Patent ID: 7699707
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: A63F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of playing a fantasy sport comprising: implementing a fantasy sports league using software stored on a computer readable medium of one or more computers, the fantasy sports league having a plurality of fantasy owners, each owning a fantasy team with one or more fantasy players corresponding to one or more real-life players; on or before the commencement of the chronologically earliest scheduled game in each scoring period, providing the fantasy owner using the software with functionality to activate the one or more fantasy players having a starting opportunity in at least two games in an individual scoring period; allowing the fantasy owner to select a particular one of the fantasy players for placement in the starting line up to start for the fantasy owner within the individual scoring period in a first game, but not in a second game, from among plural games of that fantasy player within the individual scoring period; adding and displaying each fantasy owner's points accrued in past scoring periods to track competitive rankings within the league.