Patent ID: 7050868

Claim:
A method comprising: a) receiving an outcome of a game between at least a first team opposing a second team, the first team including a plurality of players and the second team including at least one other player; b) receiving a first score including an individual mean and an individual variance for each of the plurality of players of the first team, each individual mean and variance representing a distribution associated with a respective player of the first team; c) receiving a second score including a second mean and a second variance representing a distribution associated with the at least one other player of the second team; d) updating the individual mean and the individual variance for each of the plurality of players of the first team based on the outcome of the game, the outcomes of the game being selected from a set of possible game outcomes including the first team winning, the first team losing, and the first and second teams drawing; e) providing an indication of the undated individual mean and the undated individual variance to at least one of the plurality of players of the first team.