Patent ID: 8388445

Claim:
A fantasy sports competition game method of play comprising the steps of: (a) selecting a single actual live sporting event to occur in the immediate future between two actual teams made up of actual sports players, the single actual live sporting event to be followed and associated with the play of the fantasy sports competition; (b) enrolling a plurality of fantasy game players into the fantasy sports competition as fantasy team owners for a corresponding number of fantasy teams; (c) randomly assigning a plurality of the actual sports players to each of the fantasy teams, each of the fantasy teams being assigned the same number of actual sports players while the specific actual sports players randomly assigned may vary between fantasy teams, the step of randomly assigning a plurality of actual sports players to each of the fantasy teams comprising randomly choosing from a pool of all actual sports players on the two actual teams to complete a fantasy team and returning all actual sports players to the pool to be randomly chosen from to complete a next fantasy team, wherein the same actual sports player may end up being assigned to more than one fantasy team; (d) tracking the performance of the assigned actual sports players during the play of the actual live sporting event; (e) assigning points to the tracked performance of each of the assigned actual sports players and associating those assigned points with each fantasy team to which those actual sports players are assigned; (f) each fantasy team accumulating points during the play of the single actual live sporting event based upon the performance of the actual sports players randomly assigned to that fantasy team; and (g) upon the completion of the single actual live sporting event, totaling the accumulated points for each fantasy team and declaring a winner based upon the fantasy team with the most points.