Patent ID: 8485876
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of monitoring progress in a sports draft, the method comprising: automatically determining a team with a next selection in the sports draft by a computing unit; automatically determining at least one player available for the sports draft based on previous selections in the sports draft; automatically determining personnel needs of the team by playing position by the computing unit based on at least one of a previous selection by the team and a trade by the team; automatically obtaining by the computing unit a plurality of rankings of each player by playing position of the at least one player available for selection in the sports draft from a plurality of sources of rankings remote from the computing unit and coupled to the computing unit, the plurality of sources of the rankings being non-participants of the sports draft; comparing each ranking of the rankings for each player of the at least one player to each other ranking of the rankings to determine a positional ranking of players for each position to be selected in the sports draft; automatically determining by the computing unit in real time, during the sports draft, a best available player for a position on the team with the next selection in the sports draft based on the personnel needs of the team, the at least one player available for the sports draft and the positional ranking; and providing an indication of the best available player to a display by the computing unit.