and to store the predicted scores in a data memory; l) a rating assignor arranged to assign a maximum numerical rating to each participant; m) a data entry component arranged to obtain actual scores for each team for each sporting event and to store the actual scores in a data memory; n) a comparator arranged to retrieve one or more predicted scores and one or more actual scores for each participant and to compare the retrieved predicted scores with the retrieved actual scores for each participant and i) a rating assignor arranged to reduce the maximum rating for each participant by a penalty based on differences between the retrieved predicted scores for the participants and the retrieved actual scores.