Patent ID: 8353772

Claim:
A method of conducting a fantasy competition comprising: (a) enrolling users within a fantasy competition at least partially coinciding with one or more actual events, wherein step (a) further includes: (a.1) enrolling users within a playoff fantasy competition at least partially coinciding with one or more actual playoff events; (b) creating a team for each user enrolled in said fantasy competition by enabling each user to select members for an associated team, wherein enrolled users in a predetermined order select said members, and wherein step (b) further includes: (b.1) creating a team for each user enrolled in said playoff fantasy competition by enabling said enrolled playoff users in a predetermined order to select members for associated playoff teams; and (c) determining and accumulating points for each enrolled user based on performances of said selected team members in corresponding actual events, wherein point values are assigned to specific activities within said actual events and awarded to said enrolled users for occurrences of those activities by a corresponding selected team member, wherein step (c) further includes: (c.1) removing said selected members from said playoff teams in response to actual corresponding teams of said selected playoff team members being eliminated within said actual playoff events; and (c.2) determining and accumulating points for each user based on performances of remaining selected members on said playoff teams in said corresponding actual playoff events.