Patent ID: 9700805
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A63F

Claim:
1. A method of selecting a player in a fantasy draft, the method comprising: storing a list of players in electronic memory, each player associated with a position and a ranking; receiving, at the electronic memory, one or more rules that specify: a user has a given number of active roster slots per position; a player of a first position is selected for an empty active roster slot of the first position for a user based on the ranking associated with the player of the first position if more than one player associated with the empty active roster slot of the first position is available; and a player of a second position is thereafter selected for the user having an empty active roster slot for the second position, even if a higher ranked player of the first position is available, wherein, when no player of the second position is available, the highest ranked player of the first position is selected even in the absence of an empty active roster slot for the player of the first position; and automatically selecting for the user, by a processor, a player from the list of players satisfying the one or more rules; wherein the selected player is automatically drafted, by a processor, to a team of the user.