Patent ID: 8246433

Claim:
A method of providing a fantasy sport contest comprising: causing a computer to permit a plurality of participants to populate respective fantasy rosters with actual athletes for purposes of competing with each other based on corresponding real-life field-of-play performances of the actual athletes populating the respective fantasy rosters; causing a computer to restrict a population of a first fantasy roster for a first participant to actual athletes who are teammates on a first real-life team; measuring a corresponding real-life field of play performance of the actual athletes on the first fantasy roster; causing a computer to restrict a population of a second fantasy roster for a second participant to actual athletes who are teammates on a second real-life team; measuring a corresponding real-life field-of-play performance of the actual athletes on the second fantasy roster; causing a computer to establish a ranking as between the first participant and the second participant based on the respective performance measurements; and causing a computer to display the ranking; wherein with respect to each of the first real-life team and the second real-life team, the contest spans a series of real-life games, and further includes causing a computer to require each of the first and second participants to change the respective first and second rosters at least once over the course of the series of real-life games by limiting an eligibility of at least one of such actual athletes to populate the respective first and second rosters to at least one less real-life game than all of the real-life games of the respective series.