Patent ID: 9202332
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: A63F,G07F

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method enabling a user to play an online fantasy sports game, the method comprising: providing, to the user, an opportunity to play the online fantasy sports game when the user lands on a lottery site; in response to a user selection to play a fantasy sports game on the lottery site, directing the user to the online fantasy sports game; in response to the selection, providing, to the user, a plurality of fantasy sports selection options for playing the game, the plurality of fantasy sports selections options corresponds to the option to select from a plurality of related actual sports games specified in a time window, where the time window is less than a full season; receiving, from the user, a set of fantasy sports selections, wherein each selection in the set of fantasy selections comprises an identity of a real life player and a predicted actual sport game in the time window where the corresponding real life player will have the highest fantasy performance score, that completes a lottery submission before the time window begins; determining, on a computer system and from a data feed of game activity, a fantasy performance score for each of the plurality of corresponding actual sports games using a fantasy scoring formulation; determining on the computer system for a plurality of real life players a best game in the time window by identifying the real life game in which the plurality of players had their highest fantasy performance score; determining, on the computer system, which users have won the online fantasy sports game based on the number of each user's selections which correctly predicted the actual sport game in the time window where the corresponding real life player had the highest fantasy performance score; and transmitting electronic message indicating one more winners of corresponding lottery submissions when certain users are identified by the computer system to have won the fantasy sports game.