Patent ID: 8795045

Claim:
A system for selecting historical athletic performance statistics for use in a fantasy sports league contest, the system comprising the following elements: a computer readable medium comprising a database of historical athletic performance statistics, wherein each historical athletic performance statistic is associated with: one of a plurality of recorded games that are recorded in the database, wherein a recorded game is associated with a plurality of recorded plays and one or more former athletes who were listed on a roster prior to commencement of the recorded game; a recorded play within a particular recorded game, wherein the recorded play is associated with the one or more of said former athletes who were listed on the roster; and a former athlete; and a computer with a processor, wherein the processor is in communication with the computer readable medium and is configured to: receive selection of a selected former athlete; select a selected recorded game from the database, wherein the selected former athlete is associated with the selected recorded game by virtue of being one of the one or more former athletes who were listed on the roster associated with the selected recorded game; establish a participation value for the selected former athlete based on a quantity of recorded plays associated with both the selected recorded game and the selected former athlete; and if the participation value is greater than zero, select a quantity of selected historical athletic performance statistics associated with the selected former athlete from the plurality of recorded games that are recorded in the database, wherein the quantity of selected historical athletic performance statistics are associated with a quantity of selected recorded plays equal to the participation value.