Patent ID: 8210916

Claim:
A method comprising: identifying, by a computing system, a current play occurring during an athletic competition: determining, by the computing system, a current game state for the current play, the current game state determined from a plurality of factors that describe the athletic competition after occurrence of the current play; determining, by the computing system, a previous game state for a prior play, the prior play occurring just prior to the current play, the previous game state determined from a plurality of factors that describe the athletic competition after the occurrence of the prior play; determining, by the computing system, a current expectation of scoring for the current game state; determining, by the computing system, a previous expectation of scoring for the previous game state; and determining, by the computing system, a value of the current play as a difference between the current expectation of scoring based on historical statistics of a plurality of athletes and the previous expectation of scoring and an addition of scoring generated on the current play, wherein the value is determined in real-time.