Patent ID: 8944921
Filing Date: 2015-02-03
Classification: A63B,G07F

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 said at least one real-life American-style football contest or its adaptations relative to an offense, defense, or special teams unit, wherein said offense, defense, or special teams unit comprises eleven football players; analyze said statistics in real-time on a processor to identify all big plays in said statistics, wherein said big plays are defined as a team achievement performed by said offense, defense, or special teams unit; classify a subset of all possible plays in said at least one real-life American-style football contest or its adaptations as said big plays; assign a big play point value to each of said big plays, said big play point value relative to the impact said big play has on said at least one real-life American-style football contest or its adaptations, wherein at least one of said big play point values is different than said predefined traditional point value, and wherein at least one of said big plays is one of said all possible plays without said predefined traditional point value; categorize said big plays, said categories comprising offensive big plays, defensive big plays, and special teams big plays, transform each of said identified big plays to said big play point values; identify said big play point value for each of said big plays for each of said categories; tabulate all of said identified big play point values for each of said categories; and transform computer memory to represent a total of each category.