Patent ID: 9101841
Filing Date: 2015-08-11
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus operable to quantify one or more relevant and active physical efforts performed by two or more different competing real-life football teams, the two or more different competing real-life football teams engaging in at least one real-life American-style football contest or its adaptations with a predefined traditional point value for certain plays and resulting in a traditionally defined winner and loser, the apparatus further operable to: receive statistics via a communications medium in real-time, said statistics directly representing one or more plays from the at least one real-life American-style football contest or its adaptations relative to an offense, defense, or special teams unit, wherein the offense, defense, or special teams unit comprises eleven football players; analyze the statistics in real-time on a processor to identify all big plays in the statistics, wherein the big plays are defined as a team achievement performed by the offense, defense, or special teams unit; classify a subset of all possible plays in the at least one real-life American-style football contest or its adaptations as the big plays; assign a big play point value to each of the big plays, the big play point value relative to an impact the big play has on the at least one real-life American-style football contest or its adaptations, wherein at least one of the big play point values is different than the predefined traditional point value, and wherein at least one of the big plays is one of the all possible plays without the predefined traditional point value; categorize the big plays into categories, the categories comprising offensive big plays, defensive big plays, and special teams big plays, transform each of the identified big plays to the big play point values; identify the big play point value for each of the big plays for each of the categories; tabulate all of the identified big play point values for each of the categories; and transform computer memory to represent a total of each category.