Patent ID: 8113958

Claim:
In a computer-mediated network environment comprising a plurality of computers, a method of conducting a competitive simulation between a plurality of users, each said user having an associated team, the method comprising: selecting a sport to be simulated as a part of the competitive simulation; enabling at least two teams to be built, each said team comprising a plurality of player stocks and each said team being built in dependence on the selected sport; defining games to be played over a predetermined game time by two of said teams; while a game is being played, tracking a stock market related metric for each player stock of each team playing in the game via at least one said computer; comparing, via the at least one said computer, the stock market related metrics for each team playing in the game over one or more predefined periods of the game time; awarding points to each team playing in the game based on the comparison; and determining a winner based on the total number of points awarded to each team over the entire game time via at least one said computer.