Patent ID: 7699707

Claim:
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; wherein an actual, statistical performance of the real-life player corresponds to fantasy points of the fantasy player; wherein the fantasy season is divided into a plurality of scoring periods, each period covering at least two scheduled real-life games, in which points of an owner's fantasy player in a starting line-up accrue toward a total score of the fantasy team; 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; whereby the software limits the owner from selectively activating and accruing points from that particular fantasy player in every game in the scoring period in which that particular fantasy player has starting opportunities; whereby the software prevents the owner from activating the player for the second game in the individual scoring period in response to the owner activating the player for the first game; and adding and displaying each fantasy owner's points accrued in past scoring periods to track competitive rankings within the league.