Patent ID: 8851998

Claim:
A method comprising: receiving over a network, by a server computer from a user computer operated by a user managing a fantasy sports team in a head-to-head fantasy sports league, the fantasy sports team comprising a team whose score is adjusted based on activities of real-life sports athletes in one or more real-life sporting events: an active roster of players of the fantasy sports team, bench players of the fantasy sports team, and an inactive roster of players of the fantasy sports team, wherein the active roster comprises players eligible to play and gather statistics for a predetermined period of time and wherein the active roster is larger than a starting lineup associated with the fantasy sports team, and wherein the inactive roster comprises players of the fantasy sports team that are assigned by the user to not accumulate points during the predetermined period of time and who cannot become bench players or part of the active roster during the predetermined period of time, wherein the players of the inactive roster comprise any players designated by the user as inactive due to one or more of lack of skill, injury, and player personal reasons; determining, by the server computer, points earned by each player of the active roster of the fantasy sports team; and transmitting, by the server computer to the user computer, the active roster, the bench players, the inactive roster, and the points earned by the each player of the active roster of the fantasy sports team.