Patent ID: 8366551

Claim:
A method for providing a single user fantasy game for a user, the method comprising: providing a computer database of VFGMs, each VFGM comprising a draft strategy, the strategy determined by one or more human remote general managers who are not the user; providing a computer database of real-world athlete/participants on a computer accessible to the user; running a draft with the user and at least selected ones of the VFGMs participating, wherein the user and the selected VFGMs make selections of fantasy athlete/participants from the database of real world fantasy athlete/participants, according to predetermined draft rules, with a computer automatically making the VFGM draft selection decisions according to the strategies that constitute the selected VFGMs; saving the selections of fantasy athlete/participants made by the user and by the VFGMs, as respective teams in a team database on a computer accessible to the user; using a database of real-world performances/statistics stored on a computer, for the athlete/participants in the database of real-world athlete/participants, from a particular time period, and using a set of fantasy game scoring rules, using the computer to calculate and determine the performance of the teams; and determining a winner from among the user and the selected VFGMs based on the relative performance of the teams for the particular time period.