Patent ID: 7840288

Claim:
A method performed by at least one processor, the method comprising: a) receiving an outcome of a game between at least a first team opposing a second team, the game comprising physical inputs received by one or more game consoles from at least a first player and a second player belonging to the first team and at least a third player belonging to the second team, the first player of the first team playing a fraction of time that is less than a full time period of the game, wherein the outcome of the game is determined by the received physical inputs; b) receiving a first score for the first player, the first score including a first mean and a first variance representing a distribution associated with the first player of the first team; c) receiving a second score for the second player, the second score including a second mean and a second variance representing a distribution associated with the second player of the first team; d) receiving a third score for the third player, the third score including a third mean and a third variance representing a distribution associated with the third player of the second team; e) encoding rankings of the game outcome of the first team and the second team in a ranking matrix based on the outcome of the game and the fraction of time played by the first player, and updating the first mean and first variance using the ranking matrix, wherein encoding rankings includes determining a matrix element of a first row and a first column of the ranking matrix by two times the fraction of time played by the first player divided by a sum of the fraction of time played by each of the players of the first and second teams, and determining a matrix element of a second row and the first column of the ranking matrix by two divided by the sum of the fraction of time played by each of the players of the first and second team; f) updating the second mean and the second variance associated with the second player of the first team based on the outcome of the game and the fraction of time played by the first player that is less than a full time period of the game; and g) providing an indication of the updated first score to at least one of a group consisting of the first player, the second player, and the third player.