Patent ID: 9192864
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: A63F

Abstract:
1. A system comprising: a processor; a memory coupled to the processor to store information related to plays, point values, predefined traditional point values, and statistics; and a play analysis module, operably coupled with the processor and the memory, operable to: quantify one or more relevant and active physical efforts performed by two or more different competing real-life baseball teams, the two or more different competing real-life baseball teams engaging in at least one real-life baseball contest or its adaptations with a predefined traditional point value for certain plays and resulting in a traditionally defined winner and loser, wherein each of said two or more different competing real-life baseball teams comprise nine players; receive statistics via a communications medium in real-time, said statistics directly representing at least one real-life play from said at least one real-life baseball contest or its adaptations relative to hitting, fielding, or pitching; analyze the statistics in real-time on the processor to identify all big plays in the statistics, wherein the big plays are defined as a team achievement performed by said two or more real-life baseball teams; classify a subset of all possible plays in said at least one real-life baseball contest or its adaptations as said 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 said at least one real-life baseball 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 said all possible plays without the predefined traditional point value; categorize the big plays into categories, the categories comprising hitting big plays, fielding big plays, and pitching 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.