Patent ID: 11872464
Assignee: PGA TOUR, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A system comprising:
a golf tournament simulation modeling system programmed to execute a plurality of simulations of a golf tournament to generate predicted outcomes of the golf tournament, the golf tournament simulation modeling system comprising:
a memory storing instructions;
a processing unit that executes the instructions to perform programmed operations of the golf tournament simulation modeling system;
a hole event outcome generator programmed to generate one or more hole event outcomes with respect to participating players for each hole of each round of a golf tournament using hole event probabilities as weight, the hole event probabilities generated by a hole event probability generator in communication with a statistical database based at least in part on historical statistics of golf play stored in the statistics database;
a hole score generator programmed to, for each participating player and hole, assign a score probability distribution based on the one or more hole event outcomes generated for the hole with respect to the participating player and generate a predicted hole score comprising a random score based on the respective hole score probability distribution;
a prediction engine programmed to calculate probabilities of one or more of the predicted outcomes from the plurality of simulations; and
an update processor programmed to update one or more predicted outcomes of the plurality of simulations, predicted outcome probabilities, or both based on inclusion of actual score data during actual play in the golf tournament.