Patent ID: 7637809

Claim:
A method for providing player's tickets and determining event admissions for player's tickets, the method comprising: providing player's tickets that: (a) reference at least one player, and (b) allow player's ticket holders admission to events in which the at least one player is playing; acquiring, using a ticketing server, information about a tournament, including information selected from the group consisting of players, a tournament draw, and historical data; determining, at the ticketing server, and for at least one match of the tournament, probabilities of players winning based on the tournament information, wherein the determining probabilities of players winning comprises simulating the outcome of the at least one match by assigning a score to each player of the at least one match and comparing the assigned scores; determining, at the ticketing server, at least one possible allocation of event admissions for player's tickets for the at least one match based on the player's tickets provided and the tournament draw, wherein determining the at least one possible allocation comprises determining the likelihood that the at least one possible allocation of event admissions for player's tickets will accommodate all player's ticket holders; and allocating, using the ticketing server, event admissions for player's tickets for the at least one match based on the at least one possible allocation of event admissions and on the probabilities of players winning the at least one match.