Patent ID: 7620466

Claim:
A system for real-time tracking and recording events of a sports contest with a primary object of play, the sports contest including offensive and defensive competitive interaction between at least a first team and a second team in opposition therewith, each team having at least one player, comprising: at least one computer including a processor portion, and a user interface portion, said computer interactively operable with a user under control of a computer program associated with said processor portion thereof, a computerized database accessible through said computer program, said database including information therein indicative of recorded events of the sports contest, said computer program including a game module for controlling entry by the user of information during the sports contest, said game module operable to interpret the information regarding sports contest activities selectably entered by the user, said computer programmed for: a. receiving from said user interface, one or more types of possession input related to a plurality of events of the sports contest, said possession input indicating the player in possession of the primary object of play, and said possession input identifying a particular player and being entered by the user each time a new player takes possession of the primary object of play, b. interpreting said possession input from said user interface and determining an event indicative of a change of possession of the primary object of play between the player and the new player based on said possession input, c. receiving from said user interface, one or more types of event input related to a plurality of events of the sports contest, d. interpreting said event input from said user interface, and e. storing data representative of said events based on possession input and said events based on event input in said database.